(Perception, interpretation, evaluation.)
Poem “The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. They were lying..." - one of the lyrical masterpieces of A. A. Fet. Created on August 2, 1877, it was inspired by the singing of T. A. Kuzminskaya (sister of Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy), who described this episode in her memoirs. The work opens a whole cycle of poems in the collection “Evening Lights,” which Fet called “Melodies.” Of course, this is not accidental. The poem is really written in a romance-song vein, unusually musical. The poet believed that beauty - the main idea of lyricism - is expressed not in lines, not in refined words, but above all “sounds subtle.” This means that one of the most important characteristics of poetry should be melody.
The musicality of this work is achieved through repetitions at different levels of the poetic text. Thus, in the lyrical syntax there are anaphors (And...And..., What...What...) parallel constructions within the stanza ("That you are alone - all life, that you are alone - love; And there is no end to life, and there is no other goal" .... ). Fet compares words that are similar in sound composition - “sonorous sighs” - giving the poem additional semantic and emotional “overtones”. The phonetic techniques of assonance (repetition of the sounds [a], [o]), alliteration (repetition of the sound [r] in the line “The piano was all open and the strings in it were trembling”) are used here.
The composition of the poem also contributes to its melody. In this lyrical monologue, the author uses the ring technique. In the line “Love you, hug you and cry over you,” which frames the work, Fet expresses the main feelings of the hero: delight and admiration for the power of vocal art.
Of course, the musicality of the poem is dictated by its theme. After all, this work is not only about love and nature, it is, first of all, about wonderful singing, about a voice that gives rise to many vivid experiences:
The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. were lying
Rays at our feet in a living room without lights.
The piano was all open, and the strings in it were trembling,
Just like our hearts follow your song.
You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears,
That you alone are love, that there is no other love,
And I wanted to live so much, so that without making a sound,
To love you, hug you and cry over you.
Fet does not depict a specific landscape or interior, but everything comes together in perfect harmony. The poet creates a holistic, dynamic picture in which visual, auditory, tactile, and sensory impressions are immediately presented. Generalization and combination of images of nature, love, music help the poet express the fullness of the joy of perceiving life.
The poem is autobiographical. His lyrical hero is Fet himself.
This work tells how the poet experiences two meetings with his beloved, between which there is a long separation. But Fet does not paint a single stroke of the portrait of the woman he loves, does not trace all the changes in their relationship and his condition. He captures only the trembling feeling that covers him under the impression of her singing:
And many years have passed, tedious and boring,
And it blows, as then, in these sonorous sighs,
That you are alone - all life, that you are alone - love.
The feeling itself is also difficult to describe in words. The lyrical hero conveys the uniqueness, depth and complexity of his experiences with the help of “global” metaphors in the last line.
This poem once again convinces us that only art can truly ennoble a person, cleanse the soul, liberate and enrich it. Enjoying a beautiful work, be it music, painting, poetry, we forget about all our problems and failures, and are distracted from the bustle of everyday life. The human soul completely opens up to beauty, dissolves in it and thus gains strength to live on: to believe, to hope, to love. Fet writes about this in the last stanza. The singer’s magical voice frees the lyrical hero from “the grievances of fate and the burning torment of the heart,” presenting new horizons:
But there is no end to life, and there is no other goal,
As soon as you believe in the sobbing sounds,
Love you, hug you and cry over you!
Speaking about the lyrical character of the poem, the author involuntarily touched upon the theme of the creator and his mission. The singer's voice, which awakens a whole range of feelings in the hero, sounds so delightful because the heroine devotes herself passionately to her occupation and is herself fascinated by the magic of music. At the moment of performing the song, it must seem to her that there is nothing more important in the world than these beautiful sounds, than the feelings invested in the work. To forget about everything except creativity is the part of a true creator: a poet, an artist, a musician. This is also mentioned in the work.
Poem “The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. They lay..." amazes with the variety of themes, the depth and brightness of the images, the extraordinary melody, as well as its idea, which, in my opinion, lies in the author’s amazing desire to convey the beauty of art and the world in an all-encompassing way.
The romance “To love you, hug you and cry over you” performed by Valery Agafonov is a diamond not only in his work, but also in the entire culture of Russian romance. We can say with complete confidence that there is no better performance of this romance today.
This romance performed by Evgeny Dyatlov (b. 1963), Andrei Svyatsky and Andrei Pavlov sounds very close to Valery Agafonov’s masterpiece.
In 1965, the poet and translator Anatoly Konstantinovich Peredreev (1932-1987) dedicated the following poem to his friend Vadim Valerianovich Kozhinov (1930 – 2001), a critic, literary critic and publicist:
How empty this night is, no matter where you go,
How this city is empty and deaf at night...
All that remains for us, my friend, is a song -
Tune the strings on your guitar,
Tune the strings in the old way,
In which everything is in bloom and in full swing -
“The night was shining, the garden was full of moonlight.”
And don't look that I'm not singing along,
That I covered my face with my palms,
I don’t forget anything, my friend,
I remember everything that you have not forgotten.
Everything that is so marked by fate
And so it sounds - to the heart and to the ear, -
That we can’t sing everything with you,
All is not lost, my friend!
The string is still stretched to the point of pain,
My soul is still so incredibly sorry
That beauty born in an open field,
The sadness that the distance breathes...
And dear Russian road
Still audible - no words needed
To make out from far, far away
The familiar ringing of forgotten bells.
The feelings that the romance “The night was shining, the garden was full of moonlight” gives rise to fill the soul of a Russian person with that extraordinary beauty that can only be born on the Russian Land and can only be understood by a Russian person.
The history of this romance is quite well known, thanks to whose muse it is dedicated - Tatyana Andreevna Bers (1846 - 1925), the younger sister of Sofia Andreevna, the wife of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
In 1867, Tatyana Andreevna married her cousin, lawyer Alexander Mikhailovich Kuzminsky, and at the end of her life she wrote her memoirs, “My Life at Home and in Yasnaya Polyana,” where in Chapter 16, “Evening of Eden,” she writes in particular:
“On one Sunday in May, quite a lot of guests gathered in Cheremoshna (Shchekinsky district of the Tula region): Maria Nikolaevna with the girls, the Solovyovs, Olga Vasilievna, Sergei Mikhailovich Sukhotin, Dmitry Alekseevich’s brother-in-law, and Fet and his wife.
The dinner was a ceremonial one. Porfiry Dementievich, having already placed the plate in front of Daria Alexandrovna, was busy at the table, not ceasing to speak with his eyes, since the lackeys were supposed to be mute.
Afanasy Afanasyevich enlivened the whole table with stories of how he was left alone, Maria Petrovna went to see her brother, and he hosted the deaf, old Chukhon housekeeper, since the cook was on vacation, and taught her how to make spinach. And she puts her palms to her ear and repeats:
- I won’t hear.
Then I shout with all my might:
- Get out! I make my own spinach.
Afanasy Afanasyevich presented all this with a serious look on his face, while we all laughed.
I didn’t know him to have such ability to imitate. Dear Marya Petrovna looked tenderly at her husband and said: “Govubchik Fet is very animated today.” Daria Alexandrovna, he loves to visit you in Cheremoshna.
After lunch, the men went into the office to smoke.
Marya Nikolaevna sat down in the living room to play four hands with Dolly. And we, some on the terrace, some in the living room, listened to music. When they finished, Dolly began to play my romances, and they made me sing. Since we were the only women left, I gladly fulfilled their request. As I remember now, I was singing the gypsy romance “Tell me why,” and suddenly I heard a second male voice - it was Dmitry Alekseevich. It was both pitiful and awkward to interrupt the singing. Everyone returned to the living room. We continued the duet. Having finished it, I thought about not singing anymore and leaving, but it was impossible, since everyone insistently asked me to continue.
I was scared to sing in front of such a large company. I avoided it. At the same time, I was afraid of Fet’s criticism.
After all, he heard so much good singing, good voices, and I’m unlearned, I thought.
My voice trembled at the beginning, and I asked Dmitry Alekseevich to sing along with me. But then he left me alone and just named one romance after another that I had to sing. Dolly accompanied me by heart.
It was already dark, and the May moonlight lay in strips across the dim living room. The nightingales, as I began to sing, shouted over me. For the first time in my life I experienced this. As I sang, my voice, as usual, became stronger, the fear disappeared, and I sang Glinka, Dargomyzhsky and Bulakhov’s “Kroshka” to the words of Fet. Afanasy Afanasyevich came up to me and asked me to repeat it. The words began:
It will only get a little dark,
I'll wait to see if the call shakes.
Come, my sweet baby,
Come and sit for the evening.
Tea was served and we went into the hall. This wonderful, large hall, with large open windows onto the garden, illuminated by the full moon, was conducive to singing. There was a second piano in the hall. Over tea the conversation turned to music. Fet said that music affects him as much as beautiful nature, and words benefit from singing.
- Now you were singing, I don’t know whose words, the words are simple, but it came out strong. And he recited:
Why are you when you meet me
Do you gently shake my hand with longing?
And into my eyes with involuntary melancholy
Are you still looking and waiting for something?
Marya Petrovna fussily approached many of us and said:
- You will see that this evening will not be in vain for little Fet, he will write something this night.
The singing continued. Most of all I liked Glinka’s romance: “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” and “To Her” - also by Glinka at the tempo of a mazurka. Usually this romance was accompanied by Lev Nikolaevich and remarkably well. He said: “This romance has both grace and passion. Glinka wrote it when he was drunk. You sing it well.” I was very proud of this review. He so rarely praised me, and increasingly read moral lessons.
It was two o'clock in the morning when we parted ways. The next morning, when we were all sitting at the round tea table, Fet came in, followed by Marya Petrovna with a beaming smile. They spent the night with us. Afanasy Afanasyevich, having greeted the elders, came up to me, silently, and placed a piece of paper near my cup, not even white, but like a piece of gray paper.
- This is in memory of yesterday’s Eden evening.
The title was “Again”.
It happened because in 1862, when Lev Nikolaevich was still a groom, he asked me to sing something to Fet. I refused, but sang.
Then Lev Nikolaevich told me: “You didn’t want to sing, but Afanasy Afanasyevich praised you. You love it when people praise you.”
Four years have passed since then.
“Afanasy Afanasyevich, read your poems to me - you read so well,” I said, thanking him. And he read them. I still have this piece of paper.
These poems were published in 1877 - ten years after my marriage, and now music has been written on them.
The verses have been slightly changed. I will quote the text that was presented to me:
"AGAIN"
The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. were lying
That you alone are love, that there is no other love,
And I wanted to live so much, so that only, dear,
And it blows, as then, in these sonorous sighs,
To love you, hug you and cry over you.
I rewrote these 16 lines with Tolstoy’s description of the evening.
Lev Nikolaevich liked the poems, and one day he read them out loud to someone in front of me. Having reached the last line: “Love you, hug you and cry over you,” he made us all laugh:
“These poems are beautiful,” he said, “but why does he want to hug Tanya?” Married man...
We all laughed, he made this remark so unexpectedly funny.
Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet was a strange man. He often irritated me with his selfishness, but perhaps I was wrong towards him. It always seemed to me, from a young age, that he was a man of reason and not of heart. His cold, spoiled attitude towards dear Marya Petrovna often angered me. She treated him just like a caring nanny, without demanding anything from him. He always remembered himself, first of all. The practical and the spiritual were equally strong in him. He loved to talk, but he also knew how to remain silent. As he spoke, he gave the impression of listening to himself.”
What impression the singing of twenty-year-old Tatyana Andreevna could have made on Fet can be read from L.N. Tolstoy in the novel "War and Peace". The main character of which, “Natasha Rostova,” was written by Lev Nikolaevich, according to his own statement, including from Tatyana Bers.
“... When this raw voice sounded with irregular aspirations and with efforts of transitions, even the expert judges did not say anything and only enjoyed this raw voice, and only wanted to hear it again. In her voice there was that virginity, pristineness, that ignorance of her own strengths and that still unprocessed velvet, which were so combined with the shortcomings of the art of singing that it seemed impossible to change anything in this voice without spoiling it.”
One can only guess what associations were born in Fet’s soul under the enchanting influence of this virgin voice, untouched by academicism. But the fact that the lines inspired by this singing represent an undoubted parallel to Pushkin’s “I remember a wonderful moment...” is considered unconditional by many researchers of Fet’s work.
Both poems talk about two meetings, two strongest, repeated impressions. “Two Sings” by Tatyana Bers, experienced by Fet, gave in combination that poetic impulse in which the personality of the singer, her singing, which captivated the poet, turned out to be inseparable from that favorite Fet romance that sounded in her performance: “And here you appeared again” - “And now in the silence of the night I hear your voice again.” This is how one of Fet’s most beautiful poems about love and music was born - “The Night Was Shining...”, in which Fet’s musicality received an impetus from Pushkin’s lyrical motif, experienced and “expressed” by Tolstoy’s heroine.
There is another parallel between Fet’s poem and Pushkin’s works. We are talking about “Egyptian Nights” and the famous improvisation about Cleopatra. It starts like this:
The palace was shining. They thundered in chorus
Singers at the sound of flutes and lyres...
The similarity with the beginning of Fet’s poem is obvious: the same verb (“shone”), the same syntactic incompleteness of the first line, and here and there we are talking about music. There is also an idea that is common to the two works. The main character of Pushkin's story is the Improviser. In a fit of inspiration, he creates magnificent masterpieces that captivate and amaze the public. It is this uniqueness, momentary inspiration that breathes life into the lines. After all, life is just as fleeting. Not a single minute of it is repeated twice. Each of them is unique. We see the same thing in Fet’s poem, as well as in Tolstoy’s description. It is the improvisation and uniqueness of the sound that captivate the listener. This is what makes Fet, even four years later, remember the performance that so delighted him. It reflected the very essence of life, which is improvisational at its core.
Fet's poem "Again" is one of the most striking examples of the poet's philosophical lyrics. It reflected not only the specific event that struck the author, but also his view of nature and man as an inextricable unity. The poem, referring to Pushkin’s lines, speaks of the absolute value of every moment, the uniqueness of every minute lived.
The fact that a fairly large interval of time passed between the writing of the poem itself and its publication, there is reason to believe that the first publication was not in 1877, but in 1883, is due to the fact that Fet continued to work on the poem, which was reflected in correspondence with Lev Nikolaevich.
Variants of the autograph notebook (draft versions rejected by the author are enclosed in square brackets.).
First line:
“[It was] night. The garden was full of the moon - they were lying down” (the final version of the line is the same as in the printed text);
Variant of the sixth line (in a letter to Count L.N. Tolstoy):
“That you are one love and there is no other love.”
First version of the seventh line:
“And so I wanted to live forever, dear”; the second - “And so I wanted to live, just so, dear” (this option is also contained in the autograph from the letter to Count L.N. Tolstoy");
Eleventh line:
“And [is heard again] in these sonorous sighs” (the final version of the line is the same as in the printed text);
Fifteenth line:
“As soon as you believe in caressing sounds” (this option is contained both in the autograph notebook and in the letter to Count L.N. Tolstoy).
(See options in the ed.: Fet A.A. Evening Lights. P. 442).
Thus, the first version of the poem looked like this:
Night reigned. The garden was full of the moon - they lay
Rays at our feet in a living room without lights.
The piano was all open, and the strings in it were trembling,
Just like our hearts are for your song.
You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears,
That you are one love and there is no other love,
And so I wanted to live forever, dear
To love you, hug you and cry over you.
And many years have passed, tedious and boring,
And now in the silence of the night I hear your voice again.
And [sounds again] in these sonorous sighs,
That you are alone - all life, that you are alone - love,
That there are no insults from fate and burning torment in the heart,
But there is no end to life, and there is no other goal,
As soon as you believe in caressing sounds,
To love you, hug you and cry over you.
As we can see, it is somewhat different from the one given by Tatyana Andreevna in her memoirs. Most likely, by the time she wrote her memoirs, Fet’s note had been lost by her and she reproduced its version, edited by the author, from some printed publication.
Today there is an opinion that this poem was written on August 2, 1877, although Tatyana Andreevna clearly points to 1877 as the year of its first publication, 11 years after her marriage.
The events described by her in “The Evening of Eden” took place on the eve of the letter sent by Tolstoy describing both the poem and the evening itself. According to her, Tolstoy responded to it on May 25, 1866. If Tolstoy was in Yasnaya Polyana at that time, then the interval between letters could be from three to seven days. Consequently, the "Evening of Eden" took place between 18 and 22 May.
Tatyana Andreevna clarifies that the evening took place on Sunday. In 1866, Sundays in May fell on the 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th. Consequently, the poem "Again" was written on May 20, 1866.
Unfortunately, the composer who set Fet’s wonderful words to music and which today is considered the best musical embodiment of this romance is less known. According to the surviving publication of 1911, only his name is known - Nikolai Shiryaev. Unfortunately, there is no biographical information about him today.
Other composers also wrote music for this poem: B.V. Grodzki (1891), A.N. Alferaki (1894), G.E. Konyus (1898), M.N. Ofrosimov (1901), E.B. Vilbushevich (1900s), but they were unable to convey the musical mood of Fetov’s lines the way Shiryaev succeeded, and therefore were not in demand today.
Valery Agafonov performed this romance in the musical arrangement of Nikolai Shiryaev.
In this performance, the talents of three people amazingly merged, giving us an inexhaustible spring of feelings of the beautiful, sublime, and timeless. This romance performed by Valery Agafonov, I think, will remain the unconquered pinnacle of RUSSIAN ROMANCE for a long time.
Afanasy Fet is a man who wrote a beautiful and very poetic and romantic work in the genre of poetry. It was written in 1877.
In general, the work is unusually beautiful, tender and even a little mysterious, because it is full of sorrows, but at the same time - romance, which clearly slips throughout the entire poem. The poem has a certain meaning, because Fet wrote about his own feelings. He once loved a girl from an impoverished noblewoman's family, which is why he left her, not wanting to marry because of this. But then he bitterly regretted it.
The first lines of the poem “The night was shining. The garden was full of the moon..." they say that two people, a man and a woman, are naturally in an old house, where there is a piano, which is played by a woman, as evidenced by her voice, which tenderly sings about love.
Everything is immersed in darkness, and therefore the moonlight breaks through the curtains and falls on two individuals who look tender and romantic together. It is clear that they are connected by tender romantic feelings. But the fact that this was the last night that the lovers spent together is evidenced by the remaining, more recent lines of the poem: “You sang all over, exhausted from tears...”.
Poem analysis 2
Having studied the poem “The Night Was Shining...”, I believe that the lyrical hero in it is a subtle and sensitive, as well as the most sincere person. This is clearly visible in his desires, because he wants to live to love, hug, cry over his beloved. Throughout the entire poem, the hero is in a loving mood, both at the beginning of the work: “... and the strings in it trembled, like our hearts behind your song,” and at the end, when he loves her infinitely, the feeling remains unchanged. The second image in the work is the hero’s beloved, she is the most beautiful nature, who loves the hero in return, because when the two of them were in solitude, she sang to him so that he wanted to live to love her.
The problem of the poem is that the two heroes are madly in love with each other, they want to live only for this. They hope that there will be no end to life, but it has no other purpose. That is why the two heroes convince themselves that this will last forever. But at the same time they understand that life is not endless. Based on the problem, we can understand that the genre of the poem is elegy, because there is tragedy here. This poem is dominated by such figurative means as personification: “The night was shining... The rays were lying.” The stanza is built on amphibrach. The rhythm of the poem is very slow, out of sixteen lines there is only one shock, the rhyme is very difficult to trace.
Alexander Alexandrovich was born in 1820, and published the work in 1877. At the time of writing the poem, Fetu was already in his sixties, and this is a late period of life. The main theory why Fet wrote this poem is that in his youth he had a beloved girl who answered him in kind. In this poem he laid out his memories of such enjoyment of life. Here he remembers those very divine meetings. He probably wanted to express his thoughts that he wants to extend the time as long as possible, but he understands perfectly well that turning sixty is no longer a joke, he only wants to enjoy these memories of beauty, but there is such a lump in his throat from the fact that there is nothing to return impossible.
I think this is a very mature and touching poem. While reading it I was in a romantic atmosphere. Fet sincerely conveys true love for this girl, this is the most sincere love that cannot be replaced.
Option 3
The last of the bright romantics of the “Golden Age” era, Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, was an unusual figure, however, like all poets. In his declining years, during the second period of his work, in 1877 he wrote his poem “The Night Was Shining,” full of feelings and experiences. He dedicated it to his one and only beloved, Maria Lazic. At a young age, he fell in love with her, and she responded to him with passionate love. They really loved each other, this is truly what is called “pure” feelings. But, unfortunately, this girl was from a poor family and Fet did not want to tie the knot with her. Then a tragedy happened that shocked the poet. There was a fire, in which Maria was. She died from multiple burns that were incompatible with life. In my opinion, it was this mistake of youth that changed the course of Afanasy Fet’s life. After that tragedy, he married a rich woman, but he always loved Maria Kuzminichna.
Based on its composition, we can divide the poem into two parts. In the first part, the poet talks about the beautiful singing of his beloved. As if he was reproducing every second of that one of the many evenings that they spent together alone with their feelings. The line “the rays lay at our feet” tells us that it seemed to the lovers as if the whole world around them approved of their relationship, as if the whole world belonged to them. At the end of the first part we notice the words that the beloved sings with tears. I believe this happened because the author had already told Maria about his decision, which was wrong, as it turned out later. She does not believe that he can do this to her and sings in the hope that he will change his mind and marry her, despite her poverty. The poet’s heart suggests the right choice, but a cold mind wins, reminding him of financial problems.
The second part also talks about singing, but many years later, the second part is the present time, when Afanasy Afanasyevich realized what a stupid mistake he had made. He even partially blames himself for her death, relying on the facts that if he had made the right choice then the girl would have been alive... The poet is tired of a boring life. A marriage of convenience did not make him a happy person. In this weary life, he was consoled only by memories of old feelings, of Mary. And at the same time they brought him enormous mental pain. In his poems dedicated to Maria Lazic, the romantic writes about the hope of meeting his beloved in the afterlife. Life without her does not bring him any pleasure; Fet no longer sees any point in living or doing anything.
It is very sad, I think, to realize that so much time has been wasted that they could live together and create a good family, but because of one offense they will lose such a sublime feeling - love, and with it the meaning of life.
Analysis 4
This poem belongs to the late period of the poet’s work. It was written in 1877. At this time, Fet was in his sixties and, like all old people, indulged in memories and analyzed his life.
The poem is biographical, based on a real story from the poet's life. In his youth he was in love with a girl. It was a mutual and very strong feeling. However, he did not marry her, but chose another chosen one in order to stabilize his financial condition. Unfortunately, a couple of months later the poet’s beloved died, leaving only memories of herself. Such a tragic story.
The poem conveys all the bitterness of the author’s unabated feelings. He mentally returns again and again to the night of their last date, when two lovers sat at the piano in the night, singing a song about their feelings. At this moment full of sadness, young people in tears tried to reassure each other, assuring each other of the unchangeability of feelings that could make their lives eternal.
The poet notes with bitterness that from that moment his life seemed to freeze and became unbearably boring. Every minute was a painful burden for him away from his beloved. Over time, he realized that a life spent apart from his beloved is devoid of any meaning. This is not life, but existence. And no amount of wealth can replace the feelings that once inspired him.
Therefore, in the silence of the night, the hero again experiences the tragic moment of their last meeting. The lovers understood that they were not destined to see each other again. This is why the word cry is used so often in the poem. The hero can only shed tears, grieving over his wrong choice. He partly feels guilty for the tragic death of his beloved, which adds bitterness to the work.
Without his soulmate, the hero is lonely and unhappy, no matter where he is, with family or friends. Therefore, he has no choice but to live in his own memories. This is the only place where his lover is alive and they are still together. Plunging into his own thoughts, he convinces himself that their feelings are eternal, and therefore capable of defeating death. And this brief sad last meeting will live with him, as if nothing bad had ever happened and he made the right choice.
Analysis of the poem The night was shining. The garden was filled with the moon according to plan
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The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight.
We sat in the living room without lights.
That you alone are love, that there is no other love,
Years have passed. It's tedious and boring.
And here in the silence of the night your voice again,
That you are alone - all life, that you are alone - love,
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This poem was written on August 2, 1877, when the poet was already in his sixth decade. It is directly dedicated to music and singing, and therefore the author refers it to the “Melodies” cycle. The poem “The Night Was Shining...” was created by the poet under the impression of one musical evening with friends and dedicated to Tatyana Andreevna Bers, married to Kuzminskaya, with whom Fet was at one time infatuated, and is a work of recollection dedicated to one of the brightest and happiest periods of Fet’s life . He was young and in love, enjoying life in the company of a girl who shared his feelings. And the memory of these romantic dates formed the basis of a poem filled with joy and peace, which, however, are seasoned with an acute sense of bitterness and the realization that nothing can be returned.
The girl sang at this evening, as she was a wonderful singer and studied music professionally. Kuzminskaya, the sister of L.N. Tolstoy’s wife, became the prototype of Natasha Rostova in the novel “War and Peace.” The history of creation is described in detail in the memoirs of T.A. Kuzminskaya (Bers) "My life at home and in Yasnaya Polyana." Here is its abbreviated version: “On one Sunday in May, quite a lot of guests gathered, among whom were Fet and his wife. After dinner, the men went to smoke in the office. As I remember now, I sang a gypsy romance, “Tell me why.” Everyone returned to the living room. I thought about not singing anymore and leaving, but it was impossible, since everyone persistently asked me to continue. Tea was served, and we went into the hall. This wonderful, large hall, with large open windows into the garden, illuminated by the full moon, was conducive to singing. Petrovna came up to many of us and said: “You will see that this evening will not be in vain for little Fet, he will write something that night.” It was two o’clock in the morning when we parted. We were all sitting at the round tea table, Fet came in, followed by Marya Petrovna with a radiant smile. Afanasy Afanasyevich came up and put a piece of paper near my cup: “This is for you in memory of yesterday’s evening in Eden.”
The piano was all open, and the strings in it were trembling...
For Fet, love is the only content of human existence, the only faith. A rush of passion is felt in the poem “The Night Was Shining. The garden was full of moonlight. They were lying..." At the beginning of the poem, the quiet picture of the night garden contrasts with the storm in the poet’s soul: The night shone. The garden was full of moonlight. The Rays lay at our feet in the living room without lights. The piano was all open, and the strings in it trembled, Just like our hearts for your song. Nature and love are interconnected in Fet's poems. These concepts are related, and they express the essence of being. When these concepts merge into a single whole, pristine beauty is born.
A. A. Fet is a singer of the night, illuminated from within, harmonious, trembling with myriads of lights.
The poem by A. A. Fet served as excellent material for the romances of many Russian composers: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov... According to Saltykov Shchedrin, Fet’s romances “are sung by almost all of Russia.” The poetic world of the poem is romantic and original. This work has the extraordinary power of penetration into the element of the feeling of love.
The love lyrics of A. A. Fet make it possible to better understand his general philosophical as well as aesthetic views, to look into the world of his soul and experiences. I want to turn to his melodic poems again and again, to be filled with them, to let this simple beauty into my soul, to become better, richer and purer.
The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. were lying
Rays at our feet in a living room without lights.
The piano was all open, and the strings in it were trembling,
Just like our hearts follow your song.
You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears,
That you alone are love, that there is no other love,
And I wanted to live so much, so that without making a sound,
To love you, hug you and cry over you.
And many years have passed, tedious and boring,
And in the silence of the night I hear your voice again,
And it blows, as then, in these sonorous sighs,
That you are alone - all life, that you are alone - love,
That there are no insults from fate and burning torment in the heart,
But there is no end to life, and there is no other goal,
As soon as you believe in the sobbing sounds,
Love you, hug you and cry over you!
“The night was shining. The garden was full of the moon" Afanasy Fet
The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. were lying
Rays at our feet in a living room with no lights
The piano was all open, and the strings in it were trembling,
Just like our hearts are for your song.You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears,
That you alone are love, that there is no other love,
And I wanted to live so much, so that without making a sound,
To love you, hug you and cry over you.And many years have passed, tedious and boring,
And in the silence of the night I hear your voice again,
And it blows, as then, in these sonorous sighs,
That you are alone - all life, that you are alone - love.That there are no insults from fate and burning torment in the heart,
But there is no end to life, and there is no other goal,
As soon as you believe in the sobbing sounds,
Love you, hug you and cry over you!
Analysis of Fet's poem “The night shone. The garden was full of the moon"
The poet Afanasy Fet is an unsurpassed lyricist, whose works surprisingly accurately convey the feelings experienced by the author and create an unusually romantic atmosphere. True, the poet’s youthful poems are devoid of the secret sadness inspired by the tragic death of Maria Lazic. Fet was in love with this girl and the impoverished noble family, but refused to marry her due to financial difficulties. Subsequently, having regained his title and family estate, and also successfully married the rich merchant daughter Maria Botkina, the poet reproached himself for the fact that, having acquired wealth, he lost love.
Poem “The night was shining. The garden was full of the moon,” written in 1877, when the poet was already in his sixties, is a work of recollection dedicated to one of the brightest and happiest periods of Fet’s life. He was young and in love, enjoying life in the company of a girl who shared his feelings. And the memory of these romantic dates formed the basis of a poem filled with joy and peace, which, however, are seasoned with an acute sense of bitterness and the realization that nothing can be returned.
The first lines of the poem take readers to an old mansion, immersed in darkness. Only moonlight lies at the feet of two people who are in the living room. From it comes the sounds of a piano and a gentle female voice that sings about love. “You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears,” the poet notes. Apparently, this was the last night he spent with Maria Lazic, saying goodbye to his beloved, but not suspecting that in less than a month she would leave his life forever, remaining only in his memory. However, at the moment of farewell, the poet “wanted to live so much so that, without making a sound, I could love you, hug you and cry over you.”
Fet did not yet realize that by abandoning his beloved, he would forever change his life, which from now on would be deprived of ordinary human happiness. Therefore, the poet admits that “many years have passed, tedious and boring.” But the memories of lost love become more acute and painful every year, the author is no longer happy with the financial well-being for which he so strived, and for the sake of which he betrayed the one who, as it turned out, was dearer to him than all earthly goods. And now, after a quarter of a century, the poet imagines that he hears his beloved singing again, and the enchanting sounds of her voice seem to return the author to the past, where “there are no insults from fate and no burning torment in the heart.”
Afanasy Fet, setting off on a journey through the waves of his memory, does not want to return to the reality that frightens him, cold and gloomy. In his family, he feels infinitely lonely and doomed to a joyless old age. Therefore, he really wants there to be no other goal in life, “as soon as to believe in the sobbing sounds, to love you, hug you and cry over you!” But these dreams are not destined to come true, since Maria Lazic has been buried in a rural cemetery for almost 30 years. The poet never dared to visit her grave even once in his entire life, believing that he was indirectly involved in the death of his beloved. And it is precisely this feeling of guilt that explains the repeated repetition of the word “cry” in the poem. This is the only thing that remains for the poet, who has realized what exactly he has lost in his life, and understands that even all the treasures of the world are not able to return him to the past and allow him to correct the mistake he made, which played a fatal role in the poet’s life. His destiny is to indulge in memories that give joy and, at the same time, cause unbearable mental pain, which is filled with the poem “The Night Shined. The garden was full of the moon."
