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In 1925, the poem "Anna Snegina" was written. It reflected the impressions of trips to his native village Konstantinovo in 1917-1918.
In Anna Snegina, epic, lyrical and dramatic elements are combined into a single whole. The epic theme is given in the poem in realistic traditions. The action of the poem takes place against a wide socio-historical background: revolution, civil war, stratification of the village, dispossession, lynching, the death of noble nests, the emigration of the Russian intelligentsia abroad. The author focuses on people's disasters - pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary ("peasant wars", class hatred, Denikin's raids, exorbitant taxes), people's destinies (Radovtsy, to whom "happiness is given", and Kriushans, who have one plow and "a pair of hackneyed nags ”), folk characters (Pron Ogloblin, Ogloblin Labutya, miller, miller’s woman and others).
The lyrical beginning - the failed love of the heroes - is determined by these epic events. Anna Snegina - noblewoman, aristocrat. Sergei is a peasant son. Both differently, but equally well know the life of Russia and selflessly love her. They are both class enemies and people connected by spiritual kinship, they are both Russians. Their romance takes place against the background of revolutionary cataclysms and social upheavals, which ultimately determines the parting of the characters. Anna leaves for London, having survived all the blows of fate (the ruin of the estate, peasant retribution, the death of her husband, a break with Sergei), but in a foreign land she retains tenderness for the hero and love for Russia. Sergei, swirling in a revolutionary whirlpool, lives with the problems of today, and the “girl in a white cape” becomes just a dear memory for him.
However, the drama of the situation is not limited to the fact that the revolution destroyed the personal happiness of the heroes, it fundamentally undermined the traditional way of life that had been developing for centuries throughout Russian life. Morally crippled, the village is dying, strong economic Radovites and poor Kriushans are fighting among themselves, the long-awaited freedom turns into permissiveness: murders, lynching, the dominance of "villains ... dashing". A new type of leader appears in the village:
Bulldyzhnik, fighter, rude.
He is always angry at everyone
Drunk for weeks in the morning.
The perspicacious Yesenin bitterly stated in Anna Snegina what his blue dream of another land and another country in the state of the Bolsheviks had turned into.
Source: Schoolchildren's Handbook: Grades 5-11. — M.: AST-PRESS, 2000
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The problematics of the poem "Anna Snegina" is inextricably linked with the semantic volume that Yesenin's lyrics carry. One of the central aspects of the problems of his poetry as a whole is determined by the solution of the question of the relationship between the private time of the individual and the historical time of national life. Does a person have a certain sovereignty in relation to history, can he oppose the destructive and pernicious influence of the historical process (if he perceives it that way) with his right to remain a private person, rejecting the encroachments of historical time on his personal life and destiny?
Such a problem is predetermined by two objects of the image, each of which corresponds to two storylines that develop in parallel in the poem. On the one hand, this is a private plot that tells about the history of the relationship between the lyrical hero and Anna Snegina, telling about failed love. On the other hand, it is closely intertwined with a concrete historical plot, addressed to the events of the revolution and the civil war, which capture the life of the peasants, the inhabitants of the village and the farm, on which Yesenin's hero takes refuge from the whirlwinds of historical time, and himself. Historical discord captures the life of every person without exception and destroys the relationship of love that was outlined in a private plot.
The exposition of the national-historical plot is the story of the driver, which opens the poem, about the sudden enmity between the two villages: Radovo and Kriushi. In a terrible fight for the forest between the peasants of two villages, the prologue of the civil war is seen, when the seeds of anger grow among people belonging to the same culture, one nation, speaking the same language: “They are in axes, we are the same. / From the ringing and gnashing of steel / A shiver rolled through the body. Why, after this fight, life in the once rich village of Radovo falls into decay for no apparent reason? As the driver explains this situation: “Since then, we have been in trouble. / The reins rolled down from happiness. / Almost three years in a row / We have either a case or a fire?
The charioteer's story, which serves as a prologue to the national-historical plot of the poem, is replaced by an exposition of a private plot connected with the fate of the lyrical hero, with the choice that he makes, deserting from the front of the imperialist war. What is the reason for such an act? Is he motivated by the cowardice of the lyrical hero, the desire to save his life, or does he reveal a firm position in life, an unwillingness to participate in the insane and destructive historical circumstances of the imperialist war, the goals of which are unknown and alien to the lyrical hero?
Desertion is a conscious choice of a hero who does not want to be a participant in a senseless and alien to the interests of the peoples of the massacre: “The war has eaten away my soul. / For someone else's interest / I shot at my close body / And climbed on my brother with my chest. The February Revolution of 1917, when "Kerensky was caliphed over the country on a white horse", did not change either the historical situation itself or the attitude of the lyrical hero towards the war and his participation in it:
But still I did not take the sword ...
Under the roar and roar of mortars
I showed another courage -
Was the first deserter in the country.
Show that such a choice is not easy for the lyrical hero, that he always returns to his act, finds more and more emotional justifications: “No, no! / I won't go forever. / For the fact that some kind of scum / Throws a crippled soldier / A nickel or a dime into the mud. Find other examples of similar self-justification.
Thus, the two storylines of the analyzed poem “Anna Snegina” by Yesenin correspond to two expositions, the correlation of which forms the problematic of the poem: is it possible, in the conditions of the historical reality of the 20th century, to hide from the ferocious and destructive hurricanes of wars and revolutions, national discord, the prologue of which sounds in the story drivers, in his private world, in a shelter, on a miller's farm, where is the lyrical hero going? Can it happen that the historical wind will pass by and not affect? Actually, the attempt to find such a shelter turns out to be the plot of the poem.
However, such attempts reveal their complete illusory nature. The internal discord of the peasant world with itself, the image of which is given in the enmity of the villages of Radovo and Kriushi, is becoming more and more obvious, involving more and more people. Refer to the hero's conversation with the old woman, the miller's wife. Show how she perceives the current state of the peasant world, what new facets her story adds to the history of the enmity between the Radovites and the Kriushans. Where does she see the reason for the discord between people?
The old woman puts the story of the enmity between the two villages (“The Radovites are beaten by the Kriushans, / That the Radovians are beaten by the Kriushans”) in a broader national-historical context.
The first meeting with Anna Snegina forces the author to turn to the plot of a meeting, traditional for love lyrics, after many years of two people who once loved each other, later divorced by fate and time. Remember which poems by Pushkin, Tyutchev, Fet, Blok are addressed to a similar plot. This meeting makes it possible for Anna Snegina and the lyrical hero to return to their former emotional state again, to overcome the time of separation and the twists of fate that separated them: “And at least there is no former in my heart, / In a strange way I was full / With the influx of sixteen years.”
The private plot of the relationship between Anna Snegina and the lyrical hero develops in parallel with another storyline, the basis of which is the story of the friendship of the lyrical hero with Pron Ogloblin. It is these relations that show the nature of the historical process taking place in the Russian countryside, developing before the eyes of the poet and requiring his direct participation. Pron Ogloblin is just the hero who forces you to leave the shelter at the mill, does not allow you to sit out in the hayloft with the miller, in every possible way shows the lyrical hero his need for the peasant world.
The culmination of the poem, connecting the two storylines, is the moment when the lyrical hero appears together with Pron on the Snegin estate, when Ogloblin, the spokesman for the interests of the peasantry, demands land from the landowner: “Give, they say, your land / Without any ransom from us.” The lyrical hero turns out to be together with the peasant leader. When a direct class conflict arises, he, no longer able to ignore the challenge of history, makes a choice and takes the side of the peasantry. The development of the plot reveals the impossibility of hiding from historical time, from class contradictions in the countryside, being on the side, having sat out on a farm with a miller. If he was able to desert from the front of the German war, choosing the life of a private person, then the hero cannot leave the peasant environment with which he is genetically connected: to stay on the sidelines would mean a betrayal of the village. So the choice is made: standing next to Pron, the lyrical hero loses his newfound love for Anna Snegina.
The development of the love conflict also ends because Snegina, shocked by the death of her husband, an officer at the front, throws a terrible accusation in the face of the poet: “They killed ... They killed Borya ... / Leave it! /Go away! /You are a miserable and low coward. /He died... /And you are here...»
July 09 2015
The poem "Anna Snegina", published by S. A. Yesenin in 1925, was the poet's direct response to the events of those years taking place in Russia, which he happened to witness. By genre, this is a lyrical-epic poem, which means that there is a clear separation of the worldview of the lyrical poem, the feelings and experiences of the author and the broad picture of contemporary reality, which was the reason for the philosophical generalization and bitter thoughts of the poet about the future of Russia. The lyrical hero of the poem returned to the places dear to his heart, where he and his youth passed. But in addition to nostalgia for his native places, in addition to memories of youthful love, he draws the changes that occurred in his homeland during his absence: the First World War, the collapse of his former life, civil strife and enmity among the villagers. “... We are now restless here.
Everything blossomed with sweat. Solid peasants - Fighting village to village .... And all this means anarchy. They chased the king...
The meeting with Anna Snegina, the former love of the lyrical hero, stirred his soul, “strangely” made him feel youthful memories: The distance thickened, fogged ... I don’t know why I touched Her gloves and shawl - The news of the death of Anna’s husband, her unfair words forced the hero into loneliness to endure the insult of an accidental quarrel, but the personal experiences of the hero are obscured by the magnitude of the epic events of October 1917. These events not only separated the hero from Anna, but also tragically affected the lives of the peasants. The most important question for them was resolved: “Will the peasants go without redemption of the arable land of the masters?
» But the author does not idealize the peasantry. The owner in essence, the peasant, perceives the revolution with purely material interests, just in case, saving banknotes of all authorities in bottles. Fefela!
Breadwinner! Iris! The owner of land and livestock, -8a couple of shabby "katek" He will let himself be torn out with a whip - This is how the author characterizes the peasantry sarcastically. But it is not uniform.
Yesenin shows several different types of peasants: Pron Ogloblin, his brother Labutya, a miller and his wife. If Pron Ogloblin is the most politicized representative of the peasants, in some way a romanticist of the revolution, who dreams of setting up a “commune” in the village and complaining about the backwardness of his fellow villagers, then Labutya is a “boastful and devilish coward” who lives “not on the calluses of the hands”. Before the revolution, he wore medals from the Japanese war, begging for a drink "famous under Liaoyang", after the revolution he declared himself an exile who knew "Nerchinsk and Tu-rukhan." He was the first to go "to describe Snegin's house", to take away their property.
And it was the old miller who brought the housewives to him - helpless women, probably frightened by what was happening. It is the miller and his wife, condemning "anarchy", murders, theft, who are presented in the poem as carriers of the traditional moral values of the peasantry. As for Pron and Labutya, Pron was shot “in the twentieth year”, when Denikin’s soldiers descended on the village, and Labutya hid in the straw and, after the departure of the Cossacks, demanded a “red order for courage”. This is probably typical of the revolution: the romantics devoted to it die first, and those like Labutya gain power in the Council, extolling their imaginary merits.
What awaits the miller in a few years is also not difficult to predict: as the owner of the mill, he will most likely be dispossessed. Such are the fate of the peasantry in Yesenin's poem. It should be noted that the love of the hero and Anna did not take place: the Onegins went into exile.
Melnik gives the hero a letter from Anna from London, where she recalls Russia with nostalgia. But in her soul there is no doubt about her choice, only the memory of her homeland and past feelings remained. For the hero, there was also no question with whom to stay in his native country. The finale of the poem is open, but it is clear that eternal humanistic values are a priority for the poet, as it is revealed both in the love story and in the life story of the peasants of the village of Radova and the village of Kriushi.
Without creating a class enemy, Yesenin continues the humanistic traditions of Russian literature, both in creating the image of the heroine and in the attitude of the lyrical hero, autobiographical to the poet himself.
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In this article, we would like to recall Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin. In particular, his autobiographical poem, which he called "Anna Snegina". It tells about the youthful love of the famous poet and his native village in the era of the October Revolution. Also in it one can trace the attitude of Sergei Alexandrovich himself to the events of that time and their consequences.
The popular expression says: "A man without a past is like a tree without roots." That is why it is impossible to ignore your history in any case. After all, a person who has abandoned his past runs the risk of losing himself. That is why it is so important to continuously strive into the mists of time, absorbing new streams of information.
However, most history textbooks are written in a dry language, so not every person decides to study them at their leisure. But reading literary works is a pleasure. And having cast at least a cursory glance at the summary and analysis of the work of Sergei Yesenin "Anna Snegina", this can be seen.
The early years of the future poet
Most modern schoolchildren know Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin only because he once wrote poetry with obscene words. But he is considered a classic of Russian literature for completely different merits. But for what? Only a few will be able to answer this question.
The famous poet was born on October 3, 1895. His family lived, as they say now, below the poverty line. The situation of the Yesenins improved only when they moved to Moscow, and the head of the family took the position of a clerk. However, this did not bring happiness. Little Seryozha was taken into care by three uncles, who brought him up in a very peculiar manner. That could not but affect the formation of the personality of the future poet. The mother, unable to withstand the constant delays of her husband at work, returned to the village of Konstantinovo near Ryazan, where they had previously lived. And I tried to arrange my life with another man. So Sergei Alexandrovich had a brother Sasha. But then the woman returned to her husband again.
The future Russian classic was educated at the Konstantinovskaya zemstvo school in his native village, which he will talk about in the poem "Anna Snegina". Yesenin in his school years earned a reputation as a repeater with disgusting behavior. But then he moved to a parochial educational institution and seemed to improve. Further, the future poet studied at the zemstvo school and teacher's school, where he first woke up a craving for writing poems and poems.
Yesenin's first poetic experience
As we know, Sergei Alexandrovich did not succeed as a teacher. In general, he was determined for a very long time with a place of work, unsuccessfully trying to find himself. When Yesenin worked as a proofreader, he met poets, and then became a free student at Moscow City University.
The first published work of Sergei Yesenin was the poem "Birch". It begins with the following words: "A white birch under my window ..." This significant event for the poet took place in 1914. About eleven years before Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina" was written. In the future, the outlook, views, character, and, accordingly, the artistic style of the poet changed significantly. And this can be easily traced in his work, even on the example of the above works.
Yesenin's personal life also deserves attention. After all, he was officially married to three women and had four children. But most of all, his romantic relationship with the famous American dancer Isadora Duncan was imprinted in the memory of his contemporaries. She was much older than him, but this did not bother the couple at all.
The sudden death of the great Russian classic
Yesenin had an irresistible craving for alcohol. And not only his relatives, but also the townsfolk knew about it. Sergei Alexandrovich was not in the least ashamed or embarrassed by his behavior and often appeared in public in an indecent form. In 1925, he was even sent to a Moscow clinic for treatment. When it ended or, as some sources say, was interrupted by the poet, he moved to Leningrad. And it seems that the life of Sergei Alexandrovich went smoothly, but on December 28 of the same year, the country was stunned by the almost insane news of his death.
The reason for the sudden death of the Russian classic is still shrouded in darkness. There is even a version that Yesenin committed suicide and wrote a farewell poem with his blood. However, there are still no facts confirming it. Therefore, the descendants can only guess and get lost in speculation.
Themes and problems in Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina"
In the work under study, in addition to love, revolutionary and military themes, the theme of the Motherland is clearly revealed. And this is captured in numerous descriptions of the landscapes of his native village, in which the main character is looking for salvation, consolation. Here, in the wilderness, he also develops a deep sense of patriotism and love for his Fatherland. This is especially true at the end of the poem. After all, Sergusha did not follow Snegina to a foreign land, he chose his homeland. Which for him is represented not by huge Moscow with its political intrigues, but by a quiet, remote village with the beauty of Russian expanses. The road also plays an important role in the work, as a symbol of the path, helping the reader to know the inner world of the narrator through his thoughts.
The analysis of the poem "Anna Snegina" by Yesenin cannot ignore the problems raised by the author. Many of which readers catch on their own. However, we will still reveal each of them. First, there is the issue of class inequality. After all, it was she who became the leading cause of the revolution and separated two loving people on different sides - the narrator and Anna. Secondly, the theme of the First World War, in which the soldiers were not interested and went to death for the interests of others. Thirdly, the problem of debt, due to which Snegina cannot be with Sergusha. After all, this is how she betrays her late husband. But the poet himself is driven by conflicting thoughts. This becomes apparent when he refuses to help Anna, thereby supporting the peasants. Fourthly, the problem of diabolical cowardice, which the author demonstrates to us on the example of the image of Labuti. On his example, the fifth problem is revealed - betrayal. Sixthly, the problem of inconsistency of actions with one's own ideals. After all, the Bolsheviks promoted universal equality and justice with might and main. But despite this, they still harmed other people - the nobility. And they even kicked out the unfortunate widow from their own house, leaving her to the mercy of fate. And, seventhly, the problem of power, which does not care about the needs of the common people. Yesenin formulates his thoughts in this way, passing them on to the reader through a driver who takes the protagonist to his native village: “If the authorities are in power, then they are in power, and we are just ordinary people.”
This is what the wonderful poet wanted to convey to people, such are the problems of Yesenin's Anna Snegina.
Features of the structure of the poem
According to historical information, Sergei Yesenin finished the poem "Anna Snegina" shortly before his death. And he started it when he went on his second trip to the Caucasus. According to some reports, this place was of great importance for the poet. After all, it was there that the brightest creative period of Yesenin flowed. He himself said that he writes with insane rapture, almost in one gulp, receiving unprecedented joy from the process itself. And this is felt when reading the poem. After all, it can be compared with a whole book containing two literary genres:
- love experiences of the hero - lyrics;
- events external to the hero - epic.
But that's not the only thing that's special. Also noteworthy is the poetic size of Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina". Indeed, in this work the poet uses the style beloved by Nikolai Nekrasov. Namely, a three-foot amphibrach, in which the stress falls on the third syllable (“village, which means ours - Radovo, yards, honor, two hundred” ...).
Many critics, including modern ones, note that in the work Yesenin managed to show the transition of the country from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Republic. As well as the fate of the little man during the Civil War and the First World War.
In addition, it should be noted that the plot of Sergei Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina", as often noted in modern works, is based on real events. The village of Radovo is a prototype of the place where the poet himself lived. Therefore, his mention is of great importance for the creation of the so-called metaphorical space.
The poem begins and ends in the same way. In both cases, the story is about how the main character arrived in his native village. Due to this feature, the composition of the work has a cyclic structure.
There are five chapters in the poem. Each of them contains its own special stage in the formation of a new country:
- The first tells about the negative impact that the First World War has on the inhabitants. After all, the whole country is forced to work only in order to feed the Russian army. Which participates in an endless bloody slaughter. For this reason, the main character decided to desert from the front and have a little rest.
- The second, in fact, is the author's commentary on the disasters that have befallen the country. In it, the main character recalls youthful love, and later meets Anna Snegina, who is now the wife of another and spends the whole day talking with her.
- The third chapter of Sergei Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina" tells about the relationship of the main characters. Remembering the past, they realize that their sympathy is mutual. But the situation is much more complicated by the news of the death of Snegina's husband. She accuses the protagonist of cowardice, breaking off all relations with him. At the same time, a revolution is taking place in the country, ordinary people are eager to get land for general use.
- In the fourth chapter, Anna and Sergusha still reconcile. The woman confesses her feelings to the main character. In the countryside, the transfer of noble property to the state is in full swing. Therefore, at the end of this part, the narrator leaves for St. Petersburg in order to find out the situation.
- The fifth chapter describes the end of the civil war. The country has become impoverished, crime is thriving around, Sergusha returns to his native village, but does not find Anna. The protagonist still loves her, but Snegina emigrated to London, and Sergusha is unable to leave her country.
According to friends of Sergei Alexandrovich, in his last years he began to reconsider his views on life and the situation in the country. He was tired of the bohemian life, he was tired of rebelling, and that is why he went to the Caucasus to inhale the "provincial" air. And this is felt when reading Yesenin's work "Anna Snegina". After all, the woman personifies the poet's regret about the loss of youth, symbolizes the desire to return to human values. But it appears like a mirage, and the melancholy of Sergei Alexandrovich is rather out of place. The country is falling apart, and nothing will be the same as before.
Narrator as a prototype of Sergei Yesenin
In Sergei Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina", which we analyze in this article, there are only six heroes. The most important among them is the narrator, behind the mask of which the poet himself is hiding. He comes from peasants, has an excellent mind and insight. His story is a complete reflection of the life of Sergei Alexandrovich. He also rose from the bottom and became a famous literary figure. But it's been a hard road. His character changed greatly, he lost all faith in the decent qualities of humanity and became a cynic. Therefore, at the first stages of communication with Anna, the narrator keeps somewhat at a distance from her, reveling more in the marvelous landscapes around and thoughts about the past.
What is happening in the country depresses the hero. He does not see any point in the terrible bloodshed, he is angry because the rich live without knowing the troubles and sit out in safety, and people with less income - the people - go to death ("The war has eaten away my whole soul. For someone else's interest"). It is for this reason that Sergusha flees to his native village, wanting to abstract from reality and immerse himself in thoughts and thoughts about the past. And so begins the poem of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin "Anna Snegina".
It is also important to mention the following: critics and writers note that the events in the country are perceived by the main character critically, with pain and indignation. And he would like to oppose reality, to rebel, but fatigue, sadness and a certain fear still take their toll. Expressed in the desire to hide from the senseless war and revolutionary confrontations, nostalgia for the past. And it seems that the narrator wants to understand the situation, contrasts, compares the past and the present. But there is no strength to move on, and he remains with the past.
Anna Snegina as an image of Yesenin's real beloved
In the analysis of “Anna Snegina” by Yesenin, it is impossible to remain silent about the fact that under the guise of the heroine, whose name the work is named, Lydia Ivanovna Kashina is hiding. She was a noblewoman, but despite this, in her youth she had great love with the future poet. Nothing serious came of deep attachment. Sergei chose the life of a poet, and the girl chose family life. And quite favorably she married the White Guard Boris.
The heroes of the poem met again only during the period of revolutionary actions. When the class difference became especially noticeable. Anna has changed a lot, and the main character barely recognizes the former simple girl in her. And she is flattered not only by her acquaintance with the famous poet, but also by the youthful love that his heart once burned with. She begins to flirt with Sergusha, and he, despite significant changes in the character and demeanor of the girl, still falls in love with her again.
And then it seems to him that Anna is still clean and snow-white. This is hinted at by her surname and outfit. So much so that thoughts about a senseless war, about the endless streams of blood of the people recede into the background. In the main character, Sergusha sees a symbol of the former country, he plunges into the world of the past, allowing himself to be forgotten.
However, the further plot of Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina" tells us that the relationship of the main characters does not add up. After all, the girl accuses Sergusha of cowardice and desertion. The situation is especially aggravated when news of the death of Anna's husband comes from the front. Nevertheless, at the end of the work, the characters reconcile and even confess their love to each other. But the girl emigrates to London, because she cannot find a place for herself in New Russia.
This is precisely what distinguishes the real events and those set forth by Yesenin in the plot of Anna Snegina. In life, Lydia Kashina goes to Moscow, having previously transferred the estate to the peasants. Adapts to Soviet Russia and becomes a typist.
Pron Oglobin as the embodiment of fellow villager Yesenin
Let's start with the fact that this hero is negative. But in it, the poet presents the reader with a revolutionary dreamer and romantic who is obsessed with the desire for radical change and sincerely believes that they can only be achieved by insurrection. He is a Bolshevik, strives for popular equality, universal justice, socialism. And he remains true to his judgments to the end. Raises a riot, but dies at the hands of the Whites.
His character is based on Pyotr Yakovlevich Mochalin. Here are just some of the features are greatly exaggerated. After all, Pron is a rude, impudent and fighter who loves to drink. Moreover, he has a tendency to aggression, violence. And this is proved by the fact that in the past he was exiled to hard labor for murder.
However, the image differs from the real character not only by an exaggerated character, but also by fate. After all, Pyotr Mochalin does not die, but settles down quite well and is engaged in party work.
Labutya as an example of the ambiguity of the revolution
This character is an important part of the story. Therefore, the summary of Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina" loses its special meaning without it. So, Labutya is Pron's brother. But despite this, it is its complete opposite. After all, he is a coward, which is proved by the episode of the execution of Pron by the Bolsheviks, in which Labutya hides behind hay.
He does not care about the ideas of the revolution; moreover, he does not share them. But the desire to benefit and not to miss his own burns in him with fire. And this becomes obvious when the reader comes to the point where Labutya hurries to describe Anna's house and property as soon as possible.
By contrasting Pron and Labuti, Yesenin wanted to demonstrate the ambiguity of the revolution. After all, different people participated in the ideological struggle, so the coup turned out to be versatile. Not specifically good or bad.
Melnik as an example of national character
Most readers of even a summary of Yesenin's "Anna Snegina" note that this hero is the most kind, merciful, positive and sincere. He knows how to accept with a smile all the hardships of fate and does not divide people into rich and poor, to know and peasants, whites and reds. And it shows in his actions. For example, he treats Sergusha, and Anna and her mother provide warm shelter at a difficult moment. Thus demonstrating the character traits of a true Christian.
Critics agree with the opinion of readers, but add that in the image of Melnik, Yesenin demonstrated the breadth of the Russian soul and the best qualities of our people.
Mother of Anna Snegina
The last character of the poem "Anna Snegina" by Yesenin is rarely mentioned in the summary. Because he says only a few short phrases. But even despite this, the reader catches what Anna Snegina's mother is. Firstly, a woman is rather stingy with feelings and emotions. And this is not surprising, given the relevant living conditions. Secondly, she has a sober mind and self-control. Thanks to this, he not only accepts the death of his son-in-law relatively calmly, but also helps his daughter come to terms with an unexpected blow of fate.
In Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina" and a brief summary, the spirit of self-sacrifice is felt. After all, the main character, like Sergei Alexandrovich himself, could not accept the new aggressive Russia, where relatives are at enmity and constantly clash their foreheads. But he couldn't leave her either. And he preferred to indulge in nostalgia for the past, peaceful patriarchal Russia, which can no longer be returned. She is symbolized by Anna Snegina. Which remained only in the dreams of the poet.
Analysis of the poem by S.A. Yesenin "The Black Man"
"The Black Man" is one of the most mysterious, ambiguously perceived and understood works of Yesenin. It expressed moods of despair and horror before an incomprehensible reality. Its solution is primarily related to the interpretation of the image of a black man. His image has several literary sources. Yesenin acknowledged the influence of Pushkin on his poem Mozart and Salieri, which featured a mysterious black man. The “black man” is the poet's double, he chose everything that the poet himself considers negative and vile in himself. This theme - the theme of a painful soul, a split personality - is traditional for Russian classical literature. She received her embodiment in Dostoevsky's "Double", Chekhov's "Black Monk". But none of the works, where such an image is found, carries such a heavy burden of loneliness as Yesenin's Black Man. The tragedy of the self-awareness of the lyrical hero lies in the understanding of his own doom: all the best and brightest is in the past, the future is seen as frightening and gloomy hopeless. Reading the poem, you involuntarily ask the question: is a black man a deadly opponent of the poet or part of that force that always wants evil and always does good. The “duel” with a black man, whatever his nature, served as a kind of spiritual test for the lyrical hero, an occasion for merciless introspection. However, in a literary work, it is important not only what is written, but also how. The theme of duality is expressed at the compositional level. Before us are two images - a pure soul and a black man, and the flow of a monologue of a lyrical hero into a dialogue with a double is a poetic expression of the subconscious. The ratio of monologue and dialogic speech is revealed in the rhythmic-intonational structure of the poem. The hard rhythm of the dactyl reinforces the gloomy intonations of the black man's monologue, while the agitated trochee contributes to the expression of the dialogic form of thought and narration. The metaphor of a broken mirror is read as an allegory of a ruined life. It expresses both a piercing longing for the passing youth, and an awareness of one's uselessness, and a sense of the vulgarity of life. However, this "too early fatigue" is nevertheless overcome: in the finale of the poem, night is replaced by morning - a saving time of sobering up from the nightmares of darkness. A nightly conversation with a “bad guest” helps the poet to penetrate into the depths of the soul and painfully poke dark layers from it. Perhaps, the lyrical hero hopes, this will lead to purification.
Analysis of the poem "Anna Snegina"
Already in the very title of Yesenin's poem "Anna Snegina" there is a hint of plot similarity with the novel "Eugene Onegin". As in Pushkin's work, the heroes of the love story meet her years later and remember their youth, regretting that they once parted. By this time, the lyrical heroine is already becoming a married woman.
The protagonist of the work is a poet. His name, like the author, is Sergey. After a long absence, he returns to his native place. The hero participated in the First World War, but soon realized that it was being waged "for someone else's interest", and deserted, having bought himself a forged document. The plot of the poem contains autobiographical features. It is inspired by memories of the feelings of S.A. Yesenin to the landowner JI. Kashina, with whom he was in love in his youth.
In addition to the love line, the poem gives a broad plan of the social reality contemporary to the poet, which includes both pictures of peaceful village life and echoes of wars and revolutionary events. The poem is written in a lively colloquial language, full of dialogues, gentle humor and deep nostalgic experiences.
The poet's patriotic feeling is embodied in the subtleties of the Central Russian landscape he created, a detailed story about the traditional peasant way of life that exists in the prosperous village of Radov. The very name of this place is symbolic. The men in the village live prosperously. Everything here is done in a business-like manner, in detail.
Prosperous Radov is opposed in the poem by the village of Kriushi, where poverty and wretchedness reign. Peasants have rotten huts. It is symbolic that dogs are not kept in the village, apparently, there is nothing to steal in the houses. But the villagers themselves, exhausted by a painful fate, steal the forest in Radov. All this gives rise to conflicts and civil strife. It is noteworthy that the display of various types of peasant life in the poem was an artistic innovation in the literature of that time, since in general there was a perception of the peasantry as a single social class community with the same level of prosperity and socio-political views. Gradually and once calm and prosperous Radovo is involved in a series of troubles.
An important feature of the poem is its anti-war orientation. Looking at the bright spring landscape, at the flowering gardens of his native land, the hero feels even more acutely the horror and injustice that the war brings with it. In theory, the heroes of the poem should have been happy, having spent it together among these beautiful gardens, forests and fields of their native land. But fate decreed otherwise.
Sergei is visiting an old miller. Here, thanks to the simple realities of rural life, the hero is immersed in the memories of his youthful love. Happy meeting with his native places, the hero dreams of starting a romance. Lilac becomes a symbol of love feeling in the poem.
Important in the work is the figure of the miller himself, the hospitable owner of the house, and his troublesome wife, who seeks to feed Sergei more deliciously. Sergei's conversation with the old woman conveys the popular perception of the author's contemporary era: ordinary people who spend their lives in labor live for today and feel how their current worldly concerns have increased. In addition to the First World War, for which soldiers were taken to villages and villages, local conflicts aggravated in the era of anarchy exasperated the peasants. And even an ordinary village old woman is able to see the causes of these social unrest. S.A. Yesenin shows how the violation of the usual course of events, the very revolutionary transformations that were carried out in the name of the people, turned into a series of regular problems and concerns.
It is symbolic that it is the miller's wife who first characterizes Pron Ogloblin, the hero who embodies the image of a revolutionary-minded peasant in the poem. Yesenin convincingly shows that dissatisfaction with the tsarist regime and the desire for social change, even at the cost of cruelty and fratricidal massacre, was born primarily among those peasants who had a penchant for drunkenness and theft. It was people like Ogloblin who readily went to share the property of the landlords.
Sergei falls ill, and Anna Snegina comes to visit him herself. Autobiographical motifs are again heard in their conversation. The hero reads poetry to Anna about tavern Rus. And Yesenin himself, as you know, has a poetry collection "Moscow Tavern". Romantic feelings flare up in the hearts of the heroes, and soon Sergey finds out that Anna is a widow. In folk tradition, there is a belief that when a woman is waiting for her husband or fiance from the war, her love becomes a kind of amulet for him and keeps him in battle. Anna's arrival to Sergey and an attempt to continue romantic communication with him are perceived in this case as a betrayal. Thus, Anna becomes indirectly responsible for the death of her husband and is aware of this.
At the end of the poem, Sergei receives a letter from Anna, from which he learns how hard it is for her to be separated from her homeland and all that she once loved. From a romantic heroine, Anna turns into an earthly suffering woman who goes to meet the ships that sailed from distant Russia at the pier. Thus, the heroes are separated not only by the circumstances of their personal lives, but also by deep historical changes.