Alexander Pushkin - a world-renowned poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and literary critic - went down in history not only as the author of unforgettable works, but also as the founder of a new literary Russian language.At the mere mention of Pushkin immediately raises the image of traditional Russian national poet.The poet Pushkin - an internationally recognized genius vocabulary of his works unique imagery of his poetry is wide and absolutely unique, sensual and philosophical depth component of his poetry strikes and excites readers of all countries and of all generations.Still, it deserves special attention the lyrics of Pushkin, versatility and imagery which are still not investigated fully.
coloring lyrics
Lyrics Pushkin Pushkin - this is his poetic biography and in parallel with this creative chronicle daily and spiritual life of those distant times.The War of 1812 and the revolt of the Decembrists 1825, serfdom and dreams about "freedom of holies", loved ones, friends and enemies, "beautiful moments" of life and the sadness and the "sadness of days gone by" - all those found written moments reflected in Pushkin's poems, epistles, elegies, poetic fairy tales, songs, epigrams.And all of these themes and motifs of Pushkin's lyrics are so harmoniously are compatible author that there is not the slightest tension or discord in the reading of his works.It is an indescribable inner unity of Pushkin poetry extremely accurately and precisely defined Belinsky: "The whole flavor of any other lyric poetry of Pushkin - inner human beauty and humanity that warms the soul."
love poetry of Pushkin
love poetry of Pushkin rightly called "an encyclopedia of love experiences."It accommodates a wide range of feelings, from the beautiful and fascinating since the first timid goodbye to complete frustration and loneliness devastated the passions of the soul.Love in the lyrics of Pushkin is very different.That perfect feeling that elevates the soul of every man, and just a random hobby that suddenly appears, but just as quickly passes, and burning passion, accompanied by outbursts of jealousy and resentment.The main motives of Pushkin's poetry theme of love - love of light, adult and meaningful sense of passion, jealousy and pain, resentment and frustration.
poem "I remember a wonderful moment ...»
Pushkin's famous poem "I remember a wonderful moment ..." the author wrote in the period of reference at the Mikhailovsky.These words are addressed to Anna Petrovna Kern.Pushkin saw her for the first time in St. Petersburg in 1819 and was carried away by it.Six years later, he again met her neighbors, landlords Trigorskoe village where Anna came to visit her aunt.I love feeling in the poet's soul erupted with renewed force.Before leaving Anna with Trigorskoe Pushkin gave her a folded piece of notepaper in four.Unfolding it, Anna saw poetic lines, which later become a masterpiece of Russian poetry and eternally glorify her name.
compositional structure of the poem
lyrical story reflects the basic biographical milestones relations Pushkin and Kern, the main motive here is the memories in the lyrics of Pushkin.Compositionally poem is divided into three distinct for its semantic component parts.Each of them, in turn, consists of two quatrains - quatrains of the same size.The first part of the lyrical hero remembers "wonderful moment" when he saw a beautiful woman and fell in love with it forever.The second describes the years of separation - the "no deity and no fury."The third - a new meeting of lovers, a new outbreak of the senses in which "and the deity, and inspiration, and life, and tears, and love."For the lyrical poem love - it is a true miracle, divine revelation.That's how he felt poet Pushkin at that time, it is this sense lived in it then, and he lived it without looking back.
poem "I loved you ...»
Another his famous poem "I loved you ..." Pushkin wrote in 1829 together with another his masterpiece - "What's in a name? ..".Initially, the work was written in the album Carolina Sobanskaya, in which the poet was a long and hopelessly in love.The hallmark of the verse, "I loved you ..." is that the lyrical sense of it passed extremely terse, aphoristic but surprisingly and impressively.In the poem almost no metaphors, hidden images, polysyllabic, cutting his ear epithets that usually the poets of the time portrayed his feelings for his beloved.However, the image of love that arises before the reader of the lines of the poem, full of magic and charm of poetry, unusual light sadness.The culmination of the work that reflects the main motives lyric Pushkin's love theme, are the two final lines.They are not just a poet says that he "loved so sincerely, so tenderly," but also the desired object of adoration of his past happiness with the new chosen words, "God forbid you like to be loved."
landscape poetry of Pushkin
Nature has always been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Pushkin.In his poems reflect the images of many paintings of nature and the elements, different times of the year, of which the poet most loved autumn.Pushkin showed himself a true master of landscape details, the singer of Russian landscapes, picturesque part of the Crimea and the Caucasus.The main topics of the lyrics of Pushkin motives always, anyway, "tied" with the surrounding nature.She thought of the poet as an independent aesthetic value, which is admirable, but the vast majority of landscape poems of Pushkin constructed in the form of matching pictures of nature and situations of human life.Natural images are often used contrast, or vice versa, in tune with accompaniment thoughts and actions lyrical.Like a living literary background are the pictures of nature in the lyric poet.It acts as a poetic symbol of his dreams, aspirations, defended his spiritual values.
poem "To the Sea»
This poem Pushkin began writing in 1824 in Odessa, already knowing about his new exile in Mikhailovskoye, where later he completed work on the poem.The main motives of Pushkin's poetry, which has a natural orientation, always go hand in hand - a natural phenomenon and the feelings and experiences of the poet.In the poem "To the Sea" farewell to the sea expanses becomes the basis for the poet's lyrical reflection on the tragedy of human destiny, about the fatal power which are above the historical circumstances.The sea and its free element for the poet is the symbol of freedom, is associated with the figures of two persons, who were masters of doom and the personification of human power.This is the power of the urgent circumstances of life appears to be as strong and free as the sea element.It Napoleon and Byron, with whom Pushkin himself compares.This motif memories in the lyrics of Pushkin, where he refers to the departed geniuses, is inherent in many of his poems.Geniuses are gone, but the fate of the poet continues in all its tragedy.
Tyranny and education - a contradiction in the poem
In the poem, in addition to natural reasons, the poet brings together two concepts: the tyranny and education.Like other romance that time, Pushkin in his work assumes that civilization by introducing a new system of education, at the same time spoil the naturalness and sincerity of simple human relations, managed by the dictates of the heart.Saying goodbye to a free and powerful marine element, Pushkin as if saying goodbye to the romantic period of his work, which comes to replace the realistic outlook.Freedom-loving motives in the lyrics of Pushkin increasingly flashed in his later works.And even if at first it seems that the central core of the poem is the landscape, the description of natural phenomena to be found hidden meanings associated with the poet's desire to liberate their craving for freedom, spread your wings of his inspiration to the full, without fear and without looking at the strict censorship of the rebeltimes.
philosophical poetry of Pushkin Pushkin
philosophical poetry holds a poet incorruptible judgment of the human existence: the meaning of life, death and eternity, of good and evil, civilization and nature, man and society, society and history.An important place in it belongs to the themes of friendship (especially in poems dedicated Lyceum comrades), devotion to the ideals of goodness and justice (in the letters to the former lyceum students and friends Decembrists), sincerity and purity of moral relations (in verse, thinking about the meaning of life, familyand people close to the poet).Philosophical motives accompany lyric poet more often than the older he gets.The deepest philosophically last verses of Pushkin, written shortly before his death.Like the poet, anticipating his departure, afraid unsaid, and nedodumali nedochuvstvovat wishing to transfer to descendants of all himself without reserve.
Civic poetry of Pushkin
Civil themes in the lyrics of Pushkin revealed through the motives of love of country, through a sense of national pride in its historic past, through a strong protest against the autocracy and serfdom, threatening native freedom as human beings.The main motives lyric Pushkin civil orientation - these are the topics of human freedom and inner strength.Freedom is not only a political, is to serve the high social ideals, founded on the principles of equality and justice, but also of inner freedom of each person, which no one can take away.The main component of civil poetry themes - the condemnation of all forms of tyranny and enslavement of man chanting inner freedom, personal, which manifests itself in a clear and principled position of moral, self-esteem and unsullied conscience.
theme of the poet and poetry
along with civil and religious motifs are present in the lyrics of Pushkin.In moments of doubt, and inner spiritual disorder poet resorted to this way.It was like a Christian component more closely brought nearer to its outlook of the people.Unique synthesis of philosophical lyrics and civil sounding verses are devoted to the theme of the poet and poetry.What is the purpose of the poet and the meaning of the lyrics - these are the two main questions that initiate reflections on the problems of Pushkin's place and role of the poet in society, freedom of poetic creation, its relationship with the government and his own conscience.The peak of Pushkin poetry on the theme of the poet and poetry, was a poem, "I have erected a monument without hands ...".The work was written in 1836 and during the life of Pushkin is not printed.The subjects and the individual plot motifs of Pushkin's poems originated from the famous Roman poet Horace's ode "To Melpomene."From the same Pushkin took the epigraph to his work: «Exegi monumentum» («I have raised a monument").
message to future generations
main motives lyric Pushkin those times - the message of the representatives of future generations.By their nature, the poem "I have erected a monument without hands ..." is a kind of poetic testament, which contains self-esteem of the poet, his contributions to the community and descendants.The value that will be his poetry for generations to come, symbolically relates to the Pushkin monument that ascended above "Alexander Column."Alexander Column - a monument to the Roman general Pompey in Alexandria, Egypt, but then it is the reader's first associated with the monument to Emperor Alexander, erected in St. Petersburg in the form of a high pole.
classification of the main motives lyric Pushkin
very clearly shows the main motives lyric Pushkin table below:
| Genres lyrics | motif |
| philosophy | Motivefreedom - both domestic and civil |
| Human relationships | motif of love and friendship, loyalty and strength of earthly human bonds |
| towards nature | motif of proximity to nature, the comparisonher with a man and his inner world |
| Religion | grounds of religious, especially a close reader of the time |
| Poetry | motif deeply philosophical, giving answer to the question about the place of the poet and poetrythe world's literature in general |
This is only a general description of the main topics of the great poet.Each and every one of Pushkin's lyric motifs table can not accommodate so many-sided and all-encompassing poetry genius.Many literary critics acknowledge that for each Pushkin his every discovers new facets of his work.On this and hoped the poet speaking in his notes about the desire to arouse strong emotions in the reader, to make him think, compare, experience and, most importantly, feel.
