The extraordinary personality of the poet
The popularity of Sergei Yesenin is fully justified. Many students might have liked him even before becoming acquainted with his work because of his external qualities. Later it was possible to draw a correspondence between his kind facial features and reverent poetry. However, more valuable information about Yesenin’s life can be provided by his contemporaries, who, being also poets, had the opportunity to directly meet and be friends with him.
Mayakovsky once touched on the topic of Sergei Yesenin’s appearance and character in his article “How to Make Poetry.” The first meeting with him had a funny effect on him. At the time of the meeting, Yesenin, already famous and wealthy, did not change his clothing habits and continued to intentionally wear his favorite bast shoes and embroidered shirt. It seemed to Mayakovsky that he was too pretentious and was only showing off, although he later formed a different opinion about him and was convinced of the sincerity of his behavior.
It is known that Yesenin showed special attention to the female sex, as evidenced by all sorts of references to them in an impressive proportion of his works. Since childhood, he was distinguished by an extremely rich imagination and acute perception of the world around him. Having such a feature of the psyche, relationships with women could not but leave a deep mark on him and disturb his soul.
It is quite possible that they were the reason for the appearance of his depressed state. Friends and acquaintances who were close to him in creativity began to more often notice the following manifestations in him:
- tendency to drink;
- anxiety;
- absent-mindedness;
- inattention to one's appearance.
The most disastrous period of his life was the one when he suddenly became addicted to alcohol. Some people tend to drown their grief in wine and vodka, and one can only sympathize with such consolation of unhappy love.
Simplicity of character
The poet's close friends knew and understood him as a sincere and good-natured person who knew how to penetrate into the experiences of his neighbor. Having earned some fame among poets and risen to a higher financial position, he did not boast of this, but even to some extent despised it. This explains his long commitment to “homey” Ryazan clothing and inattention to the wearing of a tailcoat, so common among his circle.
His vulnerability, simplicity and openness may have been the reason that he could not recognize deceit in love, which is why he fell in love with the wrong people and suffered for a long time from their loss. Mayakovsky also noticed in him stability of character and strength of upbringing. Despite all his acquired fame and reputation, he also remained easy to communicate and unarrogant as during the first meeting.
Soulfulness
Everyone knew him as an excellent speaker. He read his poems with special penetration, as if completely abstracting himself from what was happening in favor of a deepened feeling of the verse. Vladimir Mayakovsky more than once noticed how, even when drunk, he remained able to passionately release his painful lines to his attentive listeners.
It is noteworthy that he was not severed from nature. This can be clearly seen in his work. All descriptions of nature are so lovingly created that one gets the impression of his direct participation in the life of every organism, be it a tree or any animal. This is what distinguishes him from other poets; even if his poems are simple, without pretending to have ornate rhymes and intricate rhythmic components, they are all imbued with love for the subject being described. The style of his works is, first of all, unexpected comparisons and beautiful images.
Option 2
My favorite poet of the Silver Age is Sergei Yesenin. His name is known all over the world. But he is first and foremost a poet who glorifies Rus'. In his poems one can feel the warmth of the heart, love for his native land, for his people.
Yesenin spent his childhood and youth in the village of Konstantinov, on the high bank of the Oka. The future poet grew up among the expanse of Central Russian nature, and she taught him to love everything around him. Already in the first verses of the poet, a multicolored and joyful world is reflected, which is filled with sounds, smells, colors. Yesenin hears music in a winter blizzard, sees a snow carpet embroidered with blizzards, compares a slender birch tree to a girl, and her laughter to the ringing of birch branches. The poet’s favorite colors are gold, blue, light blue. They symbolize the state of the soul.
The poet loves all living things - animals, birds, pets. With deep sympathy, he talks about a dog whose puppies were drowned, about a decrepit cow, about a foal who decided to overtake a train. Yesenin could not understand and accept cruelty to people and animals.
One of the features of Yesenin’s work is his appeal to folklore: from folk poetry he draws individual images, plots, motives, with the help of which he expresses his feelings and impressions.
Love lyrics occupy a significant place in the poet’s work. But no matter what experiences the poet writes about - the joy of meeting, the melancholy of separation, sadness, despair - the theme of love merges with the main Yesenin theme - the theme of the Motherland.
In Yesenin’s work, the lines closest to me are the poet’s lines, in which he glorifies “the country of birch calico”, admires the expanse of the steppe expanses, the blue lakes. In almost every poem of the poet there is a feeling of his native land. Yesenin’s most remarkable work dedicated to the Motherland is “Rus”. In it, he talks about his love for Russia, conveys pain and sadness for the fate of his native country.
Yesenin created his best poems in the period 1924-1925. In the poem “The golden grove dissuaded...” we see a striking image of a grove that has already “dissuaded” something. From the grove, the poet’s gaze turns to the sky - the image of a flock of cranes appears, which is an expression of sadness and sadness. The poet is overcome by grief over the transience of life. In the poem “I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry...” the poet is sad about his passing youth and mentally turns to his native land, calling it “the country of birch chintz.”
Sergei Yesenin is a national poet. It is not for nothing that songs based on his poems are so easily sung. His poetry is distinguished by his ability to see beauty in everything that surrounds us. Yesenin lived a short but eventful life and left us a rich poetic heritage.
Distinctive features of creativity
A good pun would be that the poets who lived during the revolution of social order also made a revolution in their highly specialized field - in poetry. Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Alex Tolstoy and others invented completely new methods of versification and rhyming. The classic works of authors such as Pushkin or Lermontov were understood and critically examined.
In the work of the poets of the Silver Age, namely in the principle of verse construction, many changes can be noticed. These include:
- complexity of rhymes;
- the intricacy of the rhythmic pattern;
- unusual images;
- the brightness of the allegories;
- complexity of structure and development.
From the chronology of Yesenin’s poems it is clearly visible how more and more new techniques and means of processing poetry were gradually woven into his works.
In the early stages, even when he was just starting to write (in his teens), his poems were nothing special, although they showed a light mood and softness of comparisons. Later, as his writing experience increased, he, as they say, exchanged “stick for stone”, becoming more sophisticated in presenting his works to readers.
Letter to a woman
This point must be noted in the essay. Based on Yesenin’s poem “Letter to a Woman,” it can be determined that it is a turning point in the technique of his approach to poetry . It was there that decisive attempts were made to “leap over” to a new style of design of rhyme and rhythm. In it, simple rhymes with the same root were practically excluded and reduced to a minimum, when two parts of speech with a similar ending are added. Despite all the respect for Pushkin, there was a need to understand that this was all old and something fresh was needed in poetry.
In this work there are very often unexpected rhymes like “remember - room” and other similar ones. At the same time, Yesenin still remains true to his unique sensual style, when his experience and pain are felt in every line. The objects of his description also change, gradually moving from nature to poems about the revolution and women. It is partly quite bitter to see such unexpected compositional changes and one feels sorry for the writer who was still pure and naive in his thoughts.
Another backwater
His talent, which once found itself in love for everything living and inanimate on Earth, began to gradually be wasted on the injustice of existence and cowardly women. It is possible that many people, among his acquaintances and friends, used his good nature to their advantage. Addicted to wine, he never refused treats to his friends and spent all his earnings on partying with them, which is why he often had no money and was forced to go around in rags.
If his previous debut poems were filled with something so simple but touching, then the subsequent ones only awakened sympathy and compassion for the writer’s life. For example, the lines “... why are you looking at those blue splashes?..” vividly describe his pain of disappointment in women, in women’s warmth. This also applies to Isadora Duncan, whom he loved very much. Subsequently, he got tired of her and reluctantly stopped loving her for the lustful behavior that surfaced. Like most geniuses, he lived a short but eventful life and managed to leave his mark on history.
Essay: Yesenin - poet of the Silver Age
(373 words) The end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries is considered to be the Silver Age in the history of Russian literature. One of the outstanding figures of that time was the poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin.
The poetry of the Silver Age is characterized by mysticism and a crisis of faith. New literary trends appeared. They did not bypass S.A. Yesenina. For some time he was an imagist. However, he was also affected by the influence of symbolism. After all, Sergei Alexandrovich highly valued A.A. Blok - the most prominent symbolist poet. A.A. Blok spoke about the work of S.A. Yesenina: “The poems are clear, sonorous, vociferous.” Early work of S.A. Yesenin brings the poet closer to the Acmeists. For example, the poem “Sonnet”, written in 1915. It reflects the poeticization of the objective world, the grace and cult of beauty that were inherent in the works of the Acmeists.
But still the main theme of S.A.’s lyrics. Yesenina - love for the Motherland. Sergei Alexandrovich is undoubtedly a national poet. He comes from a peasant family, brought up on folk ditties and inspired by them. The poet himself spoke about his work like this:
“My lyrics are alive with one great love, love for my homeland. The feeling of homeland is central to my work.”
Several collections of poems are dedicated to the Motherland. For example, the pre-revolutionary one is “Radunitsa”. In it S.A. Yesenin reflects on Rus', on its fate. Some of Sergei Alexandrovich’s most famous lines are dedicated specifically to the Motherland:
Goy you, Rus', my dear, Huts - in the robes of the image... There is no end in sight - Only the blue sucks the eyes.
A characteristic feature of Yesenin’s lyrics are color epithets. The poet tries to convey deep experiences and feelings with the help of colors and tones. For example, black, which is traditionally considered the color of melancholy and sadness, is used by S.A. Yesenina is the color of fertile soil, prosperity: “Black, then smelly howl! // How can I not caress you, not love you?”
S.A. Yesenin is a poet of the 20th century. The revolutionary events of that era were reflected in the works of Sergei Alexandrovich. For example, the poems “Soviet Rus'”, “Lenin”, “Memories”. And also the entire poem “Transfiguration” and the bold “Land of Scoundrels”. The poet writes about his attitude towards the revolution: “During the years of the revolution he was entirely on the side of October, but he accepted everything in his own way, with a peasant bias.” And this “peasant deviation” meant deep worries about the fate of our native Rus' - with peasant huts, villages, meadows.
Thus, Sergei Yesenin is a poet of the Silver Age, who absorbed in his work various new literary forms of that era: from symbolism to imagism. However, he passed them through the prism of his own vision, filled with love for the Motherland - with its open spaces, peasant villages, fields. The fate of Rus' never ceased to excite the poet, and these experiences in all their diversity and originality were expressed in lyrics.
Author: Maria Serbina
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