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- The theme of the homeland in the works of F. I. Tyutchev
Despite his devotion to his native land and boundless love for the Motherland, the great Russian poet Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev spent less time in his native land than in a foreign land. This is how the circumstances developed. However, according to the words “she has become special...”, related to her homeland, the author determined his attitude towards her. The time associated with his native landscapes in Russia remained forever in the poet’s soul.
The writer was sure that what was priceless to him (“poor villages”) remained a mystery to representatives of the Western world. Many events in history passed before the eyes of the poet. But he was always on the side of the ordinary Russian person, emphasizing the resilience of the people and their fortitude (“the native land of long-suffering…”).
The theme of the Motherland is constantly visible in his work. It also manifests itself through the image of a woman who performs backbreaking work and therefore deserves special attention from Tyutchev: “And your life will pass unseen.” The fate of the fairer sex is not indifferent to the writer. In addition, he believed that it was necessary to share the fate of his homeland in the present, and not in the past, from which only memories remained (“Their life, like a boundless ocean, is all spilled in the present”). The harsh truth often appears in creativity, which the author does not hide. However, in his opinion, this is one of the manifestations of his homeland.
One of the most striking manifestations of love and tenderness for the homeland is associated with the poet’s appeal to the nature of his native land. Thus, the extraordinary realism of the lines about a spring thunderstorm makes the reader a participant in the events (“I love a rose in early May...”). And the ability, for example, to feel how “the azure of heaven laughs” opened up enormous opportunities for him in creative activity.
The lines of Fyodor Ivanovich: “I remembered the golden time” say that “staying in his native country is the best period in his life. In the thoughts of the great poet there was not a single thought associated with choosing in favor of the West. All Tyutchev’s experiences and his condition were associated with faith and love for his homeland.
Thus, analyzing the poems of F. I. Tyutchev, we can conclude that his image of his homeland is formed thanks to his appeal to the common Russian man, to woman, nature, and also religion. In each of these elements the poet saw a soul. Therefore, he treated Russia with respect and compassion. In general, it is impossible to ignore the poet’s genuine sincerity and admiration for his homeland.
Essay The image of the motherland in Tyutchev’s lyrics
Russian literature of the 19th century. generously gifted us with priceless, highly spiritual works, introduced us to many outstanding poets, among whom a special place belongs to my favorite poet F. I. Tyutchev. One can say about his work in the words of Turgenev: “They don’t argue about Tyutchev: whoever doesn’t feel him, thereby proves that he doesn’t feel poetry.” Since childhood, we have been accompanied by the poems of Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev. Many of us did not yet know how to read, but we already knew his poems by heart. After the first acquaintance with his works, for many he later became the most understandable and beloved poet. We remember many of his lines when we want to express our deepest feelings. Even now, when I re-read his poems again and again, I understand and am amazed at the inexhaustible wealth of the Russian language. His poems serve as the best evidence of the power of the word. Many of Tyutchev’s poems reflect a deep love for nature, which is inextricably linked with love for the homeland. The poet tried to instill his selfless faith in his homeland in the people around him at that moment, as well as in the future generation. I remember a small but meaningful excerpt from Tyutchev’s letter to his daughter, in which he writes that in Russia she will find more love than anywhere else, will feel all the good in its people and will be happy that she was born Russian . Through an appeal to nature, Tyutchev reveals all the beauty and uniqueness of our homeland, glorifies love for it, admires it and describes it with such precision that you will not find in any other poet. Fyodor Ivanovich in his poems provided the most succinct and poetically accurate pictures of his native nature. Thus, in his poem “Spring Thunderstorm,” he most accurately showed a thunderstorm over a field, forest, garden, over the green expanses of the beginning of spring in Russia: I love a thunderstorm in early May, When the first thunder of spring, as if frolicking and playing, Rumbles in the sky blue Yes, many of Tyutchev’s poems are dedicated to nature and love. This, of course, gives reason to classify him as a priest of “pure poetry,” but Tyutchev was also a man of his time. And he dedicated many poems to his homeland. From them we learn that not everything in Russia pleases the poet as much as the beauty of his native expanses. The events taking place in his homeland were not in tune with his worldview. Tyutchev’s judgments accurately characterize the entire abomination of the political situation created in the country: “In Russia, the office and the barracks... everything moves around the whip and rank.” Judging by the poet's lyrics, he was an opponent of veneration, devoid of any desire to curry favor, and was an opponent of serfdom: Above this dark crowd of the Unawakened people, Will you ever rise, freedom, Will your golden ray shine? Tyutchev always strived to maintain complete freedom of thought and feeling, did not submit to conventional secular “morality”, did not subservient to secular decency. For the poet, Russia seemed to be an unshakable entity, an “ark of salvation” for Europe. However, this is how she seemed to the poet only externally. In its depths it was “the edge of long-suffering.” Tyutchev places all responsibility for the military losses and troubles of the people on the tsar. And it was precisely in his address that a sharp and accusatory epigram was directed: You did not serve God and not Russia, You served only your vanity, And all your deeds, both good and evil, - Everything was a lie in you, all the signs were empty: You were not a king, but a performer. This poem evokes mixed feelings. Tyutchev was also ambiguous in his behavior. He belonged to a privileged class, participated in noble political circles and was acquainted with some Decembrists. However, he was deeply outraged by the violent methods they chose to fight. Knowing about the impending revolt of the Decembrists, the poet adhered to neutrality. Then he sharply criticized the Decembrist movement: You were corrupted by autocracy, And the sword struck him down, - And in incorruptible impartiality The law sealed this sentence. The people, shunning treachery, revile your names - And your memory from posterity, Like a corpse in the ground, is preserved. The breath of the era in which the poet lived can be felt even in poems that are far from social and political themes. He was a contemporary of great wars and social upheavals. And as a man of broad-mindedness and a keen mind, Tyutchev tried to comprehend the historical significance of the events taking place in the country, following them with pain and anxiety. His poetry is a kind of confession of a man who visited “this world in its fatal moments,” in an era of collapse of social foundations. Tyutchev always sought to live not in the past, but in the present Russia, and these lines reflect his thoughts very well: It is not about the past that roses sigh And the nightingale sings in the night: Aurora sheds fragrant tears Not about the past, - 14 the fear of the inevitable death does not shine from the tree not a leaf. Their life, like a boundless ocean, is all spilled in the present. Tyutchev's ambiguous attitude towards the image of his homeland runs through all of his work. He simultaneously glorifies the beauty of Russia through nature and exposes all the vices of the country of those times. But still, the poet treats Russia with great sincerity and love and admires its beauty. For Tyutchev, Russia was a kind of picturesque canvas, the merits of which he could judge not only in his homeland, but also far from it. Having lived abroad for many years, the poet began to judge his homeland as if from afar, and sometimes the events taking place in Russia became unclear and alien to him. At the end of his life, he wrote the following poems: Russia cannot be understood with the mind, nor can it be measured by a common arshin: She has become special - You can only believe in Russia.
