God, nature, man in Esenin's poetry. Themes of Esenin's creativity

"Singer and Herald of Wooden Russia" - this is how Esenin himself defined himself as a poet. His works are really sincere and frank. He gives out his Russian soul without unnecessary embarrassment, which suffers, melts, rings and rejoices.

Yesenin's lyrics

Yesenin wrote about what worried him and his contemporaries. He was a child of his era, who learned many cataclysms. That is why the main themes of Esenin's poetry are the fate of the Russian village, the present and the future of Russia, the tenderness of nature, love for women and religion.

Red thread through all the creative legacy of the poet is a burning love for the homeland. This feeling is the starting point of all his further literary research. And Esenin invests primarily in the notion of the Motherland, not political significance, although he did not bypass the side of the sorrow and joy of peasant Russia. Homeland for the poet - it's surrounding fields, forests, plains, which begin from the parental home of the lyric hero and extend into the vast distance. The poet drew incredible beauty from childhood memories and the nature of his patrimony-the village of Konstantinovo, where Esenin's "crimson Russia" began. Such feelings of a trembling love for the native land were expressed in the most delicate poetic watercolors.

All the themes of Esenin's work, in particular the theme of love for the Motherland and love of nature, are so closely intertwined that they can not be distinguished from one another. He admired the world around him like a child "born with songs in a grass blanket," considering himself an integral part of it.

Love lyrics - a separate layer of creativity of the poet-nugget. The image of a woman from his poems was written off from Russian beauties "with scarlet juice of berries on the skin", "with a sheaf of oatmeal hair". But love relations always take place as if in the background, in the center of action there is always the same nature. The poet often compares the girl to a thin birch, and her chosen one - with a maple. For early creativity is characterized by youthful ardor, focus on the physical aspect of relationships ("zatselu dopyana, isomna, as color"). Over the years, having learned bitter disappointments on a personal front, the poet expresses his feelings of contempt for corrupt women, cynically believing love itself as nothing more than an illusion ("our life is a bed sheet and a bed"). Yesenin himself considered the "Persian motifs" as the peak of his love lyrics, where the poet's trip to Batumi left its imprint.

It should be noted many philosophical motifs in Yesenin's poems. Early works spark a sense of completeness of life, a precise awareness of their place in it and the meaning of being. The lyrical hero finds him in oneness with nature, calling himself a shepherd, whose "chambers are between the shoal fields". He realizes the rapid withering of life ("everything will pass, as if from white apple trees, a smoke"), and from this his lyric is peppered with light sadness.

Of particular interest is the theme "God, nature, man in Yesenin's poetry."

God

The origins of Christian motives in Esenin must be sought in his childhood. His grandmother and grandfather were deeply religious people and instilled in the grandson the same reverential attitude to the Creator.

The poet seeks and finds analogies of the ransom sacrifice in the phenomena of nature ("the convict-wind ... kisses red sores on the rowan bush red to the invisible Christ," "the day of the sunset sacrifice redeemed all sin").

Yesenin's God lives in that same old, outgoing Russia, where "cabbage beds water the sunrise with red water." The poet sees the Creator first of all in the creation - the surrounding world. God, nature, man in Yesenin's poetry always interact.

But not always the poet was a humble worshiper. In one period, he has a whole series of rebellious, God-struggling poems. This is due to his belief in the October Revolution and the adoption of a new communist ideology. The lyrical hero even challenges the Creator, promising to create a new society without the need for God, "the city of Inonia, where the living deity lives." But such a period was short-lived, soon the lyrical hero again calls himself a "humble monk," praying for pits and herds.

Human

Quite often the poet depicts his hero as a wanderer walking along the road, or as a guest in this life ("Everyone in the world is a stranger - will pass, go and leave the house again"). In many works Yesenin touches on the antithesis "youth - maturity" ("The golden grove has discouraged ..."). He often reflects on death and sees it as the natural ending of everyone ("I came to this earth to leave it sooner"). Everyone can know the meaning of his existence by finding his place in the triad "God is nature - man". In Esenin's poetry, the main link of this tandem is nature, and the key to happiness is harmony with it.

Nature

It is a temple for the poet, and the person in it must be a worshiper ("I pray for ali zori, I take communion at the brook"). In general, the theme of the Most High and the theme of nature in Yesenin's poetry are so interrelated that there is no clear line of transition.

Nature is also the main character of all works. She lives a bright, dynamic life. Very often the author applies the method of impersonation (the klenochok sucks the green udder, the red mare-autumn scratches its golden mane, the snowstorm cries like a gypsy violin, the bird-cherry sleeps in a white cloak, the pine is tied with a white kerchief).

The most favorite images are birch, maple, moon, dawn. Yesenin is the author of the so-called wooden novel between the birch-girl and the maple-boy.

Yesenin's poem "Birch"

As an example of a refined and at the same time simple awareness of being, one can consider the verse "Birch". This tree since ancient times is considered a symbol of the Russian girl, and of Russia itself, that's why Esenin has put deep meaning into this work. Tenderness with a small piece of nature grows into admiration for the beauty of the immense Russian land. In ordinary everyday things (snow, birch, branches) the author teaches to see more. This effect is achieved with the help of comparisons (snow - silver), metaphors (snowflakes burn, dawn sprinkles branches). A simple and understandable imagery makes Esenin's poem "Birch" very similar to folk, and this is the highest praise for any poet.

The general mood of the lyrics

It should be noted that Yesenin's poetry so clearly feels a slight sadness "on the buckwheat expanses", and sometimes pinching anguish even in admiring the native land. Most likely, the poet foresaw the tragic fate of his Motherland, which in the future "will still live, dance and cry at the fence." The reader is involuntarily given pity to all living things, because, despite his beauty, everything around is fleeting, and the author grieves beforehand: "Sad song, you are Russian pain."

Features of Yesenin's poetry

You can also note some distinctive features of the poet's style.

Yesenin is the king of metaphors. He so skilfully packed capacious artistic images in a few words, that each poem is full of bright poetic figures ("evening has black eyebrows socked," "a quiet sunset floats along the pond swan in red", "a shoal flock on the roof serves the evening star").

The closeness of Yesenin's poetry to folklore gives the impression that some of his poems are folk. They are incredibly easy to fall for music.

Thanks to such features of the artistic world of the poet "wooden Russia" his verses can not be confused with others. He can not help subduing his selfless love for the Motherland, which originates from the Ryazan fields and ends with the cosmos. The essence of the theme "God - Nature - Man" in Esenin's poetry can be summarized in his own words: "I think: how beautiful the earth is and on it a man ..."