Life and work of Yesenin. The theme of the motherland in Yesenin's work

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Rodina S. A. Yesenin (1895-1925) - the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan region. His biography is bright, stormy, sad and, alas, very short. Even during his lifetime, the poet became popular and aroused genuine interest from his contemporaries.

Yesenin's childhood

Yesenin's talent was largely manifested thanks to his beloved grandmother, who actually raised him.

The poet's mother married the peasant Alexander Yesenin not of her own free will and, unable to bear life with her unloved husband, returned with three-year-old Seryozha to her parents. She herself soon left to work in Ryazan, leaving her son in the care of her own mother and father.

About his childhood and creativity, he later writes that he began to compose poetry thanks to his grandmother, who told him fairy tales, and he remade them in his own way, imitating ditties. Probably, the grandmother was able to convey to Sergei the charm of folk speech, which permeates Yesenin's work.

Boyhood

In 1904, Yesenin was sent to study at a four-year school, which

was in the same village, and after it - to the church school. After a free life in his home, fourteen-year-old Sergey finds himself far from his family.

Yesenin's creativity made itself felt during friendly gatherings, when the guys read poems, among which Yesenin's ones stood out. However, this did not earn him respect from the guys.

The growth of Yesenin's popularity

In 1915-1916. the poems of the young poet are increasingly published next to the works of the most famous poets of that time. Yesenin's work is now becoming well known.

During this period, Sergei Alexandrovich becomes close to the poet Nikolai Klyuev, whose poems are consonant with his own. However, in Yesenin's works, dislike for Klyuev's poems slips, so they cannot be called friends.

Reading poetry in Tsarskoye Selo

In the summer of 1916, while serving in the Tsarskoye Selo hospital, he reads poetry to wounded soldiers in the infirmary. The Empress was also present. This speech causes indignation among the writers of St. Petersburg, who are hostile to the tsarist government.

The attitude of the poet to the revolution

The revolution of 1917, as it seemed to Yesenin, carried hopes for changes for the better, and not riots and devastation. It was in anticipation of this event that the poet changed a lot. He became more courageous, serious. However, it turned out that patriarchal Russia was closer to the poet than the harsh post-revolutionary reality.

Isadora Duncan. Journey to Europe and America

Isadora Duncan, a famous dancer, arrived in Moscow in autumn1921 She met Yesenin, and very soon they got married. In the spring of 1922, the couple went on a trip to Europe and the USA. At first, Yesenin is in awe of everything foreign, but then he begins to mope in the “terrible realm of philistinism”, he lacks sincerity.

In August 1923 his marriage to Duncan ended.

The theme of the motherland in Yesenin's work

The poet's homeland, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, is the village of Konstantinovo. His work has absorbed the world of bright colors of nature in central Russia.

The theme of the motherland in Yesenin's early period is closely connected with the landscapes of the Central Russian zone: endless fields, golden groves, picturesque lakes. The poet loves peasant Russia, which finds expression in his lyrics. The heroes of his poems are: a child begging for alms, plowmen who go to the front, a girl waiting for her beloved from the war. Such was the life of the people in those days. The October Revolution, which, as the poet thought, would become a stage on the path to a new beautiful life, led to disappointment and misunderstanding "where the fate of events leads us."

Each line of the poet's poems is filled with love for his native land. The homeland in Yesenin's work, as he himself admits, is the leading theme.

Of course, the poet managed to make himself known from the earliest works, but his original handwriting is especially clearly visible in the poem "Goy you, my dear Russia." The nature of the poet is felt here: scope, mischief, sometimes turning into hooliganism, boundless love for his native land. The very first Yeseninpoems about the motherland are filled with bright colors, smells, sounds. Perhaps it was the simplicity and clarity for most people that made him so famous during his lifetime. About a year before his death, Yesenin would write poems full of disappointment and bitterness, in which he would talk about his feelings for the fate of his native land: "But most of all / Love for my native land / I was tormented, / Tormented and burned."

Yesenin's life and work falls on a period of great change in Russia. The poet goes from Russia, engulfed in a world war, to a country completely changed by revolutions. The events of 1917 gave Yesenin hope for a brighter future, but he soon realized that the promised utopian paradise was impossible. While abroad, the poet remembers his country, closely follows all the events that take place. His poems reflect feelings for the fate of people, attitude to change: "The world is mysterious, my ancient world, / You, like the wind, calmed down and sat down. / Here they squeezed the village by the neck / The stone hands of the highway."

The work of Sergei Yesenin is permeated with anxiety for the fate of the village. He knows about the hardships of rural life, many of the poet's poems testify to this, in particular “You are my abandoned land.”

However, most of the poet's work is still occupied by the description of rural beauties, village festivities. Life in the outback for the most part looks bright, joyful, beautiful in his poems: "Dawns are blazing, fogs are smoking, / A crimson curtain is over the carved window." In Yesenin's work, nature, liketo a person, endowed with the ability to grieve, rejoice, cry: “The girls-spruces are saddened …”, “… birch trees in white are crying through the forests …” Nature lives in his poems. She feels, she talks. However, no matter how beautifully and figuratively Yesenin sang of rural Russia, his love for his homeland is undoubtedly deeper. He was proud of his country and the fact that he was born in such a difficult time for her. This theme is reflected in the poem "Soviet Russia".

Yesenin's life and work are full of love for the Motherland, anxiety for her, hopes and pride.

The poet died from 27 to 28 December 1925, while the circumstances of his death have not been fully clarified.

I must say that not all contemporaries considered Yesenin's poems beautiful. For example, K. I. Chukovsky, even before his death, wrote in his diary that the "graphomaniac talent" of the village poet would soon run out.

The posthumous fate of the poet was determined by "Evil Notes" (1927) by N. I. Bukharin, in which he, noting Yesenin's talent, wrote that it was still "disgusting swearing, abundantly moistened with drunken tears." After such an assessment, Yesenin was published very little before the thaw. Many of his works were distributed in handwritten versions.