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The poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is known throughout the world as one of the most gifted and skillful masters of artistic expression in the history of Russian literature. He wrote many poetic and prose works that have become real masterpieces not only of literature, but of the entire Russian culture as a whole. Such priceless pearls include the poem "Anchar", written by him in 1828.
During this period, Alexander Sergeevich has already been living in Moscow for several years. Emperor Nicholas I returned him here after a long four-year exile to the south, to Chisinau.
The poet was sent there to serve in 1820, replacing hard labor in Siberia. This mitigation of punishment was allowed thanks to the petition of Karamzin.
The reason for the exile was the freethinking of the poet, shown by him in epigrams on Arakcheev and other poems that did not please Emperor Alexander the First. Leaving the service in 1924, Pushkin spends another 2 years in exile in Mikhailovsky and only in 1826 returns to Moscow at the personal invitation of Nicholas I.
The impressions gained during the years of exile give a new impetus to the development of Alexander Sergeevich's creativity. An analysis of the poem "Anchar" makes it possible to clearly see that from now on, Pushkin's main motives are the themes of supreme power, free will and the struggle of man with omnipotent fate.
The plot of the poem is taken from the legendary stories about the poisonous upas-anchar tree growing on the island of Java.
Analysis of Pushkin's poem "Anchar" makes it possible to discern in the image of a poisonous deadly plant a symbolic image of an inevitable evil fate that turns a tree, which since ancient times has been a symbol of life and the connection of generations of a family, into a blind instrument of death. This is exactly how, according to the poet, evil fate and a corrupting spirit make the monarchical traditions of autocracy in Russia destructive for its people.
Analysis of the poem "Anchar" also shows that compositionally it is built on the principle of antithesis. The work is clearly divided into two opposing structural parts.
In the first of them, the poet gives only a detailed description of the poisonous "tree of death": born by the nature of the barren "thirsty steppes", it stands "like a formidable sentinel" lonely in the middle of the desert "stunted and stingy." The poet deliberately exaggerates, repeating in each new stanza the descriptions of the destructive powerpoisoned tree: nature, which gave birth to it on the “day of wrath”, gave deadly poison to drink “dead green branches” and all of it. Therefore, now the poison "drops through its bark" and with the rain flows into the "combustible sand".
The sound analysis of the first part of the poem "Anchar" amazes with the abundance of the sounds "p" and "ch" in the text of the work, at the phonemic level conveying the gloomy and depressing mood of the author of the story and the atmosphere of the "stunted and stingy desert".
Analysis of the poem "Anchar" by Pushkin, especially its second part, shows the image of an inexorable and ruthless ruler, sending his devoted slave to certain death with just a glance. This image is opposed to the image of a poisonous tree and at the same time identified with it. The poet, as it were, compares two types of manifestations of evil fate: spontaneous and spontaneous (poisonous tree) and a deliberate expression of human will. An analysis of the poem "Anchar" makes us understand that as a result of this comparison, the poet comes to the conclusion that a person, in this case a king, who sent a slave to death with a "powerful look", is much more terrible than the embodiment of death itself in the form of a "tree poison.”
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