The most famous poems of Lermontov from the school curriculum

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Lermontov's poetry is a real iceberg, which you can study for many years and not fully comprehend all its depth and the strength of the talent of our great compatriot. No matter how blasphemous it may sound, but, according to many critics, Lermontov was more talented than Pushkin. More precisely, in Mikhail Yurievich the poetic gift is presented in a more concentrated, rich way than in Pushkin, Lermontov's main idol.

First steps of comprehension

The most famous poems of Lermontov are gradually included in our reading circle, thanks to the lessons of Russian literature. In the 5th grade, this is the famous "Borodino", which the children memorize with pleasure. Children read the description of the battle with interest, enthusiastically get acquainted with new words-historicisms, introducing hitherto unknown realities into their lives. Light, relaxed, confidential intonation, alternation of iambic three- and four-foot evokes a feeling of friendly conversation, dialogue, creates the effect of the author's presence next to the reader. The patriotic idea of the work, revealed in the images of Borodin, finds the most lively response from the students. It essentially characterizes the poet himself, who loves the Motherland "to the pain of the heart." Therefore, other well-known poems by Lermontov, criticizing the socio-political system of Russia, do not erase our initial idea of the poet as a true son of the Russian land.

As part of the school curriculum

The baton in the patriotic lyrics of Mikhail Yuryevich is taken by a small, but surprisingly capacious masterpiece, which sixth graders are already familiar with - the poem "Clouds". It, like other famous poems of Lermontov, contains everything that is generally inherent in his poetry: both the restlessness of loneliness, and longing for inner and outer freedom, for a homeland independent of autocracy, if possible, to live not in a foreign land, but where the soul calls. After all, the poet himself was an “eternal wanderer”, whom fate threw from one exile to another, from the “sweet north” to the Caucasus, which became the place of his death.

"The lonely sail turns white" - no less famous poems by Lermontov. The work is imbued with the romance of struggle and feat, heartfelt confusion and striving for beauty far away. Poems excite the imagination of adolescents, give rise to still vague dreams of a wide expanse of life, free wind, s alty sea spray in the face and a feat, still unknown, incomprehensible, but so beautiful!

Struggle of feelings

The inexhaustible world of poetry of Mikhail Yurievich absorbed intoall areas of our emotional life. Lermontov's poems about love are a clear proof of this. We know that Pushkin was happy in friends, in sincere warm affections. And many women, bright, brilliant, beautiful and educated, loved him, admired him, kept a reverent memory of him. The poet to whom this article is dedicated is another matter. Almost all Lermontov's poems about love are tragic. One of the very first, addressed to Ekaterina Sushkova, has a telling name - "The Beggar". The lyrical hero, in whom the poet himself is easily recognizable, compares his feelings and experiences, the bitterness of deceived hopes with the pain of an unfortunate beggar, in whose outstretched hand for alms a stone was placed instead of a piece of bread. Varenka Lopukhina, Marie Shcherbatova, Katenka Bykhovets - these are the muses that inspired Lermontov to create immortal lines, sometimes full of sorrow, sometimes touchingly tender and humble, sometimes filled with hopes that were not destined to come true.

…Then my soul's anxiety humbles itself…

Lermontov's poems about nature are a special topic. Mikhail Yurievich has almost no purely landscape lyrics. A poet-philosopher, he saw the living soul of being in the sketches of the surrounding nature. Rebellious and restless, standing in irreconcilable opposition to everything gloomy, gray, faceless, soulless that was in Russia and in his contemporaries, Lermontov, on the one hand, could only be himself alone with nature, experience enlightenment, purification, sincere joy. Remember the last lines of the poem "When the yellowing field is agitated …"? Lyric althe hero sees God in heaven, relieves the burden of worries and anxieties from the soul precisely when he is in the bosom of nature, where everything is harmonious and beautiful - alas, not at all like in the world of people. This sharp contrast, this abyss between the perfection of God's world, the greatness of God's plan that created the Earth and all living things, and the world of human relations, mired in crimes, lies, artificiality, immorality permeates another piercingly lyrical, unusually beautiful and piercingly sad work: elegy "I go out alone on the road …". The beauty of the starry night is a sharp dissonance compared to the thoughts that overwhelm the hero. No wonder he dreams of forgetting and falling asleep in order to forever renounce the imperfection of human life.

Autumn Sun

Autumn was sung in the works of many of our poets. Pushkin himself admitted that from the seasons he is glad "only for her", calling "the charm of the eyes." Poems about Lermontov's autumn are also filled with the quivering delight of a person attached to the highest mystery - the mystery of nature. Sunny reflections of the last serene days are compared by the poet with the secret sadness of unrequited love. And he more than once called himself an “oak leaf”, which is torn off by the autumn wind from its native branch and carried away somewhere into the distance by worldly storms. The rebellious, ardent soul of the poet, aspiring to the heights, flies on the wings of time to us, the current generation of readers, to introduce us to the great miracle - Russian classical literature.