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An unfair situation, when an ignorant person undertakes to judge things beyond his mind and taste, is offensively common. About this - the fable "The Donkey and the Nightingale" by Ivan Krylov.
Conflict
Contemporaries said that the poet was inspired to create a work by an incident from his life. A high-ranking nobleman, after listening to Krylov's artistic performance of fables, praised the writer, but scolded him for not taking an example from another author (who wrote much weaker than Krylov). Having thrown out his resentment in the fable, Ivan Andreevich nevertheless managed to create an illustration of a typical disagreement between an undeniably talented creator and an ignorant, but self-confident critic. The conflict is doomed to be eternal. His multiple projection into our lives came true with the onset of times when "the cook began to rule the state." Creators who have experienced moments of agonizing bewilderment, when influential people patted them condescendingly on the shoulder, speaking outright nonsense about their works, are gratified to see the allegorical depiction of this collision as it is represented by the fable "The Donkey and the Nightingale".
Artistic media
The author generously uses literary techniques toimages of characters, the style of speech of heroes, descriptions of the absurdity of the situation. First of all, opposition comes into play. The donkey, the personification of stubbornness and stupidity, contrasts with the Nightingale, a symbol of inspiration and poetry. The rough speech of the Donkey immediately reveals his uncouth and ambitious nature. He addresses the Nightingale in a simple way: friend, craftsman … The donkey heard about the charming singing of the Nightingale, but doubts: “… is it really great … skill?” The answer of the Nightingale - heavenly singing - delights everything around. The noun "skill" used by the Donkey is opposed to the art shown by the Nightingale.
The author offers a cascade of verbs reinforcing each other, conveying a uniquely beautiful trill: “clicked”, “whistled”, “shimmered”, “pulled”, “gently weakened”, “given like a flute”, “scattered like a shot”. The fable "The Donkey and the Nightingale" draws the complete harmony that arises in nature and in the souls of people from the song of the Nightingale. It is not for nothing that the author uses high vocabulary here: everything listened to the favorite of the goddess of the dawn, calmed down, the herds lay down. There is a pastoral motive. The story reaches its climax when the shepherd listens to the Nightingale "breathing a little". As soon as the song stops, the Donkey throws his ponderous assessment: “Pretty much!” Krylov multiplies the satirical effect by describing how the "profound" critic reacts to the quivering art of the singer: stupidly "staring at the ground with his forehead." To him, the Nightingale is just "you can listen without boredom." And of course, he considers himself a great connoisseur, so he believes that his duty is to teach. The donkey notices importantly, inserting herethe colloquial word "pricked up" that the Nightingale would sing better if he "learned a little" from the rooster. The moral of the fable "The Donkey and the Nightingale" is expressed in a short and capacious phrase: "Deliver us, God, from such judges." Indeed, a fake donkey authority is a big obstacle in the way of art designed to ennoble life.
Krylov's fable "The Donkey and the Nightingale" in notes
The plot of Krylov's story inspired Russian composers to create works of the same name on this theme. Dmitri Shostakovich in his work "Two Fables by I. Krylov" with extraordinary expression conveyed in melodic language the clash of the characters' life positions. Rimsky-Korsakov's romance to the words of a popular fable is also very expressive.
Incompetence, inertness, lack of tact, inability to subtle spiritual impulses - these are the qualities that the Donkey and the Nightingale fable makes fun of, or rather, its author, a brilliant publicist, poet and translator Ivan Andreevich Krylov.
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