One thousand nine hundred and sixteenth year. It turns out the first print edition of the little-known twenty-year-old poet from Ryazan - Sergei Yesenin. Can verses filled with a bright feeling for the Motherland and all life on Earth leave anyone indifferent? How is Sergey Yesenin different from other poets? Yesenin's early lyrics and its features will be discussed later.
The biography of the poet
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born on October 18, 1895. When the poet was two years old, his mother left her father, and his grandmother and grandfather were engaged in the upbringing of Sergey. They lived in abundance and raised three more sons, with whom Sergei spent most of his time. They taught the poet to swim and work on the field.
It was the grandmother who instilled in the poet a love of literature. She told Sergey a lot of folk tales, songs and ditties. It is believed that grandmother's stories were the impetus for writing their own works. Sergei Alexandrovich’s grandfather was an expert on church books, so it was customary for Yesenin’s family to read religious books every night.
After graduating from school, Yesenin returned to Moscow and got a job in a butcher's shop with his father. After he worked in a printing house.
Features of the early lyrics of Yesenin
Sergey Alexandrovich is one of the most brilliant poets of Russia. Can poems saturated with great love for the homeland and all life on the planet leave anyone indifferent? Of course not. In the works of the poet there is love for his native land, and for nature, as well as for women and animals. But is this different from Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin? The poet’s early lyrics are the eternal struggle of human emotions, positive and negative, light and darkness, wealth and poverty. Even in the most difficult moments, the poet does not betray his homeland and people.
Yesenin’s work always contains the most complex social-class, moral and ethical problems. The poet is constantly thinking about the fate of Russia. It was love for her that was the main theme in the poet's work. Also lyric and philosophical poetry is written by Yesenin. The poet's early lyrics have philosophical features. In such works, the mass of the innermost and personally experienced by the writer is intertwined with human kindness and warmth. That is exactly what is missing in our world now.
Prose writer
What else can Sergei Yesenin surprise us with? The poet’s early poetry is famous not only for its wonderful poems, but also for romantic and emotional prose works. They openly show folk life. Yesenin became the pioneer of Soviet poetry. He was one of the first to comprehend, and also revealed the significance of the October Revolution for society. He believed that it was the revolution that opened the way for mankind to spiritual rebirth.
Yesenin's early lyrics: poems
The lyrics of Sergei Alexandrovich are permeated with sincerity and sincerity, kindness and concern for the fate of their compatriots, as well as peoples of other countries and nationalities.
Yesenin's works are relevant today. They call for the maintenance of world peace and touch upon the most acute problems of our time. Time goes on, history changes ... Yesenin, like no one else, sensitively feels and often reflects on moral, ethical and political topics. Each poem of the great master of the pen is beautiful in its own way. It is difficult enough to single out the best, because each work carries something of its own, unusually beautiful.
Oh, how often in his works the poet writes about the Russian birch. It is with her that the writer associates Russia. Reading Yesenin's poems, you involuntarily transfer yourself to a birch grove, where you can hear birds charmingly singing and birch sap dripping.
Nature in the poems of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
As mentioned earlier, Yesenin also liked to write about nature. Early lyrics are filled with a mass of poems that are saturated with love for nature and all life. The poet in his works compares nature with the divine temple, the stars with celestial lamps, and this is only a small part of his metaphorical comparisons.
Often in Yesenin's works, landscape lyrics are intertwined with biblical images. In his poems, the most common are blue and cyan, as well as many of their shades. However, to add solemnity to the poem, he added raspberry paint.
Gordetsky admired Yesenin. He believed that a good poet should recognize all the flowers of his homeland. In his opinion, Yesenin not only knew each blade of grass, but also called by name and patronymic. It is interesting that in the study of the work of Sergei Alexandrovich, in his works, twenty varieties of trees and flowers were counted, and about one hundred animals and birds.
A significant role in the poet's works was played by the images of the moon and the sun. Esenin often used myths about the sky, the sun and the moon to create his own system of signs and symbols. Esenin’s early lyrics are characterized by precisely this. Poems are filled with love for all living things, and this can not leave anyone indifferent.
Interesting Facts
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin lived a small number of years, nevertheless left not only a mass of poems, but also many mysteries about his life. The poet was a rather loving person. During his short life, he had many novels with a wide variety of girls. One of the most famous was an affair with the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. Interestingly, the girl wanted to send the poet for treatment for alcohol dependence, but he escaped from the clinic. Some researchers believe that Yesenin went to the clinic in order to avoid arrest.
The mystery is fanned and the death of the poet. According to official figures, Yesenin laid hands on himself. However, literary scholars believe that this is not so, because on the last night the poet was in high spirits and did not say a word about any experiences to his friends.
S. Yesenin is a great prose writer and poet. A trembling love for his native land, plants, animals and people is saturated with all the verses of Yesenin. The early lyrics of the writer are associated with a storm of emotions, the most complex political and moral problems. The themes of his works are relevant in our time.