The main theme in Yesenin's work was Russia. And only in the last years of his life did the poet create a series of lyric works devoted to feelings for women. They have soulful confessions and longing for the passing youth. One of these creations is “A blue fire was noticed.” An analysis of the poem is presented in this article.
What preceded writing?
In 1923, Yesenin returned to Russia. The poet was absent from his homeland for fifteen months. Outwardly, he was a sort of European dandy. He had a void in his soul. At least, the poet’s friends later recalled that another Yesenin had returned from abroad. It did not have the former fire, enthusiasm, naive and a little childish faith in the great future of Russia.
According to the memoirs of imaginative poets, Yesenin resembled a man who had been looking for something for a long time, but could not find it. Pain and frustration generated new creative ideas. After a honeymoon with Duncan, the poet was capable of creating works endowed with a deep philosophical meaning.
In this dark time, the poem "The Black Man" was born. Envious people criticized her. Not all of Esenin's contemporaries were ready to accept her. Gorky, upon hearing the “Black Man” in the expressive performance of the author, burst into tears.
What else is remarkable for the last stage in the life of the great poet? In the period from 1923 to 1925 he also knew a feeling that until now was unfamiliar to him. “A blue fire was noticed,” an analysis of which is described below, is a work of a mature man. This poem is not so much about love, but about the ability of a deep, bright feeling to change the course of life.
About love
Yesenin never wrote about what he had not touched in his life. Not far-fetched feelings are devoted to the verse "A blue fire was noticed." Analysis of a work of art must begin with the history of writing. As Anatoly Mariengof claimed in his memoirs, Yesenin once complained to him that he did not have verses about love. Write him a lyric work was not within the power. After all, for this you need to fall in love.
Fortunately for the poet, on the very day when the conversation about the lyrics took place, he met for the first time with Augusta Miklashevskaya. The soulful poem “A Blue Fire Has Noticed” has been dedicated to this woman, the analysis of which has been done more than once by literary critics and critics in order to understand how the poet felt in the last years of his life. Indeed, a year after the creation of a work full of hope and faith in himself, Yesenin tragically died.
Augusta Miklashevskaya
She was a very talented actress. She played on the stage of the Chamber Theater. Miklashevskaya was not only a beautiful woman, but also possessed rare spiritual qualities. Their love seemed poetic, pure and, as one of the author’s friends claimed, created exclusively for the lyrical theme. And this was a characteristic feature of extraordinary talent. This is evidenced by the sincerity and penetration that Yesenin endowed with "A blue fire was noticed."
The verse, the analysis of which can give the impression of eternal, true love, is actually devoted to a woman with whom the poet has little to do. Everything Yesenin did was for poetry. In order to create a lyrical work, he fell in love, truly, without looking back. Yesenin did not write about feelings that were unknown to him. He lived them, passed them through his soul. It was only thanks to the selfless and unconditional love of poetry that poetry was born that entered the anthology of Russian literature.
When he first started singing about love ...
After the poet read Miklashevskaya’s lines dedicated to her, as if the dam had broken. Up to this point, communication between Yesenin and the actress was somewhat cold. But after they started dating every day. And at this time, according to the memoirs of Miklashevskaya, was neither scandalous nor rude Yesenin. “A blue fire was noticed” is a verse, the analysis of which confirms the sincerity of the author, his readiness to submit to feelings.
Yesenin did not portray love. He really experienced her. Although a few weeks after the cycle in which the poem entered saw the light, the poet forgot about his feeling. After all, all his life he was in search of new topics for creativity.
Love bully
There were a lot of rumors about Yesenin. They said that he was rude to women, sometimes unbearable. The poems that the poet dedicated to Isadora Duncan did not contain tenderness. There were many obscene hints in them, which, however, does not detract from their literary value.
The first truly lyrical work that Yesenin created was the verse "A blue fire was noticed." An analysis of the first stanza indicates that the poet was not just in love, but was in a state of some humility. However, such sentiments reigned in Esenin’s soul for long.
I forgot the taverns forever ...
Yesenin devoted the tenderness and pure feeling to "A blue fire was noticed." An analysis of this famous work speaks of the poet’s confidence that the love that came into his life can change everything. He promises not only not to visit taverns from now on, but even to stop writing. Here, the author exaggerated a lot. After all, he could not live without writing.
Miklashevskaya knew another Yesenin, one who was uncomfortable with his "friends." He was a sober, sensible, friendly, and open-minded man. However, she soon became a witness to the drunken brawl arranged by Yesenin in one of the restaurants. An unsightly story saddened a young woman a lot. Nevertheless, she never spoke badly of the poet. Feelings for a talented actress, a kind, partly naive person, are dedicated to the words of the work “A blue fire was noticed ...”.
The verse, the analysis of which is presented in the article, is an example of lyrics. One of its features is a ring composition. In the first stanza, the poet promises to renounce his former life. The same words end the work. Yesenin often used a similar technique.
Other lyrics
Of course, even before the appearance of Miklashevskaya, the poet wrote about love. But it was a different feeling: heavy, painful. Yesenin compared love with a plague, a plague, a whirlpool. The poems that he dedicated to Duncan had nothing to do with those included in the cycle "Love of a Bully." The creation of a new lyrical hero was facilitated by experienced sorrows, disappointments, betrayal - all that was a lot in Yesenin's life. He devoted “The Bully's Love” to a woman who was truly worthy of the poet’s love.
Miklashevskaya, unlike Esenin's other lovers, wrote kindly about her rivals in her memoirs. But in the memoirs, the actress admitted that, like other admirers of the talent of the outstanding poet, she could not help him. With Yesenin it was difficult, sometimes unbearable. After the publication of the cycle, which included the poem discussed in this article, Miklashevskaya met with Yesenin only a few times. She never visited him in the hospital. The poet, who devoted so many verses to the people around him, was really unbearably lonely.