Fet Afanasy Afanasyevich belongs to the movement of pure art. Adherents of this trend believed that art should stand apart from political and social problems, it should not exist in order to call for something, to learn or solve some problems, but for its own sake. In contrast to the poets of pure art, civilian lyricists argued that the writer cannot be indifferent to the problems that exist in the country. This debate has been going on throughout the existence of fiction, but it escalated especially during the years of A.A. Feta - in the second half of the 19th century. A detailed analysis of "I came to you with greetings" - one of Fet's most striking works - proves that the author was a representative of pure poetry.
Theme and idea of the poem
Determining the subject of Fet's poems, on the one hand, is very easy, but on the other, it is sometimes difficult. This is due, firstly, to the fact that Fet has only three themes: love, nature and beauty. It would seem impossible to get confused in them. However, sometimes they are so intricately intertwined in one poem that it is almost impossible to see where one topic ends and where another begins. This is exactly the poem "I came to you with greetings."
At first glance, this work belongs to the category of love lyrics. This is clear from the first line, but Fet continues with a description of the pictures of spring nature. So what comes first? It is impossible to answer, since Fet once again showed with his poem that man and nature are indivisible. Everything that happens in nature with the advent of spring is reflected in the soul of every earthly inhabitant.
Content analysis. "I came to you with greetings" as a work of pure art
The main means of expression that the author uses in this work is personification. All nature is depicted by him as a kind of living creature. The reader imagines pictures of spring nature, the way the forest woke up from winter sleep. Thus, the author brings the reader to the most important category for him - the category of beauty. Beauty is primarily in nature, and then in man, since he is also part of nature.
Fet's creativity has one important feature - attention to private details. This can easily be seen in this text. The lyrical hero noticed everything: every leaf and twig, he was able to catch even the very mood that filled the spring forest. How did he do it? It’s very easy, because the same mood is in the soul of the hero himself. He is ready to live, create, work and love.
Means of Expression
As the analysis shows, “I came to you with greetings” is a work not saturated with means of expressiveness. The author resorts to avatars: “the forest woke up”, “started up”, “is full of thirst”. There is a metaphor in the text - "it blows with fun." Instead of the warm spring breeze, the lyrical hero feels the very joy and fun of the awakening nature.
It should be said that this work is very consonant with everything that Fet wrote about nature. Usually he is laconic, does not use too many means of expressiveness, but he endows nature with all human qualities.
Afanasy Afanasevich Fet: poems about nature and love
So, in the works of Fet almost always the experiences of the lyrical hero are interspersed with descriptions of paintings of nature. Any movements in the environment give rise to a series of experiences, memories. This is exactly what happens in the poem "I came to you with greetings." We can see the same in the work "Dul north. Crying grass." However, this work does not show harmony, happiness. The lyrical hero experiences not the most pleasant feelings, he is depicted at the time of suffering about past love.
Sometimes the author encourages people who have forgotten that they are also God's creations to turn to the earth itself for help. We find a similar motive in the poem "Learn from them - from oak, from birch." It also has a spring awakening motive.
A striking example of the lyrics of pure art is the poem "Whisper, timid breath." In it, Fet Afanasy Afanasevich embodied his basic idea of the indivisibility of all things. Details of the world are closely intertwined with the movements and emotions of his lyrical hero. There is not a single verb in the poem, but because of this it did not become boring and uninventive. We see a picture in dynamics. Fet uses verbal nouns, we, as if alive, see "changes in a pretty face."
conclusions
Creativity Feta is a hymn to beauty. He glorified the greatness of Russian nature, showing all its beautiful features. He did not portray something unusual. The theme of his work was the annual changes in nature, the usual feelings of sympathy and love between people. But the poet managed to translate this into an unusually poetic form. As the analysis showed, “I came to you with greetings” is a poem that is one hundred percent consistent with the poet’s creative system. As in his other works, here the lives of man and nature are shown in parallel. If spring is in nature, then a person awakens in the soul. If the world is warm and beautiful, then a person is ready to create and work, to love and worry.