Afanasy Afanasevich Fet is a wonderful poet of the 19th century. His melodic poems have long been put to music and are known to us as romances. He wrote for the sake of beauty and did not touch his exalted syllable of politics. Russian nature in the lyrics of Fet has become almost the main subject of the image. This article is dedicated to this wonderful side of the work of the great poet.
Creativity Feta
For Fet, art was a refuge from everyday life. He believed that creativity should not concern social and political affairs and generally reality. His poems have always been devoted only to love and nature.
The first works of Fet were published when he studied at the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University. In his student years he gains fame and is actively published in magazines.
At first, the poet collaborated with the journal Sovremennik, but the strong public orientation of the publication hated him. Therefore, Fet leaves the magazine first, and then Petersburg. The landlord's life begins. The writer never returned to public life, but his poems did not change the direction. Love and Russian nature in the lyrics of Fet continued to occupy leading positions.
Pure art
Art for the sake of art, or pure art, is precisely this aesthetic concept that Fet adhered to. It consisted in the fact that creativity should be independent of public life. Art should bring only aesthetic pleasure, and not call for anything or oppose any political system. It was this concept that the poet adhered to; therefore, nature in the work of A. A. Fet is so beautiful and whole. She does not depend on the powerful of this world, does not affect anything, her merit is only in beauty, and this is the most important thing.
Feta Landscape Lyrics
Russian nature in the lyrics of Fet is depicted with inspiration, very emotional and amazing. It is not connected with the labor of the peasants, as Nekrasovskaya, and does not reflect the feelings of the lyrical hero, like Lermontov. However, it always causes delight and aesthetic pleasure.
It is surprising at the same time that Fet depicts not some special or spectacular paintings, but the most ordinary phenomena. However, they are saturated with joy, and the secret of the cycle of life itself is revealed in them.
The poet’s images of nature are palpable, concrete, full of details, sounds and even smells. None of the writers before him paid such close attention to the depiction of nature, its detail. Nature and man in the lyrics of A.A. Feta are connected, they are united by common feelings: “What a night! All the stars ... Warmly and meekly look into the soul again ... "
Through intimacy with nature, Fet enters intimacy with the Universe, gradually his poems begin to acquire a cosmic orientation. In some poems, the poet’s lyrical “I” is left alone with the world and the cosmos: “The Earth ... was carried away obscurely, and I ... I saw night alone in my face.”
And further, isolation from the earth and loneliness only increase against the backdrop of opening cosmic expanses: "I hung above this abyss ... I gazed at the depth in which ... it’s more and more impossible to drown." In this poem, space, first of nature, and then of space, gradually increases and at the end absorbs the lyrical hero. His soul dissolves in the world.
In his manner of depicting the nature of Fet, he is close to the Impressionists. The poet draws what he saw, trying to convey his impression, a momentary emotional impulse. The surrounding reality reflects the inner world of the lyrical hero. This is largely due to the fact that Feth animates nature, humanizes it, while people become only part of this living world.
Image of spring nature
Russian nature in the lyrics of Fet can be depicted at different times of the year, but spring images are most often found in poems . The arrival of spring is perceived by the lyrical hero as a resurrection, so he eagerly awaits it. He worries, listens, tries to recognize the signs of her appearance: "... the heart hears ... And everything that moves and breathes, breathes in the new spring."
Spring gives the poet strength, a thirst for life awakens in him, at the same time he worships her eternal, constantly reviving beauty. Each season of the poet is associated with certain emotions and the rhythm of life. For example, spring causes a certain melancholy, laziness, emotionality and bliss: “I am lost from melancholy and laziness / Lonely life is not sweet, / My heart aches ...” (from the poem “Bees”). Fetish, pampered, tormented by incomprehensible longing, but at the same time feeling the approach of something a new lyrical hero.
The theme of nature in the poet's poetry is very common. There is not a single poem in which one way or another it would not sound.
Image of winter nature
The images of winter nature in Fet's poems are often associated with the image of death. So, the following details appear: crypt, oak crosses, trees, dressed in "mourning" outfits, etc. Immersed in an eternal dream, nature merges with thoughts of nothingness, death, loneliness. More than ever sad and sad in these works of Fet. The theme of nature in the lyrics associated with the image of winter is always painted in gloomy tones: "The earth has cooled and died out long ago." The poet never portrays fun on a snowy background, joy leaves with warmth, only death and loneliness remain.
Conclusion
So, the theme of nature in the lyrics of A. Fet is always connected with the poet’s inner world. Moreover, all the power of his poems lies in the emotional, poetic and incredibly detailed depiction of landscapes.