The main motives of A.A.’s lyrics Feta.
Lesson in 10th grade
Lesson objectives:
1. Continuing to study the work of A Fet, introduce students to the main motives; teach analysis of a poetic work;
3. Cultivate a sense of beauty through high literature.
Today we will talk about the main motives of A.A. Fet’s lyrics. Let's remember what a motive is? In the works of any poets one can find a number of objects, concepts, phenomena, for example: candles, fortune telling, beauty, water, etc., whichfound in their works. A motif is a semantic element of a literary text, repeated within a number of works... As a rule, the theme of motives is a synthesis of the poet’s creativity and his love.This pattern can be identified in the poems of A. Fet, which were greatly influenced by the internal experiences of the author himself, his worldview and attitude to the environment. We will look at the main motifs: firstly, the motif of fire, and secondly, this is the motif of the seasons.
So,fire motif in Fet's work - one of the main motives in the poet's poems. By fire we mean the moon, sunset, dawn, lamp, fire (that is, fire in the literal sense) and stars. The fire in Fet’s life left a dark imprint: his beloved Maria Lazic died from the fire - she carelessly set fire to her white dress with a burning match. Perhaps this hurt the poet so much that he devoted most of his poems to such a terrifying element as fire.
…Like on the line of midnight distance
That light
Under a haze of sadness
I'm lonely…
In this poem, the poet compares himself to fire, but not to the elements. Fet is a lonely little man among all humanity. The 2nd and 4th lines are different from the 1st and 3rd - they are shorter, which creates a special rhythm of the poem, when you read, it feels like you are stumbling. This passage is dominated by sounds such as “o”, “l”, “i”, which mean tenderness and sadness, longing. At the same time, fear.
But here are lines from another poem by A. Fet (“The spring sky looks ...") paint us a similar picture:
…A lonely light in the distance
The sticky trees tremble under the darkness;
Filled with cruel mystery
The soul of dying violins...
Here the “light” is represented by a small particle of something big and terrible, but this particle does not frighten us, but, on the contrary, evokes a feeling of pity. The predominant sounds of the poem are “o”, “e”, “k”, which gives us the right to judge easy and sad, lazy actions. And when we hear the word “violin,” we think of something sad and crying. The epithet “fading soul” is beautiful and sad. A picture of loneliness appears before us.
The motif of “dawn and sunset” can be correlated with the motif of fire, which identify the fire of the sun.
…In the silent fields I love the crackling frost
In the sunlight I have a prickly shine on the snow,
Forests under the caps or in gray frost,
Yes, the river is ringing under the dark blue ice...
-Remember the poem “ Whisper, timid breathing …»: Of all Fet's early poems, this poem is the most unusual and unconventional.
-What year was it written in? Which cycle is it included in?
In 6th grade we worked with this poem: we talked about images, color and sound solutions, syntactic structures...
What is unusual about the form of this poem? How does the poet manage to convey the process of changes in the nature and mental state of a person? (The first sentence is 1 word, nominal, uncommon; the second is 2 words, the next is 3 words, but they are incomplete; and against their background, sentences of 5 words stand out: “silver and the swaying of a sleepy stream”, “A series of magical changes in a sweet face.” The final stanza consists of one sentence, its intonation increases, although the sentence has homogeneous members, but the verbs in it are omitted. The final stanza plays the role of an emotional conclusion.
Remember, you have already encountered this in the poem “Wonderful picture »:
Wonderful picture
How dear you are to me:
White plain,
Full moon,
The light of the high heavens,
And shining snow
And distant sleighs
Lonely running.
We also encounter this construction of the poem in the poem “This morning, this joy..."
M.L. Gasparov drew attention to the fact that in Fet’s “verbless” poems, the seemingly randomly existing figurative series are strictly organized, thanks to the clear rhythm of “extensions of the lyrical space”, this is “emotional saturation”.
Look in the text: from what we heard and saw - to actions, passion (“kisses and tears”).
What is the theme of the poem? (2 motives: love and nature. Images of nature in verses 2-6 are included within the love motive:
Whisper, timid breathing,
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A series of magical changes
Sweet face, organizing love motive)
What tropes underscore this motif? Metaphors: “nightingale trills” - songs of love; “silver stream”, “sleepy stream” - evening comes, then night. Love is born, magical secret feelings)
What does the third stanza indicate? What are the images in this stanza, can they be considered symbols? (It contains a clear indication of the time - dawn! The unclear colors were replaced by contrasting, bright ones: red-yellow - “purple of a rose”, “glimmer of amber” - this is the apotheosis of love!
The images in this stanza are symbolic: 1) the image of a rose (scarlet, red) is often used to symbolize youth and beauty; in another poem by Fet we see this symbol of love:
Full sleep: two roses for you
I brought it at dawn.
Through silver tears
Brighter than the bliss of their fire.
2) the purple of the rose turns into the color of dawn - “and kisses and tears.” Human feelings merge with the natural whole. This is one of Fet's poetic ideas.
What style is it written in? (Entry in the dictionary: “Impressionism – impressionism in poetry is the depiction of objects not in their entirety, but in instantaneous, random snapshots of memory: the object is not depicted, but is recorded in fragments, and does not form a whole picture.”
Teacher: "The night was shining. The garden was full of the moon...", "Former sounds with white charm...", "With what bliss of desires I …” - wonderful poems, Fet created them in his old age. And all the poems are young. There is a freshness of feeling in them. Fet writes “about love from memory.” Poetry and memory are internally close, related concepts. A poet is one who is able to vividly remember and revive his memories with words. With the power of memory he is able to bring back to life people dear to him, events and feelings that are significant to him.
At home, analyze for yourself A. Fet’s poem “The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. They were lying..." , these questions will help you do that:
Who is this poem dedicated to? What is it inspired by?
How do you feel when reading? What do you hear in it?
What are the main themes of the poem?
How is the musicality of a poem achieved?
What wonderful image affects us?
What can you say about the composition? How does this affect the reader's feelings?
To whom do the final words of the poem refer?
What poem (and whose?) could this poem remind you of with its essential features?
There is onemotive , which can be found in a number of works by many poets,- this is the theme of the seasons:
…The willow is all fluffy
Spread out all around
It's fragrant spring again
She blew her wings...
The seasons can be compared with the inner world of the hero. In this example, Fet describes spring, which gives the right to judge that at the moment nothing is disturbing the poet’s soul. The predominance of the sounds “e” and “i” confirms this fact; the reader or listener has a feeling of affection and tenderness.
The motif of flight is often found in Fet's poems:
…Can you hear the angular herd rustling above?
The cranes fly screaming across the dock to the warm fields,
The yellow leaves are rustling, the birch forest is whistling.
You say that we will wait for a warm spring again...
This poem symbolizes hope for better times.The bird, bee and flight motif is an ancient soul motif. Nature helps solve riddles, mysteries of human existence. Through her, Fet comprehends the subtlest psychological truth about a person. In this sense, the poem “Learn from them - from the oak, from the birch "(reading by heart by the student).
Nature is man's wise adviser and his best mentor. N.N. Strakhov called this poem“a diamond of the purest water with incomparably polished edges.”
The poem “There are brilliance and strength in winter nights” was written about the truth of nature’s existence that elevates man, about the opportunity through nature to understand the eternal secrets of life:
What do you see as the power of a winter night?
What is the “omnipotence of the lights of cloudless skies”?
How to understand, or perhaps imagine, a “worldwide dream”?
F. Fet always worshiped beauty and beauty. Beauty is one of the key themes of “Evening Lights”. Along with love, which for Fet was the brightest manifestation of the feelings of beauty, beauty, its omnipotence, its eternal power over a person are developed in the poem “She came and everything around her melted..." And you can see for yourself how it develops by analyzing this work.
The answers to these questions will help you:
What is the tone of the poem?
How do you experience the “space” of a poem?
Is the lyrical hero static? How does it “move”?
How might the structure of the poem surprise you?
How does Fet’s “humanized” nature meet “human naturalness”? What trope helps us understand this?
What is the intonation-syntactic organization of the poem?
Why Fet, including this poem in the collection "Evening lights ", removed the title "Spring"?
Concluding the lesson, I would like to remember the words of the great Russian poet F.I. Tyutchev, he wrote them about Fetov’s poems about Russian nature:
Others got it from nature
Prophetically blind instinct:
They smell them, hear the water
And in the dark depths of the earth...
beloved by the great mother,
Your destiny is a hundred times more enviable:
More than once under the visible shell
You saw it right away.
Homework: written analysis of a poem (optional).
V. Bryusov dedicated a special article to the poet “A. A. Fet. Art or Life" (1903) The epigraph to it was the words of Fet: “I will become a living echo of the violence of life.” According to Bryusov, Fet glorified the greatness of man: “No matter what great claims poetry expresses, it could not do more than express the human soul.”
“Sad birch...” Sad birch tree At my window, And by the whim of the frost It has been dismantled. Like bunches of grapes, the ends of the branches hang, - And the whole mourning outfit is joyful to look at. I love the game of the morning star I notice on it, And I feel sorry if the birds shake off the beauty of the branches. 1842
Autumn How sad are the gloomy days of silent and cold autumn! With what languid, joyless languor they ask to enter our souls! But there are also days when, in the blood of the burning golden-leafed headdresses, autumn looks for the gaze and sultry whims of love. The bashful sadness is silent, Only the defiant is heard, And, fading so magnificently, She no longer regrets anything
“I came to you with greetings...” I came to you with greetings, To tell you that the sun has risen, That it fluttered with hot light across the sheets; Tell me that the forest has woken up, The whole forest has woken up, every branch, every bird has roused itself, And is full of spring thirst; To tell you that with the same passion As yesterday, I came again, That my soul is still happy And ready to serve you; To tell me that joy is blowing at me from everywhere, That I myself don’t know that I will sing - but only the song is ripening. 1843
Fidelity to nature as a source of poetic inspiration was welcomed by F. I. Tyutchev in a poem addressed to A. A. Fet: Others inherited from nature a prophetically blind instinct: They smell it, hear the waters And in the dark depths of the earth, the Great Mother beloved, Your destiny is enviable a hundred times : More than once, under the visible shell, You have seen the very thing.
In the 50s, Fet's romantic poetics was formed, in which the poet reflected on the connection between man and nature. Fet creates entire cycles of poems “Spring”, “Summer”, “Autumn”, “Snow”, “Fortune-telling”, “Evenings and Nights”, “Sea”. The landscapes in these poems express the state of the human soul. Dissolving in nature, the hero Fet gains the opportunity to see the beautiful soul of nature. This happiness is a feeling of unity with nature: Night flowers sleep all day long, But as soon as the sun sets behind the grove, the leaves quietly open, And I hear my heart blooming.
Nature helps solve riddles, mysteries of human existence. Through nature, Fet comprehends the subtlest psychological truth about man. In this sense, the poem “Learn from them - from the oak, from the birch” is typical. Winter is all around, it’s a cruel time! In vain the tears froze on them, And the bark cracked, shrinking. The blizzard is getting more and more angry and with every minute it angrily tears up the last sheets, and a fierce cold grabs your heart; They stand, silent; shut up too! But trust in spring. The genius will rush to her, Breathing warmth and life again, For clear days, for new revelations The grieving soul will recover.
Like other poets, in Fet’s life there were specific meetings with extraordinary women who inspired him to create poetry. The poet praised female beauty in his poems. This photograph of female beauty is especially vividly embodied in the poem “An Appeal to Beethoven’s Beloved.” Understand at least once the melancholy confession, At least once hear the soul’s pleading groan! I am before you, beautiful creature, inspired by the breath of unknown forces. I catch your image before separation, I am full of it, and I am thrilled and trembling, And, without you, languishing in death throes, I treasure my melancholy as happiness. I sing it, ready to fall into dust. You stand before me like a deity - And I am blessed; and in every agony of Your new beauty I foresee triumph...
On May 22, 1891, Sofia Tolstaya wrote in her diary: “Fet was with his wife, reading poetry - all love and love... He is 70 years old, but with his ever-living and ever-singing lyrics, he always awakens in me poetic and untimely young thoughts and feelings . It may be untimely... but still good and innocent.”
The night was shining. The garden was full of moonlight. The Rays lay at our feet in the living room without lights. The piano was all open, and the strings in it trembled, Just like our hearts behind your song. You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears, That you alone are love, that there is no other love, And you wanted to live so much, so that, without making a sound, I could love you, hug you and cry over you. And many years have passed, weary and boring, And now in the silence of the night I hear your voice again, And it blows, as then, in those sonorous sighs, That you alone are all life, that you alone are love, That there are no insults from fate and a burning heart torment, And there is no end to life, and there is no other goal, As soon as to believe in the sobbing sounds, To love you, to hug and cry over you!
Smoothly at night, a soft haze falls from the brow. A.A. Fet's metaphors are based on associations. Metaphor. Specificity and innovation of A.A. Fet's poetry. For the first time, Fet's works will bring practical benefit. What conclusions can we draw about the features of A.A.’s creativity? Feta. Many of the most talented writers and critics did not accept poetry. A.A. Fet is characterized by an improvisational style of writing. Find poems by A.A. Fet.
“A.A.Fet” - Both in Western and Russian. Parallel to impressionism in painting, something similar arose in literature and poetry. The suicide attempt failed: the poet died earlier from apoplexy. Thinking of finding relief in the clean air, the girl ran out onto the balcony. About the poem “Whisper, timid breathing...”. Fet retired and after a long trip abroad settled in Moscow.
““Autumn Rose” Fet” - In spite of cruel trials and the anger of the fading day. There is only you, Queen Rose. Analysis of the poetic text. In defiance. The garden exposed its brow. The forest has crumbled its peaks. You blow on me with your outline and breath of spring. Beauty will save the world. September has come. Application is a definition expressed by a noun. Alexander Blok. The dahlias were burned by the breath of the night. Myatlev I.P. Ideas and emotions. A lesson in philological reading of a lyric poem.
“Brief biography of Fet” - Family life of the poet. Autograph. Fet's house. Collections and translations. Biography. Wedding. Military service. Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet. Last years of life. Attempt at writing. Studies. Buying an estate. Contemporary.
“The Poetry of Tyutchev and Fet” - Pictures of spring rain. Rainy evening. The final version of the poem. Theme of the poem. Additional sensations. Approaching rain. Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev. Spring thunderstorm. Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet. Spring rain. Which of these paintings by I.I. Levitan corresponds to the mood presented in the poem. Artistic media. Spring waters. Highlight the verbs. Folk sign.
“Biography and creativity of Fet” - Collection “Lyrical Pantheon”. Student years. Marriage. The only love. Translation activities. Confession. Friend and comrade. Foreign trips. Poetry in music. Fet's family. Blessing. Death of poet. Fet or Fet. Service. Collection "Evening Lights". Birth story. Lyrical self-portrait. Fet the landowner. Last years of life. Love has words, those words will not die. Collection "Poems".
V. Bryusov dedicated to the poet
special article “A. A. Fet.
Art or Life" (1903)
The epigraph to it was the words
Feta: “I will become a riot of life
a living echo."
According to Bryusov, Fet
glorified the greatness of man:
"No matter how great the claims
poetry expressed, she could not
I wish I could do more like
express the human soul."
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