I left my home
Rus' left the blue one.
Three-star birch forest above the pond
The old mother feels sadness.
Golden frog moon
Spread out on the calm water.
Like apple blossom, gray hair
There was a spill in my father's beard.
I won't be back soon, not soon!
The blizzard will sing and ring for a long time.
Guards blue Rus'
Old maple on one leg.
And I know there is joy in it
To those who kiss the leaves of the rain,
Because that old maple
The head looks like me.
Analysis of the poem “I left my home” by Yesenin
Yesenin said goodbye to village life early, moving from the village. Konstantinovo to Moscow. The aspiring poet was cramped in the outback; he dreamed of recognition and fame. Yesenin’s bright, original poems immediately attracted attention; he quickly became popular and plunged headlong into the turbulent whirlpool of city life. Gradually, he draws the poet in more and more; he has practically no free time left. The completed revolution opens up even more opportunities for self-realization for Yesenin. Along with joy, the poet comes to the realization of the impossibility of returning to the village. He experiences a deep sense of nostalgia for his father's home. He often turns to him in his work. One of the striking examples of such an appeal is the poem “I Left My Home,” written in 1918.
Farewell to his father's house takes on a deep philosophical meaning in the work. It simultaneously symbolizes farewell to the entire previous way of life - “blue Russia”. Fundamental changes in the country affected all spheres of life; they directly affected the seemingly indestructible patriarchal foundations of village life. Yesenin's move practically coincided with these changes. He understands that even when he returns to the village, he will no longer see the usual picture.
At the very beginning of the poem, Yesenin introduces the images of his mother and father - the people dearest and closest to him. The poet's attitude towards his mother was particularly touching. Despite all the changes in life, she seemed to Yesenin as a faithful keeper of ancient foundations and traditions, and was capable of awakening a child’s soul in the poet. Relations with his father were not easy, but the long separation showed Yesenin that all disagreements were insignificant.
The poet understands that returning to his homeland will not happen very soon. He hopes that in his absence his native village will still retain its former features. The key to this hope is the “old maple”. Final comparison lyrical hero with this poetic image it shows that Yesenin considers himself the same keeper of the old way of life. External changes do not affect his soul, which is always turned to its unforgettable homeland.
Time has shown that Yesenin really remained one of the few who were sacredly faithful to the ideals of Russia that had disappeared forever. Despite the fierce Soviet criticism, he continued to sing the precepts of “Blue Rus'”.
The work of Sergei Yesenin, uniquely bright and deep, has now firmly entered our literature and enjoys great success among numerous readers. The poet's poems are full of heartfelt warmth and sincerity, passionate love for the boundless expanses of his native fields, the “inexhaustible sadness” of which he was able to convey so emotionally and so loudly.
Sergey Yesenin
"I left my home..."
I left my home
Rus' left the blue one.
Three-star birch forest above the pond
The old mother feels sadness.
Golden frog moon
Spread out on the calm water.
Like apple blossom, gray hair
There was a spill in my father's beard.
I won't be back soon, not soon!
The blizzard will sing and ring for a long time.
Guards blue Rus'
Old maple on one leg.
And I know there is joy in it
To those who kiss the leaves of the rain,
Because that old maple
The head looks like me.
1918
read by R. Kleiner
Rafael Aleksandrovich Kleiner (born June 1, 1939, village of Rubezhnoye, Lugansk region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Russian theater director, People's Artist Russia (1995).
From 1967 to 1970 he was an actor at the Moscow Taganka Drama and Comedy Theater.
Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich (1895-1925)
Yesenin! Golden name. Murdered youth. Genius of the Russian land! None of the Poets who came into this world had such spiritual strength, enchanting, omnipotent, soul-grabbing childish openness, moral purity, deep pain-love for the Fatherland! So many tears were shed over his poems, so many human souls sympathized and empathized with every Yesenin line, that if it were counted, Yesenin’s poetry would outweigh any and much more! But this method of assessment is not available to earthlings. Although from Parnassus one could see that the people have never loved anyone so much! With Yesenin’s poems they went into battle in the Patriotic War, for his poems they went to Solovki, his poetry excited souls like no other... Only the Lord knows about this holy love of the people for their son. Yesenin’s portrait is squeezed into wall family photo frames, placed on the shrine along with icons...
And not a single Poet in Russia has ever been exterminated or banned with such frenzy and tenacity as Yesenin! And they banned, and kept silent, and belittled, and threw mud at us - and they are still doing this. It is impossible to understand why?
Time has shown: the higher Poetry is in its secret lordship, the more embittered the envious losers are, and the more imitators there are.
Another great gift of God from Yesenin - he read his poems as uniquely as he created them. They sounded like that in his soul! All that remained was to say it. Everyone was shocked by his reading. Please note, great Poets have always been able to read their poems uniquely and by heart - Pushkin and Lermontov... Blok and Gumilyov... Yesenin and Klyuev... Tsvetaeva and Mandelstam... So, young gentlemen, a poet mumbling his lines on a piece of paper from the stage is not a Poet, but an amateur... A poet may not be able to do many things in his life, but not this!
The last poem“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” is another secret of the Poet. In the same year, 1925, there are other lines: “You don’t know that life in the world is worth living!”
Yes, in the deserted city alleys, not only stray dogs, “lesser brothers,” but also big enemies listened to Yesenin’s light gait.
We must know the real truth and not forget how childishly his golden head was thrown back... And again his last wheeze is heard:
“My dears, good ones...”
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Author of the presentation: Pechkazova Svetlana Petrovna, teacher of Russian language and literature MBOU "Lyceum No. 1" r.p. Chamzinka Republic of Mordovia Didactic material for a literature lesson in grade 5 Analysis of the poem by S.A. Yesenin "I left my home..."
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check the level of knowledge of S.A. Yesenin’s creativity, the degree of understanding of the poem “I left my native home...”, its themes, ideas, features of the visual and expressive means of poetic language Purpose:
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In the work of Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin in his mature years, the leitmotif was longing for his small homeland. In his youth, he left the village of Konstantinovo, and a little later he created a work in which he expressed the sadness and loneliness experienced far from his home. The history of the creation of the poem The poet created the work at the age of twenty three years. His work is striking in that it is almost not based on life experience. In this poem, he conveyed the feelings that a person usually experiences at the end of his life, rethinking the years he has experienced.
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S.A. Yesenin “I left my birthplace...” I left my birthplace, I left Blue Rus'. The three-star birch forest above the pond warms the old mother's sadness. The moon spread out like a golden frog on the still water. Like an apple blossom, gray hair flowed through my father’s beard. I won't be back soon, not soon. The blizzard will sing and ring for a long time. An old maple tree on one leg guards blue Rus', And I know there is joy in it To those who kiss the leaves of the rain, Because that old maple tree looks like me in its head.
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Warms - i.e. softens with warmth. Birch - i.e. birch trees that can grow on poor soils. Bloom - i.e. unpretentious, finely flowering plants. Howl is a dialect word. Howl in Ryazan dialects means arable land, a plowed field. S.A. Yesenin “I left my home…”
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What pictures appear before your inner gaze while reading a poem? Through what images does the poet convey the feelings of a person who has parted with his native places? What image does the guardian of the home represent? S.A. Yesenin “I left my home...” What mood is Yesenin’s poem permeated with?
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For Yesenin, the Motherland is mother, father, birches, old maple, images that are inseparable from Russia. In the reflection of the moon on calm water, in a birch forest, in apple blossoms - in all this the poet sees his homeland. The plot of the poem is developed from the author’s personal memories. S.A. Yesenin “I left my birthplace...” Remembering the time when he “left my birthplace,” S.A. Yesenin then draws the sadness of his mother and imagines his father, who is growing old without him. In the third stanza, the author says that he will not soon see native land. After all, the blizzard will probably continue to ring for a long time. It should be noted that Yesenin compares the tree, which is called upon to “guard Rus',” with himself.
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The unity of man with nature is a feature that is inherent in almost all the works of the Russian poet. The plot develops quite logically: the reader sees that the Motherland and nature are inseparable for the poet, just like nature and man. The poet left his native land, but retained in his soul the image of a maple tree that guards his native home and is so reminiscent of the author S.A. Yesenin himself “I left my native home...” The poem “I left my native home” is a reminder that everyone a person has roots, a home where we were born and raised, and without this we can’t go anywhere. And it is very important to appreciate these memories as a bright and radiant moment in our lives. After all, without a home to which one wants to return, it will be difficult for a person to live in this world.
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What figurative and expressive means of language does the poet use in this poem? EPITHETS METAPHORS OF COMPARISON home blue Rus' old mother quiet water warms sadness the moon spread out gray hair poured out to sing and ring in a blizzard like a golden frog the moon spread out... like an apple blossom, gray hair... S.A. Yesenin “I left my native home...”
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The poet called Rus' “blue”. This shade is associated with purity, with the color of the sky. Yesenin compared the moon to a frog that was spread out on the water. This image not only allows you to vividly and colorfully imagine an evening landscape with a pond, but also gives the poem unusual dynamism. In depicting the gray hair in his father’s beard, the author uses the expression “apple blossom.” S.A. Yesenin “I left my home...” Yesenin gives natural phenomena almost human qualities. The blizzard in the poem reminds living creature which sings and rings. The maple, which protects Rus', stands on only one leg and is more of a thinking creature than an ordinary tree.
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Sergei Yesenin’s poem “I Left My Home” was written in 1918. His idea arose during a period when the poet was separated from his family and his small homeland. You are invited brief analysis“I left my home” according to plan. It will be useful when studying the work in a literature lesson in 8th grade.
Brief Analysis
History of creation- the poem was created in 1918, when the poet left the village in which he was born and raised, it reflected the consequences of the move: sadness for the past, the poet’s experiences.
Subject- the verse reflects a theme that runs through Yesenin’s lyrics - love for the small Motherland, longing for it.
Composition- linear, four consecutive parts can be distinguished: memories of mother, father, sadness that the separation will not end soon and a comparison of the poet himself with the maple tree, which “guards blue Rus'”, so beloved by Yesenin.
Genre- the work belongs to the genre of lyric poem.
Poetic size- the work consists of four stanzas, which are quatrains written in anapest (three-syllable meter with an emphasis on the last syllable), exact and inaccurate masculine rhyme is used, the method of rhyming is cross ABAB.
Metaphors- “the birch tree above the pond is warm... sadness”, “The moon spread out like a golden frog...”, “father’s gray hair ran through his beard”.
Personifications – “sing for a long time and the blizzard rings”, “An old maple tree on one leg guards blue Rus'”.
Epithets– “blue Rus'”, “Golden frog”, “on still waters.”
Comparison- “Like an apple blossom, gray hair.”
History of creation
The poem was written by a young poet in 1918, when he left his native village, leaving behind everything that was dear to him. Longing for the small Motherland resulted in the lines: “I left my native home, I left blue Rus'.” This work well reflects the general picture of all the pre-revolutionary lyrics of Yesenin, who loves his native country, worries about its fate, and misses his native places. The poem was published at the height of the poet’s fame, because just four years ago it was unknown to the general public.
Subject
The theme of the poem “I Left My Home” is homeland, longing for places familiar from childhood, attachment to home and family. The poet remembers the area in which he lived, vividly describes it: “Birch forest with three stars above the pond”, “The moon is like a golden frog”. This description clearly paints us images of beautiful “blue” Rus' with its amazingly beautiful nature, the house abandoned by the poet, parents grieving over their son and visibly aging: “The old mother’s sadness warms her,” “...the gray hair of the father has flowed through his beard.”
The poet’s homeland is a birch forest, a yellow moon reflected in the water, an apple blossom, and a maple tree that “guards blue Rus'.”
Composition
It is impossible to single out any plot and its development in the work, but the poet is consistent in his description. So, in the first stanza he tells the reader that he said goodbye to his home and remembers his mother. In the second stanza, Yesenin talks about his father. In the third part, he worries that he will not see his family again soon, since the blizzard will still “sing and ring” for a long time. The poem ends with a description of the image of a maple tree, which for the lyrical hero seems to be the guardian of Rus', the poet’s home. Yesenin associates himself with this with him: “that old maple tree’s head looks like me.” The author does not return to what has already been mentioned, so the composition can be called linear.
Genre
“I Left My Home” is a lyric poem. The verse consists of four stanzas of four lines each (quatrain). The poet uses different types rhymes: exact (house - pond, water - beard), inaccurate (Rus - sadness, in it - maple), masculine - the emphasis always falls on the last syllable: house, Rus', pond, sadness, moon, water and so on. The rhyme is cross, the first and third, second and fourth lines rhyme.
Means of expression
The poem is written using various artistic means, thanks to which the reader imagines a colorful picture described by the poet.
Yesenin uses a lot metaphors: “the birch tree above the pond is warm... sadness”, “The moon has spread out like a golden frog...”, “gray hair has flowed through my father’s beard.” In addition, there are also personifications: “the blizzard will sing and ring for a long time”, “The old maple on one leg is guarding blue Rus'”, comparison: “Like an apple blossom, gray hair.” Diverse epithets, used by the author: “blue Rus'”, “Golden frog”, “on still water”.
The method that is characteristic of Yesenin as a poet seems interesting. He associates himself with nature. In this case, with a tree: “...that old maple tree’s head looks like me.” This technique not only reflects the poet’s attachment and inseparability from nature, the Russian land, and homeland, but also paints us an image of the poet himself. At the same time, he seems old, has experienced a lot, it is difficult to imagine that this poem was written by a 23-year-old man.
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“I left my home…” Sergei Yesenin
I left my home
Rus' left the blue one.
Three-star birch forest above the pond
The old mother feels sadness.Golden frog moon
Spread out on the calm water.
Like apple blossom, gray hair
There was a spill in my father's beard.I won't be back soon, not soon!
The blizzard will sing and ring for a long time.
Guards blue Rus'
Old maple on one leg.And I know there is joy in it
To those who kiss the leaves of the rain,
Because that old maple
The head looks like me.
Analysis of Yesenin's poem "I left my home..."
In 1912, 17-year-old Sergei Yesenin, receiving a diploma as a rural teacher, refused the opportunity to teach at his native school and went to Moscow to try to get a job at a newspaper. The future poet did not yet suspect that he was leaving the village of Konstantinovo forever. From now on, he will always be a stranger here due to various circumstances.
In the first years of his life in the capital, Yesenin literally raved about his home, but because of his work in the printing house and his studies at the university, he did not have the opportunity to see his father and mother. And after the revolution, he realized that he could never be truly happy in Konstantinovo, where, as in many Russian villages, the way of life had completely changed. In 1918, he wrote the poem “I left my native home...”, filled with sadness and pain because fate played a cruel joke on him, depriving him of the homeland that he idolized. In this work, the author for the first time tried to convey to readers the idea of how easy it is to become an outcast in your own country, which can destroy the childhood illusions of any person.
The first lines of this poem tell the story that the poet not only left his small homeland, but also “left blue Rus'.” However, during this period Yesenin was in Russia and could not even imagine that someday he would be able to visit abroad. Then why does he say otherwise? The whole point is that that “blue Rus'” that the poet loved so much has forever remained in the past, and now only exists in the author’s memories. Therefore, Yesenin, who nevertheless went to visit his parents for a few days, notes that even they have changed. So, “like an apple blossom, the gray hair of the father flowed through his beard,” and the mother, exhausted by rumors about her unlucky son and worried about his fate, continues to be sad even when meeting him.
Realizing that the world of children's dreams has been destroyed completely and irrevocably, the poet notes: “I will not return soon, not soon!” Indeed, almost five years would pass before Yesenin visited Konstantinovo again and could hardly recognize his native village. Not because it has changed so much, but because the people themselves have become different, and in their new world there is simply no place for a poet, even such a famous and talented one. But at the moment when these lines were written, Yesenin had something completely different in mind. He was sure that it would not be long before he would be able to see his homeland as it was before the revolution. The author did not imagine that the changes taking place in the country would be so global and large-scale, but he believed that sooner or later everything would fall into place, and his “blue Rus'”, which is guarded by an “old maple on one leg”, will still open her arms to him.
Yesenin also compares himself to an old maple tree, since the new government for him is little better than the previous one. As a peasant son, the poet understands that now his fellow villagers have much more opportunities for self-realization. However, the poet cannot forgive the fact that the very spirit of the village with its originality is being destroyed, people are being forced to change their traditions and views, which were created over generations. Therefore, by drawing a parallel between himself and the maple, the author thereby wants to emphasize that he also stands guard over that old Rus', since it was from its origins that people have drawn their spiritual strength since time immemorial. Now, when this source has dried up, Yesenin simply does not recognize his homeland, mired in civil war. And it pains him to realize that after this bloody massacre, people will never be able to be the same - open, reasonable and living according to their conscience, and not at the behest of the party, which is busy not so much with the needs of the people, but with strengthening its own positions and distributing spheres of influence in society.