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Author of the presentation: Svetlana Petrovna Pechkazova, teacher of Russian language and literature, Municipal Budget Educational Institution “Lyceum No. 1”, Chamzinka, Republic of Mordovia Didactic material for a literature lesson in 5th grade Analysis of the poem by S.A. Yesenin “I left home…»
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check the level of knowledge of S.A. Yesenin’s work, 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 works of Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin in his mature years, the leitmotif was longing for 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, as a rule, 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 motherland. 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 moon spread out gray hair poured out singing and ringing blizzard golden frog moon spread out... like an apple blossom, gray hair... S.A. Yesenin “I left my birthplace...”
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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 endows natural phenomena with almost human qualities. The blizzard in the poem reminds Living being 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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“I left my home…”, analysis of Yesenin’s poem
The poem “I left my home…” was written by Sergei Yesenin in 1918. In this work, the poet talks about his feelings for his native land, draws images of melancholy, sadness, and loneliness. The author easily draws parallels, telling readers about his inextricable connection with Russia. The poem was first published in 1920.
Genre and literary movement
This poem is a shining example works of the lyrical genre, written in a unique manner characteristic of Sergei Yesenin. Here the poet shares his own thoughts and feelings with readers, talks about his parents, and talks about his love for his native land.
It is important to note that the poem uses vivid images, original symbols, and expressive definitions. All these artistic means make it possible to confidently attribute the work to one direction to which the poet belonged. The poem clearly shows the original imagery inherent in the works of the Imagists. It is this unique symbolism that instantly makes the style recognizable, and the poem more memorable and non-trivial.
The theme and plot of the poem “I left my home…”
The main theme of the poem was the poet’s separation from his native land, mother and father. For Sergei Yesenin, the Motherland is one in all its manifestations. Birches, the moon, an old maple - all this is inseparable from the image native land. In every twig, leaf, reflection of the moon in water, the poet sees his Rus'.
The plot of the poem develops in the area of the author's memories. Actual storyline there is no. However, a certain sequence is certainly observed. First, the poet notes that he left his home, left Rus', and talks about his mother’s sadness. Then Yesenin remembers his father, who is turning gray without him. In the third stanza, the author writes that he will not return soon, the blizzard will sing over his house for a long time. But the old maple remained in the poet’s homeland. It is interesting that Yesenin directly associates the tree that “guards” Rus' with himself. In the final stanza, the poet writes that with the rain of its leaves, the maple’s “head” looks like him.
We can say that the plot develops logically: readers see that nature and the Motherland are one for the poet, just like man and nature. He left his lands, but left a memory of himself in the form of a maple tree, which reminds him of the gold of its leaves.
Sergei Yesenin’s poem “I left my home…” is written in anapest. The stress falls on the last syllable of the trisyllabic foot. Cross rhyme is used. The composition is linear because everything in the poem is presented sequentially. The author draws parallels between his native land and his parents, the Motherland and nature, trees and people. At the end of the poem, he compares himself to a maple tree that remained to “guard” Rus'.
Let's look at the basic means of representation. The poet calls Rus' “blue”. This definition also becomes an artistic means, symbolizing the blueness of the sky and purity. The moon in the work “spread out like a golden frog.” A bright image not only allows you to vividly imagine the moon, but also gives the work a unique dynamism. Yesenin compares the gray hair in his father’s beard to apple blossom, while the gray hair “sheds” in his hair.
The blizzard appears in the poem as a living creature. Personification here allows us to better imagine a blizzard that sings and rings. The maple guarding Rus', standing on one leg, certainly looks more like a thinking creature than an ordinary tree.
An old one-legged maple suddenly transforms right before the readers' eyes. He is already given amazing features, full of something sublime and romantic. Yesenin writes that in maple there is joy for those who kiss the “rain” of the tree’s leaves. It turns out that the maple has a similar head to the lyrical hero of the poem. It is this tree that becomes a kind of connecting thread that does not allow the connection between the poet and his native land to be broken.
An amazingly vivid poem gives readers an idea of the skill of Sergei Yesenin.
“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.
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.
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Historical and biographical material
History of creation and date of writing of the poem
In 1918, Yesenin moved from Petrograd to Moscow. His collections are published there.
The place of the poem in the poet’s work
The theme of Russia is the main one in Yesenin’s work. The feeling of love for the homeland, admiration for the beauty of the unassuming, but dear to the poet’s heart, Central Russian landscape is the main motive of the early lyrics.
The main theme of the poem
Homeland theme
The problem of the poem
Loneliness, blood attachment to one’s small homeland.
Poem composition
As is typical in Yesenin’s work, personal experiences are clothed in images of nature. We see this pattern in every stanza.
Lyrical hero
The lyrical hero is devoted to his small homeland. He has strong and deep feelings for this place. He left him a long time ago and now does not know when he will return again, which greatly depresses his spirit.
Prevailing mood and its changes
The psychological landscape conveys such moods as light sadness, joy, peace, admiration for beauty. Longing for an abandoned home, interrupted family connection. Further, the mood is more anxious and restless, imbued with a feeling of loneliness.
Philosophical lyrics
4 stanzas. Quatrains
Basic images
Man and nature are fused together.
"Blue Rus'". The blue color enhances the feeling of vastness of space. Also, Yesenin’s blue is a symbol of divinity and holiness.
Maple is the keeper of the hearth. The poet also compares the maple with himself, emphasizing his loneliness.
Vocabulary of the poem
The words used were coined by the poet himself - “warms”, “apple tree”.
Visual means of allegory
color epithet “blue Rus'”, metaphor “the moon is like a golden frog”, comparison “like an apple blossom”.
Inversion. The exclamation enhances the conveyance of the hero’s experiences.
Sound recording
Assonance with "o" and "u".
Three-punch cutter. The foot is multisyllabic with stress on different syllables.
Rhythm and rhyme. Methods of rhyming
1st – 3rd stanza – cross.
4th stanza – there is no rhyme.
The image of “Blue Rus'” for the poet is closely connected with the village of Konstantinovka, where he was born, with peasant huts, folk songs, fairy tales and beautiful nature. It is this theme that is revealed in the poem “I Left My Home.” This article will be devoted to a brief analysis of it.
We will begin our analysis of Yesenin’s poem “I Left My Home” by turning to the bibliographic component. The poet really left his beloved village early. This happened in 1912, when seventeen-year-old Sergei graduated from teacher's school. He didn't want to teach. The capital beckoned him, the poet dreamed of getting a job in a newspaper. However, the separation from his native roots was difficult for Yesenin.
At first he raved about home, but there was no time to visit the village. The poet entered the university and worked in a printing house. Several years passed before he was able to visit his native Konstantinovka. In 1818, the lines “I left my home” were born. S. Yesenin managed to convey in them his unfading love for his parents, rural landscapes and the melancholy that does not let go.
An analysis of Yesenin’s poem “I Left My Home” allows us to divide it into two parts. The first of them is dedicated to the poet’s small homeland, landscapes dear to his heart, and memories of his father and mother. Everything here is permeated with warm sadness, regret that his parents are growing old without him.
The second part is more disturbing. Village harmony is replaced by a ringing snowstorm. Nevertheless, the poet has a glimmer of hope that after a long time he will be able to return home. An image of a maple tree appears, with which the lyrical hero associates himself. The old tree becomes its extension, protecting dear places. Loved ones can console their melancholy next to the maple tree, since with its “head” it resembles the curls of a poet.
“Blue Rus'” is present in both parts of Yesenin’s poem “I Left My Home.” An analysis of the poet's work shows that this image is central to the entire early period. Then “Blue Rus'” will be replaced by “Soviet”, “steel” Rus'. But Yesenin will not be able to get used to her.
The blue color is the clear sky and the surface of the water, these are the vast expanses. For the poet, it is also a symbol of holiness, spirituality, and peace. The image of Rus' is inextricably linked with the rural way of life and rural landscapes. In the poem, nature and people are closely intertwined. The mother finds solace in the “birch tree above the pond”, the father’s gray hair is compared to the blossom of an apple tree, the moon is spread out on the water surface like a “golden frog”.
Leaving for the city, Yesenin finds himself cut off from this harmony and his roots. Here man and nature are separated. The image of a “ringing blizzard” conveys an alarming atmosphere. The loneliness is acutely felt. Being far away, the lyrical hero is worried about the safety of “Blue Rus'”. He leaves his alter ego in his small homeland - an old one-legged maple tree, which is called upon to guard the world order in its unchanged form.
An analysis of Yesenin’s poem “I Left My Home” shows that it was written in anapest. The rhyme is masculine, cross. From stylistic means exclamation and inversion are used in the third stanza, which gives these lines a special emotionality. The poet managed to express his bitterness from separation from his native places, concern about the changes taking place in the country (the image of a blizzard), and the desire to protect the village dear to his heart from them.
From the lexical means of expressiveness we find epithets ("home", "old sadness", "Blue Rus'"), metaphors ("golden frog moon", "rain of leaves"). There are also comparisons in the work (gray hair with blossoming apple trees, maple with the lyrical hero). The closeness of man and nature is emphasized by personifications (a blizzard sings, a maple tree has a head and a leg, a birch tree “gives warmth”). The poet comes up with his own forms of words in order to more accurately convey his thoughts and emotions: “apple tree,” “warm.”
We can call the lines “I left my home” autobiographical. The characterization of the lyrical hero allows us to understand the feelings of the poet himself, forced to live far from his native village. As in other works, inner world person is compared with natural phenomena. Yesenin was acutely aware of his “knot” with the harmonious surrounding world, trees, animals. Through pictures of nature, the complexity of existence and the vicissitudes of human destiny were revealed to him.
Yesenin depicted the present in the form of a singing, ringing blizzard. The image of a whirlwind of snow and a blizzard will dominate his work of 1924-1925, conveying the state of a restless soul. But we can already hear these echoes. A blizzard conveys a feeling of unsettlement and anxiety. The revolution, which changed everything, is compared to an element before which man is powerless. Yesenin understands that the period of instability will last a long time.
The salvation is the images of “Blue Rus'”, “home”, which come to life so vividly in the poet’s memories. In this fairy-tale world live a father and mother, the personification unconditional love, tenderness, protection. As long as parents exist, a person has two unshakable supports on life path. But they are getting old. Yesenin anticipates the collapse of “Blue Rus'” and the fragility of the world of childhood. That’s why he sets up a guard: an old maple tree, so similar to himself with its golden head.
An analysis of Yesenin’s poem “I Left My Home” allows us to understand it main idea. A person cannot exist without roots. The places where we grew up, our native people, and traditions familiar from childhood become our spiritual support in adulthood. Without them, we find ourselves alone and defenseless in the face of life's ups and downs. Therefore, it is so important to preserve these values and not allow anything or anyone to destroy them.
The poem is filled with sadness, but at the same time very beautiful and lyrical. Reading it, we are transported to the colorful world of Russian nature, admiring the bright images and quiet melody of the lines.
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.
Yesenin's most significant works, which brought him fame as one of the best poets, were created in the 1920s. Like everyone great poet Yesenin is not a thoughtless singer of his feelings and experiences, but a poet and philosopher. Like all poetry, his lyrics are philosophical. Philosophical lyrics are poems in which the poet talks about the eternal problems of human existence, conducts a poetic dialogue with man, nature, earth, and the Universe. An example of the complete interpenetration of nature and man is the poem “Green Hairstyle” (1918). One develops in two planes: the birch tree - the girl. The reader will never know who this poem is about - a birch tree or a girl. Because the person here is likened to a tree - the beauty of the Russian forest, and she is like a person. The birch tree in Russian poetry is a symbol of beauty, harmony, and youth; she is bright and chaste. The poetry of nature and the mythology of the ancient Slavs permeate such poems of 1918 as “Silver Road...”, “Songs, songs, what are you shouting about?”, “I left my home...”, “Golden leaves swirled...” etc.
Yesenin's poetry of the last, most tragic years (1922 - 1925) is marked by a desire for a harmonious worldview. Most often in the lyrics one feels a deep understanding of oneself and the Universe (“I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry...”, “The golden grove dissuaded...”, “Now we are leaving little by little...”, etc.)
The poem of values in Yesenin’s poetry is one and indivisible; everything in it is interconnected, everything forms a single picture of the “beloved homeland” in all the variety of its shades. This is the highest ideal of the poet.
The poem “Anna Snegina” (1915) became in many ways the final work, in which the poet’s personal fate was interpreted with the fate of the people.
Having passed away at the age of 30, Yesenin left us a wonderful poetic legacy, and as long as the earth lives, Yesenin the poet is destined to live with us and “sing with all his being in the poet the sixth part of the earth with the short name “Rus”.
