The theme of love occupies an important place in Yesenin's lyrics. Yesenin's early work is dedicated to Russia, to the praise of his native lands. Yesenin's poems are a reflection of the beauty of Russian nature, the village life of the people. His poetry was close to different strata of society, because he wrote about what excites society. The theme of love for the Motherland is the basis of many of the poet's works. These two themes merged into one in the poet's lyrics.

(“O motherland!” “Where are you, where are you, father's house ...”)

The poet admired the nature of Russia, its endless fields and meadows. Many poems about nature have become lyrics for songs. ("Beloved land! My heart dreams ...") He embodied the image of a woman through natural phenomena, endowed flowers, trees with characteristic female guises. Folk motifs are characteristic of early lyrics. The lyrical hero enjoys beauty, he is young and ready to love. So, Yesenin dedicated his first works to Anna Sardanovskaya. In them, Yesenin anticipates the joy of the upcoming meeting.

Changes in the country were reflected in the poet's lyrics. love lyrics becomes more frank, filled with experiences. ("Letter to a Woman")

The cycle of poems "Love of a hooligan" is dedicated to Augusta Miklashevskaya. Love again becomes a pure and bright feeling. The lyrical hero in the work was able to overcome himself and rediscover love.

In 1924, Shagane became the poet's muse, to whom he dedicated "Persian Motifs". The poem expands the boundaries of love, in order to love it is not necessary to know the language. The poet separates this feeling from the material world, love is a state of mind.

The later lyrics of the poet are a reflection of the disappointments and unfulfilled hopes of the poet. Yesenin no longer admires a bright feeling, he sees insincerity in women. The poet could not find his ideal. At the end of his life in 1925, Yesenin wrote a poem

Leaves are falling, leaves are falling. This work is a disappointment in love, in fidelity.

Yesenin's poems are a reflection of his personal experiences. Love lyrics show the poet's life path, changes in his worldview and ideals. Yesenin is a mysterious person. The saying: "All life is a theater, and the people in it are actors" - reveals the essence of the poet's character. He was multifaceted, distinguished by special sensitivity, which is why his works are so sincere.

When it comes to love poetry, the gentle, romantic and light works of Sergei Yesenin, who entered the history of Russian literature as an outstanding lyricist, are first of all remembered.

The poet's biography attracts special attention. Sergey was popular with women, and the author himself was incredibly amorous and emotional. With all your experiences and secrets love stories he shared with a sheet of paper on which lines appeared that did not leave any reader indifferent.

The poet felt all the depth and beauty of love in last years life, we are told about this by the collection of works "Persian Motives", written in 1924-1925. A real masterpiece in this cycle of poems is the declaration of love to an oriental girl in the work “Shagane you are mine, Shagane”. In this verse, Yesenin managed to subtly and unobtrusively sing the beauty of his native land, share with a beautiful stranger his thoughts about his native land and the girl who is waiting for him there. The verse is read in one breath, written easily and simply, but at the same time leaves a bright aftertaste.

Another important poem in Yesenin's love lyrics is the work "Letter to a Woman". This work also refers to the lyrics of the last years of the poet, it shows an incredible respect for a woman and a deep understanding of the mistakes made in his youth. In the letter, the author asks for forgiveness from the woman he once loved. Crazy and wild life has become main reason, according to which the relationship did not work out and now the poet, from the height of the past years, asks for forgiveness and regrets that he lost his beloved.

This work is an abstract prepared by a student of DITI NRNU MEPhI Fatkhutdinov M., under the guidance of Babenko S.B., a teacher of Russian language and literature, for participation in a scientific and practical conference.

abstract

“Many women loved me, Yes, and I myself loved more than one”

(the theme of love in the work of S. Yesenin)

Completed:

Student Fatkhutdinov Marat

Student DITI NRNU MEPhI 131 groups

Dimitrovgrad,

2012

Introduction

"Many women loved me,

Yes, and I myself loved more than one "

Yesenin's poetry, like his short life, is striking in its sincerity, heightened longing of feelings, which told about what darkened, excited, delighted his soul.

The theme of love permeates the work of any poet, musician, artist. Sometimes it seems that everything has already been said, however, everyone finds a new, their own sound, because love is an intimate feeling, and everyone loves in their own way, so this theme in art is eternal.

In the work of S. Yesenin, the theme of love sounds in the most early poems. At first, these are works of a folklore and poetic nature, for example, "Imitation of a Song", written in 1910: "I wanted in the flickering of foamy jets / From your scarlet lips with pain to break a kiss." The poem is like a folk lyric song.

Later, motives appear in love lyrics that merge together the poetry of love with the poetry of nature, conveying the sublime spirituality of feeling and its chastity.

A completely different "love" appears in "Moscow Tavern". The beginning of the 20s is the time of the spiritual crisis of the poet, rushing between the old and new Russia, feeling its uselessness. He sought consolation in drunkenness and revelry. It seems that he is not capable of a light feeling. In "Letter to a Woman" Yesenin admits:And I bent over the glass, so that, without suffering for anyone,
To destroy yourself In a drunken frenzy...

Now he sees love not as a wonderful bright feeling, but as a misfortune, a whirlpool: "I did not know that love is an infection, I did not know that love is a plague." This disappointment gives rise to cynical, vulgar, rude lines: “Rash, harmonica. Boredom... Boredom... The accordionist pours his fingers in a wave. Drink with me, you lousy bitch, drink with me. They loved you, tortured you - Unbearable. Such a disrespectful attitude towards a woman appears in the work for the first time. Words of insult are addressed to all women: "pack of dogs." However, at the end, the hero sheds sentimental tears and asks for forgiveness: “Honey, I am crying. //Sorry Sorry...". The hero still tries to seek consolation in love, tries to heal bleeding spiritual wounds with love.

Love for a woman is not able to drown out another feeling - love for one's native land, longing for one's homeland. Poems of the last period of creativity are full of contempt for the insincerity of relationships, rejection of female guile, the poet condemns "frivolous, deceitful and empty women." Yesenin always dreamed of pure, uplifting love, in recent years in his work he sings the ideal of a joyful, bright feeling. “Leaves are falling, leaves are falling ...” - a poem written by a man tired of the blows of fate, a man looking for a safe harbor: “Now I would like a good // See a girl under the window.” Only such a real feeling can calm the "heart and chest."

The poet's love lyrics captured a whole gamut of human feelings. Like all his work, it is autobiographical and truthful, it reveals the personality of the poet, his soul. Yesenin's love lyrics, according to N. Rylenkov, are able to quench "the thirst for human tenderness." Each reader finds his own vision of love in his poems, because "everyone in the world sings and repeats the song of love."

You can tell a lot about those women with whom his fate brought him together. Each of them uniquely, in its own way, came into contact with the love and friendship of the poet.

Sardanovskaya Anna Alekseevna

P Sergei Yesenin's first love was Anyuta Sardanovskaya, the priest's granddaughter, Yesenin studied with her at the diocesan school, she wasthe sister of a childhood friend of the poet. Youthful love. He will write about it later.

At fifteen
I fell in love to the liver
And thought sweetly
I'll just be alone
What am I on this
The best of girls
When I get old, I get married.

Wonderful time of half-adolescence, half-youth! Wonderful long summer evenings, endless winter nights, when the soul boils, conversations, Attraction repulsion, shy and therefore even hotter and irresistible love. Anna Sardanovskaya! Anna Sardanovskaya! Her name

an already famous poet will take for his best poem. And then -

an overflow of feelings, joys and doubts - and lines, lines,

lines ... (Anna is dedicated to the poem “Over the mountains behind the yellow

distances." Others have not survived.) And a premonition of the future, and sweet

the severity of the vocation, and the growing call of fate - everything, everything merged,

concentrated in these two words Anna Sardanovskaya.

Once at that gate over there

I was sixteen years old

And a girl in a white cape

She told me kindly: “No!”

Far away, they were cute! ..

That image in me has not faded away.

We are all in these years loved,

But that means they loved us too.

The relationship between Yesenin and Anna did not work out, Anna married another and died in childbirth. Yesenin had many women, but he always remembered his first love and by the end of his life he wrote the poem “Anna Snegina”. “Anna Snegina” is a heartfelt memory of Anna Sardanovskaya.

To Ashina Lidia Ivanovna

In the image of Anna Snegina, the features of the landowner Lydia Kashina, whom the poet was passionate about, were also embodied. The poet often visited Kashina's house. Lidia Ivanovna was a young, interesting, educated woman.History confirms that the young poet already known throughout Moscow came to the “house with a mezzanine” at the invitation of Lydia Kashina herself - she was interested in his work and asked to read poetry. Anna Andreevna remembered this visit well. That day it was frosty and sunny, young snow fell. Sergei, as it seemed to Stupenkova, crossed the threshold not without timidity and with curiosity. “As if he had ascended some kind of altar,” Anna Andreevna recalled.
In the poem, Yesenin tells about this meeting differently:
There was such a modest boy,
And now...
Come on you...
Here.
Writer…
Well-known bump...
He won't come to us without a request.

The poet dedicated the poem “Green Hairstyle” to her.In the poem “The green fragile girl is compared with a thin birch tree peering into the pond, her pigtails are with branches tidied up with a moon comb. The birch girl reveals the "secret ... of tree thoughts", tells about the shepherd who comes to her "on a starry night." This is the first feeling of a girl inexperienced in love pleasures. In the spirit of chastity, Yesenin planned to endure the book "Poems about Love", but this cycle was never implemented.

green hair,

girl breast,

O thin birch,

What did you look into the pond?

Reveal, reveal to me the secret

Your tree thoughts

I fell in love - sad

Your pre-autumn noise.

The following line was preserved in the draft of this poem: Farewell my bride to new cranes". The one to whom this line was dedicated could not be Yesenin's bride. But intonation, frankness, involuntarily push to identify the lyrical hero with the author himself, and the quivering birch with the young woman who inspired the poet - Lydia Ivanovna Kashina.

And Zryadnova Anna Romanovna

In 1912, Sergei Yesenin, at the age of 17, came to conquer Moscow. Considering himself a poet, Yesenin refused to work with his father in a butcher's shop as a clerk, and he himself chose a place with a tiny salary in a printing house, hoping to print his poems here. In the proofreading room, none of the employees recognizes him as a poet (still, they are preparing the works of great Russian poets for publication!), And the editorial offices of newspapers and magazines, where the young man shows his poems, refuse to publish them. Only the student Anna, Anna Izryadnova, who also served as a proofreader for Sytin, managed to see a real poet in a boy who was four years younger than her. How did she understand him? How she loved him! On weekends, they go to classes at Shanyavsky University together, they talk a lot about poetry and literature. After work, Yesenin accompanies Anna to the house in 2nd Pavlovsky Lane, and then returns to Serpukhovka, where he lives with his father in a small room.

Anna became his first woman. Sergei felt like an adult man, a husband. For Yesenin, this period was the most abundant in his work. He wrote 70 beautiful poems. It was from that time he took place as a poet. Undoubtedly, his creative growth was facilitated by living in Moscow, communication with writers and publishers, classes at Shanyavsky University, work in a proofreader, but most importantly - his love for Anna. This combination of talent and love in the poet's life should be considered a "Izryadnov" period. And it is not by chance that the main lines appeared at this time:

If the holy Rat shouts:

"Throw Russia, live in paradise!"

I will say: "There is no need for paradise.

Give me my country."

On March 21, 1914, Anna became pregnant and carefully concealed the pregnancy from everyone for several months. Time passed. At the sixth month, Anna could no longer hide the pregnancy from her relatives. The news of extramarital relations and the expectation of a child was hard received in the Izryadnov family. Anna had to leave. She rented a room near the Serpukhov outpost and began to live together with Yesenin.

Wattle fences doze quietly in the fog.

Do not grieve, my white hut,

That again we are one and alone.

Cleans the moon in the thatched roof

Horns rimmed with blue.

I did not follow her and did not go out

Escort behind deaf haystacks.

I know the years will drown out the anxiety.

This pain, like years, will pass.

And the mouth, and the innocent soul

She saves for others.

The one who asks for joy is not strong,

Only the proud live in strength.

And the other will crumble and abandon,

Like a collar corroded by raw materials.

Work, home, family, Anna is expecting a baby, and there is not enough time and energy for poetry. For inspiration, Sergei leaves for the Crimea. One. He returned full of impressions and inspiration. He quit his job and spent all day writing poetry. Anna did not argue and did not demand anything from him. I just loved. He was so comfortable. In December 1914, Yesenin took his wife to the hospital. He was terribly proud when his son was born. By the time Anna returned from the hospital, I had washed the room to a shine and cooked dinner. The 19-year-old father gazed with surprise at his son's tiny face, looking for his features in it, and could not stop admiring it. He named the baby George, Yurochka.
In her memoirs, Anna Romanovna wrote:

At the end of December my son was born. Yesenin had to go through a lot with me (we lived only together). It was necessary to send me to the hospital, to take care of the apartment. When I returned home, he had an exemplary order: everything was washed, the stoves were heated, and even dinner was ready and a cake was bought, he was waiting. He looked at the child with curiosity, kept repeating: "Here I am the father." Then he soon got used to it, fell in love with him, shook him, lulled him, sang songs over him. He made me sing while rocking: "You sing more songs to him." In March 1915 he went to Petrograd to seek his fortune. In May of the same year he came to Moscow, already different. I spent a little time in Moscow, went to the countryside, wrote good letters. In the fall I stopped by: "I'm going to Petrograd." He called with him ... He immediately said: "I will return soon, I will not live there for a long time."

But Yesenin did not return to Anna. He was enthusiastically received in the capital. Soon the first book of poems was published. There was a harsh World War. The poet was drafted into the army. He served on an ambulance train, delivering the wounded from the front. Then came the February Revolution. The poet deserted from Kerensky's army. In the summer of 1917, with his friend, the poet Alexei Ganin, he decided to leave for the provinces. The poet was nineteen years old when he arrived in Moscow. There he met Anna Izryadnova. He found a kindred spirit in her. They spent days together, he was the first to read his poems to her, in the evenings he accompanied her on foot through all of Moscow. Anna sheltered Yesenin at home, became his common-law wife, and in 1914 gave birth to his son Yuri. Yesenin loved his son very much, Anna was the only person in whom he had the utmost confidence.

Her memory was sacred. He came to her to burn manuscripts, he came to her on the fateful day of his departure to Leningrad, in December 1925, feeling that he was about to be killed, he went to say goodbye, said: “Take care of your son.” It can be seen that the poet's heart foresaw trouble. A cruel consideration awaited his son, who was just as independent, bold in judgment, and also wrote poetry. In 1937 he was arrested and after sadistic torture he was shot.

Memories of the first serious love, of a family that was so difficult and painful to create and yet did not take place, of the first-born son as the most sonorous and, at the same time, saddest song, were amazingly expressed in a poem of 1916, at the first publication (in March ) called "Warm Evening":

I know the years will drown out the anxiety.
This pain, like the years, will pass.
And the mouth, and the innocent soul
She saves for others...
I'm not waiting for fate out of melancholy,
It will viciously twist the powder.
And she will come to our land
Warm up your baby.
He will take off his fur coat and untie his shawls,
Come with me by the fire.
And calmly and kindly say
That the child is like me.

W Inaida Nikolaevna Reich

She was called a demonic woman who playfully ruined the lives of two brilliant men. Who was she? The poet's muse? The leading actress of the Meyerhold Theater? Or just a woman who loved and was loved?

In 1917, in the editorial office of the newspaper Delo Naroda, where Yesenin's poems were published, the poet met the jolly, lively girl Zinaida Reich. With her, he goes on a journey to the North, to Solovki and Murmansk. They decide to get married. Bought wedding rings, dressed up the bride, there was no money for a wedding bouquet, but they were happy. The bride was beautiful, she wanted to have a family, he was in love.

At first everything was fine, they rented an apartment on Liteiny. Once they threw their wedding rings out the window and immediately rushed to look for them. With the move to Moscow, family life began to crumble. Even despite the birth of daughter Tatyana in May 1918 and son Konstantin in March 1920, family life did not work out for a year. They divorced in 1921, Zinaida became an actress and married Meyerhold. Zinaida was the most beloved of the women close to Yesenin, and Zinaida loved Yesenin very much. Reich wrote a letter to Stalin, asking him to speak honestly about the death of Sergei Yesenin. And she, like the first son of the poet, suffered a terrible fate. In 1939, she was brutally murdered in her own apartment, stabbed to death. In Yesenin's poems there is no direct mention of Zinaida Nikolaevna, but he will write her poem after poem, one better than the other. For example, “Letter to a woman”.

Do you remember,

Of course, you remember everything

How I stood

Approaching the wall

You excitedly walked around the room

And something sharp

They threw it in my face.

You said:

It's time for us to part

What tormented you

My crazy life

That it's time for you to get down to business,

And my destiny -

Darling!

You didn't love me.

You did not know that in the host of people

I was like a horse driven in soap

Spurred by a brave rider.

You didn't know

That I'm in solid smoke

In a life torn apart by a storm

That's why I suffer that I do not understand -

Where the rock of events takes us.

Face to face

Can't see faces.

The poem “The Evening Drew Black Eyebrows ...”, although included by the poet in the cycle “Love of a Hooligan”, which is usually associated with the name of another woman, is nevertheless dedicated to Zinaida Nikolaevna.

Maybe tomorrow will be different

I will leave healed forever.

Listen to the songs of rain and bird cherry,

How does a healthy person live?

I will forget the dark forces

That tormented me, ruining.

Sweet look! Cute face!

Only one I will not forget you.

And, finally, the poem “Flowers tell me goodbye”, written two months before the death of the poet, is again addressed to her.

Flowers say goodbye to me

Heads bowing lower

That I will never see

Her face and fatherland.

And, listening to the song in silence,

Beloved with another beloved

Maybe he will remember me

How about a unique flower.

AT Olpin Nadezhda Davydovna

Hope Volpin. She occupied a special place in Yesenin's life. Remember the last lines from "Shagane ..."?

“There is a girl in the north too.

She looks a lot like you.

Maybe he's thinking about me..."

It's just about her. Fate gave Yesenin friendship with a very interesting person - Nadezhda Davydovna Volpin. The same Nadenka, who was madly in love with the poet. They often met and talked. She idolized him, appreciated his poetic gift. She gave birth to Yesenin's son Alexander, a talented mathematician, a poet who knew exile, who spent time in a prison psychiatric hospital, expelled from the country in 1975 to the United States.

18-year-old Nadezhda Volpin met Sergei Yesenin in the fall of 1919 at the Union of Poets. At that time she was a member of the youth group "Green Workshop", created under the Union. They often saw each other in cafes where poets gathered and read their poems from the stage. One evening, when Sergei Yesenin was asked to read poetry, and, as often happened to him, he either flirted, or really did not want to read and refused, Nadezhda turned to him. Appealed aggressively and passionately. And to her surprise, he agreed. I started reading new poems...

Young Nadezhda was peculiarly pretty. And it is known that the poet could not miss a single skirt. From that moment it all started. They began to meet almost daily in the same cafe or walked along the Moscow streets. Yesenin often accompanied Nadia and often went to her to drink tea.
The then life was difficult and hungry, the girl was forced to move from place to place. And each time the poet was surprised at the unsettled life of his girlfriend and persistently tried to take care of her. By the way, at that time Yesenin was still legally married to Zinaida Reich, and they had two children. True, they lived apart, although the divorce was not formalized. What was Nadezhda to do? She became very attached to Sergei and realized that her feeling for the poet was love. Gradually, Nadezhda and Yesenin became inseparable. They were connected not only by poetry, but also by a passion that flared up once and flared up like a fire.

B Enislavskaya Galina Arturovna

At the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow, a stone's throw from the grave of Sergei Yesenin, a small slab of white marble seems to grow out of the ground. It says: "Galina Arturovna Benislavskaya". This is the name of love that has become stronger than death.

There are many obscure things in the life of Sergei Yesenin, except, perhaps, his murder and this, albeit complex, but at the same time sincere love for him by Galina Benislavskaya ...

On November 4, 1920, at the literary evening "The Trial of the Imagists", Yesenin met Galina Benislavskaya. “This girl, smart and deep, loved Yesenin devotedly and selflessly.” She conducted his literary affairs, communicated with his close friends, cared for, loved, was jealous, tolerated his betrayals.

From the diary of G. Benislavskaya: “Before Sergei, I did not love anyone. Here I clearly understood that I can give everything: both principles (not to marry), and body (which until then I could not even imagine), and not only I can, I want this. I know that I immediately put an end to my dream of independence, and - I obeyed. I didn’t know that in the future I would fight this feeling and inflate in myself the slightest disposition towards others, just to get rid of Sergei, from this blissful and painful illness...

SO selflessly, as Galina loved, they rarely love. Yesenin considered her the closest friend, but did not see a woman in her. Slender, green-eyed, braids almost to the floor, but he did not notice this, he talked about his feelings for others.

Galina considered him her husband, he told her: “Galya, you are very good, you are the closest friend, but I don’t love you ...”

Yesenin's death shocked her ...

After the death of a loved one, Galina "cut herself off" from all living things and lived in the past. Everything that did not concern Yesenin did not interest her. She put in order the papers of Sergei, which remained in her archive, wrote memoirs about him. And a year later, in the same blizzard December in which her love was buried, she shot herself at his grave ...

Galya's suicide note: "Suicide" here; although I know that after that even more dogs will hang on Yesenin. But he and I will not care. In this grave for me all the most precious ... "

She was buried next to him. People are mortal, love is immortal.On the monument were inscribed the words: "Faithful Galya."

What to desire under the burden of life?

Cursing your inheritance and home,

I would like to have a good

See the girl under the window.

So that with her eyes

Vasilkovs,

Only me -

Not to anyone -

And with words and new feelings

Calms the heart and chest.

BUT Isadora Duncan

Isadora Duncan did not speak Russian, Yesenin did not understand English. But that didn't stop their love.

In 1921, the famous actress, world-famous dancer Isadora Duncan appeared in Russia, who decided to open a dance school in Russia. She met Yesenin in the studio of the artist Yakulov. The poet struck her imagination. Knowing a few words in Russian, she said: "Angel, angel." Isadora Duncan and the poet fell in love. Their feelings raged, it was a great passion both on his part and on her part. Her fate as a mother was terrible, her children, a boy and a girl, died in a car accident, she painfully experienced their death, she wanted to commit suicide. In 1922, Yesenin and Duncan registered their marriage and went abroad. They traveled a lot. But the poet was homesick, for Russia. Isadora was 17 years older than Sergei Yesenin. She loved him madly, suffered, worried when the poet drank a lot; a year and a half of painful family life undermined the strength and health of both. Isadora turned into an elderly, heavy woman with a red, ugly face (according to Gorky's memoirs). One day in Germany, looking for a husband during three days, she found him in a tavern; he was hiding from Isadora with the poet Kusikov. Bursting into the tavern in a red tunic, with a whip, she broke the dishes there.

Many poems have been written abroad, but in these poems there is pain for those Russians who are forced to live abroad.

Drinking here again, fighting and crying

Under harmonica yellow sadness.

Cursing your failures

Remember Muscovite Russia.

Yesenin was tired of living abroad, tired of family quarrels, scandals, they returned to Russia. He was very happy that he returned to his homeland. Rejoiced like a child. He touched houses, trees. He assured that everything, even the sky and the moon, are different than they have there. Yesenin and Duncan break up. Yesenin wants new feelings, he wants to love again. Isadora's life was tragically cut short, she died in 1938 while walking in a car, when her light scarf wrapped around her neck fell into a car wheel and instantly suffocated her. Returning to Russia, Yesenin had to experience a lot. Homelessness, illness, drinking with friends, conflicts with the Imagists, provocations began against him, he had to go through the slander of literary critics, persecution in the press. He had to go through denunciations, interrogations, judicial threats.

The result of Yesenin's acquaintance with A. Duncan and their travels around Europe was the Moscow Tavern cycle:« The evening brought black eyebrows ... "
"All living things in a special way...""Yes! Now it's decided. No return...""Honey, let's sit next to me...""A blue fire swept ...""Mysterious world, my ancient world...""I'm sad to see you...""I have only one thing to do...""I do not regret, do not call, do not cry...""Do not swear! Such a thing..."“Sing, sing. On the damn guitar..."Let you be drunk by others..."“They are drinking here again, fighting and crying…”"Is my side, my side ...""Don't torment me with coolness...""You're as simple as..."This street is familiar to me..."I won't fool myself..."

Let you be drunk by others
But I'm left, I'm left
Your hair is glassy smoke
And eye autumn fatigue.

Oh, the age of autumn! He me
Dearer than youth and summer.
You began to like doubly
Poet's imagination.

I never lie in my heart
And therefore, to the voice of swagger
I can safely say
That I say goodbye to hooliganism.

M Iklashevskaya Augusta Leonidovna

In the autumn of 1923, fate gave Yesenin a meeting with Augusta Leonidovna Miklashevskaya, an actress of the Chamber Theater, beautiful, tender, beautiful woman. The poet dedicated masterpieces of love lyrics, beautiful love poems to her.

The Hooligan's Love cycle is dedicated to Augusta Miklashevskaya. Love for this woman was healing for the sick and devastated soul of the poet. The spiritualized feeling for Miklashevskaya enlightens, elevates and inspires Yesenin to work, makes him again and again believe in the significance of an ideal feeling. In the poem "A blue fire swept ..." he exclaims: "For the first time I sang about love, / For the first time I refuse to scandal." The lyrical hero admits: “I didn’t like drinking and dancing // And losing my life without looking back.” He sees the meaning of his existence in looking at his beloved, "seeing the eye of a golden-brown whirlpool", touching her thin hand and her hair "color in autumn." He tries to prove "how a hooligan knows how to love, how he knows how to be submissive."

In love, in the beloved woman, the lyrical hero sees the meaning of existence: "I would follow you forever." This is the rebirth of a hardened heart, the ringing song of the healed Lyra. The love line continues its development in the poem "You are as simple as everyone else", where the portrait of the beloved appears to the lyrical hero as the strict iconic face of the Mother of God.

A blue fire swept

Forgotten relatives gave.

For the first time I sang about love,

For the first time I refuse to scandal.

I was all - like a neglected garden,

He was greedy for women and potion.

Enjoyed drinking and dancing

And lose your life without looking back.

He sang earthly features in the guise of his beloved.

You are so simple, like everyone else,

Like a hundred thousand others in Russia.

Do you know the lonely dawn

You know the cold of autumn is blue.

Augusta Leonidovna recalled: “I remember how he was sitting on the carpet at my feet, holding my hands and saying: “Beautiful, beautiful ... I will write poetry for you ...”. According to friends, “some peaceful, unusually calm Yesenin and Miklashevskaya under a thin bluish veil are a Blok spectacle. Happy friends who saw Yesenin at the time of his last love. It casts, as it were, a reflection on all subsequent lyrics of the poet.

In 1923, the engagement of Miklashevskaya and Yesenin took place, but it did not lead to an eternal union. Fate decreed otherwise. In one of the meetings on the street, he told her: “I have lived with you all our life.”

W agane

The brightest cycle of lyrical poems "Persian motives", written in the Caucasus (1924-1925). In "Persian Motives" love is "not a sensual trembling", not a "tempered connection", but the warmth and tenderness of Yesenin's heart, expressed in affectionate words addressed to an oriental beauty.

Sweet hands - a pair of swans -

Dive into the gold of my hair.

Everything in this world of people

The song of love is sung and repeated.

In 1924, the poet met the Armenian teacher Shagandukht Talyan. A friendship developed between them. They met, wandered the streets. The poet told her about Russia, about relatives, about his life. Shagane talked a lot about herself, she had difficult life. She lost her family early, first her mother died, then her father. Then the beloved husband dies. Shagane was interesting to Yesenin, it was easy and calm with her. Yesenin creates a cycle of poems about Shagane.Yesenin to see in her a beautiful representative of an oriental woman, and Shagan to treat Yesenin's poetic gift with great respect.

Working on poems from the cycle "Persian Motifs", S. Yesenin in his poetic imagination creates the image of a beautiful Persian woman. The meeting in Batumi with a beautiful oriental woman inspired the poet even more. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Shagane Talyan “outwardly was attractive: slender, graceful, with regular features, delicate and clean skin. The wavy brown hair was good. And the eyes seemed enviably beautiful: large, brown, sometimes mockingly sparkling, sometimes gently shining. And if in the first two poems of "Persian Motives" only a nameless oriental woman is mentioned, then in the third poem the poet addresses the heroine by name: "Shagane you are mine, Shagane!" Of course, this is a generalized poetic name, but the meeting with Shagane Talyan could serve as an impetus for its creation. S. Yesenin read her the poem “You are my Shagane, Shagane ...”, gave the girl an autograph of this poem, and on January 4, the poet handed over the book “Moscow Tavern” with a dedicatory inscription: “My dear Shagane. You are nice and sweet to me. S. Yesenin. 4.1.25. Batum.

Shagane you are mine, Shagane!

About wavy rye in the moonlight.
Shagane you are mine, Shagane.

Because I'm from the north, or something,
That the moon is a hundred times bigger there,
No matter how beautiful Shiraz is,
It is no better than Ryazan expanses.
Because I'm from the north, or something.

I'm ready to tell you the field
I took this hair from the rye,
If you want, knit on your finger -
I don't feel any pain at all.
I'm ready to tell you the field.

About wavy rye in the moonlight
You can guess by my curls.
Darling, joke, smile
Do not wake up only the memory in me
About wavy rye in the moonlight.

Shagane you are mine, Shagane!
There, in the north, the girl too,
She looks a lot like you
Maybe he's thinking about me...

Shagane you are mine, Shagane. Yesenin and Shagane broke up in February 1925, two months later the poet returned to Moscow.

FROM Ofya Andreevna Tolstaya

He decisively changes his fate and marries Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya, Leo Tolstoy's granddaughter. Yesenin was proud that he became related to Tolstoy, marrying his granddaughter Sophia on March 5, 1925. She was 5 years younger than Yesenin, the blood of the world's greatest writer flowed in her veins. She was in charge of the library of the Writers' Union.

Honey, I'll be thirty soon.

And the earth is dearer to me every day.

That's why the heart will dream

That I burn with pink fire!

Many friends considered Yesenin's marriage a reckless step, and the poet himself was not sure that he was doing the right thing. Sophia loved Yesenin! She said that some types, drunk and dirty, constantly visited their house ... They slept on the couch, or beds, ate and drank and used Yesenin's money ... But Sonya did not have new shoes, boots, nothing new, everything old, demolished ... Sofya Andreevna tried to tear him away from an unhealthy environment, surround him with care, kept notes of his statements, wrote down poems. It was difficult for Yesenin to get used to the new life. Returning from the psychiatric hospital, he stopped by Sophia's to pick up his things; and went straight from there to Leningrad, where a few days later he would be found hanged in a room at the Angleterre Hotel... Sofya Tolstaya, Yesenin's last lover, dedicated her life to creating two museums - her husband and her great grandfather... She passed away in 1957.

Sofya Tolstaya is another failed Yesenin's hope to start a family. Coming from an aristocratic family, according to the recollections of Yesenin's friends, she was very arrogant, proud, she demanded respect for etiquette and unquestioning obedience. These qualities of hers were in no way combined with the simplicity, generosity, cheerfulness, and mischievous nature of Sergei. She had a bitter lot: to survive hell recent months life with Yesenin. And then, in December 1925, go to Leningrad for his body.

E Senina Tatyana Fedorovna

Our story about the beloved women of Sergei Yesenin would be incomplete if we did not talk about Yesenin's holy love for his mother and sisters. He spoke enthusiastically about them, he helped them study in Moscow, helped them with money, made gifts. In poetry, the poet shares his most intimate feelings and thoughts with his relatives. Many poems are dedicated to Sister Shura. “I haven’t seen such beautiful ones,” the poet wrote about her. Trembling, sacred for the poet's feeling for the mother. He captured it in sincere, heartfelt lines.

Are you still alive, my old lady?

I'm alive too. Hello you, hello!

Let it flow over your hut

That evening unspeakable light.

Mom for the poet was the most beloved and dear woman in life ...

I'm still just as gentle

And I only dream about

So that rather from rebellious longing

To return to our low house ...

(Excerpt from the poem *Letter to mother*)

Once they asked Tatyana Fedorovna Yesenina why she always wears black. She replied: “Everyone calls me a Nun, but that’s not why I go in black: as I buried Sergei, I don’t take off this outfit.” Sighing, she added: “Sergei was gentle, you never know what they say about him, but he was not at all like that ...”. This was said after the death of the poet. Said by mother. The one to which the poet confessed.

Sweet, kind, old, tender,

Do not be friends with sad thoughts.

Listen - under this snowy harmonica

I'll tell you about my life.

Conclusion

“No matter how I swear to someone in crazy love, no matter how I assure myself of the same, all this, in essence, is a huge and fatal mistake. There is something that I love above all women, above any woman, and that I wouldn't trade it for any kindness or any kind of love. This is art..."

Yesenin.

The poet's love lyrics captured a whole gamut of human feelings. Like all his work, it is autobiographical and truthful, it reveals the personality of the poet, his soul. Yesenin's love lyrics, according to N. Rylenkov, are able to quench "the thirst for human tenderness." Each reader finds his own vision of love in his poems, because "everyone in the world sings and repeats the song of love."

Sergei Yesenin, probably more than other poets, strove with his soul for goodness and love. Because this love, these feelings so brightly, so warmly illuminate all his work. Even more - all his life, and perhaps this is what allowed A. Tolstoy to say: "His poetry is, as it were, throwing away the treasures of his soul with both handfuls."

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S. A. Yesenin is known as a poet who sang the beauty of Russian nature and love for a woman. Like no other, the theme of love sounds very bright, bewitching and, in most cases, sad. The peculiarity of love is that it shows two sides of feelings: happiness and the sadness and disappointment that follow it. The loving poet dedicated poems to many women, each of them was unique for him, therefore each poem sounds in a special way.

Objects of love poems

The peculiarity of Yesenin's love lyrics cannot be understood without learning about the women to whom the poet dedicated his poems. Yesenin had a reputation not only as a riotous hooligan, but also as a Don Juan, who had many women. Of course, a poetic nature cannot live without love, and Yesenin was like that. In his own poems, he admitted that not a single woman loved him, and he, too, was in love more than once. One of the first bright hobbies of the poet was Anna Sardanovskaya. Then another 15-year-old Seryozha fell in love and dreamed that, having reached a certain age, he would marry her. It was about Anna's house that the poet said: "Low house with blue shutters, I will never forget you."

It should be said that it was not always possible to accurately determine which woman became the addressee from the poet's lyrics. For example, the heroine of the poem "Anna Snegina" has three prototypes at once: Anna Sardanovskaya, Lydia Kashina, Olga Sno. With the name of the latter, Yesenin had very vivid memories of his first steps in the literary field. The poet visited the salon of this writer, where he participated in debates and disputes, gradually getting used to the capital life of writers.

It is impossible not to say about the poet's wife, Her image has become important not only when creating love poems. She was also dedicated to the poem "Inonia". Zinaida is mentioned in Yesenin's poem "Letter from Mother": "I easily gave my wife to another." It is Reich who is the lyrical heroine of the poem "Kachalov's Dog".

Perhaps the most striking and controversial feeling in the fate of the poet is his love for. Until now, not everyone can understand what attracted a very young fair-haired handsome man to mature woman Isadora. The result of a relationship with a famous dancer was the tavern cycle. "I was looking for happiness in this woman, but accidentally found death," the poet exclaims.

Poetry analysis

Already in the very first verses, the main feature of Yesenin's love lyrics is manifested: love for any person is a tragedy. An example is the poem "Tanyusha was good". The light style emphasizes the daring young life, but its finale contradicts the sound of the verse. Tanyusha kills herself because of unhappy love. Of course, the early lyrics of the poet are, first of all, a hymn to the Motherland. Most of the works of this period are devoted to Russia, the village, animals. But in later years, Yesenin realized himself as a true chanter of love.

Poems of the 20s

Surprisingly, the theme of love became one of the main ones precisely at the time when the poet began to call himself a bully. In the cycle of poems "The Love of a Hooligan" one can clearly hear the motifs of the transience of love, its fragility, but at the same time the feeling is described as a very bright moment in life, for which a person is ready for anything. In some texts, Yesenin uses vulgar, rude language, sometimes even obscene language. Despite this, they are full of feelings, deep pain, they hear the cry of the soul, thirsty for love, lost and entangled in the routine of life ("Rash harmonica", "Sing, sing").

Analysis of the poem "A blue fire swept"

In this text, such a feature of Yesenin's love lyrics as the use of vivid metaphors and epithets was clearly manifested. The poet expresses regret that he spent a lot of time on revelry and scandals, forgetting about what is the main thing in life. Yesenin utters the following thought: he would even renounce poetry, if only to touch a gentle hand and hair "color in autumn." Perhaps none of the poets could describe the feelings of a daring hooligan so touchingly. The poem shows everything important features Yesenin's love lyrics (an essay on this topic must necessarily contain his analysis), one of which is vitality. First of all, it is due to autobiography. Every feeling described was experienced by the poet himself.

"Let you be drunk by others"

The poem is full of noble sadness for the past. The author expresses sympathy for everything that happened before, and for everything that never happened. The peculiarity of Yesenin's love lyrics is that love is always sad. The poet emphasizes that human life everything does not happen as in dreams. This is due to human stupidity, the desire for petty values, carelessness. In this text, the poet confesses to his lyrical heroine: only she alone could be his true friend and wife, but both of them did not save themselves for each other.

Cycle "Persian motifs"

This is a real gem of love poetry. Beautiful East style, special musicality and vivid images- these are the features of Yesenin's love lyrics in this cycle. One of the brightest works "Shagane you are mine, Shagane". It is unusual due to its composition. The first lines of the verse sound like a refrain and are repeated in the last stanza. But the main feature is that each stanza is built on the principle of a ring composition.

This text most clearly embodied the features of Yesenin's love lyrics. An essay on literature written on this topic must certainly include consideration of the means of artistic expression, because here the poet has achieved stunning beauty precisely thanks to unusual turns of speech. How strange and at the same time strong the line "I am ready to tell you the field" sounds. The abundance of epithets allows the author to express love for his native country and longing for it.

"I asked the money changer today..."

In this, I managed to express my attitude to such a mysterious feeling as love directly. The lyrical hero learns from the Persian money changer that love cannot be indicated by any words, it can only be expressed by touches, glances and kisses. Again an unusual composition. The first line is repeated in each stanza, creating a special rhythm.

Features of Yesenin's love lyrics (briefly)

Consider the main features of the poet's love poems:

1. Love as an obsession, a disease, a description of a feeling that destroys a person - these are the features of Yesenin's love lyrics. And Mayakovsky, and some other poets of that time. At the beginning of the 20th century, this view of this feeling was very relevant among writers.
2. The feeling of love is able to pull a person out of the daily routine for a moment, but, unfortunately, it does not last forever. And after that, only pleasant, but at the same time painful memories, aching chest, remain.
3. The use of vivid poetic images (comparisons, metaphors and epithets). By the way, these are the features of the love lyrics of Yesenin, Blok, Mayakovsky and other poets Silver Age who were looking for a new verse, a new form and word.

These are the features of Yesenin's love lyrics. Brief essay must reflect all three points, and they must be confirmed with specific examples. This is easy to do, because almost every poem touches on this topic in one way or another. As material for creating a work on the topic "Features of Yesenin's love lyrics" (composition or essay), you can take such memorable texts as "Hands of a sweetheart - a pair of swans", "Letter to a woman", "Kachalov's dog", "I have never been on the Bosphorus."

The love theme runs like a red thread through all stages of the creative path of the great Russian poet. Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin seemed to put a piece of his soul into every line he composed, expressing sincere love for his native land, for nature, for people. His feelings, experiences, thoughts are close to every reader. That is why the lyrics of Sergei Yesenin to this day remain dearly loved and revered among representatives of different generations.

From the very beginning of his creative path, the image of his native land was firmly entrenched in the poet's lyrics: beloved and irreplaceable, warming the heart in the most difficult times. Rural life, Russian folklore, girlish laughter and the beauty of Russian nature - all this inspired the poet, thanks to which many wonderful works were born.

Love for the native land became the main theme of the poet's work. In the poem “The hewn drogs sang,” warm sincere love has a slightly sad connotation, but in the famous “Goy you, my dear Russia,” Yesenin expresses delight, joy and devotion to the Motherland. Sergei Alexandrovich did not like city life, but sang only what was close to nature, to the origins of the culture of the people. In later works, such love is expressed in regret for the departed, as well as in contempt for godlessness and unwillingness to live according to the new laws of society (“Return to the Motherland”, “Soviet Russia”).

Love for Russia closely echoes in Yesenin's lyrics with love for his mother. The famous poem "Letter to Mother" is a tense lyrical monologue. In this letter-message, using colloquial vocabulary, vernacular, jargon, metaphors, combined with a high bookish style, the author expresses many feelings that overwhelm his vulnerable heart: anxiety, pain, tenderness, trust, longing. And this is not surprising, because sometimes only a mother can be trusted and open.

Yesenin's philosophical lyrics show love for the animal world. The tragic poem "The Fox" shows how ruthless people are to defenseless animals. In the works “Cow”, “Song of the Dog”, the author conveys tragedy through the perception of the animals themselves. For the poet animal world- this is an important part of nature, part of the native land, which means it is impossible not to love it.

The love lyrics of Sergei Yesenin are filled with both joyful and sad feelings. Many poems are dedicated to a specific woman. Despite the fact that the fair sex did not deprive the talented poet of his attention, and he himself was married three times, Yesenin's love poems are mostly tragic in nature. These are “Letter to a Woman”, “You don’t love me, don’t feel sorry for me”, “Kiss me, kiss me” and others.

Love for the poet becomes not just a source of inspiration, but also the meaning of life. This is manifested in all areas of his work, filled with a gamut of truly human feelings that Sergei Yesenin himself experienced and that every person experiences when he gets acquainted with his lyrics. The poet sang sincere, pure, sublime love, and, for sure, believed that it was she who would overcome all sorrows and hardships.

Composition Love in the work and lyrics of Yesenin

The great poet, who was born in Russia at that time, was very talented. Yesenin, since it was him, from the very moment he began to write his beautiful works, he put his whole soul into them. He loved his land, loved his native people, and also often had lofty feelings for just all people on earth, since he was a bit of a humanist. When he wrote about anything, about his feelings, or about anything else, all his emotions, which he conveyed in lines, he addressed to his readers.

Love was the most main topic in all the works of Yesenin. Because, as mentioned above, he was very humane, that is, he loved people, nature and everything around, and did not hate the whole world, as some poets and writers sometimes persecute. But most of all, he probably loved his own land - so beautiful, so prosperous, all the nature around, so romantic and mysterious.

The native land for Yesenin was a very important factor in life, which is why he often mentions the nature around in his poems, describing all its beauties, as well as those emotions and feelings that he has in relation to her. That is why, reading his works, the soul becomes somehow more joyful, much nicer. You begin to imagine this, as if unearthly land - so dear to the poet. Nature has always been native to the poet Yesenin. After all, even she was like an animated hero in his poems. She lived, felt pain, joy and peace.

Sometimes in the works of Yesenin, such emotions as sadness, grief in relation to the nature of Russia are pursued. Not always, as it turned out, Yesenin expressed delight and joy, sometimes sadness slips in his lines in poems, and even sometimes pain.

In addition to the theme of love in relation to nature, Yesenin expressed in his works love for Russia, so majestic, and at the same time simple. Russia for a sensitive poet was identified with the image of a mother, tender and loving. That is why Yesenin is sometimes sad that the past is gone and will never return.

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