The sleepy birch trees smiled. “The golden stars dozed off, the mirror of the backwater trembled, the light dawned on the river creeks and blushed the mesh of the sky
"Good morning!" Sergey Yesenin
The golden stars dozed off,
The mirror of the backwater trembled,
The light is dawning on the river backwaters
And blushes the sky grid.The sleepy birch trees smiled,
Silk braids were disheveled.
Green earrings rustle
And the silver dews burn.The fence is overgrown with nettles
Dressed in bright mother of pearl
And, swaying, whispers playfully:
"Good morning!"
Analysis of Yesenin’s poem “Good morning!”
Yesenin's creativity is inextricably linked with landscape lyrics, inspired by memories of childhood. The poet grew up in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, which he left as a 17-year-old youth, setting off to conquer Moscow. However, the poet kept the memory of the amazingly bright and exciting Russian nature, changeable and multifaceted, in his heart for the rest of his life.
The poem “Good morning!”, written in 1914, allows us to fully judge Yesenin’s poetic talent and his reverent attitude towards his homeland. A small poetic sketch that tells how the world awakens under the first rays of the gentle summer sun, filled with lyricism and amazingly beautiful metaphors.
Thus, in each stanza of the poem there is imagery characteristic of Yesenin. The poet consciously endows inanimate objects with qualities and abilities that are inherent in living people. The morning begins with the “golden stars dozing off”, giving way to the daylight. After this, “the mirror of the backwater trembled,” and the first rays of the sun fell on its surface. Yesenin associates daylight with a natural source of life, which gives warmth and “blushes” the sky. The author describes the sunrise as if this familiar natural phenomenon represents some kind of miracle, under the influence of which the entire surrounding world is transformed beyond recognition.
The image of the Russian birch occupies a special place in the work of Sergei Yesenin, which appears in various guises. However, most often the poet attributes to her the features of a young, fragile girl. In the poem "Good Morning!" It is the birches that are one of the key characters that “come to life” at the will of the author. Under the influence of the warm rays of the sun, they “smiled” and “tumbled their silken braids.” That is, the poet deliberately creates an attractive female image in readers, complementing it with “green earrings” and drops of dew, sparkling like diamonds.
Possessing a bright poetic talent, Sergei Yesenin easily combines the magic of Russian nature and completely ordinary, everyday things in his works. For example, in the poem “Good morning!” Against the backdrop of a revived creek and a birch girl, the author describes an ordinary village fence with thickets of nettles. However, even this prickly plant, which Yesenin also associates with a young lady, is endowed by the poet with pristine beauty, noting that the nettle “is dressed in bright mother-of-pearl.” And this extraordinary outfit seemed to transform the burning beauty, turning her from an evil and grumpy fury and a social coquette who wishes good morning to random passers-by.
As a result, this work, consisting of only three short quatrains, very accurately and completely reproduces the picture of the awakening of nature and creates an amazing atmosphere of joy and peace. Like a romantic artist, Yesenin endows each line with a wealth of colors that can convey not only color, but also smell, taste, and feelings. The author deliberately left many nuances behind the scenes and did not talk about what the coming day would be like and what exactly it would bring. Because such a story would certainly destroy the subtle charm of that moment that separates night from day and is called morning. But with all this, the poem looks like a completely full-fledged work, the logical conclusion of which is the wish “Good morning!”, addressed to all those who have met the dawn in the village at least once in their lives and can appreciate the moment of awakening of nature, exciting and magnificent.
Zh. ZHITELEVA,
V.ZHITELEV,
school number 19,
Lyubertsy,
Moscow region
Slow reading of Yesenin’s poem “The golden stars dozed off...”
The concept of metaphor
The purpose of the lesson, the methodological development of which is brought to the attention of the literature teacher is to teach sixth-graders an in-depth understanding of the text of the work at the linguistic level. This is possible at the intersection of two school disciplines - Russian language and literature. In our opinion, a series of lessons that solve this problem is needed in middle grades. After all, the ultimate and main goal of literary education for schoolchildren is to cultivate in adolescents an interest in fiction in its best examples and a deep understanding of verbal art.
The lesson was conducted by Zh.I. Zhiteleva.
Before the lesson begins, the following words are written on the chalkboard:
bay, backwater, backwater
dress up, dress up, dress up
sky
wattle fence
earring
nacre
DURING THE CLASSES
Preliminary work with the vocabulary of the poem
In our language (as in all languages), there is a constant process of disappearance of some words and the appearance of others. This is mainly due to changes in people's living conditions.
Today we will read a poem that was created not so long ago, less than a hundred years ago. In this short poem we will meet words that cannot be said to have disappeared from the Russian language, but, unfortunately, they are no longer known to many people.
I said “unfortunately” because words, leaving the language, impoverish our speech and take with them a piece of the soul of our people, that is, you and I are deprived of part of the spiritual heritage that was created by previous generations of our compatriots.
Here are three words: bay, backwater, backwater. One of them - bay- should be familiar to you: you heard it in geography lessons. What does it mean? ( « Part of a body of water, such as the sea, that projects into land » ).
Words backwater And backwater are close to it in their meaning. We will understand why this is so when we select words related to them. Name verbs that have a common root with a noun bay. (Pour, pour.) Can you guess for yourself which verbs are related to the noun? backwater?.. By analogy with a chain of cognate words gulf - pour - pour build a series of words related to the noun backwater. (Backwater - sink - drown.) Zatonom called the river bay.
It’s not hard to guess what word the noun comes from backwater . (From the noun water.) Noun creek, like a noun backwater, means "river bay".
Verbs: dress up, dress up And get dressed up mean the same thing, but only one of them is included in our active vocabulary. Name this verb. (Dress up.) The rest are now obsolete words and are used extremely rarely.
Word sky Are any of you familiar?.. The meaning of this noun is suggested by the words from which it consists. What words does it consist of? (From the nouns sky and slope.) Word slope need to be explained?.. What does it mean, for example, in the expression hillside? (“The Sloping Surface of a Hill”). So how can you explain to yourself the meaning of the word? sky? (“This is the part of the sky along the horizon that has an apparent slope”). Let's check our interpretation in the explanatory dictionary. In Ozhegov’s Dictionary of the Russian Language we read: “Part of the sky above the horizon.”
Word wattle fence familiar to you? Name words with the same root for this noun . (Weave, weave.) Weave called a fence woven from twigs and branches.
Now about the word earring . There seems to be nothing to say here: everyone saw the jewelry in the ears. But have you seen catkins on birch trees? Expression birch catkins did you hear? What do they call birch earrings? (Inflorescences of small birch flowers.) Here we observe an interesting linguistic phenomenon: the name of one object is transferred to another object, because people noticed something common and similar between these objects. The amazing property of language - to transfer the name from one object or phenomenon to another object or phenomenon - is often used by poets.
We have one more word left to clarify - nacre . Do you think this is a native Russian word or was it borrowed from some foreign language?
From dictionaries we learn that it is borrowed from the German language and means the substance of which the inner layer of shells consists. Mother of pearl has an iridescent iridescent color and is used to make jewelry. Mother-of-pearl forms pearls in shells.
Reading a poem. Conversation with the class
Now listen carefully to the poem of the wonderful Russian poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin. It is small, but it contains many mysteries for an inexperienced reader, so it may be incomprehensible to some of you, and therefore uninteresting. But these riddles will turn into sparkling poetic facets.
The teacher reads a poem.
The golden stars dozed off,
The mirror of the backwater trembled,
The light is dawning on the river backwaters
And blushes the sky grid.The sleepy birch trees smiled,
Silk braids were disheveled.
Green earrings rustle
And the silver dews burn.The fence is overgrown with nettles
Dressed in bright mother of pearl
And, swaying, whispers playfully:
"Good morning!".
Open the textbook* on page 317. Before you is a poem by Yesenin. As you can see, it has no title. Can you give the poem a title? Which line tells us the title of the poem? (Last: Good morning! The poem can be called “Morning.”)
Could you tell me what kind of morning the poet paints: before sunrise or when the sun has already risen? Please note: light blushes the mesh of the sky. When can sunlight blush the sky? When can dawn be red and ruddy? (Before sunrise.)
What do you think, the morning of what time of year is described in the poem: spring, winter, summer, autumn?
Overall, the content of the poem is clear. But let's re-read it again to deeply penetrate every line of this short work.
The golden stars dozed off.
Tell me: can the stars fall asleep? (Can not.) Then what is the meaning of the words the stars dozed off?
Do you think the verb is used here in a literal or figurative meaning? dozed off? (In figurative form.) Let's come up with a sentence in which this verb will be used in its direct meaning, for example: The child dozed off. Imagine that you see a child who has fallen asleep. Probably, each of you will have the following thought: here is a child running, jumping, playing, frolicking and, having played enough, calmed down, calmed down, became quiet, dozed off.
Now let's return to the expression the stars dozed off. Tell me, do the stars shine the same at night and in the morning? (At night the stars sparkle brightly, they are radiant, larger, more interesting; by morning they dim, seem calm, seem to have dozed off.) So, with one ordinary word, but used in a figurative meaning, the poet makes us see the night and morning stars and compare them with each other, paints a picture of the end of the night and the approach of morning.
The mirror of the backwater trembled.
Does the backwater have a mirror? What is it named? mirror of the backwater? (The surface of the water of the backwater.) The name of one object - a mirror - is transferred to another object - the surface of water. What property of the water surface does the poet highlight when he calls it a mirror? (The ability to reflect light, like a mirror.) The author forces the reader see this is a huge water “mirror”.
Let's re-read this line again...
Words tremble, tremble, tremble you and I know well. Can the water surface of a reservoir tremble? (Can not.) It turns out that the verb trembled not used in a literal sense? How to understand this phrase? (Ripples, that is, small waves, appeared on the water surface of the backwater.) Do you know what causes ripples? A light breeze on an early summer morning is a sign of a warm, sunny day.
The light is dawning on the river backwaters
And blushes the sky grid.
Do you imagine in your mind sky grid? How can you illustrate words on a painting? the light blushes the sky grid? (Between light clouds colored red and pink, the blue sky peeks out in different places.)
The light is dawning on the river backwaters.
We need to explain the verb glimmers? About early morning, when after the darkness of the night it is just beginning to get light, they say: the dawn is breaking, the dawn is breaking, the light is breaking. Reading the poem, we see the dawning dawn not only in the sky, but also in the “mirror” of the backwaters.
Let's reread the first stanza in its entirety and expressively. The poetic picture of the gradual onset of morning will correspond to a calm, measured reading.
The sleepy birch trees smiled,
Silk braids were disheveled.
In this sentence, only one word is used in its literal meaning. Which? (Birches.) I will reread the sentence, missing a word in it birch trees, and you tell me who or what it’s about.
They smiled sleepily and tousled their silk braids.
Who can you say that about? (Only about girls, or, in the language of folk poetry, about red maidens.)
Each of us can easily imagine girlish braids, even disheveled girlish braids; and who will say what it is birch braids? (These are thin long branches hanging from the branches of a birch.)
Are there birch trees? disheveled your braid branches? (The branches of the birch trees are fluttered by the wind, the same breeze that made the mirror of the backwater tremble.)
In what sense is the adjective used here? silk? (In the sense of “beautiful.”) Consider the first line of the poem: golden stars. Adjective gold in this expression has the same meaning; which? (Beautiful.)
How do you understand the expression sleepy birch trees? Did they “doze off” like the stars? (They didn’t “doze off”, but, on the contrary, “woke up”, but had not yet fully recovered from the night’s sleep.) We woke up and greeted the new day with a joyful smile! Just like people! Just like girls!
Let's read the second stanza in its entirety...
Silver dews are burning. How do you imagine this? (Dew drops sparkle on the birch trees as brightly as if they were burning.) In what sense is the adjective used? silver? (Silver color, beautiful.) Dewdrops illuminated by the sun sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow, and those not illuminated by the sun have a silvery color.
Let's read the last stanza...
The nettle was dressed in bright mother-of-pearl. What would you depict in the picture? (Nettles in sparkling drops of dew.)
Reflections on what you read. The concept of metaphor
Now that the poem has been read, let’s think about what we read. Amazing fact: the most common words (dozed off, mirror, grid) required hard work of thought from us.
Here we have drawn a verbal picture for the phrase Nettle/dressed with bright mother-of-pearl. As you can see, the name mother-of-pearl is not mother-of-pearl, but dew, that is, the name of one object - mother-of-pearl - is transferred to another object - dew. A word that transfers the name of one object to another object is called in linguistics metaphor.
Greek word metaphor and means "transfer".
Let's find other metaphorical nouns in the poem. What does the poet call mirror? The name of one object - a mirror - is transferred to another object - the surface of a reservoir. Noun mirror in this case it is a metaphor.
Let's look at the next two lines. Each of us knows well what thing, what product is called a word net. What is called the grid in the poem? (A peculiar pattern of the arrangement of clouds in the sky.) Here is another noun used in a metaphorical meaning.
What word is replaced by the word braids? (Branch noun.)
Is it a metaphor or a noun? earrings in combination birch catkins? So far we have been dealing with metaphors created by the poet himself: mirror backwater, net sky, braids birch trees, mother of pearl named dew. Now we have encountered a metaphor that exists in the Russian language, so we may not notice the metaphorical nature of this word. Take a look at the explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, and without much effort you will find many expressions in which nouns are used in a metaphorical sense. For example, in phrases eyeball, doorknob, bow of a ship, tail of a train, table leg, chair back and many, many others. Such expressions are so commonplace in our speech that we do not even feel the metaphor contained in them.
The poem also contains metaphors and adjectives. An adjective used in a metaphorical sense transfers a characteristic characteristic of one object to another object.
Could it be sleepy an inanimate object - a tree? In this case, birch trees are attributed the property of living beings. Birch branches are named silk. Is this a metaphor? And the adjective silver in expression silver dew?
Can an adjective be considered a metaphor? gold?
What is the general meaning of all three adjectives: gold, silk, silver? (Beautiful.)
The poem ends with the words Good morning! Do you think the adjective is a metaphor? Kind in expression Good morning?
Similar to the expression Good morning or Good morning, in the Russian language there are many other stable phrases with adjectives used in a metaphorical sense, for example: golden time, vague meaning, popular expressions, dark deeds and others.
So, a metaphor noun transfers the name of one object to another; a metaphor adjective transfers a characteristic characteristic of one object to another object. A verb can also be used as a metaphor.
An inanimate object - the stars - is attributed an action characteristic of a living being - dozed off?
You will find other metaphorical verbs in Yesenin’s poem at home on your own.
Metaphor in its meaning is close to comparison: one object or phenomenon is likened to another object or phenomenon. We can say about metaphor that it is an incomplete, truncated comparison. A word used in a metaphorical sense acquires extreme expressiveness, imagery, clarity, and emotionality. Therefore, metaphor is widely used in works of fiction, especially in poetry.
Homework
Find metaphorical verbs in the poem.
Prepare an expressive reading of the poem by heart.
Hold a drawing competition for a poem.
* Literature. Educational textbook for the 6th grade of secondary school. Author-compiler V.P. Polukhina M.: Education, 1992. P. 317.
Preview:
Lesson topic: Reading the poem by Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin “The golden stars dozed off...”
Lesson type: combined
Textbook: V.G. Goretsky, L.F. Klimanova, M.V. Golovanov
“Native speech”, 4th grade
Lesson objectives:
- continue to get acquainted with the biography and work of the Russian poet S.A. Yesenina;
- introduce the poem “The golden stars dozed off...”;
- analyze this lyrical work.
Lesson objectives:
Educational:
- improve expressive reading;
- teach conscious choice of means of expression;
- teach the technique of word drawing.
Educational:
- develop the ability to appreciate the beauty of nature
Educational:
- develop reconstructive imagination;
- continue to develop children's speech.
Equipment:
- Textbook by V.G. Goretsky and others. “Native Speech”
4th grade, part 2;
- Audio recording of A. Grieg’s work “Morning”;
- Sunrise photo;
- Portrait of S.A. Yesenina.
- Demo cards
During the classes.
I. Student organization.
II. Checking homework.
Which poet's work did we start getting acquainted with in the last lesson? (S.A. Yesenina)
Who remembers where Sergei Alexandrovich was born and raised? (In the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province)
In what year was Yesenin born? (1895)
How old was he when he started writing poetry?
(9 years)
In what year did Yesenin's life end? (In 1925.)
Can his life be called long? (No, he only lived 30 years.)
You are right, but during this short life of S.A. Yesenin wrote a lot of wonderful works. And now people remember him and read his poems with pleasure.
What was your homework assignment? (Memorize the poem “The sun has gone out. Quiet in the meadow...”)
Who wants to tell? (the teacher asks 3-4 people)
Physical education minute.
III. Preparatory work.
Today we will continue our acquaintance with creativity
S.A. Yesenina. Listen to an excerpt from a musical work by Alexander Grieg and tell me what the composer describes? (Morning, sunrise)
What time of day is most like this music? (Morning)
That's right, this work is called “Morning”. Tell me, what special happens in the morning that the composer Alexander Grieg even wanted to write music? (The sun rises, everything wakes up, birds begin to sing, etc.)
Please look at the board, the artist-photographer also saw the sunrise and wanted everyone to see how it happened. What is the main focus in this photo? (Sun)
What is it like? (Bright, shining, yellow)
What about the rest of the photo? (Not so bright, darker. Everything is covered in fog.)
What else is shown here? (River, trees, sky)
What are they? What colors are there more? (Bright sun, bright sky, white-gray fog, dark trees.)
What impression does this photo make? (Not everything has woken up yet, only the bright sun has appeared in the sky, but it seems that nature will soon awaken.)
Now listen to how Sergei Yesenin describes the dawn, the morning in his poem “The golden stars dozed off...”. Try to imagine what the poet describes.
IV. Primary reading.(read by teacher)
S.A. Yesenin “The golden stars dozed off...”
The golden stars dozed off,
The mirror of the backwater trembled,
The light is dawning on the river backwaters
And blushes the sky grid.
The sleepy birches smiled,
Silk braids were disheveled.
Green earrings rustle,
And the silver dews burn.
The fence is overgrown with nettles
Dressed in bright mother of pearl
And, swaying, whispers playfully:
"Good morning!"
V. Conversation of an emotional-evaluative nature.
What did you see? (The stars go out. The sun appears. A light breeze blows. The sky turns pinkish. Birds and animals begin to wake up. There is dew on the grass and trees. Everything seems elegant and beautiful.)
What mood did you feel after reading this poem? (Joy, admiration for the beauty of nature, expectation of a miracle)
VI. Secondary reading and analysis.
Open your textbooks to page 65. Take your pencils in your hands, read the work again to yourself and underline the words that helped you feel joy. (Children read one quatrain at a time and explain why they chose these words: golden stars, light, sky, smiled, silver dews are burning, bright mother-of-pearl, dressed up, playfully, good morning.)
Now let’s explain the meaning of the complex and unfamiliar words that we encountered in this work. To do this, we need to turn to the text again.
Reads the first quatrain. Tell me, how do you understand the meaning of the words “the stars dozed off”? (extinguished, disappeared)
Gold is a yellow precious metal.
Do you understand the following phrase “the mirror of the backwater trembled”? (No)
Look at the blackboard. I have written out difficult words for you.
A backwater is a river bay or backwater that juts out into the shore.
Why did the water surface tremble and waver? (A breeze blew)
How do you understand the words “light is dawning on the river backwaters”? (children find it difficult to answer)
It's dawning - it's glowing slightly Backwater = backwater
Where does this light come from? (The sun appears over the horizon and is reflected in the water.)
Pay attention to the following phrase “and blushes the mesh of the sky.” What do these words mean: blush, grid, horizon?
Blushes - makes you red, ruddy
Grid – a lined, usually checkered, surface
Skyslope - part of the sky above the horizon
Try saying this phrase in your own words. (The sun's rays hitting the sky paint it pink, but at the same time the bright rays “line” the sky with yellow stripes.)
Who can describe in their own words what Yesenin wanted to tell us? (The sun rises, the stars go out. The sun's rays pierce the sky, streaking it and lighting it pink. The sun is reflected in the water. A light breeze blows.)
What colors predominate here? (Yellow, pink, red, blue.)
Reads the second quatrain. What does the author describe in this quatrain? (Birches)
Who is he comparing them to? (With a man, with girls)
What is this technique called when inanimate objects are depicted as living beings? (personification)
And who was attentive and can answer whether the same technique was used in the first quatrain? (Yes, the stars dozed off.)
How did you guess that Yesenin compares a man with girls? (Smiled, sleepy, braids, earrings)
Do birches really know how to smile or can they be sleepy? (No. The author attributes characteristic features of human behavior in the morning to birches.)
Why are the dews “silver”? (The sun is reflected in the dewdrops, they shine and seem silver.)
Silver is a noble metal of grayish-white color.
What does "burn" mean? (Shimmers in different colors, very bright.)
What colors predominate in this quatrain? (green, silver, white)
Who can tell in their own words what the author described?
Reads the last quatrain.
Look at the illustration. Here is a picture of a fence.
Wattle is a fence made from branches and twigs
Replace the word “overgrown” with other words that are similar in meaning: dense, frequent, large. Does the meaning change? Which word is more accurate, brighter? (The meaning changes. The author's word is better suited.)
How do you understand the phrase “dressed in bright mother-of-pearl”?
Dress up - dress up, put on
Mother of pearl is a valuable substance with an iridescent color, the inner layer of some shells
(Small drops of dew and sunlight create the impression that the nettle has become pearlescent)
What does "naughty" mean?
Playful - frivolous and playful
Why do nettles sway? (The wind blows.)
Can nettles talk? (No. This is also a personification.)
But can nettle make any sounds? (The nettle sways in the wind and the leaves rustle. This rustling is similar to the whisper of a person - personification.)
What does the phrase “Good morning!” tell us? (Every living thing, and even nettles, rejoices at the coming of a new day, the sun and wishes good things to everyone.)
What colors predominate in this quatrain? (Green, pearlescent.)
Who can describe this picture in their own words?
Physical education minute.
Summary of the analysis.
We said that the poem makes you happy, even the nettle wishes everyone well, what conclusion can we draw? (This is a kind, joyful poem, describing the beauty of nature, lyrical.)
VII. Summarizing. Homework.
What poem did we meet today? (“The golden stars dozed off...”)
Who remembers what piece of music we listened to in class today? ("Morning")
What is the composer's name? (Alexander Grieg)
This year we got acquainted with only two poems by Yesenin. During his short life he managed to write many poems and poems. Yesenin loved nature very much, saw the beauty of his native land and knew how to describe it. There is an expression: “To love and understand nature means to love your homeland.”
Open your diaries and write down your homework: learn the poem “The golden stars dozed off...” by heart, find and read other poems about nature by S. A. Yesenin. The lesson is over.
“The golden stars dozed off, the mirror of the backwater trembled, the light dawned on the river backwaters and blushed the mesh of the sky. The sleepy birch trees smiled, their silk braids disheveled, the green earrings rustled, and the silver dew burned. Near the fence, overgrown nettles are dressed in bright mother-of-pearl and, swaying, whisper playfully, “Good morning!”
Choose the appropriate answer and give reasons: For what purpose did Yesenin write this poem? To report what happened to Swan;To report what happened to Swan; To draw attention to the beauty of nature;To draw attention to the beauty of nature; To cause mutual empathy;To cause mutual empathy; To convey your sadness.To convey your sadness.
Friends, learn loyalty from swans! Love as these birds love. After all, if you take the universe, such love cannot be compared with anything. They are not people, But what a way to become, What tenderness, Devotion to each other. Their feeling cannot be conveyed, It is like a true miracle!
Internet resources - portrait of S. Yesenin - village of Konstantinovo - cover of S. Yesenin's book Lebedushka guest/FS252-16/7864-Romans_Nad_Oko6kom_Mesyats.mp3 - Above the window there is a month guest/FS252-16/7864-Romans_Nad_Oko6kom_Mesyats.mp3 - swan with a brood - swan with open wings - swan on the lake - swan couple - P.I. Tchaikovsky Castle - Swan Lake 2http://files.tvspas - illustration Swan - swan with chick - kite
Sergei Yesenin poetry
Anthology of Russian poetry
GOOD MORNING!
The golden stars dozed off,
The mirror of the backwater trembled,
The light is dawning on the river backwaters
And blushes the sky grid.
The sleepy birch trees smiled,
Silk braids were disheveled.
Green earrings rustle
And the silver dews burn.
The fence is overgrown with nettles
Dressed in bright mother of pearl
And, swaying, whispers playfully:
"Good morning!"
Read by E. Korovina
Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich (1895-1925)
Yesenin was born into a peasant family. From 1904 to 1912 he studied at the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School and at the Spas-Klepikovsky School. During this time, he wrote more than 30 poems and compiled a handwritten collection “Sick Thoughts” (1912), which he tried to publish in Ryazan. The Russian village, the nature of central Russia, oral folk art, and most importantly, Russian classical literature had a strong influence on the formation of the young poet and guided his natural talent. Yesenin himself at different times named different sources that fed his work: songs, ditties, fairy tales, spiritual poems, “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign,” the poetry of Lermontov, Koltsov, Nikitin and Nadson. Later he was influenced by Blok, Klyuev, Bely, Gogol, Pushkin.
From Yesenin's letters from 1911 to 1913, the complex life of the poet emerges. All this was reflected in the poetic world of his lyrics from 1910 to 1913, when he wrote more than 60 poems and poems. Yesenin's most significant works, which brought him fame as one of the best poets, were created in the 1920s.
Like any 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.
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”.