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6. Analysis of the poem by A. A. Fet “Spruce covered the path with my sleeve ...”
Afanasy Fet is a wonderful Russian poet, the founder of the poetic genre - a lyrical miniature. The subject matter of his poetry is limited. His poetry is “pure poetry”, there are no social issues of reality in it, no civic motives. He chose such a stylistic device of narration, which allowed him to hide his soul from the reader behind the external course of events. Fet cares only about beauty - nature and love. He considers poetry to be the temple of art, and the poet is the priest of this temple. These two themes of Fet's poetry are closely related to each other. Fet believes that only nature and love can display all the beauty and charm of the surrounding reality. The character, experiences, thoughts and feelings of the lyrical hero in Fet's poetry depend on the poet's attitude.
Fet sought to convey the beauty of the moment, the momentary state. A striking example of this is his poem “Spruce covered my path with a sleeve”:
Spruce covered the path with my sleeve.
Wind. In the forest alone
Noisy, and creepy, and sad, and fun, -
I do not understand anything.
Fet creates a beautiful image that allows the reader to see the painted picture, admire its unique beauty. In the lines of the poem, the poet uses nominal sentences and sentences with homogeneous members. The last two lines speak of the conflicting feelings of the poet. His lyrical hero feels the state of nature. The poem affects the reader. Due to the abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, you can hear the sound of the wind:
Everything hums and sways
Leaves swirl at your feet.
It is impossible to capture the mood of the lyrical hero. He has a vague feeling - "I don’t understand anything." He is trying to dissolve in the world of nature, trying to comprehend its mysterious depths, to understand the "beautiful soul of nature." But in the sound of the wind, this confusion is dispelled. The hero hears a “subtly calling horn”, “the call of the copper herald” and his mood immediately changes - “Sweet is the call of the copper herald to me!” and "Dead sheets to me!"
Fet represents nature as a person, sees her beautiful soul, this is evidenced by the metaphor "Spruce covered the path with my sleeve."
In this poem by Fet, nature merges with human emotions. The poet depicts his hero at the moment of the greatest emotional tension, shows his soul against the backdrop of a beautiful moment of nature.
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Afanasy Fet is a wonderful Russian poet, the founder of the poetic genre - a lyrical miniature. The subject matter of his poetry is limited. His poetry is “pure poetry”, there are no social issues of reality in it, no civic motives. He chose such a stylistic device of narration, which allowed him to hide his soul from the reader behind the external course of events. Fet cares only about beauty - nature and love. He considers poetry to be the temple of art, and the poet is the priest of this temple. These two themes of Fet's poetry are closely related to each other. Fet believes that only nature and love can display all the beauty and charm of the surrounding reality. The character, experiences, thoughts and feelings of the lyrical hero in Fet's poetry depend on the poet's attitude.
Fet sought to convey the beauty of the moment, the momentary state. A striking example of this is his poem “Spruce covered my path with a sleeve”:
Spruce covered the path with my sleeve.
Wind. In the forest alone
Noisy, and creepy, and sad, and fun, -
I do not understand anything.
Fet creates a beautiful image that allows the reader to see the painted picture, admire its unique beauty. In the lines of the poem, the poet uses nominal sentences and sentences with homogeneous members. The last two lines speak of the conflicting feelings of the poet. His lyrical hero feels the state of nature. The poem affects the reader. Due to the abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, you can hear the sound of the wind:
Everything hums and sways
Leaves swirl at your feet.
It is impossible to capture the mood of the lyrical hero. He has a vague feeling - "I don’t understand anything." He is trying to dissolve in the world of nature, trying to comprehend its mysterious depths, to understand the "beautiful soul of nature." But in the sound of the wind, this confusion is dispelled. The hero hears a “subtly calling horn”, “the call of the copper herald” and his mood immediately changes - “Sweet is the call of the copper herald to me!” and "Dead sheets to me!"
Fet represents nature as a person, sees her beautiful soul, this is evidenced by the metaphor "Spruce covered the path with my sleeve."
In this poem by Fet, nature merges with human emotions. The poet depicts his hero at the moment of the greatest emotional tension, shows his soul against the backdrop of a beautiful moment of nature.
Afanasy Fet is a brilliant creator, a man with a difficult fate, who, thanks to fantastic perseverance and diligence, managed to declare himself, his talent. His creative path, however, as well as life, is filled with moments of rapid ups and tragic falls down. In moments when tears of despair rolled up to the throat, confusion and misunderstanding overcame consciousness, Fet turned to poetry. It was in poetry that he always found consolation. They saved him in the most difficult moments of his life.
One of the most difficult periods of life, according to the poet's own admission, was the years after the death of Maria Lazich. In 1845, while in military service in the Kherson region, Fet met Elena Lazich. He began to court a young woman, but she was behind her husband and in every possible way rejected his proposals. Then the young man turned his attention to Elena's sister Maria. However, she also announced to Fet that she had long been in love with another and wanted to tie her life with him by marriage. The poet retreated, although he continued to see Mary: he liked her erudition, excellent ear for music and extraordinary goodwill to everyone.
Fet even began to lament in his letters that he had missed such a sincere girl. But he did not know that Maria had been in love with him since their first meeting and had no suitor. But she was angry with Fet because he paid attention to her sister and, only having received a refusal, switched to her. Such meetings, in which no one could confess the sincerity of feelings, lasted quite a long time, until Maria’s aunt, seeing the girl’s suffering, personally asked Fet not to come to visit anymore, to which he easily agreed. A few months later, the young man learns that the girl died in terrible agony from burns that she received when she accidentally threw a lit match on the hem of her dress and fell asleep. In her last appeal to her relatives, Mary asked not to blame Athanasius for anything.
The poet would not be able to forget the girl. He blamed himself for her death. After all, if he had confessed his feelings to her in time, then she simply would not have ended up in that terrible moment in this place, everything would have been different. The self-flagellation of the poet fed his lyrics, filled the verses with passion and remorse.
One of these works of his was “Spruce covered my path with a sleeve”, created in the late 90s. 19th century. It arose after the creation of several poems in which the author apologizes to Lazich. Fet experienced the taste of loss enough and, according to his contemporaries, almost went crazy with grief.
Most of the poems addressed to the deceased Mary, the creator did not publish: they were made public after the death of the poet. However, this poem was published during the life of the author. Apparently, this decision was influenced by the fact that in this work there is only a fuzzy hint at the image of the beloved. It seems to the unenlightened reader that the author has again become interested in the theme of nature, which made up the majority of his early works. After all, in it the poet described a forest covered with snow, where the lyrical hero feels either creepy and sad, or suddenly joyful. Fet writes about a storm circling the remaining leaves of trees, heeds the sound of the wind. And he likes these sounds, he even agrees to go to this call, compared with the voice of fate. But only a small part of readers will be able to understand that the whole clue to such behavior, and indeed the meaning of the entire poem, lies in its last line.
In it appears the one that stands far away and to whom the poet refers to "you". It was not an image of a harsh winter creeping up, but an image of a lost beloved, distant and cold. The author dreams of meeting her, although he realizes that for this he needs to say goodbye to life in this world. This thought does not repel him at all, but on the contrary, pleases him.
The poem has three stanzas written in a quatrain with a cross rhyme. This gives the work a special firmness, as if hinting at the poet's determination, at his choice.
The epithets used by the author, such as "copper herald" and "poor wanderer", personifications of "dead sheets" create a bleak picture of life. The reception of alliteration, that is, the repetition of consonant sounds, allows the reader to "hear" the howling of the wind, the noise in the forest, which tormented Fet.
Describing the slow withering of nature, Afanasy Fet spoke of his own extinction: his soul burned with torment like a candle flame, gradually and irrevocably.
Afanasy Fet is a wonderful Russian poet, the founder of the poetic genre - a lyrical miniature. The subject matter of his poetry is limited. His poetry is “pure poetry”, there are no social issues of reality in it, no civic motives. He chose such a stylistic device of narration, which allowed him to hide his soul from the reader behind the external course of events. Fet cares only about beauty - nature and love. He considers poetry to be the temple of art, and the poet is the priest of this temple. These two themes of Fet's poetry are closely related to each other. Fet believes that only nature and love can display all the beauty and charm of the surrounding reality. The character, experiences, thoughts and feelings of the lyrical hero in Fet's poetry depend on the poet's attitude.
Fet sought to convey the beauty of the moment, the momentary state. A striking example of this is his poem “Spruce covered my path with a sleeve”:
Spruce covered the path with my sleeve.
Wind. In the forest alone
Noisy, and creepy, and sad, and fun, -
I do not understand anything.
Fet creates a beautiful image that allows the reader to see the painted picture, admire its unique beauty. In the lines of the poem, the poet uses nominal sentences and sentences with homogeneous members. The last two lines speak of the conflicting feelings of the poet. His lyrical hero feels the state of nature. The poem affects the reader. Due to the abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, you can hear the sound of the wind:
Everything hums and sways
Leaves swirl at your feet.
It is impossible to capture the mood of the lyrical hero. He has a vague feeling - "I don’t understand anything." He is trying to dissolve in the world of nature, trying to comprehend its mysterious depths, to understand the "beautiful soul of nature." But in the sound of the wind, this confusion is dispelled. The hero hears a “subtly calling horn”, “the call of the copper herald” and his mood immediately changes - “Sweet is the call of the copper herald to me!” and "Dead sheets to me!"
Fet represents nature as a person, sees her beautiful soul, this is evidenced by the metaphor "Spruce covered the path with my sleeve."
In this poem by Fet, nature merges with human emotions. The poet depicts his hero at the moment of the greatest emotional tension, shows his soul against the backdrop of a beautiful moment of nature.
Landscape poetry occupies an honorable place in the work of A. Fet. The poet saw not just a shell of nature, he felt her soul. The poem that will be discussed is studied in the 6th grade. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with a brief analysis of “Spruce hung my path with a sleeve” according to the plan.
Brief analysis
History of creation- was written in 1891 a year before the death of the poet, was included in the collection "Evening Lights".
Theme of the poem- loneliness, man and nature.
Composition- The work can be divided into 2 parts by meaning: a description of the sensations of the lyrical hero who is alone in the forest, a story about the call heard by the hero. Formally, the poem consists of three quatrains that continue each other.
Genre- elegy.
Poetic size- four- and two-foot dactyl, cross rhyme ABAB.
Metaphors – “Spruce covered my path with a sleeve”, “leaves are spinning at my feet”, “copper herald”, “dead sheets for me”.
epithets – “poor wanderer”, “you warmly greet”.
History of creation
“Spruce covered my path with a sleeve” refers to the late period of Fet’s work. The analysis of the poem should begin with the circumstances of its writing. In his youth, the poet was in love with Maria Lazich, but they failed to start a family. Fet himself offered to leave, because of the difficult financial situation. He regretted his decision for the rest of his life. Soon after parting, the poet learned that his beloved had burned down in a fire.
A. Fet kept warm feelings for Mary all his life, devoted many poems to her. This layer of love lyrics was not published during the life of the poet. There is also a hint of the image of Mary in the poem, but it is not easy to see it. This explains why the verse was printed in Evening Lights at a time when its author was still alive.
If, after the death of his beloved, the poet wrote mainly philosophical works, then in the later period he returns to landscape poetry.
Topic
The work develops several traditional themes for literature: forest nature, loneliness, the relationship between man and nature. The author submits a forest landscape sketch. The reader sees nature through the eyes of a lyrical hero. He finds the path, which was closed from him by the sleeve of the spruce. Further, we learn that the hero is alone in the forest. Loneliness causes him ambiguous feelings, which are difficult to understand.
The forest meets a person with a rumble and noise that the wind raises. The author does not specify whether the wind is strong or weak. This can be guessed from the description: “everything is buzzing and swaying”.
The description of the landscape is interrupted when the lyrical hero hears the sound of a horn. This tells him that there is someone in the distance. The mood of the hero rises and the "dead sheets" no longer oppress him so much. His heart greets the wanderer as tenderly as a "brazen herald". Under the image of a wanderer, the image of a former lover is hidden. Apparently, the author still hoped to meet her again.
Composition
The composition of the analyzed work is simple. The author divides it into three quatrains, which are interconnected by content, each next stanza continues the previous one. In terms of meaning, A. Fet's poem is divided into two parts: a description of the forest and the feelings of a lonely lyrical hero, a story about the sound of a horn. The semantic parts are the same in volume, they are not intertwined. Such a division allows A. Fet to describe not only the nature, but also the internal state of the lyrical hero.
Genre
A sad mood and a smooth narration are characteristic of the poem "Spruce hung my path with a sleeve." This indicates that the poems were written in the genre of elegy. The author uses different lines, strictly alternating them. Poetic size - four- and two-foot dactyl. Rhyming in the text is cross ABAB, there are male and female rhymes.
means of expression
The forest landscape and the state of the lyrical hero are described using artistic means. They help to reveal the topic in an original way and convey the idea to the reader. The text contains several metaphors: “the spruce hung the path with my sleeve”, “leaves are spinning at my feet”, “copper herald”, “dead sheets for me”. Some metaphors serve to humanize nature. play a supporting role epithets: "poor wanderer", "tenderly greet". The poet does not use comparisons.
Attracts attention and intonation. If a lonely walk through the forest is described calmly, then the joy of hearing the sound of a horn is conveyed with the help of exclamatory sentences. To convey the noise that the forest is shrouded in, the author uses the alliteration "zh", "s", "sh": "everything is buzzing and swaying, the leaves are spinning at the feet."
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