Yesenin's lyrics: sentimentality, peasant patriotism and kabatsky revelry

They say that when the world splits, the crack inevitably passes through the restless heart of the poet. These lines accurately characterize the creative path of Sergei Yesenin, who was destined to live and create at the turn of two eras. Perhaps, for this reason Yesenin's lyrics are filled to the brim with dramatic feelings. Strong and difficult was the life of the poet, despite the failures and falls, he stubbornly continued the movement, drawing inspiration from what he had experienced, while maintaining an indissoluble connection with his people.

The Power of Poetry

Even in the very early period of the genius's creativity, the strongest side of his talent is emerging: the ability to draw beautiful pictures of the original Russian nature with a poetic syllable. The whole strength of his early lyrics is that it clearly expresses a feeling of fervent love for the motherland through pictures of native landscapes. Nature in Yesenin's lyrics sometimes does not please the eye: "You are the land of my desolation ...", but the love for the deprived fiefdom from this only becomes stronger. With the outbreak of World War I, this feeling acquires special power and strength, which can be clearly traced in the work "Rus."

Yesenin's lyrics are filled with bright colors of the native nature: in many poems about Russia, merry tones are blossoming and playing with all the colors of the rainbow - azure, crimson and blue. There is also a special love for all living things - birds, wild animals and pets ("Song of the Dog", "The Cow", etc.). The nature in Esenin's lyrics is not uninhabited paintings, they are "interspersed", a person is inscribed - a poet who is genuinely in love with his native land. Turning to nature for inspiration, he expresses his innermost thoughts about the present, past and future, his place in life. In rare moments of calm he writes: "At heart lemon light of sunset, - and continues, - lilacs rustle blue." And during hours of bitter doubts and meditations: "Soon I will freeze without leaves." The image of his feelings and experiences through a picture of Russian nature often pushed the creator to her humanizing: "Sleeping bird cherry in a white cloak," "Discouraged a grove of gold ...". This principle shows the author's special love for nature.

Paints of folk poetry

Many of Yesenin's works are based on the motives of Russian folk poetry. Homeland in Yesenin's lyrics is vividly captured not only in content, but also in poetry itself. Her creator has borrowed and most of the colors that he used in his work. Each shade, he not only copies, but gives meaning and content. The romantic poet uses these symbolic shades more in a conditional than in a direct meaning. In the color image of feelings and thoughts, one of the reasons for the incredible emotional impact that Yesenin's lyrics have on the reader is hidden.

• Blue and blue are the most common colors in Russian nature, symbolizing water and sky. With Yesenin, these shades evoke peace and quiet, pacification: "the unspeakable, the blue, the tender ...", or they convey joy from the feeling of freedom and spaciousness: "blue Russia ...", "blue field", "blue star".
• Scarlet and pink - beloved by the poet shades - meant cleanliness, virgin purity and purity of feelings ("The scarlet light of the dawn was wiped out on the lake ..."). Youth symbolizes pink color - "thoughts of pink days ...", "pink horse", "fresh rosy cheeks."

The tragedy of parting with the past

Lyric feels himself tied to the past, the urgent need to part with him is perceived by Yesenin as his own doom. This gloomy feeling gives rise to a pessimistic mood in it and provokes a complete decline in mental strength. Yesenin's lyrics in this period are quite disturbing, in his works the word "rock" is too often met, and the imagination paints pictures of the impending "fateful misfortune". These moods are reflected in the collection of poems "Moscow Kabatskaya", the main motive of this cycle is indifference to what is happening, life in general, an attempt to forget yourself with alcohol and despair. However, the creator found in himself inner strength and emerged from a hopeless impasse. But the tragedy of the poet's farewell to the past had an impressive influence on his work.

The first time I sang about love ...

Yesenin's early love poetry paints a shy girl's image with clean and delicate colors. Through the creation of poetic pictures of his native nature, the poet embodies his youthful admiration for feminine beauty and the desire to love. Later the reader sees love in the poet's works different: beautiful and pure, sensual and passionate. The top of Yesenin's love poetics is called the cycle "Persian motifs", in it all poems and gusts revealed in them are beautiful. However, despite the sung feelings for Shagane, Heliya, Lala, the poet recalls the beauty of "Ryazan razdoliy", and "wavy rye with the moon." One feels his desire to drown out the aching longing for the "distant northerner."

For the first time I renounce scandal ...

Yesenin's love lyrics still have a fantastic success. He was admired by women not only for their unique poetic gift, but also for their extraordinary attractiveness. In each of his cycles of love poems, the poet, loving and chanting real ladies, most appreciated the very feeling - unrequited, sensual, divided, innocent, passionate, pure. The strongest impulses of the soul changed the creator, he decided to say goodbye to hooliganism and unruly life. This love became a salvation for the rake, which was now ready to submit to the beloved. Only his poetic associations and comparisons with nature remained unchanged: the name "rings like an August coolness", the hair "in color in autumn". This great love in the life of the poet became two women-rivals - Isadora Duncan and Augusta Miklashevskaya.

Unprecedented sincerity

Sergei Esenin has lived very little - only thirty years, but his unique creative heritage contains significant artistic wealth. The themes of Esenin's lyrics are diverse, they contain an unprecedented sincerity of tone, a direct vision of the world, a rare gift to look at things with an unbiased glance. The poet characterizes the ability to extract graceful beauty and unusual joy from objects that have spared time and life. Yesenin's lyrics convey to the reader the great talent of the poet, his special characteristic ability to express his feelings in creativity.