The night is quiet, the desert listens to God. Lermontov "I go out alone on the road": analysis of images

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Mikhail Lermontov

Poems 1828–1836

Mikhail Lermontov

I go out alone on the road ... (compilation)

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Poems 1828–1836

Poet

When Raphael is inspired

Sacred face of the Blessed Virgin

Finished with a living brush,

Admired by his art

He fell before the picture!

But soon this impulse is wonderful

Weakened in his young chest,

And weary and dumb,

He forgot the fire of heaven.

Such is the poet: a little thought flashes,

How he will shed with his pen

All soul; the sound of a loud lyre

The light enchants, and in silence

Sings, forgetting in a heavenly dream,

You, you! souls are his idols!

And suddenly the heat turns cold,

His heart troubles

Everything is quiet, and the ghost is running!

But for a long, long time the mind keeps

Initial impressions.

To a genius

When in the darkness of nights my eyes do not close

Without a goal wanders around, reproach of the past days

When he calls me, involuntarily, to remembrance:

What a heavy dream I indulge in! ..

Oh how suddenly the crowd crowds into my chest

And shadows and witnesses love!.. I love!

I keep forgetting them. But full of longing

The face of an unfaithful maiden flickers before me ...

So, I knew happiness, and the sweet moment disappeared,

How the brilliance of a falling star in the heavens is extinguished!

But I beg you, my unchanging Genius:

Let me love again! give me inspiration

Warm up one moment, the last, and then

Let the ardor of the heart cool forever.

But first, where you are, the souls of my queen,

The sound of my pensive forearm will rush!

I beg you, I pray, my holy guardian,

Above the apple tree is my thyrsus and with a golden lyre

Hang and draw: inspiration lived here!

The singer knew the living ecstasy of love ...

... And I will come here, and I will not recognize you,

About voiced strings!..……………….

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But you forgot, friend! when sometimes the night

We sat on the balcony there. Like a dumb

I looked at you with the usual sadness.

Do you remember that moment, like me, under a long shawl

Hidden, I bowed my head on your chest -

And the answer was a sigh, I shook your hand -

And the answer was a look both passionate and shy!

And the month was one silent witness

My last and innocent joys! ..

Their flame on my chest has long died down! ..

But, my dear, why, how the year of separation has passed,

How I almost forgot both joys and torments,

Would you like to draw me back to you again? ..

Forget my love! be submissive to fate!

Curse my gaze, curse my delights, sweetness!..

Forget it!.. let another decorate your youth!..

You are a pure inhabitant of those immeasurable countries,

Where the ether spreads like an eternal ocean,

And a clean conscience with carelessness drag,

Guardians of the soul, stay forever with me!

And the languid light of the moon will be kind to me,

Like a vague memorial of past, lovely years!..

my demon

The collection of evil is his element.

Rushing between smoky clouds,

He loves fatal storms

And the foam of the rivers, and the noise of oak trees.

Between the yellow leaves that have flown around

His motionless throne stands;

On it, among the numb winds,

He sits sad and gloomy.

He instills incredulity

He despised pure love

He rejects all prayers

He indifferently sees the blood,

And the sound of high sensations

And the muse of meek inspirations

Afraid of unearthly eyes.

We met again...

But how we both have changed!

Years of a dull succession

Hidden from us invisibly.

Looking for fire in your eyes

I'm looking for excitement in my soul.

Oh! both you and me

Gravity killed life! ..

Monologue

Believe me, nothingness is good in this world.

Why deep knowledge, thirst for glory,

Talent and passionate love of freedom,

When can we not use them?

We, the children of the north, are like local plants,

We bloom for a short time, we fade quickly ...

Like the winter sun in the gray sky,

So cloudy is our life. So short

Its monotonous flow ...

And it seems stuffy at home,

And the heart is heavy, and the soul yearns ...

Knowing neither love nor sweet friendship,

Amid empty storms our youth languishes,

And quickly the poison darkens her anger,

And the cup of cold life is bitter to us;

And nothing makes the soul happy.

Ballad

Above the sea, a beautiful maiden sits;

And caressing his friend, he says:

“Get out the necklace, go down to the bottom;

Today it fell into the abyss!

You will prove your love to me with this!

The young man's dashing blood boiled,

And his mind embraced an involuntary illness,

He suddenly rushes into the foamy abyss.

Here they will bring a dear friend.

Oh happiness! he is alive, he grabbed the rock,

In his hand is a necklace, but as gloomy as he was.

He is afraid to believe tired legs,

And wet curls run over the shoulders ...

"Tell me if I don't love you or I love you,

For beautiful pearls and not sparing life,

At the word went down to the black bottom,

It lay in a coral grotto. -

Take it! - and he fixed his sad gaze

That he loved life more dearly.

The answer was: “Oh dear, oh my young man!

Get it if you like, dear coral.

With a hopeless soul young daring

Jumped to find either coral or the end.

Pearly spray fly from the abyss,

And the waves are crowding, and rushing back,

And again they come and hit the shore,

But they do not carry a dear friend.

Prayer

Don't blame me Lord

And don't punish me, please

Because the darkness of the earth is grave

With her passions I love;

I go out alone on the road;
Through the mist flinty path glitters;
The night is quiet. The desert listens to God
And the star speaks to the star.

In heaven solemnly and wonderfully!
The earth sleeps in the radiance of blue ...
Why is it so painful and so difficult for me?
Waiting for what? do I regret anything?

I don't expect anything from life
And I do not feel sorry for the past at all;
I'm looking for freedom and peace!
I would like to forget and fall asleep!

But not with that cold dream of the grave...
I wish I could sleep like this forever
So that the life of strength dozes in the chest,
So that breathing quietly heaves the chest;

So that all night, all day cherishing my hearing,
A sweet voice sang to me about love,
Above me to be forever green
The dark oak leaned over and rustled.

Analysis of the poem “I go out alone on the road” by Lermontov

The poem "I go out alone on the road" is one of latest works poet before his tragic death. Many talented people anticipated death in advance, which was reflected in their work. The verse in question is remarkably reminiscent of the poet's dying testament.

In the last years of his life, Lermontov often turned to philosophical analysis own life. A striking example- which is filled with gloom and pessimism. "I go out alone on the road" is a sharp contrast to Lermontov's depressed mental mood. It is dominated by the motif of calm sadness.

The lyrical hero appears in the image of a lonely traveler, whom the poet considered himself to be in life. He always felt his acute loneliness and independence. Removing from human society finally brought peace and tranquility to his soul. Contemplation of nature and the starry sky tunes in to lofty thoughts. However, the poet notes that even in the state of sleep in nature, the pulsation of life does not stop (“a star speaks to a star”). He bitterly admits that he still cannot find agreement with himself. He continues to be tormented by insoluble questions and doubts.

The lyrical hero seems to have got rid of all the desires that excite the heart, parted with hopes and dreams about the future. He said goodbye without regret past life. From now on, he wants only "freedom and peace!".

Lermontov understands that the only way out- physical death, but it frightens the poet, as it also means spiritual death. The gloomy unknown that awaits each person at the end of life is associated with the loss of personality. The lyrical hero would like to be preserved in an incorporeal image that exists forever under the shade of a green oak.

The poem is written in trochaic pentameter with cross rhyme, which gives it an elegy style. Lexical means of expression a little: epithets (“solemnly and wonderfully”, “sweet”), personifications (“a star speaks with a star”, “the earth sleeps”), metaphor (“cold dream of the grave”). The main mood is given to the work by rhetorical questions, exclamations and dots.

It is not known what the poet meant by immortality. He was not particularly religious, so he hardly hoped for heavenly salvation. But his hope was justified in the great literary heritage that he left to posterity. The spirit of Lermontov will always be present in his famous works.

The poet Mikhail Lermontov entered the history of Russian literature as the author of numerous lyric poems, romantic poems and even prose texts. We offer you to get acquainted with the analysis of “I go out alone on the road” by Lermontov, one of the most popular poems of the poet.

Analysis Plan

To analyze a poetic text from all sides, you should adhere to the following plan:

• Title of the work and author.
• History of creation, Interesting Facts about the poem.
• Key themes of the poetic text.
• Idea and main idea. Expanding this point of the plan, it should be indicated what exactly the author wanted to convey to his readers, otherwise, for what purpose the text was created.
• Main artistic techniques used by the poet: tropes, features of the construction of sentences, rhetorical questions.
• Composition. It is necessary to answer the questions, what structural parts are there in the poetic text, how the author manages to achieve integrity and unity. Is it subordinate compositional construction poems to express the author's thought.
• The image of a lyrical hero.
• As a result, it should be indicated whether the text belongs to a certain direction in literature and why, what genre it is, what features indicate belonging to a certain genre.

It is this plan that will help to conduct a deep analysis of Lermontov’s “I go out alone on the road” and any other poetic text. Items can be swapped if necessary.

Basic information

Let's start the analysis of Lermontov's "I go out on the road" with short description creation history. poetic text was written in 1841, shortly before the death of the author and is the result of his searches and reflections. First publication in Otechestvennye Zapiski magazine two years later. A fact is known - Odoevsky presented Lermontov with a notebook as a gift so that he would completely fill it with poems. After the death of the poet, this notebook was found, among others, it contained the poem in question.

Subject

Continue text analysis by M.Yu. Lermontov “I go out alone on the road” follows the definition of the topic, that is, what it says. At first glance, everything is simple - lyrical hero enjoys the magnificence of the night nature, the sky and the stars, and this leads him to gloomy thoughts. He asks himself questions and cannot find an answer to them, he feels good alone with the natural world and does not want to return to the society of people at all. The hero is disappointed and does not expect "anything from life."

Idea and main idea

When analyzing “I go out alone on the road” by Lermontov, it is imperative to consider what ideas the poet touched upon. First of all, this is loneliness, which is generally inherent in the author's lyrics, which is why the image of the desert appears in the text. Exactly at this work the motif of sadness sounds particularly strong. The lyrical hero is tired of the eternal struggle, longs for "freedom and peace", he feels his closeness to nature.

The theme of fate also sounds in the poem. So, the lyrical hero is sure that his life path is already predetermined. You can also note the echoes of the theme of uncertainty, which is why the road that the hero has entered is covered in fog - the character does not know what awaits him ahead.

In such a small work, the poet was able to reveal key topics that have troubled him all his life. Is this not an example of true craftsmanship.

Poetics of the text

The next step in the analysis of the poem by M. Yu. Lermontov “I go out alone on the road” is to determine those techniques that help the writer express his ideas:

• Vivid figurative epithets: “flinty path”, “dark oak”, “cold dream of the grave”.
• Personifications and metaphors: “the desert listens to God”, “the star speaks”, “the earth sleeps”.
• Rhetorical questions. Against the backdrop of the stunning splendor of nature, the hero asks questions, the answers to which he is not able to give.
• Anaphora: the same beginning of the lines with the words "I", "to" - this enhances the content.
• The abundance of exclamatory sentences speaks of the emotional anguish of the lyrical character, who speaks with pain about his condition.

The poet refers to the symbol of the road, which in the text is not only the path itself, but also the life path of the lyrical character along which he wanders.

The musicality and smoothness of the text is achieved by using a cross rhyme: ABAB. The size of the verse is a five-foot trochee, feminine and masculine rhymes alternate.

Composition features

The composition of the poem is quite harmonious and is subject to a single logic:

The beginning of the text is a sublime vocabulary, using which the author describes the splendor of the night that opened up to the gaze of the lyrical hero. The intonations in this part are also solemn.

The motive of doom and loneliness increases due to rhetorical questions, which sound in the second part of the second stanza. The state of the lyrical hero - oppressed, depressed - is opposed to the nature surrounding him, in which harmony reigns. That is why for the description of the character chosen for the most part interrogative sentences, and speaking of nature, the poet uses the narrative.

The next part of “I go out alone on the road” by M. Lermontov is an attempt by the lyrical hero to understand his own inner world, he himself gives the answer to his questions and formulates life position. He wants to get rid of internal conflict and enjoy freedom and peace. At the same time, there is no motive for death in the text, the hero craves life, but it is completely different.

Finally, the last stanzas of the work are a formulation of the ideal, from the point of view of the poet, life - in unity with nature and away from worldly fuss.

It is necessary to read the verse “I go out alone on the road ...” by Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich with the understanding that this is one of the last works of the author. The main motives are loneliness, longing and search soul mate which run like a red thread through the work of the poet. However, a certain striving for positive ideals and peace found their place in it. The text of Lermontov's poem "I go out alone on the road ..." was completely ready and saw the light in 1841 a few days before the duel that put an end to life path poet.

At the beginning of the poem, a romantic description of a night landscape full of harmony is given. In contrast to him, the third stanza also describes the feelings of the lyrical hero - anxiety and despair. But at the end of the work, the harmony presented at the beginning is restored, since the lyrical hero wants to reunite with nature. To some extent, it can be called prophetic, since in the third stanza the lyrical hero says that he would like to "forget and fall asleep", which can be compared with death. But this idea is not developed, as in the poem "Dream" - here it means peace and harmony. Did the poet find them? This question will remain unsolved for the reader. But the desires indicated in the work were fulfilled - in Tarkhany, the poet's native village, under the oak leaves in front of the entrance to the chapel, the ashes of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov rest.

When writing a poem, the poet used such techniques as metaphor (“a star speaks to a star”), personification (“the desert listens”), exclamatory sentence(“I’m looking for freedom and peace!”, “I would like to forget myself and fall asleep!”), anaphora (“So that life of strength dozes in my chest”, “So that, breathing, my chest rises quietly”), assonances (“but not with that cold sleep of the grave”) and alliteration (“cherishing the ear”, “A sweet voice sang to me about love”, “I don’t expect anything from life”, “And I don’t feel sorry for the past at all”). The theme of loneliness can be traced through the rhetorical questions in the last lines of the second stanza. But, despite this, one can notice a certain sincerity, musicality and smoothness in it. This goal is achieved through the repetition of hissing sounds and cross-rhyming. These qualities allowed the work to become the basis for two dozen romances. On our site you can learn a poem online, and if necessary, download the work. The submitted file can be used as an additional educational material Literature class in 10th grade.

I go out alone on the road;
Through the mist the flinty path gleams;
The night is quiet. The desert listens to God
And the star speaks to the star.

In heaven solemnly and wonderfully!
The earth sleeps in the radiance of blue ...
Why is it so painful and so difficult for me?
Waiting for what? do I regret anything?

I don't expect anything from life
And I do not feel sorry for the past at all;
I'm looking for freedom and peace!
I would like to forget and fall asleep!

But not with that cold dream of the grave...
I wish I could sleep like this forever
So that the life of strength dozes in the chest,
So that breathing quietly heaves the chest;

So that all night, all day cherishing my hearing,
A sweet voice sang to me about love,
Above me to be forever green
The dark oak leaned over and rustled.

This poem, written in the form of a monologue, reveals the poet's feelings that overwhelm him during a walk. Describing surrounding nature, the author speaks of the beauty and perfection that conquers her. She awakens in him the image of something unshakable, not tolerating fuss. But he himself, being in the midst of all this splendor, feels superfluous here and his thoughts are colored with sadness and sadness.

The poet begins to look for the reason in himself, asks questions and honestly answers them himself. This is a story of a deeply feeling, lonely person who no longer expects anything from life, and wants, like this majestic nature, to become free and watch everything from the side.

Lermontov believed in the predestination of fate, and, as many write, unconsciously sought death. Maybe this is so. But as a result of everything that happened to him, he wrote and endowed his descendants with wonderful samples poetic lyrics, which still touches readers with its penetration.

Written shortly before his death, the poem accurately conveys the then state of mind poet. By the age of thirty-six, he realized the futility of his efforts. It seemed to him that the time of great victories had passed, he was born too late and did not need his time. It so happened that this work became, as it were, his testament, written in verse. Mikhail Yuryevich was buried in his homeland in the village of Tarkhany, and as he wrote in the last lines, a huge, old oak tree stands next to his grave.

Lermontov - I go out alone on the road analysis of the poem

This poem can be attributed to mature creativity M.Yu. Lermontov, it was written a few months before the duel. His contemporaries recalled that he seemed to have a premonition of death, was in a depressed and thoughtful state.

However, it is in this work that despondency or despair does not sound, it is imbued with light sadness and reflections.

The poem begins with the fact that the poet finds himself face to face with the universe: a "siliceous path" stretches in front of him, above him a quiet night sky strewn with stars. The world seemed to freeze, and the lyrical hero was fascinated by the picture that opened before him. The epithets are very expressive: "siliceous path", "radiant blue".

The night landscape described in the poem is imbued with calm and tranquility. The more acutely the reader perceives the state of mind of the poet, who is tormented by questions about his life, past and future. Lermontov is talking with himself or with God himself, invisibly present in the "desert" through which his path lies.

Contrast is one of the poet's favorite techniques, which helps him to show the problem of his creation more vividly.

He is very lonely, and the landscape around him only emphasizes this. The conclusions to which the poet comes by asking himself questions do not please him. Because he believes that he is unlikely to be happy and therefore does not expect "anything from life." Emotionality is achieved due to the fact that the poem is written in the first person, and in addition contains an abundance of rhetorical questions, exclamations.

He only has one wish:

I'm looking for freedom and peace!
I would like to forget and fall asleep!

But this is not the peace and sleep that gives oblivion that death brings with it.

“I would like to fall asleep like this forever,” the theme of memory begins with these lines. For Lermontov, it is important that his descendants remember him, who could appreciate his work. That is why the image of a green oak appears in the poem, as a symbol of the monument to the poet and his work.

For me this is one of the best philosophical works Lermontov, when a very big meaning is hidden in a small volume and serious questions are asked that almost every person asks himself. The rhythmic pattern of the poem is created with the help of a pentameter trochaic with pyrrhic, as well as with alternating feminine and masculine rhymes.

Analysis of Lermontov's verse I go out alone on the road

Lermontov is a person who is very principled. This man always believed that you need to die with dignity and beauty. For him, it was to die on the battle floor. It was the last years of his life that are connected with the fact that he constantly tried to rethink everything that he lived and what he rejoiced at and what he hated. His condition recent years it was like that - he did not want to argue with his fate. To some extent, as critics of our time think, he had a premonition of his death. Maybe that's why he didn't want to think that fate could be changed. He was very pessimistic.

Literally a few months before the duel itself, which was a fatal harbinger of Lermontov's death, the poet himself wrote a poem entitled "I go out alone on the road ...". This work, unlike many others written at that time, was not so pessimistic. It shows how the author of the work is lonely. His soul just cries out for someone who could understand him, make him happier, and not so lonely. But does such a person exist, be it a woman or a man? Lermontov almost never met such people throughout his life. In the poem, the poet describes all the beauties of nature, and not just nature, but night nature. After all, the night is full of hidden sadness and beauty. Not everyone will be able to see in the night - something beautiful and mysterious. But, if he can, he just saw happiness with his own eyes.

In the work of Lermontov, not only beautiful nature is described, but also its own specific meaning is hidden. The writer meant that even bright stars who seem so proud and impregnable, and then they communicate and make friends with each other in the sky. And a writer - a person who is endowed with all the abilities and talents - cannot find something that will become his meaning of life. People are given more than other creatures, but sometimes it is people who endure more pain and loneliness, as if in compensation for their abilities and capabilities. Lermontov well emphasizes that his ability to enjoy life just like that - for no reason, just almost does not exist anymore. After all, many circumstances contributed to this. Individuality - that's what especially blows in the works of Lermontov.

The whole poem of the poet, as it were, is built on contrast - the contrast of nature and himself. After all, how different they are - the sky, nature and night - and a person who, being among millions of people, is still alone. Lermontov is actually a person who is not so pessimistic, but it is precisely such a state in last days his life testifies to the fact that he nevertheless foresaw his imminent end of life.