Parsnips loving others is hard work. “Loving others is a heavy cross...” B. Pasternak
And you are beautiful without gyrations,
And your beauty is a secret
It is tantamount to the solution to life.
In spring the rustling of dreams is heard
And the rustle of news and truths.
You come from a family of such fundamentals.
It's easy to wake up and see clearly,
Shake out the verbal trash from the heart
And live without getting clogged in the future,
All this is not a big trick.
Analysis: Already in the first lines of the poem the main idea of the work is stated. The lyrical hero singles out his beloved, believing that the beauty of this woman is in simplicity. But at the same time, the heroine is idealized. It is impossible to understand and unravel it, therefore “the charms of its secret are tantamount to the solution to life.” The poem is a confession of a lyrical hero who can no longer imagine his life without his beloved.
In this work, the author touches only on the theme of love. He does not address other problems. But despite this, it should be noted the deep philosophical meaning of this poem. Love, according to the lyrical hero, lies in simplicity and lightness:
In spring the rustling of dreams is heard
And the rustle of news and truths.
You come from a family of such fundamentals.
Your meaning, like air, is selfless.
The beloved of the lyrical hero is part of the force that is called truth. The hero is well aware that you can very easily get away from this all-consuming feeling. You can wake up one day, as if after a long sleep, and no longer plunge into such a state:
It's easy to wake up and see clearly,
Shake the verbal rubbish out of your heart.
And live without getting clogged in the future,
All this is a little trick.
But, as we see, the hero does not accept such a deviation from his feelings.
The poem is written in iambic bimeter, which gives the work greater melody and helps subordinate it to the main idea. The love in this poem is as light as its meter.
Pasternak turns to metaphors that he often uses in his text: “the delights of a secret”, “the rustle of dreams”, “the rustle of news and truths”, “shake out verbal dirt from the heart”. In my opinion, these paths give this amazing feeling great mystery, inconsistency and, at the same time, some kind of elusive charm.
In the poem, the poet also resorts to inversion, which, to some extent, complicates the movement of thought of the lyrical hero. However, this technique does not deprive the work of lightness and some airiness.
The poet conveys the feelings and experiences of the lyrical hero with the help of sound recording. Thus, the poem is dominated by hissing and whistling sounds - “s” and “sh”. These sounds, in my opinion, give this amazing feeling greater intimacy. I think these sounds create the feeling of a whisper.
Pasternak considers the state of love to be the most valuable thing a person has, because only in love do people show their best qualities. “Loving others is a heavy cross...” is a hymn to love, its purity and beauty, its irreplaceability and inexplicability. It must be said that before last days it was this feeling that made B.L. Pasternak strong and invulnerable, despite all the difficulties of life.
For the poet, the concepts of “woman” and “nature” are fused together. The love for a woman is so strong that lyrical hero begins to feel a subconscious dependence on this emotion. He does not imagine himself outside of love.
Despite the fact that the poem is very small in volume, it is nevertheless very capacious in ideological and philosophical terms. This work attracts with its lightness and simplicity of the truths hidden in it. I think this is where Pasternak’s talent manifests itself, who could sometimes difficult situations to find truth that is perceived very easily and naturally.
The poem “Loving others is a heavy cross...”, in my opinion, has become key work about love in the works of Pasternak. To a large extent, it became a symbol of the poet’s work.
Size – 4 iambics
PINES
In the grass, among the wild balsams,
Daisies and forest baths,
We lie with our arms thrown back
And raised my head to the sky.
Grass on a pine clearing
Impenetrable and dense.
We'll look at each other again
We change poses and places.
And so, immortal for a while,
We are numbered among the pine trees
And from diseases, epidemics
And death is freed.
With deliberate monotony,
Like an ointment, thick blue
Lies bunnies on the ground
And gets our sleeves dirty.
We share the rest of the red forest,
Under the creeping goosebumps
Pine sleeping pills mixture
Lemon with incense breathing.
And so frantic on blue
Running fire trunks,
And we won’t take our hands off for so long
From under broken heads,
And so much breadth in the gaze,
And everyone is so submissive from the outside,
That somewhere behind the trunks there is a sea
I see it all the time.
There are waves above these branches
And, falling off the boulder,
Shrimp rain down
From the troubled bottom.
And in the evenings behind a tug
Dawn stretches across traffic jams
And leaks fish oil
And the hazy haze of amber.
It gets dark, and gradually
The moon buries all traces
Under the white magic of foam
And the black magic of water.
And the waves are getting louder and higher,
And the audience is on the float
Crowds around a post with a poster,
Indistinguishable from a distance.
Analysis:
The poem "Pines" can be attributed to genre affiliation to category landscape-reflection. Reflection on eternal concepts - time, life and death, the essence of all things, the mysterious process of creativity. Considering that during this period the destructive wave of the Second World War was rolling across Europe at full speed, these poems sound especially heartfelt, like an alarm bell. What should a poet do in such terrible times? What role can he play? Pasternak, being a philosopher, painfully sought the answer to these questions. All his work, especially late period, suggests that the poet is trying to remind humanity of beautiful and eternal things, to return them to the path of wisdom. Creative people always see beauty, even in ugly things and events. Isn't this the main calling of an artist?
The simplicity with which “Pines” was written, the prosaism, the description of the most ordinary landscape - all this borders on the sacred, evokes an inexplicably painful feeling of love for the homeland, real, hardwired into the subconscious at the genetic level. Iambic tetrameter with pyrrhic The poet chose the size subconsciously; I don’t want to believe in other reasons for this choice. There is something pagan, eternal in the way these verses sound. It is impossible to remove or rearrange the words; they are woven into a single wreath. Everything is natural and irreplaceable, just like Mother Nature. The heroes ran away from the bustle, civilization, murder and grief. They merged with nature. Are they asking Mother for protection? We are all children of a huge planet, beautiful and wise.
Size – 4 iambics
FROST
The silent time of leaf fall,
The last geese are shoals.
No need to get upset:
Fear has big eyes.
Let the wind cosset the rowan tree,
Scares her before bed.
The order of creation is deceptive,
Like a fairy tale with a good ending.
Tomorrow you will wake up from hibernation
And, going out onto the winter surface,
Again around the corner of the water pump
You will stand rooted to the spot.
Again these white flies,
And the roofs, and the Christmas grandfather,
And the pipes and the lop-eared forest
Dressed as a jester in masquerade.
Everything became icy in a big way
In a hat right up to the eyebrows
And a sneaking wolverine
The path dives into a ravine.
Here is a frost-vaulted tower,
Lattice panel on the doors.
Behind a thick snow curtain
Some kind of gatehouse wall,
The road and the edge of the copse,
And a new thicket is visible.
Solemn calm
Framed in carving
Looks like a quatrain
About the sleeping princess in the coffin.
And white dead kingdom,
To the one who mentally made me tremble,
I quietly whisper: "Thank you,
You give more than they ask."
Analysis: Aesthetics and poetics of B.L.’s lyrics Pasternak, the most extraordinary and complex poet of the twentieth century, is based on the interpenetration of individual phenomena, on the merging of everything sensual.
In a poem "Frost" this is expressed so strongly that it is difficult to understand who the author is telling us about. Does he depict a landscape or paint a person?
Dead leaf fall time
The last geese are shoals.
No need to get upset:
Fear has big eyes.
In fact, lyrical hero inseparable from nature, there are no barriers between them.
The tangled labyrinth of Pasternak’s metaphorical nature seems to grow in “Rime” from line to line. landscape space becomes larger, from one emotion - “no need to be upset”, caused by natural decay, increases to the whole world "and the white dead kingdom".
The poem “Rime” is written not in the first person, but also not in the third, and this is not a paradox, but a filigree mastery.
Endless Life nature freezes in momentary stiffness. Frost, a fragile crust of ice, seems to force existence to slow down, which gives the soul of the lyrical hero the opportunity to open up to nature, to dissolve in it.
Main motive works - the motive of the road.
And the more dynamically it moves lyrical plot, the further the hero rushes to understand the complex and multifaceted world, the slower time moves, bewitched by frost. The road here is not a linear path forward, but a wheel of life, "order of creation", in which winter replaces autumn.
The fabulousness and enchantment of natural existence is created through a difficult associative series:
Looks like a quatrain
About the sleeping princess in the coffin
Pushkin motives are not accidental here, because the poem “Rime” is a striving for truth and beauty, which forms the basis of spiritual existence, and Pushkin’s lyrics are harmonious with the elements of the word, fascinating in their simplicity. In general, the poem is full of references to Russian classical lyrics. You can also see the forest, which looks like a fairytale tower. But behind Pasternak’s fairy tale lies life, such as it is.
Images of death, filling the poetic space of the last lines, do not create a feeling of doom, although notes indicating mental pain creep into the narrative. But nevertheless, here these motives indicate that consciousness is rising to a different, higher level. And like dissonance "dead kingdom" The life-affirming lines of the finale sound:
I quietly whisper: “Thank you”
Their solemnity unites Pasternak's broken syntax into a harmonious artistic structure.
The title of the poem “Rime” is significant. This natural phenomenon B.L. Pasternak attached importance to the transition from one state to another, the path that the lyrical hero makes, he overcomes through a breakdown, and frost is also a fractured stage between autumn and winter, testifying to the whirlwind of life, unstoppable in its forward striving.
Size – 3 amphibrachs
JULY
A ghost is wandering around the house.
Steps overhead all day.
Shadows flicker in the attic.
A brownie is wandering around the house.
Hanging out inappropriately everywhere,
Gets in the way of everything,
In a robe he creeps towards the bed,
He tears the tablecloth off the table.
Don’t wipe your feet at the threshold,
Runs in a whirlwind draft
And with a curtain, like with a dancer,
Soars to the ceiling.
Who is this spoiled ignorant
And this ghost and double?
Yes, this is our visiting tenant,
Our summer summer vacationer.
For all his short rest
We whole house we rent it to him.
July with thunderstorm, July air
He rented rooms from us.
July, dragging around in clothes
Dandelion fluff, burdock,
July, coming home through the windows,
All loudly speaking out loud.
Uncombed steppe disheveled,
Smelling of linden and grass,
Tops and the smell of dill,
The July air is meadow.
Analysis: The work “July”, written by the poet in the summer of 1956 while relaxing at his dacha in Peredelkino, is written in a similar vein. From the first lines, the poet intrigues the reader, describing phenomena from the other world and claiming that “a brownie wanders around the house,” who sticks his nose into everything, “rips the tablecloth off the table,” “runs in in a whirlwind of a draft,” and dances with the window curtain. However, in the second part of the poem, the poet reveals his cards and notes that the culprit of all mischief is July - the hottest and most unpredictable summer month.
Despite the fact that there is no more intrigue, Pasternak continues to identify July with a living being, which are characteristic to an ordinary person. So, in the author’s perception, July is a “summer vacationer” to whom a whole house is rented, where he, and not the poet, is now the full owner. Therefore, the guest behaves accordingly, plays pranks and scares the inhabitants of the mansion with incomprehensible sounds in the attic, slamming doors and windows, hangs “dandelion fluff, burdock” on his clothes and at the same time does not consider it necessary to observe at least some decency. The poet compares July with an unkempt, disheveled steppe who can indulge in the most stupid and unpredictable antics. But at the same time it fills the house with the smell of linden, dill and meadow herbs. The poet notes that the uninvited guest who burst into his house like a whirlwind very soon becomes sweet and welcome. The only pity is that his visit is short-lived, and July will soon be replaced by the August heat - the first sign of the approaching autumn.
Pasternak is not at all embarrassed by such proximity. Moreover, the poet speaks of his guest with slight irony and tenderness, behind which lies a genuine love for this time of year, filled with joy and serene happiness. Nature seems to encourage one to put aside all important matters for a while and join the naughty June in his harmless amusements.
Size – 4 iambics
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
consisted of literary movement imagism.
the reason for coming to imagism. the desire to find a solution to the most important conflict of life: the revolution that Yesenin dreamed of and to which he devoted his art was increasingly disturbed by the frenzied glow of corpses. imagism stood outside politics. in 1924, the poem “Song of the Great March” was published, which mentioned party leaders Trotsky and Zinoviev.
main themes in creativity:
1. theme of homeland and nature;
2. love lyrics;
3. poet and poetry
the theme of the homeland is one of the broad themes in the poet’s work: from patriarchal (peasant) Rus' to Soviet Russia.
Goy, Rus', my dear,
Huts - in the robes of the image...
No end in sight -
Only blue sucks his eyes.
Like a visiting pilgrim,
I'm looking at your fields.
And at the low outskirts
The poplars are dying loudly.
Smells like apple and honey
Through the churches, your meek Savior.
And it buzzes behind the bush
There is a merry dance in the meadows.
I'll run along the crumpled stitch
Free green forests,
Towards me, like earrings,
A girl's laughter will ring out.
If the holy army shouts:
"Throw away Rus', live in paradise!"
I will say: "There is no need for heaven,
Give me my homeland."
Analysis:
early poem. 1914
Yesenin's image of the homeland is always associated with images of nature. This technique is called psychological parallelism
In this poem, the poet glorifies the patriarchal principles in the life of the village, “huts in the robes of the image,” “Through the churches, your meek Savior.”
in the poem one can hear sadness over the passing patriarchy. and this once again proves the boundless love for one’s land.
the poet renounces paradise, accepting any homeland.
Yesenin admires the discreet beauty of nature “the poplars are withering away”
in his early poetry, the poet is pleased with everything that he notices in nature.
the poem is like folk song. epic motifs.
visual and expressive means:
metaphor, “blue sucks the eyes,” which expands the space of the verse.
comparison,
antithesis
Surprisingly, the first two lines of this lyrical poem by Boris Pasternak have long become aphorisms. Moreover, they are quoted in different situations and with different emotional overtones: - with bitterness and a sense of doom, and sometimes sarcasm; “And you are beautiful without gyrations”- with humor or irony. Poetic lines that contain frank antithesis, took on a life of their own and people stopped associating directly with Pasternak’s poem. Well, this situation can be corrected by understanding what the author actually wrote about and what lay at the heart of his work.
The writer's biography shows that the poem “Loving others is a heavy cross”, dated 1931, had its addressees and more than specific life plot. The first line of the poem expresses the whole severity of life with the poet’s first wife, artist Evgenia Lurie, once passionately loved by him, who all day long I was engaged in creativity and did not concern myself with everyday life at all. As a result, the poet was forced to master the skills of a housewife and completely lost interest in the prospect of indulging the whims of a “bohemian” wife.
The second line of the poem should be taken almost literally. It was dedicated to the poet’s new muse, which was radically different from its predecessor. At the time of her meeting with Brice Pasternak, she was married to his friend, pianist Heinrich Neuhaus, but, involuntarily breaking with conventions, she completely charmed the poet with her spontaneity and naivety. Apparently, in contrast to Evgenia, his wife, Zinaida Neuhaus significantly benefited with her down-to-earthness and lack of "convolutions". Under this metaphor the poet implies both the simplicity of the character of his new muse and the lack of intelligence ( a special case when it is perceived as a virtue).
Interest in Zinaida, with whom the poet married after a divorce, subsequently justified itself, since Pasternak lived together with his second wife for many more years in spiritual and domestic comfort. “Strange, mysterious,” someone will say. And he will be right. Even for the poet himself, the “charm” of his wife was “It’s tantamount to the solution to life”. That is, incomprehensible, and therefore, probably, interesting.
Dear to the poet's heart "rustle of dreams", And "rustle of news and truths", of which, thanks to his wife, his serene family life consists. Obviously, metaphor "rustle of news and truths" means talking about simple and understandable, and therefore real, things that the poet accepts with all his heart. A "rustle of dreams" may mean both frequent discussion of dreams and light and happy Days, like a dream. This assumption is confirmed by the phrase: “Your meaning, like air, is selfless”, - in which there is a characteristic comparison - "like air". This is how the lyrical hero of the poem sees his beloved. But Pasternak also notices the sources of such an easy disposition and attitude to life: “You are from a family of such fundamentals,” and this evokes his undeniable approval. Surprisingly, an intelligent and intelligent person, in whose head there is a constant creative process, Nice…
It's easy to wake up and see clearly,
Shake out the verbal trash from the heart
And live without getting clogged in the future,
Without clogging? ... What does the poet mean? Perhaps, not just verbal rubbish, but the rubbish of a long and painful showdown. He contrasts them with the families of other “foundations” and summarizes: “All this is not a big trick”.
A simple but melodious poem, consisting of 3 stanzas, is easily remembered by the reader thanks to the use of iambic tetrameter(two-syllable foot with stress on the second syllable) and cross rhyme.
Pasternak, having discovered in his new lover noticeable confusion and misunderstanding of his poems, he promised that especially for Zinaida he would write poems that were simpler and in clear language. The work “Loving Others is a Heavy Cross” may well be confirmation that the poet sought to be understood by his wife and, most likely, achieved his goal.
Morozova Irina
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- “July”, analysis of Pasternak’s poem
Loving others is a heavy cross,
And you are beautiful without gyrations,
And your beauty is a secret
It is tantamount to the solution to life.
In spring the rustling of dreams is heard
And the rustle of news and truths.
You come from a family of such fundamentals.
Your meaning, like air, is selfless.
It's easy to wake up and see clearly,
Shake verbal trash out of the heart
And live without getting clogged in the future,
All this is not a big trick.
Analysis of the poem “Loving others is a heavy cross” by Pasternak
B. Pasternak's work always reflected his personal feelings and experiences. He dedicated many of his works to his love relationships. One of them is the poem “Loving others is a heavy cross.” Pasternak was married to E. Lurie, but his marriage could not be called happy. The poet's wife was an artist and wanted to devote her whole life to art. She practically did not do housework, putting it on her husband’s shoulders. In 1929, Pasternak met his friend’s wife, Z. Neuhaus. He saw in this woman an ideal example of the mistress of a family hearth. Literally immediately after meeting, the poet dedicated a poem to her.
The author compares his love for his wife to bearing a “heavy cross.” Creative activities once brought them closer together, but it turned out that for family life This is not enough. E. Lurie for the sake of writing new painting neglected her direct feminine responsibilities. Pasternak had to cook and do the laundry himself. He realized that two gifted people were unlikely to be able to create an ordinary cozy family.
The author contrasts his new acquaintance with his wife, and immediately points out her main advantage - “you are beautiful without gyrations.” He hints that E. Lurie is well educated, you can talk with her on equal terms about the most difficult philosophical topics. But “scholarly” conversations will not bring happiness in family life. Z. Neuhaus almost immediately admitted to the poet that she did not understand anything in his poems. Pasternak was touched by this simplicity and gullibility. He realized that a woman should not be valued for her great intelligence and education. Love is great secret, which cannot be based on the laws of reason.
The poet sees the secret of Z. Neuhaus's charm in the simplicity and selflessness of her life. Only such a woman is able to create a calm family atmosphere and bring happiness to her husband. Pasternak is ready to descend from stratospheric creative heights for her sake. He actually promised Z. Neuhaus that he would part with vague and unclear symbols and begin to write poems in simple and accessible language (“verbal rubbish ... shake out”). After all, this is “not a big trick,” but the reward for it will be long-awaited family happiness.
Pasternak was able to take his friend’s wife away. In the future, the couple still experienced family troubles, but Z. Neuhaus greatly influenced the poet and his work.
Composition
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is a wonderful poet and prose writer of the 20th century. He can be fully called an esthete writer, with a subtle and deep sense of beauty. He was always a connoisseur of natural and pristine beauty, which, of course, was reflected in his work. And How shining example All of the above, I would like to draw special attention to such a poem by Pasternak as “Loving others is a heavy cross...”.
The first thing that catches your eye in this work is the simplicity and lightness of the style. It is very short, consisting of only three quatrains. But this brevity lies one of its greatest virtues. Thus, each word seems to be more valued and has greater weight and meaning. Analyzing the author’s speech, one cannot help but pay attention to the amazing naturalness of the language, simplicity and even some colloquialism. The literary and linguistic bar has been lowered to almost everyday speech, take, for example, such a phrase as “All this is not a big trick.” Although it also occurs book style, for example, the opening phrase of the work “Loving others is a heavy cross.” And here I would like to note that this phraseological turn contains a clear allusion to biblical motifs, which are so frequent in the works of Boris Pasternak.
How to determine the theme of this poem? It would seem that the work is an appeal of the lyrical hero to his beloved woman, admiration for her beauty:
Loving others is a heavy cross,
And you are beautiful without gyrations,
And your beauty is a secret
It is tantamount to the solution to life.
The question arises - what is the secret of the charm of his beloved? And then the writer gives us the answer: her beauty lies in her naturalness, simplicity (“And you are beautiful without convolutions”). The next quatrain takes us to a deeper semantic level of the work, to thinking about the essence, the nature of beauty in general.
What is beauty according to Pasternak? This is natural beauty, without artificiality, without pomposity and frills. In this poem we again encounter the so-called “theory of simplicity” of the poet, simplicity, which is the basis of life, of all things. And female beauty should not contradict, but organically fit into the overall huge and global picture of universal beauty, which equally all God's creatures have. Beauty is the only and main truth in the poet’s world:
In spring the rustling of dreams is heard
And the rustle of news and truths.
You come from a family of such fundamentals.
Your meaning, like air, is selfless.
The last line of this quatrain is especially symbolic. How deeply metaphorical is the expression “selfless air”! Thinking about it, you understand that nature is actually selfless, it gives us the opportunity to breathe and, accordingly, live, without asking for anything in return. Likewise, beauty, according to Pasternak, should be selfless, like air, it is something that belongs to everyone equally.
In this poem, the poet distinguishes between two worlds - the natural world, natural beauty and the world of people, everyday squabbles, “verbal litter” and petty thoughts. The image of spring as a time of rebirth and rebirth is symbolic: “In spring one hears the rustle of dreams and the rustle of news and truths.” And the lyrical heroine herself is like spring, she is “from a family of such foundations,” she is like a fresh breath of wind, she is a guide from one world to another, the world of the beautiful and natural. In this world there is a place only for feelings and truths. It would seem easy to get into it:
It's easy to wake up and see clearly,
Shake out the verbal trash from the heart
And live without getting clogged in the future,
All this is not a big trick.
The key to this new and have a wonderful life is beauty, but is everyone able to see in the simple and artless? true beauty?.. Is it possible for each of us to “wake up and see”...
It should be noted the features of the author's presentation of the lyrical hero and lyrical heroine of this poem. They seem to remain behind the scenes, they are unclear and vague. And each of us can involuntarily imagine ourselves and our loved ones in the place of the heroes. Thus, the poem becomes personally significant.
Turning to the composition of the poem, it can be noted that the author chose a size that is quite easy to understand (iamb tetrameter), which once again confirms his intention to emphasize the simplicity and uncomplicatedness of the form, which retreats before the content. This is also proven by the fact that the work is not overloaded with artificially created tropes. Its beauty and charm lies in its naturalness. Although one cannot help but notice the presence of alliteration. “The rustle of dreams”, “the rustle of news and truths” - in these words, the frequent repetition of hissing and whistling sounds creates an atmosphere of peace, silence, tranquility and mystery. After all, you can talk about the main thing only the way Pasternak does it - quietly, in a whisper... After all, this is a secret.
Finishing my reflection, I involuntarily want to paraphrase the author himself: reading other poems is a heavy cross, but this really is “beautiful without convolutions.”
There were three women in Pasternak’s life who were able to win his heart. A poem is dedicated to two of the lovers, the analysis of which is presented in the article. It is studied in 11th grade. We invite you to familiarize yourself with brief analysis“Loving others is a heavy cross” according to the plan.
Brief Analysis
History of creation- the work was written in the fall of 1931, two years after meeting Zinaida Neuhaus.
Theme of the poem- Love; qualities of a woman that deserve love.
Composition– The poem was created in the form of a monologue-address to a loved one. It is laconic, but, nevertheless, is divided into semantic parts: the hero’s attempt to unravel the mystery of his beloved’s special beauty, brief reflections on the ability to live without “dirty” in the heart.
Genre- elegy.
Poetic size – written in iambic tetrameter, cross rhyme ABAB.
Metaphors – “to love others is a heavy cross”, “your charm is tantamount to the secret of life”, “the rustle of dreams”, “the rustle of news and truths”, “shake out verbal rubbish from the heart.”
Epithets – “you are beautiful”, “the meaning... is selfless”, “not a big trick”.
Comparison – “Your meaning is like air.”
History of creation
The history of the creation of the poem should be found in the biography of Pasternak. The poet's first wife was Evgenia Lurie. The woman was an artist, so she did not like and did not want to do everyday life. Boris Leonidovich had to do household chores himself. For the sake of his beloved wife, he learned to cook and do laundry, but it didn’t last long.
In 1929, the poet met Zinaida Neuhaus, the wife of his pianist friend Heinrich Neuhaus. Pasternak immediately liked the modest, pretty woman. Once he read his poems to her, instead of praise or criticism, Zinaida said that she did not understand anything from what she read. The author liked this sincerity and simplicity. He promised to write more clearly. Love relationship between Pasternak and Neuhaus developed, she left her husband and became new muse poet. In 1931, the analyzed poem appeared.
Subject
The poem develops the theme of love, popular in literature. The poet’s life circumstances leave an imprint on the lines of the work, so you need to read the poems in the context of Pasternak’s biography. The lyrical hero of the work completely merges with the author.
In the first line, Pasternak hints at a relationship with Evgenia Lurie, whom it really was not easy to love, since the woman was hot-tempered and capricious. Next, the lyrical hero turns to his beloved. He considers its advantage to be “lack of convolutions,” that is, not too high intelligence. The poet believes that this is what gives a woman her charm. Such a representative of the fairer sex is more feminine and can be an excellent housewife.
The author believes that the beloved lives not so much with her mind as with her feelings, which is why she can hear dreams, news and truths. She is as natural as air. In the last stanza, the poet admits that next to such a woman it is easy for him to change. He realized that it is very easy to “shake the verbal rubbish out of the heart” and prevent new contamination.
Composition
The poem is created in the form of a monologue-address to a loved one. It can be divided into semantic parts: the hero’s attempt to unravel the mystery of his beloved’s special beauty, brief reflections on the ability to live without “dirty” in the heart. Formally, the work consists of three quatrains.
Genre
The genre of the poem is elegy, as the author reflects on eternal problem, in the first line one feels sadness, apparently because he felt this “heavy cross” on himself. There are also signs of a message in the work. The poetic meter is iambic tetrameter. The author uses ABAB cross rhyme.
Means of expression
To reveal the theme and create an image ideal woman Pasternak uses artistic media. Main role plays metaphor: “to love others is a heavy cross”, “your charm is tantamount to the secret of life”, “the rustle of dreams”, “the rustle of news and truths”, “to shake out verbal rubbish from the heart”.
Much less in the text epithets: “you are beautiful”, “the meaning... is selfless”, “not a big trick”. Comparison just one thing: “your meaning is like air.”
