The poem depicts a lonely boat in the midst of a stormy sea, wind waves. It seems that the storm will now swallow this boat, but against the background of the image of bad weather, reflections arise about the alienation of the “happiness” of the lyrical hero: “alien to the pure charms of happiness.” The boat is in search of an ideal: "The chamber is looking for bright dreams." To do this, he left them his native, familiar side: "I left the shore." The approach of the storm becomes the object of Balmont's image: he hears "the majestic cry of the waves." "Boat of languor" is imbued with decadent moods - sadness, depression, pessimism. This poem is one of the poet's earliest, it belongs to the first, "quiet", as the researchers call it, the period of Balmont's work. Since 1900, a “loud” period with strong-willed, major intonations will come. And this poem speaks of the approach of a storm (“The storm is near”), the battle of the boat with the storm (“fights with the storm”) and the broken will of the fighter (“Surrendering to the will of the waves”). The finale of the poem is sad: the storm has won, darkness has engulfed the ship: “The boat of languor is engulfed in darkness. The storm howls in the abyss of waters. It is no coincidence that, looking at this unequal struggle, "the month of bitter sadness is full." Balmont emphasizes the hopelessness of the struggle, and this mood is also formed by the selection of the words “sighs”, “languor”, “bitter sadness”, “died”, “covered”.
Yes, and the lyrical hero of Balmont himself is a “boat of languor”. Disappointed (“alien to charms”), the “black” boat of languor, apparently, is initially doomed to defeat. The sound writing on the “h” in the portrait of the “boat of languor” should, apparently, according to Balmont, demonstrate the non-randomness of word usage, the “reflection” of these words in each other: “black boat alien to charms.” Balmont does not have a picture of a calm sea. At the end of the poem, "darkness grows" and "a storm howls in the abyss of waters." Circumstances were not favorable to the "boat". We see the uniformity of the color characteristics of the atmosphere around the "black boat" ("matte moon", "night turns black"), and only the ideal is described as a "hall of bright dreams".
In Balmont's poem, there are generally more sound than picturesque characteristics: a sigh of wind, an exclamation of will, a howl of a storm is conveyed by alliteration on "v". Balmont was one of the most remarkable "melodists" in Russian poetry: exquisite instrumentation, the music of his verse was recognized by everyone, and he wrote about himself: , chanting, angry, gentle ringing.
Evening. Seaside. Sighs of the wind.
The majestic cry of the waves.
Storm is near. Beats on the shore
Uncharmed black boat.
Alien to the pure charms of happiness,
Boat of languor, boat of worries,
Threw the shore, beats with the storm,
The hall is looking for bright dreams.
Rushing by the sea, rushing by the sea,
Surrendering to the will of the waves.
Matte moon looks
The month of bitter sadness is full.
Evening died. The night turns black.
The sea murmurs. Darkness is growing.
The boat of languor is engulfed in darkness.
The storm howls in the abyss of waters.
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Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont
Prince A.I. Urusov
Evening. Seaside. Sighs of the wind.
The majestic cry of the waves.
Storm is near. Beats on the shore
Uncharmed black boat.
Alien to the pure charms of happiness,
Boat of languor, boat of worries,
Threw the shore, beats with the storm,
The hall is looking for bright dreams.
Rushing by the sea, rushing by the sea,
Surrendering to the will of the waves.
Matte moon looks
The month of bitter sadness is full.
Evening died. The night turns black.
The sea murmurs. Darkness is growing.
The boat of languor is engulfed in darkness.
The storm howls in the abyss of waters.
Alexander Ivanovich Urusov
The work “The Longing Boat” was written by K. D. Balmont in 1894 and is dedicated to Prince A. I. Urusov.This is a kind of gratitude of the poet to a person who did a lot for his creative development. For example, it was Alexander Ivanovich Urusov who pushed Konstantin Dmitrievich to get acquainted with French authors - G. Flaubert, C. Baudelaire and others, which would subsequently noticeably affect the style of Balmont himself.
Some critics believe that the poem "The Longing Boat" was also created by Balmont under the influence of the work of other authors. For example, the work of Athanasius Fet "Storm at Sea" contains the same phonetic device as "Cheln ..." - alliteration. Konstantin Dmitrievich himself, in his notes to translations by P. B. Shelley, notes the amazing mastery of the English poet’s sound repetitions, comparing it with the talent of A. S. Pushkin and the poetic traditions of ancient India.
Analyzing the work “The Longing Boat” today, we can say that it is quite worthy to take an honorable place among the creations mentioned by Balmont. In it, the poet created a unique sound pattern. Each line has its own sound range. The first stanza begins with "v":
Evening. Seaside. Sighs of the wind.
The majestic cry of the waves.
The next lines are opened with the sounds "b", "h", "m", "s", again "h", "c" and so on. As if reciting mantras in a circle, the author speaks of the unrestrained elements of water and air, about which the story is being told.
The work makes extensive use of onomatopoeia. Encountering in the text the repeated syllables “BRO-sil”, “BU-rya”, “BE-reg”, the reader involuntarily imagines exactly the picture that the author paints in the poem. Before us clearly appears a restless sea, menacingly rising waves, among which a barely noticeable lonely shuttle rushes about. What awaits him, the reader will easily understand from the gloomy images: “the abyss of waters”, “full of bitter sadness”, “alien to the charms of happiness”.
A special rhythm, imitating the impact of waves on the side of the ship, is created with the help of a four-foot trochaic, interrupted on even lines, starting from the second stanza. The alternation of male and female endings on this segment also adds sharpness to the verses.
If we ignore the skillful play of sounds, it turns out that the poem contains a deep meaning. The main image of the work - a boat given over to the power of the elements, symbolizes human loneliness. Like a tiny boat, a person disappears and dies, being abandoned to the mercy of fate. Many poets before Balmont turned to this theme and image, for example, M. Yu. Lermontov in the poem "Shuttle". Thus, Konstantin Dmitrievich appears before the reader not only as a clever master of the word, but also as a true heir to the tradition of Russian philosophical lyrics.
LITERATURE LESSON IN 11 CLASS
BY THEME: "INDIVIDUAL STYLES IN POETRY
"SILVER AGE"
(a lesson in the reader's interpretation of lyrical poems:
the material of the lesson is built on the basis of poems by I. Annensky, A. Akhmatova, K. Balmont, M. Lermontov, N. Gumilyov)
By the lesson, each student determines which poet's work he will represent and which poem he will choose. At the lesson, he needs to justify his choice, show how he liked the poem, to what extent it is typical for the work of this poet. And for this you need to expressively read, express a brief judgment about it, it is desirable to offer a graphic symbol-illustration that conveys the reader's impression, and possibly a musical illustration (associations with which piece of music this poem caused, if any, a romance on the words of the poem).
In the lesson, you can offer a student different types works depending on the individuality of the student, who is given the right to choose not only the poet, but also the way of the reader's interpretation: performance with the protection of a graphic symbol, musical illustration; interpretation-analysis, reader
commentary, essay.
I will show the possibilities of some types of such individual work in the classroom.
The purpose of the lesson . Presenting an analysis-interpretation of a lyrical poem, students will try to reveal the reader in themselves, each interpretation will become the subject of a general reflection on what they read, most likely, it will be a clarification of what they especially liked, struck, remained unclear, will become an attempt to figure it out.
During the classes. The poet is nature, directly acting on the most
In a rare way: in verse.
A. Platonov
teacher's word
The task of our lesson was perfectly expressed by M.I. Tsvetaeva, once uttering the following: "And what is reading - if not solving, interpreting, extracting the secret that remains behind the lines, the limit of words?"
Probably, each of you will agree that no one can say more about the Poet than he does in his poems. Neither relatives, nor friends, nor contemporaries, nor researchers. Because the Poet is a whole independent world, happiness and tragedy, the harmony and discord of which will reach descendants even after decades, centuries, as the light of long-extinguished stars reaches us from the depths of the bottomless Universe. The word Poet already carries a confession. After all, it is said in order to convey the most intimate, suffered, thoughtful to a person close to him, capable of understanding and appreciating him.
Today at the lesson, speaking about the poetic individualities of the "Silver Age", many of you, presenting your analysis-interpretation to the audience, will reveal your reader's "I", and therefore your individuality as a Reader who liked a lot in the lyrics of his Poet, something struck, or perhaps remained incomprehensible, and this will be another attempt to understand the mystery of a great master creator.
Intellectual warm-up
1. This word has been known in Russian since the beginning of the 18th century. In French the word goes back from Latin to Greek "master", "producer", "author" (which is translated as "I do", "I raise", "I do", "I compose"). Name this word. (Poet).
2. Russian poetry developed especially dynamically in the late 1990s. Having arisen by analogy with the concept of the "golden age", which traditionally denoted the Pushkin period of Russian literature, it later received the name "poetic renaissance" or ... (continue the phrase ...... "silver age").
3. Name the major modernist movements that emerged in Russia at the end of the 19th century (symbolism, acmeism, futurism).
4. The lyrical "I" of this poet is distinguished by the romanticism of creative searches. The thirst for universality, the desire for artistic universalism is reflected in the amount of his writing. The list of original books and translations of the poet occupies a whole page in M. Tsvetaeva's memoirs: 35 books of poetry, 20 books of prose, more than 10 thousand printed pages of translations. The linguistic abilities of the poet, who knew fifty languages (he knew 16 languages), are striking. Name it (K.Balmont).
5. The poetry of the "Silver Age" is unthinkable without the name of this poet. The creator of a literary movement, he won the interest of readers not only with his talent, originality of poetry, but also with an unusual fate, a passionate love for travel, which became an integral part of his life and work. Name it (N. Gumilyov).
6. She wrote briefly about herself: she was born on June 11, 1889 near Odessa. one year old baby was transported to the north - to Tsarskoye Selo. She lived there until the age of 16. I learned to read according to the alphabet of Tolstoy. She wrote her first poem when she was 11 years old. She studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Women's Gymnasium. At first badly, then much better, but always reluctantly ... Name who she is. (Anna Akhmatova).
7. What is the main means for conveying secret meanings? Symbol.
8. How is a symbol different from an allegory? The symbol is always polysemantic, and the allegory implies an unambiguous understanding.
9. What did the symbolists oppose to the traditional idea of knowing the world? The answer is the idea of constructing the world in the process of cognition, considering that creativity is higher than cognition, because creativity is the contemplation of secret meanings, accessible only to the artist-creator. The finest mastery of the art of allusion is required from the artist: the value of speech is in "understatement", "concealment of meaning".
10. How, in your opinion, did the symbolists enrich Russian poetic culture? They betrayed to the poetic word a previously unknown mobility and ambiguity.
Conclusion
Poetry heals, it is called upon to expose evil, to defend good, to illuminate the perspective, to educate the human in a person.
There is peace and movement in the world,
There is laughter and tears - the memory of old years,
There is a dying and a rising,
There is truth and vanity of vanities,
There is a human life moment
And a long-lasting trace.
And for whom the whole world, all-sensations
Poetry is that true poet.
Individual task No. 1
K.Balmont "The longing boat"
M. Lermontov "Sail"
- What do you think, what are the similarities and differences between K. Balmont's poem and Lermontov's "Sail"?
S H O D S T V O
Cheln - a lonely boat - Sail
among the waves
wind
stormy sea
- Reflections on alienation "happiness"
Alien, he does not seek happiness
Pure charm of happiness and not from happiness runs
- On the search for the ideal
The chamber is looking for bright dreams, what is it looking for in a distant country?
- About leaving their native familiar side
Threw the shore that he threw in his native land?
- Admire the coming storm
Peculiar beauty, the play of natural forces
Majestic cry of the waves play the waves, the wind whistles
R A Z L I C I A
Circumstances
K. Balmont does not have a picture of a calm sea - darkness is growing
The storm howls in the abyss of waters
Conclusion
Circumstances are favorable to one - a stream of lighter azure
sun ray golden
Colors of the world
monotonous varied
black bark turns white
month matte blue
the night turns black brighter than azure, golden
and only the ideal is described as a "hall of bright dreams"
Conclusion
more sounds: more picturesque characteristics
sigh of the wind
cry of the waves
howl of the storm
alliteration for "in"
the melody of the verse is exquisite
in the portrait of the "boat of languor" it is not an accident of "reflected words in each other":
"alien spell black boat"
Hero's Will
Broken by circumstance Resisted by circumstances
Conclusion
Struggle is futile Struggle is necessary
Conclusion
The lyrical hero of Balmont is different in comparison with Lermontov's. This is not a romantically sublime "sail", but precisely a "boat of languor".
Longing for the ideal, the languor of life presupposes a minor oppressed emotion; Lermontov has a "rebellious" sail, and behind this is a challenge, disagreement, restlessness.
So, the general feeling of Balmont's lyrics is immediacy, an inexhaustible thirst for more and more new impressions, musicality, the ability to poetically elevate the inconstancy of moods of tastes, the fragmentation of the worldview.
Individual task №2
N. Gumilyov "Giraffe"
- What word, found by the poet, struck you as readers?
- How does the poet develop this impression further?
- What creates the special musicality of a poem?
- What is the lyric hero of this poem?
- Who is the one to whom the word of the hero is addressed?
Individual task No. 3
I. Annensky "After the concert" from his book "Cypress Casket"
Poetry of mental suffering - this is how you can express the main impression of I. Annensky's book "Cypress Casket", which the author was not destined to see printed.
Suffering - from the imperfection of the world and its own imperfection, from the fact that the soul, striving for happiness and beauty, cannot find harmony with the world.
The subtlest lyric poet, like few, was able to convey complex feelings, elusive processes occurring in the soul.
Musical themes, images often sound in Annensky's poetry. The poet himself called music "the most direct and most enchanting assurance of a person in the possibility of happiness for him."
- To what extent does the tone of the poem correspond to this idea?
- Why did the concert just ended leave only vague impressions?
- Why do amethysts appear at the end of the poem?
(Reference: amethysts are lilac, purple stones)
The sounds of a beautiful voice are called lilac. The epithets used by the poet (affectionate, stellar, tender, fiery) can be attributed with equal right to both the beautiful stone and the sound of a beautiful voice. Both those and others "are dying without a trace" - without echo, without understanding, without sympathy.
The thing (amethyst beads) becomes in the poem a symbol that reveals the state of a person, a symbol of misunderstanding of human indifference.
And the impossibility of happiness. The "promise of happiness" is not given to come true, the symbol helps to understand this:
... and gentle, and fiery
Amethysts roll into the dewy grass
And they die without a trace.
The impossibility of happiness is conveyed by means not only of language, but also of verse.
(The verse suddenly and abruptly breaks off in the middle - instead of the six-foot iambic it has only 3 feet - like a sharp chord that cuts off the melody, hope, dream).
Individual task No. 4
And Akhmatova "She squeezed her hands under a dark veil ..."
What does the first gesture of the poem mean - "clasped her hands under a dark veil"?
What is the meaning of the form "dialogue within dialogue" in this poem?
How does the heroine explain the reason for her pallor?
What do you think is the reason for the hero's departure?
How, in your opinion, is the psychological content of objects "involved" in a love duel?
How do rhythmic means convey the state of the heroine at the moment of her lover's departure?
What do the farewell words of the hero mean?
Thus, in the lesson, you can use a variety of tasks and activities for students, which will enable them to realize their understanding of lyrical poems, open to them "their poem", "their poet". Your Poetry.
Final word
In every soul the word lives, burns, glows like a star in the sky, and, like a star, goes out when it, having finished its life path, fly off our lips. Then the power of this word, like the light of an extinguished star, flies to a person on his paths in space and time. The most amazing thing is that the writer-master knows how to take ordinary, well-known words and arrange them in a way that no one else can. The word seems to include "everything". But only a person can show how many shades of the word are hidden and revealed in his thoughts, feelings and in his action. Human interpretations of the word are truly infinity.
There is no oblivion
How not
aging, fading,
And no stone
And there is no bronze either, -
In an involuntary change of years
There is time to breathe.
There is a life
There is earthly light
And there is a poet for us.
The reader to some extent puts himself in the place of the poet.
