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Below are two poems written in the mid-19th century. Their authors are poets A. Fet and N. Nekrasov. Answer as fully as possible how these poems are similar (pay attention to both content and form) and what are the main differences between them. Identify the author of each poem and give reasons for your answer.

The swallows have disappeared
And yesterday dawned
All the rooks were flying
Yes, how the network flashed
Over there over that mountain.

In the evening everyone sleeps.
It's dark outside.
The dry leaf falls
At night the wind gets angry
Yes, he knocks on the window.

It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard
Glad to meet you with breasts!
As if in fright
Shouting out to the south
The cranes are flying.

You will go out - involuntarily
It’s hard - at least cry!
Look across the field
Tumbleweed
Bounces like a ball.

Before the rain

The mournful wind drives
I'm flocking clouds to the edge of heaven,
The broken spruce groans,
The dark forest whispers dully.

To a stream, pockmarked and motley,
A leaf flies after a leaf,
And a dry and sharp stream
It's getting cold.

Twilight falls over everything;
Hitting from all sides,
Spinning in the air screaming
A flock of jackdaws and crows.

Over the passing tarataika
The top is down, the front is closed;
And went!" - standing up with a whip,
The gendarme shouts to the driver...

“Swallows have disappeared...” - poem by A. Fet, “Before the rain” - N. Nekrasov.

Many participants in the competition beautifully and accurately formulated how the poems in question are similar.

The themes of both poems are similar. Unsightly autumn weather, rainy, evoking melancholy, creates a general mood and determines their identical gloomy flavor. Keywords– the wind (Nekrasov’s is mournful, Fet’s is angry);

dry leaf, rooks, jackdaws and crows, cranes create a visual picture, graphic design of poems. The background sound is moans and whispers, the sound of the wind, the rustling of leaves and the cries of birds. And even the ultimate hopelessness and emptiness are in one and the other poem. The number of stanzas is the same, the epithets and personifications are similar, nature not only comes to life, but takes on real ominous features.
Polina Bogacheva,

The poems move in the same way: in both, the gaze first turns to the sky (“And yesterday the dawn // All the rooks flew // Yes, like a net they flashed // Over that mountain” - “The mournful wind drives // A flock of clouds to the edge of heaven”); then drops below - the second stanza in both poems describes falling leaves and cold wind. Then up again (“The cranes are flying” – “A flock of jackdaws and crows are spinning in the air with a scream”). The last stanza is a look forward and most likely into the distance: the lyrical hero of one poem looks at the field, the other at a passing tarataika.

Maria Shapiro,
11th grade, school No. 57, Moscow

Sometimes it begins to seem that they are seeing the same picture: “A dry leaf is falling” - “A leaf flies after a leaf”, “It’s dark outside” - “Twilight falls on everything”, “At night the wind is angry” - “The mournful wind is driving” . Yes, the images seem to be the same, but the characters see them differently.

Pavel Govorov,
10th grade, Lyceum No. 1, Bryansk

But perhaps even more interesting are the differences. The young authors rightly saw the difference primarily in the movement of mood. Another difference noted by many is that Fet’s poems seem more subjective than Nekrasov’s.

The main difference is that Nekrasov's poem is more adult and darker than Fet's poem.

Fet openly tells us about his feelings - sadness, despair, spiritual heaviness - and we agree with him, but, contemplating his sadness, we do not experience equally strong feelings. Nekrasov immediately paints a sad, cold picture - a mournful wind, a broken spruce, the cry of a crow, the heartless voice of a gendarme. The author himself is hiding, hiding, at the same time, as if pushing us towards what he wanted to show.

Olga Fedotova,
8th grade, school No. 654, Moscow

Fet: description of nature, one-minute, instant impressions: “You look across the field...”. main topic– a person alone with nature, the relationship between personal human experiences and the state of the world at that moment.

Nekrasov: the language is harsher, a little rougher, sharper.
The same nature is described, but from the outside, there is no attitude of the author to what is happening. Other characters appear (the coachman and the gendarme), which Fet cannot have, because personal, individual unity with nature will disappear.

Vera Baykovskaya, 10th grade, school No. 1199, Moscow Nekrasov’s poem is alive, even if the beginning is sad, boring, words are used mournful, broken, moaning, dull then by the second quatrain it begins to change, barely noticeable, but the words are already visible motley And pockmarked This quatrain ends with an oxymoron dry jet and a set of rather “cool” adjectives and nouns. Further the poem will only develop in the “cool”, “dark” side. “Twilight falls over everything,” “from all sides” only noisy magpies, jackdaws and crows are circling in the air, and only in the last quatrain a faint surge of emotions appears - this is the cry of the gendarme to the coachman.

In Fet's poem in the first five-line there are memories; the author is sad without swallows, rooks and sunny days.

Ekaterina Nesterova,
7th grade, school No. 1564, Moscow

In the 3rd stanza, Fet has hope: “It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard // I’m glad to meet you with my chest!” But it ends with the antithesis of these lines, and this makes the hopelessness in it more terrible than in Nekrasov’s.

Polina Bogacheva

The feeling of hopelessness is created by the verb spinning, as if it was pointless to rush around in circles without finding a way out. The author of the first poem uses metonymy: “The dry leaf is falling.” It’s hard for the lyrical hero to realize that all that remains of the cheerful, bright greenery of the trees is a heap of dead leaves. The lyrical hero of the second poem also sees autumn leaves, but they give him a feeling of not only sadness, but also beauty: “On a stream, pockmarked and motley, // A leaf flies behind a leaf...”. The inconsistency of the hero’s mental state is emphasized by alliteration: repetition R and soft l.

Lilia Hayrapetyan,
11th grade, school No. 654, Moscow

Nekrasov is recognized very easily - only with him, and certainly not with Fet, the landscape can end with the mention of a gendarme with a whip.

But at the same time, Fet has a lyrical hero who observes nature and feels sadness because of the arrival of autumn, i.e. man is alone with nature - and nothing more. Almost the entire action of the poem takes place above the ground: “the swallows were gone” (that is, they disappeared in the sky), “the rooks were flying // Yes, they were flashing like a net // over that mountain,” “The dry leaf is falling” (this is also a movement from top to bottom ), “The wind gets angry at night,” “Cranes are flying,” “Tumbleweed // Jumps like a ball.” Because of such an abundance of movement, a feeling of rapid change arises - and indeed, the poem is about the arrival of autumn, and first there is a reminder of summer (“The swallows have disappeared” - which means they were there), and then - a desire for winter: “It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard / / I’m glad to meet you with my breasts,” i.e. there is a starting point and an ending point for this movement. The lyrical hero “it’s hard - even cry!” - and this sadness is transmitted to everything visible: the cranes fly “as if in fright,” “the wind is angry.” Everything quickly goes somewhere: but the hero seems to remain in place and see him off, looking after him - “everyone has been asleep since the evening,” but even if you “go out” you will see tumbleweeds jumping away (and this is also a sign of autumn). And I want this transition to end sooner: “It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard...” - i.e. stable condition, winter.

From the very beginning, Nekrasov’s poem sets the mood for something else – with its title “Before the Rain.” “Before the Rain” means not a process, not the movement of time, but a sketch of a specific moment. Indeed, Nekrasov’s landscape is more imaginative, forcing one to draw a very specific picture: “The broken spruce groans,” “On a stream, pockmarked and motley, // A leaf flies behind a leaf,” it’s not just getting cold or “the wind is angry” - but “a stream of dry and sharp a chill is creeping in." There is no lyrical hero assessing what is happening - there is an impartial observer who, moreover, sees not only nature and, obviously, is interested not so much in it as in the scene taking place against its background: “And “off he went!” - standing up with a whip, / / The gendarme shouts to the coachman...” The scene is placed in a strong place - the last quatrain of the poem.

In principle, landscapes in Nekrasov’s poems never appear on their own, but are always associated with thoughts about the people and any social problems.

Nekrasov introduces colloquial expressions into the poem (“tarataykoy”, “before”), bringing poetry closer to simple folk language. Nekrasov thus tries to find and recreate poetry in a non-poetic era, to poetically describe the “non-poetic” “material” (“a flock of jackdaws”, “the gendarme shouts to the coachman”).

Anton Skulachev,

In the first poem there are much more images and comparisons (“like a net flashing”, “as if in fright”, “jumping like a ball”). Most likely this is due to the fact that we see everything described in the poem through the eyes of the lyrical hero. This is a subjective picture. Therefore, there is more emotional fullness... It is the lyrical hero who compares a flock of rooks with a net, it is he who sees the mountain, thanks to him personifications like “the wind is angry” arise; “everyone has been sleeping since evening” is also his feeling, and the wind is knocking on his window. It turns out that in general the poem is dedicated to man, his feelings and expectations, and nature is shown through his perception. This suggests that the poem belongs to Fet, in whose lyrics impression comes first - it is most often the subject of the image.

In the poem "Before the Rain" the picture in highest degree objective. True, there are some personifications here (the spruce groans, the forest whispers), but they, like the epithets (dark forest), are perceived as constant.

Maria Shapiro

The competition participants did not limit themselves to conveying impressions; their works contain serious observations on vocabulary, syntax, rhythm and strophic organization of poems.

In Fet's poem, the first and second stanzas are distinguished by relatively even and calm intonation, there are no exclamatory sentences or sharp syntactic shifts (enjabemans). In the second part, we are faced with sharp enjabemans (“As if in fright // Screaming...”; “If you go out, involuntarily // It’s hard...”; “Tumbleweeds // Jumping like a ball”). All this, together with the use of syntactic parallelism (“You’ll come out...”, “Look...”), as well as repetition, the deliberateness of which is emphasized and reinforced by rhyme (“field” - “tumbleweed”), makes the ending extremely expressive. The image of a tumbleweed embodies the experience of life as an endless and aimless wandering across the earth. Tumbleweeds, like leaves, are dead versions of birds. Free, swift flight, symbolized by the word contrasted with a parody of flight: “Jumps like a ball.” Behind the images of snow and blizzard there arises the image of destruction, death: life seems to be captivity, coercion, liberation from which is expected in death, and voluntary death.

Elena Erzunova,
11th grade, gymnasium No. 2, Sarov

The poems are written in the same meter - trochee, but their strophic organization is different: quatrains in Nekrasov and quintuples in Fet. Fet’s sound itself is more musical: “across the field // tumbleweeds // jumping like a ball” - alliteration, abundance P creates the feeling of a bouncing ball.

In principle, landscapes in Nekrasov’s poems never appear on their own, but are always associated with thoughts about the people and any social problems.

Mostly simple verbal rhymes are used, but it is noticeable that in the first the stanza is more interesting - the stanza contains 5 lines, which creates an unusual sound. We expect cross rhyme, it seems that the end of the fourth stanza will coincide with the second, and every time this does not happen. It can be assumed that this conveys the tense anticipation of winter, which never comes. (“It would be better if I met snow and a blizzard with my chest…”) – through creating this tension in the reader. .

Maria Shapiro

Hard, almost marching Nekrasov's trochee, clear, regular stanzas - and Fetov's mixed, complex time signature with spondees and rhythm disturbances.

Vera Baykovskaya

The artistic space of Nekrasov’s poem, despite its completeness and integrity, is open - in the heart of the reader, in the vast space of a huge country, in the perspective of the destinies of the gendarme and the coachman, which is expressed by the ellipses crowning the poem.

Fet’s poem “infects” the reader with its mood - and also leaves a perspective and, despite the seemingly clear and complete depiction of the lyrical hero’s feelings, a musical perspective in his heart.

Anton Skulachev,
11th grade, school No. 1514, Moscow

To be continued

ON THE. SHAPIRO,
school number 57
Moscow

The swallows have disappeared
And yesterday the dawn
All the rooks were flying
Yes, like a network, they flashed
Over there over that mountain.

Everyone sleeps in the evening,
It's dark outside.
The dry leaf falls
At night the wind gets angry
Yes, he knocks on the window.

It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard
Glad to meet you with breasts!
As if in fright
Shouting out to the south
The cranes are flying.

You will go out - involuntarily
It’s hard - at least cry!
Look across the field
Tumbleweed
Bounces like a ball.

Analysis of the poem “The Swallows Are Missing” by Fet

A. Fet remained a devoted admirer of nature throughout his life. He knew how to find elements of beauty in the most insignificant details. Only autumn was considered by the poet to be a time of year that is associated only with sad and melancholy feelings. He is not delighted with fading beauty. Only in rare exceptions does he manage to notice the special autumn charm. In 1854, Fet wrote the poem “Autumn,” in which he clearly expressed his impressions of the bleak autumn picture.

It should immediately be noted that the image of birds flying south plays a large role in the poem. It begins with a characteristic phrase: “the swallows are gone.” Usually the swallow symbolizes spring. The author thereby emphasizes the complete opposite of the two seasons. The restless flight of the rooks also suggests an impending migration.

Fet describes irreversible changes in nature that affect humans (“everything is asleep”). Sudden drowsiness is directly related to the upcoming hibernation. A person feels natural instincts within himself and unconsciously imitates animals and plants.

The emotional exclamation of the lyrical hero breaks through the melancholy feeling: “it would be better if there was snow and a blizzard.” For him, winter frosts seem to be a better way out than the tedious and monotonous gradual descent into sleep, reminiscent of the slow approach of death. Winter does not allow a person to calm down and encourages activity. Autumn is painted with dull, inhospitable colors; it has the most overwhelming effect.

In the image of the cranes reaching to the south, the author sees the final verdict on nature, which is already doomed. This final chord brings the lyrical hero to extreme despair: “it’s hard - even cry.” Throughout the entire work, the author could not catch his eye on anything. Finally, a tumbleweed appears in his field of vision. It symbolizes the restlessness and doom of the human soul, left alone with dead nature.

A characteristic feature of the poem is the five-line verse, which is rarely used by Russian poets. Such an unusual shape seems to hint at the infinity and viscousness of autumn days.

Fet practically does not use epithets in the work. Comparisons do not play a big role, they are not expressive and are made out of necessity (“like a net”, “like a ball”). The only figurative personification is “the wind is angry and knocking.”

Overall, the poem “The Swallows Are Missing” creates a very sad mood. It completely absorbs the lyrical hero and brings him to a painful state of hopelessness.

A.A.Fet “The Swallows Are Missing”

The swallows have disappeared

And yesterday dawned

All the rooks were flying

Yes, how the network flashed

Over there over that mountain.

I've been sleeping since evening,

It's dark outside.

The dry leaf falls

At night the wind gets angry

Yes, he knocks on the window.

It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard

Glad to meet you with breasts!

As if in fright

Shouting out to the south

The cranes are flying.

You will go out - involuntarily

It’s hard - at least cry!

You look across the field

Tumbleweed

Bounces like a ball.

After reading the poem, we can immediately say that the author depicts autumn here in its late state. The most important for understanding the meaning and pathos of the poem is the phrase “It would be better if I were glad to meet the snow and blizzard!” At first glance, here we have a traditional continuation of the landscape theme. However, we are talking here not just about waiting for winter, but there is a feeling that the hero of the poem is, as it were, going towards the elements.

The image of a flock of rooks in the poem is not accidental; it is like an image-experience of passing time. Autumn, as a transitional time between summer and winter, depresses the hero of the poem (“It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard...”, “When you go out, it’s hard against your will, even if you cry”).

The leitmotif of the poem by A.A. Feta is the spirituality of nature, intertwined with the complexity and uniqueness of life sensations associated with man.

It would seem that the image of autumn, the comparison of a flock of rooks with a net seems purely pictorial, but in the context of the poem its verbal and expressive side turns out to be no less important: the word “net” evokes in our minds the idea of ​​captivity, captivity.

A. Nekrasov “Late Autumn”

Late fall. The rooks have flown away

The forest is bare, the fields are empty,

Only one strip is not compressed...

She makes me sad.

The ears seem to whisper to each other:

“It’s boring for us to listen to the autumn blizzard,

It's boring to bow down to the ground,

Fat grains bathing in dust!

Every night we are ruined by the villages

Every passing voracious bird,

The hare tramples us, and the storm beats us...

Where is our plowman? what else is waiting?

Or are we worse born than others?

Or didn’t they bloom and spike together?

No! we are no worse than others - and for a long time

The grain has filled and ripened within us.

It was not for this reason that he plowed and sowed,

So that the autumn wind will scatter us?..”

The wind brings them a sad answer: -

Your plowman has no urine.

He knew why he plowed and sowed,

Yes, I didn’t have the strength to start the work.

The poor fellow is feeling bad - he doesn’t eat or drink,

The worm is sucking his aching heart,

The hands that made these furrows,

They dried up into slivers, hung like whips,

That he sang a mournful song,

How, placing your hand on a plow,

The plowman walked thoughtfully along the strip.

The image-landscape in the poem “The Uncompressed Strip” is permeated with despair and hopelessness. The orphaned land waits in vain for its owner, who is broken by back-breaking, exhausting labor.

N.A. Nekrasov empowers nature human feelings and experiences.

Hopelessness, fear and humility emanate from this dull autumn picture, which involuntarily evokes associations with the same painful state of the Russian people. The poet paints the autumn landscape in the poem with the same gloomy colors.

He achieves this feeling by using epithets (“sad thought”, “sad answer”, “sick heart”, “mournful song”); and personifications (“the forest has become bare,” “the ears are whispering,” “the hands have dried into slivers”).

The whisper of ripened ears of corn, which there is no one to harvest, tells a sad story about the fate of a peasant ruined by unbearable living conditions. The hopelessly ill plowman never appears in the poem, but it seems that you hear his mournful song, see how he thoughtfully walks along the strip, leaning on his plow.

Perhaps, let's start the comparative analysis with the poems of F.I. Tyutchev’s “Autumn Evening” and A.A. Fet’s “The Swallows Are Missing”, because the worldview of these poets largely coincides.

Let's try to answer the question what is emotional assessment autumn, depicted in these two poems.

In Tyutchev's work, landscape lyrics are so closely intertwined with his philosophical thoughts about life that these main motives of his poetry should be considered in their inextricable unity.

It is not for nothing that in the work of Solovyov V.S. “On Tyutchev’s poetry” he notes “that Tyutchev’s advantage over many of them is that he fully and consciously believed in what he felt - he accepted and understood the living beauty he felt not as his fantasy, but as the truth.”

In this poem, depicting the onset of autumn, F.I. Tyutchev very accurately conveys the mood of light sadness, the idea of ​​the transience and beauty of life.

In this heartfelt autumn landscape, in addition to the concreteness and accuracy of realistic details, Tyutchev’s remarkable ability to awaken the reader’s imagination is manifested.

Despite some melancholy and doom, Tyutchev’s poetry is optimistic. In his depiction of his autumn, he focuses, as I already wrote, on the mysterious beauty of the autumn evening.

A. Fet, like F. Tyutchev, reached landscape lyrics brilliant artistic heights. A.K. Tolstoy very subtly grasped Fetov’s unique quality - the ability to convey natural sensations in their organic unity, when “the smell turns into the color of mother-of-pearl, into the glow of a firefly, and moonlight or a ray of dawn shimmers into sound.”

Landscape lyrics by Fet, in in this case the image of autumn, like Tyutchev’s, is inseparable from the human personality, his dreams, aspirations and impulses.

This is also the image of a flock of rooks, which spins against the background of the evening dawn, reminiscent of a whimsically wriggling net, constantly changing its shape. These are specific details that convey the atmosphere of late autumn: early twilight, falling leaves, sharp gusty wind. These are also images of autumn nomadism - strings of birds flying south, tumbleweed bushes rushing across the steppe.

What is hidden in the first part “between the lines”, remaining outside the “bright field of consciousness” of the reader, in the second part is brought out and becomes more accessible to perception. Thus, the motive of bondage receives direct expression in the phrase: “If you go out, it’s against your will. It’s hard, even if you cry.”

We can achieve a deeper understanding of poems by turning to their structural features.

Upon careful examination, we can be convinced that A. Fet’s poem, written in trochaic trimeter, is clearly divided into two equal parts in its rhythmic structure. In the first of them (1-2 stanzas) there is a relatively calm rhythm, while 5 verses have an identical rhythmic pattern.

Tyutchev's poem is written in iambic pentameter, and we see how different moods they convey!

As I already wrote, if Tyutchev’s poem is imbued with light sadness, while it is optimistic, then Fet’s poem, the image of autumn, is imbued with a gloomy, depressing mood.

The same mood arises when reading a poem by N.A. Nekrasov.

Unlike Tyutchev, Nekrasov’s poems are always accompanied by some kind of conflict, disappointment, and hopelessness. In the poem "The Uncompressed Strip" there are phrases of this kind.

Nekrasov’s autumn is not indifferent to human suffering; she mourns along with the entire Russian people over his unfortunate fate.

Hopelessness, fear and humility emanate from this dull autumn picture, which involuntarily evokes associations with the same painful state of the Russian people.

Continuing the comparison of Nekrasov with the poets of his predecessors and contemporaries, it should be noted that, for example, in the work of Fet, the content of the lyrics is limited to the internal state of the subject, and there is no visible exit “to the outside world.”

Nekrasov takes a fundamentally different position in this regard. His work is not limited to the “external” or “internal” aspect. His position on this issue can be described as “average”. Nekrasov's lyrics absorb all the space around them and inner world. Social motives, inner state, worldview, landscapes and descriptions are closely intertwined in his poems.

Using such visual means as epithets and personifications, the author endows the autumn landscape with human feelings and experiences.

Again the autumn shine of the morning star
Trembling with deceptive fire,
And the birds start an agreement
Run away in a flock for warmth.
And sweet-severe pain
My heart is so happy to ache again,
And at night the maple leaf turns red,
That, loving life, you are unable to live.

A. Fet

in autumn

When the end-to-end web
Spreads threads of clear days
And under the villager's window
The distant gospel is heard more clearly,

We're not sad, scared again
The breath of near winter,
And the voice of the summer
We understand more clearly.

A. Fet

***

What a cold autumn!
Put on your shawl and hood;
Look: because of the slumbering pines
It's like a fire is rising.

Northern night glow
I remember always being near you,
And the phosphorescent eyes shine,
They just don’t keep me warm.

A. Fet

Everything around is tired: the color of the sky is tired too,
And the wind, and the river, and the month that was born,
And the night, and in the greenery of the dim sleeping forest,
And the yellow leaf that finally fell off.
Only the fountain babbles in the middle of the distant darkness,
Speaking about life invisible, but familiar...
O autumn night, how omnipotent you are
Refusal to fight and deathly languor!

September rose

Behind the sigh of morning frost,
Opening the blush of my lips,
How strangely the rose smiled
On the fast-flying day of September!

Before the fluttering tit
In the long leafless bushes
How to boldly act as a queen
With greetings to the spring on your lips.

To blossom in steady hope -
Parted from the cold ridge,
Cling to the last one, intoxicated
To the breast of the young mistress!

A. Fet

That's summer days are decreasing.
Where are the golden rays of summer?
Only gray eyebrows move,
Only the gray curls sway.

This morning, by bitter fate
Exhausted, I sighed a little:
Early, early with the ruddy dawn
For a moment the window lit up.

But again this sky is stormy
It loomed over us sadly,
Know, again, my sun is red,
You burst into tears as you stood up!

A. Fet

Autumn rose

The forest has crumbled its peaks,
The garden has revealed its brow,
September has died, and dahlias
The breath of the night burned.

But in a breath of frost
Among the dead is one,
Only you alone, queen rose,
Fragrant and lush.

In spite of cruel trials
And the anger of the dying day
You are the outline and breath
In the spring you blow on me.

A. Fet

Autumn

How sad the dark days are
Soundless and cold autumn!
What joyless languor
They are asking to enter our souls!

But there are also days when there is blood
Gold leaf decorations
Burning autumn looks for the eyes
And the sultry whims of love.

Bashful sadness is silent,
Only the defiant is heard,
And, freezing so magnificently,
She doesn't feel sorry for anything anymore.

A. Fet

Poplar

The gardens are silent. With sad eyes
I look around with despondency in my soul;
The last leaf is scattered underfoot.
The last radiant day has faded.

You're the only one above the dead steppes
You hide your mortal illness, my poplar
And, still trembling with leaves,
You babble to me about spring days like a friend.

Let it get darker, darker day after day
And a pernicious spirit blows through autumn;
With branches raised to heaven
You stand alone and remember the warm south.

A. Fet

The swallows have disappeared
And yesterday dawned
All the rooks were flying
Yes, like a network, they flashed
Over there over that mountain.

Everyone sleeps in the evening,
It's dark outside.
The dry leaf falls
At night the wind gets angry
Yes, he knocks on the window.

It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard
Glad to meet you with breasts!
As if in fright
Shouting out to the south
The cranes are flying.

You will go out - involuntarily
It’s hard - at least cry!
Look across the field
Tumbleweed
Bounces like a ball.

A. Fet

Bad weather - autumn - you smoke,
You smoke - everything seems to be not enough.
At least I would read - only reading
It moves so sluggishly.

The gray day creeps lazily,
And they chat unbearably
Wall clock on the wall
Tirelessly with the tongue.

The heart is getting colder little by little,
And by the hot fireplace
Gets into the patient's head
Everything is so damn crazy!

Over a steaming glass
Cooling tea
Thank God, little by little,
It’s like evening, I’m falling asleep...

The swallows have disappeared
And yesterday the dawn
All the rooks were flying
Yes, like a network, they flashed
Over there over that mountain.

I've been sleeping since evening,
It's dark outside.
The dry leaf falls
At night the wind gets angry
Yes, he knocks on the window.

It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard
Glad to meet you with breasts!
As if in fright
Shouting out to the south
The cranes are flying.

You will go out unwillingly
It’s hard - at least cry!
You look across the field
Tumbleweed
Bounces like a ball.

School analysis of A. Fet's poem "The Swallows Are Missing"

Opening the pages of a collection of poems by Russian poets, I always stop at the works of Afanasy Fet. He's writing in beautiful words pictures of nature that excite him.

In a poem Afanasy Fet "The Swallows Are Missing" a picture of fading nature appears. The work was written in 1884.

Here we read the stories that fill nature and the mood of the author.

Feature of this work is the contrast of the lyrical hero with events in which he is an involuntary participant. The author accepts autumn with sadness; he feels uncomfortable at this time of year.

The work begins with an observation that makes

The swallows have disappeared
And yesterday the dawn
All the rooks were flying...

At the beginning of the poem, Afanasy Fet writes about loss. This is conveyed through the vocabulary and composition of the first stanzas. The word "lost" speaks of loss. And at the same time, the author’s recollection of yesterday also suggests that he yearns for the passing time. The reader is invited to immerse himself in this story and observe. The author seems to be making a gesture, pointing to the mountain:

All the rooks were flying
Yes, like a network, they flashed
Over there over that mountain.

The next stanza presents the events that the author notices in the cold autumn. He writes about a sleepy, cold and angry autumn, which at the same time gives no rest.

I've been sleeping since evening,
It's dark outside.
The dry leaf falls
At night the wind gets angry
Yes, he knocks on the window.

Autumn, gloomy and sad, makes you worry, and the restless wind deprives you of peace. Afanasy Fet talks about how cranes are also uncomfortable in the fall. The frightened flock leaves the fading autumn.

It would be better if there was snow and a blizzard
Glad to meet you with breasts!
As if in fright
Shouting out to the south
The cranes are flying.

Afanasy Fet is also ready for change, he is waiting for winter to come, but is forced to endure the difficult meeting of late autumn.

You will go out unwillingly
It’s hard - at least cry!
You look across the field
Tumbleweed
Bounces like a ball.

The work ends with the image of a tumbleweed. This plant, like all living things around, is in a hurry somewhere, wants to leave this place. This image enhances the impression, and one can understand that the desire to leave everything and be somewhere else is the main idea of ​​the work about autumn.