“Lyrical heroine in Akhmatova’s poetry. The image of the lyrical heroine in the poetry of A.A. Akhmatova What does love mean for the lyrical heroine Akhmatova

What does love mean for the lyrical heroine Akhmatova? The love of the lyrical heroine Akhmatova is painted in tragic tones. Akhmatova's love poetry is characterized by deep psychologism and lyricism. Her heroines are different, they do not repeat the fate of the poetess herself, but their images testify to her deep understanding of the inner world of women who are completely different in psychological make-up and social status. This is a young girl waiting for love (“I pray to the window ray”, “Two poems”), and an already mature woman, absorbed in love-struggle,

and an unfaithful wife, ready to endure any torment for the right to love freely (“The Gray-Eyed King,” “My husband whipped me with a patterned…”), and a peasant woman, and a traveling circus performer, and a poisoner, “a hawk moth and a harlot.” Akhmatova has many poems about failed love, about saying goodbye to her beloved. The fate of a woman poet is tragic. In the poem “Muse” she wrote about the incompatibility of female happiness and the fate of the creator. Giving up love in favor of creativity or vice versa is impossible. Here is an example of a man’s misunderstanding of a woman poet:

He talked about summer and how

That being a poet for a woman is absurd.

How I remember high

royal house

And the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Read the poem “I clasped my hands under dark veil…”, “The Gray-Eyed King.” What mood are these poems permeated with? What artistic techniques does the author use?

One of the techniques is the transfer of deep feelings, penetration into the inner world of a loving heroine, and an emphasis on individual everyday details. In a poem

“She clenched her hands under a dark veil...” conveys the convulsive movements of the lyrical heroine, trying to hold on to love and her beloved (“If you leave, I’ll die”). Her tense state is countered by a calm phrase (note, said “calmly and terribly”) “Don’t stand in the wind,” which negates the perception of the heroine’s feelings by her loved ones and thereby enhances the tragedy of the love situation. “The Gray-Eyed King” is one of Akhmatova’s most popular poems about love, conveying the drama of feelings, a woman’s longing for her beloved, sadness from loss, tenderness for her “gray-eyed” daughter. In this poem, the poetess turns to colloquial speech, almost aphoristic. Researchers note that this is a language of reflection. Through events and details, the lyrical plot of the poem is revealed, a tender feeling, longing, jealousy, love, sadness is conveyed, i.e. the state of a woman’s heart is revealed. There is also a lyrical culmination in it: “I’ll wake up my daughter now, I’ll look into her gray eyes.” The summary of the poem: “Your king is not on earth.”

These poems, in the words of the famous literary critic V. M. Zhirmunsky, seem to have been written with the intention of a prosaic story, sometimes interrupted by individual emotional exclamations. And in this we see the psychologism of poetry, in particular love poetry Akhmatova.

Read the lines from notebooks Akhmatova, which speaks about the purpose and place of the poet in society: “But in the world there is no power more formidable and terrible than the prophetic word of the poet”; “The poet is not a man - he is only a spirit \ Be he blind, like Homer, or deaf, like Beethoven, \ Sees everything, hears, owns everything...”. How does Akhmatova see the poet’s purpose? Akhmatova saw art as miraculous and endowed with incomparable power. Of course, the artist must reflect the historical era of his time and the spiritual life of the people, which is what the poetess was guided by in her work. And at the same time, his spiritual and psychological make-up is special, he sees and hears and predicts much more than an ordinary person, and thus becomes interesting and necessary to the reader, mainly due to the ability of his spirit to comprehend the highest. Here her understanding of the role of poetry is close to Pushkin’s, and partly to Innokenty Annensky and other poets of the Silver Age.

Read the poems “Solitude”, “Muse”. How do you see the image of the Muse in Akhmatova’s poetry?

Akhmatova's muse is closely connected with Pushkin's muse: she is dark and sometimes cheerful. In the poem “Solitude” the motive of the poet’s chosenness sounds. Art raises him above worldly vanity. However, Akhmatova also feels passionate gratitude to life, which constantly inspires creativity. The tower refers to the experience of life, the bitter and difficult lessons of fate, which help to look at the world with far-seeing eyes. Solitude is not so much a departure from life in general, but a departure from the easy and idle existence of a poet. Let's pay attention to the first lines of this poem: “So many stones have been thrown at me, \ That not one of them is scary anymore...” Fate can never be merciful to a poet in the highest sense of the word.

And at the same time, Akhmatova’s muse is an eternal muse, “a sweet guest with a pipe in her hand,” bringing inspiration to the poet, a muse served by world-famous poets, for example, such as Dante. Here Anna Akhmatova talks about the continuity of her work.

Read the poem “Native Land”. Determine its tone. What motives can you identify in this poem? Which different meanings Do the words “earth” sound in it? What theme is indicated in the last lines?

In Akhmatova’s poem “Native Land”, referring to late period her work (1961), the concreteness of the idea of the earth in the literal sense of this concept is combined with a broad philosophical generalization. The tonality can be defined as philosophical. The author seeks to deepen his understanding of the most seemingly everyday and everyday concepts. Here are the motives of life, difficult, sometimes tragic, painful. “Dirt on the galoshes”, “Crunch on the teeth”, mash, crumbs - not only the attributes of the earth that burden life, but also the very manifestations of the everyday life. In the last lines, the earth acquires a high philosophical meaning associated with the end of man’s earthly existence, which continues in his merging with the earth both in the physical and spiritual sense. The word “one’s own” symbolizes this unity of a person with his homeland (the land in the title is called native), with which he lived his life, and the land in its literal sense.

K. Chukovsky wrote: “Quiet, barely audible sounds have an indescribable sweetness for her. The main charm of her lyrics is not in what is said, but in what is not said. She is a master of omissions, hints, meaningful pauses. Her silences speak louder than words. To depict every feeling, even a huge one, she uses the smallest, almost imperceptible, microscopically small images, which acquire extraordinary power on her pages.” Express your impressions of your acquaintance with Akhmatova’s lyrics.

Akhmatova’s lyrics enchant with their secrets; they prepare the reader to penetrate into understatements and omissions. We have already talked about the role of household items in conveying a woman’s mysterious love feeling. And this, too, lies the secret of Akhmatova’s poetry. Speaking about mystery and its understanding by the poetess, I would like to read one of my favorite poems created by her.

Twenty-first, night, Monday...

The outlines of the capital in the darkness.

Composed by some slacker,

What love happens on earth.

And from laziness or boredom

Everyone believed it. That's how they live.

Looking forward to a date, afraid of separation

And they sing love songs.

But the secret is revealed to others.

May silence rest upon them.

I came across this by accident

And since then everything seems to be sick.

There is more than one mystery here. First of all, the mystery of love, which differs from the ordinary understanding of love relationships, a mystery, the comprehension of which makes a person “sick”, attached to a new vision. For some reason, the secret is revealed to the lyrical heroine on the twenty-first, on Monday night... Probably, the solution is only available to her. And finally, playfully, “it was written by some slacker.”

Poet Mikhail Kuzmin called Akhmatova’s poetry “sharp and fragile.” How did you understand this definition?

Acute means responsive to the most complex problems personal world, reflecting a person’s deep experiences in love and relationships with the outside world. Poignant means courageous and tragic, conveying the most complex conditions of a person of the tragic age, of which she was a great poet. Many of Akhmatova’s works can be called poignant, for example “I had a voice...”, “I am not with those...”, “Requiem”, “Poem without a hero”. Akhmatova’s poetry is considered fragile because every word of her poems is chosen surprisingly precisely, to the right place, it cannot be rearranged or replaced with another - otherwise the work will be destroyed. The poems convey the most fragile, subtle, tender feelings of the author and her lyrical heroines.

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Akhmatova. What does love mean for the lyrical heroine Akhmatova?

What does love mean for the lyrical heroine Akhmatova?

The love of the lyrical heroine Akhmatova is painted in tragic tones. Akhmatova's love poetry is characterized by deep psychologism and lyricism. Her heroines are different, they do not repeat the fate of the poetess herself, but their images testify to her deep understanding of the inner world of women who are completely different in psychological make-up and social status. This is a young girl waiting for love (“Praying to the Window Ray,” “Two Poems”), and an already mature woman, absorbed in love-struggle, and an unfaithful wife, ready to endure any torment for the right to love freely (“The Gray-Eyed King ", "My husband whipped me with a patterned ..."), and a peasant woman, and a wandering circus rocker, and a poisoner, "a hawk moth and a harlot." Akhmatova has many poems about failed love, about saying goodbye to her beloved. The fate of a woman poet is tragic. In the poem “Muse” she wrote about the incompatibility of female happiness and the fate of the creator. Giving up love in favor of creativity or vice versa is impossible. Here is an example of a man’s misunderstanding of a woman poet:

He talked about summer and that being a poet for a woman is absurd. How I remembered the tall royal house and the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Read the poems “Clenched my hands under a dark veil...”, “The Gray-Eyed King.” What mood are these poems permeated with? What artistic techniques does the author use?

One of the techniques is the transfer of deep feelings, penetration into the inner world of a loving heroine, and an emphasis on isolated everyday details. In a poem

“I clenched my hands under a dark veil...” conveys the convulsive movements of the lyrical heroine, trying to hold on to love and her beloved (“If you leave, I’ll die”). Her tense state is countered by a calm phrase (note, said “calmly and terribly”) “Don’t stand in the wind,” which negates the perception of the heroine’s feelings by her loved ones and thereby enhances the tragedy of the love situation. “The Gray-Eyed King” is one of Akhmatova’s most popular poems about love, conveying the drama of feelings, a woman’s longing for her beloved, sadness from loss, tenderness for her “gray-eyed” daughter. In this poem, the poetess turns to colloquial speech, almost aphoristic. Researchers note that this is a language of reflection. Through events and details, the lyrical plot of the poem is revealed, a tender feeling, longing, jealousy, love, sadness is conveyed, i.e. the state of a woman’s heart is revealed. It also contains a lyrical culmination: “I’ll wake up my daughter now, / I’ll look into her gray eyes.” The summary of the poem: “Your king is not on earth.”

Read the lines from Akhmatova’s notebooks, which speak about the purpose and place of the poet in society: “But in the world there is no power more formidable and more terrible than the prophetic word of the poet”; “The poet is not a person - he is only a spirit / Be blind, like Homer, or deaf, like Beethoven, / Sees everything, hears, owns everything...”. How does Akhmatova see the poet’s purpose?

Akhmatova saw art as miraculous and endowed with incomparable power. Of course, the artist must reflect the historical era of his time and the spiritual life of the people, which is what the poetess was guided by in her work. And at the same time, his spiritual and psychological make-up is special, he sees and hears and predicts much more than an ordinary person, and thus becomes interesting and necessary to the reader, mainly thanks to the ability of his spirit to comprehend the highest. Here her understanding of the role of poetry is close to Pushkin’s, and partly to Innokenty Annensky and other poets of the Silver Age.

Read the poems “Solitude”, “Muse”. How do you see the image of the Muse in Akhmatova’s poetry?

Akhmatova’s muse is closely connected with Pushkin’s muse: she is dark and sometimes cheerful. In the poem “Solitude” there is a motif of the poet’s chosenness. Art raises him above worldly vanity. However, Akhmatova also experiences passionate gratitude to life, which constantly inspires creativity. The tower refers to the experience of life, the bitter and difficult lessons of fate, which help to look at the world with far-seeing eyes. Solitude is not so much a departure from life in general, but a departure from the easy and idle existence of a poet. Let us pay attention to the first lines of this poem: “So many stones have been thrown at me, / That not a single one of them is scary anymore...” Fate can never be merciful to a poet in the highest sense of the word.

Read the poem “Native Land”. Determine its tone. What motives can you identify in this poem? What are the different meanings of the word “earth”? What theme is indicated in the last lines?

In Akhmatova’s poem “Native Land,” which dates back to the late period of her work (1961), the concreteness of the idea of land in the literal sense of this concept is combined with a broad philosophical generalization. The tonality can be defined as philosophical. The author seeks to deepen his understanding of the most seemingly everyday and everyday concepts. Here are the motives of life, difficult, sometimes tragic, painful. “Dirt on the galoshes”, “Crunch on the teeth”, mash, crumbs - not only the attributes of the earth that burden life, but also the very manifestations of everyday life. In the last lines, the earth acquires a high philosophical meaning associated with the end of man’s earthly existence, which continues in his merging with the earth both in the physical and spiritual sense. The word “own” symbolizes this unity of a person with his homeland (the land in the title is called native), with which he lived his life, and the land in its literal sense.

K. Chukovsky wrote: “Quiet, barely audible sounds have an indescribable sweetness for her. The main charm of her lyrics is not in what is said, but in what is not said. She is a master of omissions, hints, meaningful pauses. Her silences speak louder than words. To depict every feeling, even a huge one, she uses the smallest, almost inconspicuous, microscopically small images, which acquire extraordinary power on her pages.” Express your impressions from your acquaintance with Akhmatova’s lyrics.

Akhmatova’s lyrics enchant with their secrets; they prepare the reader to penetrate into understatements and omissions. We have already talked about the role of everyday details in conveying a woman’s mysterious love feeling. And this, too, lies the secret of Akhmatova’s poetry. Speaking about the secret and its understanding by the poet, I would like to read one of my favorite poems created by her. Material from the site

Twenty-first, night, Monday... The outlines of the capital in the darkness. Some slacker wrote that there is love on earth. And out of laziness or boredom, everyone believed. That's how they live. They are waiting for a date, afraid of separation, and singing love songs. But the secret is revealed to others. May silence rest upon them. I came across this by accident and since then it’s been like I’ve been sick.

There is more than one mystery here. First of all, the mystery of love, which differs from the ordinary understanding of love relationships, a mystery, the comprehension of which makes a person “sick”, attached to a new vision. For some reason, the secret is revealed to the lyrical heroine on the twenty-first, on Monday night... Probably, the solution is available only to her. And finally, playfully, “composed by some slacker.”

The poet Mikhail Kuzmin called Akhmatova’s poetry “sharp and fragile.” How did you understand this definition?

Acute means that it responds to the most complex problems of the personal world, reflecting a person’s deep experiences in love and relationships with the outside world. Poignant means courageous and tragic, conveying the most complex states of a person of the tragic century, of which she was a great poet. Many of Akhmatova’s works can be called poignant, for example “I had a voice...”, “I am not with those...”, “Requiem”, “Poem without a hero”. Akhmatova’s poetry is considered fragile because every word of her poems is chosen surprisingly precisely, to the right place, it cannot be rearranged or replaced with another - otherwise the work will be destroyed. The poems convey the most fragile, subtle, tender feelings of the author and her lyrical heroines.

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The love of the lyrical heroine Akhmatova is painted in tragic tones. Akhmatova's love poetry is characterized by deep psychologism and lyricism. Her heroines are different, they do not repeat the fate of the poetess herself, but their images testify to her deep understanding of the inner world of completely different psychological
the cultural makeup and social status of women. This is a young girl waiting for love (“I pray to the window ray”, “Two poems”), and an already mature woman, absorbed in love-struggle, and an unfaithful wife, ready to endure any torment for the right to love freely (“The Gray-Eyed King”, “The Husband”) whipped me with a patterned..."), and a peasant woman, and a traveling circus performer, and a poisoner, "hawk moth and harlot." Akhmatova has many poems about failed love, about saying goodbye to her beloved. The fate of a woman poet is tragic. In the poem “Muse” she wrote about the incompatibility of female happiness and the fate of the creator. Giving up love in favor of creativity or vice versa is impossible. Here is an example of a man’s misunderstanding of a woman poet:

He talked about summer and how
That being a poet for a woman is absurd.
How I remember the tall royal house
And the Peter and Paul Fortress.

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The love of the lyrical heroine Akhmatova is painted in tragic tones. Akhmatova's love poetry is characterized by deep psychologism and lyricism. Her heroines are different, they do not repeat the fate of the poetess herself, but their images testify to her deep understanding of the inner world of women who are completely different in psychological make-up and social status. This is a young girl waiting for love (“I pray to the window ray”, “Two poems”), and an already mature woman, absorbed in love-struggle, and an unfaithful wife, ready to endure any torment for the right to love freely (“The Gray-Eyed King”, “The Husband”) whipped me with a patterned..."), and a peasant woman, and a traveling circus performer, and a poisoner, "hawk moth and harlot." Akhmatova has many poems about failed love, about saying goodbye to her beloved. The fate of a woman poet is tragic. In the poem “Muse” she wrote about the incompatibility of female happiness and the fate of the creator. Giving up love in favor of creativity or vice versa is impossible. Here is an example of a man’s misunderstanding of a woman poet: He talked about summer and that it is absurd for a woman to be a poet. How I remembered the tall royal house and the Peter and Paul Fortress.

I taught women to speak.

A. Akhmatova.

A.A. Akhmatova is one of the great poetesses of Russia. She is, “of course, the most characteristic heroine of her time, revealed in endless variety women's destinies" According to A. Kollontai, Akhmatova created “a whole book of the female soul.” Larisa Reisner wrote: “She poured out in art all my contradictions that had no outlet for so many years... How grateful I am to her...”

Yes, indeed, Akhmatova “poured into art” complex history feminine character. And not only the nature of the turning point. In the lyrical heroine Akhmatova, almost every woman recognizes herself, her attitude towards everything that is close and dear to us in this world.

Here she confesses her reverently tender love for Pushkin and that her second love was Blok:

To all my lovers

I brought happiness.

Alone and now alive

In love with his girlfriend,

And another one became bronze

On a snow-covered square.

In general, the image of a woman - the heroine of Akhmatov's lyrics can be attributed to any person. With extraordinary specificity of experiences, this is both a person of a specific fate and biography, and a bearer of an infinite number of biographies and destinies:

Morozova and I should bow to each other,

To dance with Herod's stepdaughter,

Fly away from Dido's fire with smoke,

To go to the fire with Zhanna again.

God! You see I'm tired

Resurrect, and die, and live.

Akhmatova’s poems are “to many” (that’s what she titled one of them), because her heroine:

I am the reflection of your face.

Because with all the variety of life phenomena, with all the unusual characters and situations, Akhmatova’s heroine carries the most important thing, the most important thing in life - love.

Love is Akhmatova’s most exciting theme. She is as different as her lyrical heroine. The element of the female soul finds its expression precisely in love. “Great earthly love” is the driving principle of Akhmatova’s lyrics, the essence of her lyrical heroine. In this state the world is seen anew, in the ordinary the unusual is revealed:

After all, the stars were larger

After all, the herbs smelled different.

Therefore, every confession is like pain, like a cry from the soul:

My beloved always has so many requests!

A woman who has fallen out of love has no requests.

The heroine of Akhmatov’s lyrics is “sick” with love. But love is not only happiness; rather, on the contrary, it is suffering, painful misunderstanding, separation. Akhmatova’s love is almost always “restless.” That is why the poetess has so many poems - original lyrical short stories with an unexpected ending (“The City Has Disappeared”, “New Year’s Ballad”).

Akhmatova’s love is both a closed and “egoistic” passion, it is also “love is fun,” but most of all, of course, “great earthly love” - all-love, love for people and to people. And it is expressed, first of all, in love for the native land, for the Motherland, for Russia:

He said: "Come here,

Leave your land deaf and sinful,

Leave Russia forever..."

But Akhmatov’s heroine “shut up her hearing with her hands” because

I'm not with those who abandoned the earth

To be torn to pieces by enemies.

I don't listen to their rude flattery,

I won’t give them my songs.

Love for the Motherland is not a subject of analysis, some painful thoughts and doubts. This is love-homeland, love-fate (there was love-passion, love-separation and many, many other loves), but in the heroine’s worldview and attitude this love is forever. Love for the Motherland is love for the native language. This interpretation is very unusual, which is why it sounds like a spell and a promise:

It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,

It's not bitter to be homeless, -

And we will save you, Russian speech,

Great Russian word.

And therefore, the image of the lyrical heroine in poems dedicated to the Motherland, “military” poems, becomes physically tangible. This is no longer a trembling, vulnerable, vulnerable lady, this is a courageous woman, her character is flint, a monolith, therefore many of the poetess’s poems sound and are perceived as an oath:

We swear to the children, we swear to the graves,

That no one will force us to submit!

It is difficult not to identify the heroine of Akhmatov’s lyrics with the poetess herself. From a “cheerful sinner”, “a mocker of Tsarskoye Selo” and a young elegant lady, Akhmatova, together with her heroine (or heroines), will grow up, turning into “the first poetess of her native land, with a strong and mature voice, mournfully ringing. She became, as it were, a herald for the defenseless and suffering, a formidable denouncer of evil and ferocity.” This one is amazing exact description was given to Akhmatova by the patriarch of Russian literature abroad, Boris Zaitsev.

And if the heroine of Akhmatova’s poetry early realized her life as destiny, then Akhmatova the poet early and responsibly accepted and realized her creative - poetic - mission. Apparently, this is where the poems are self-reports, which is why there is such a demand for every word, for every poetic line. This is probably why her lines sound so sincere, heartfelt and piercing:

Cup of dark wine

The goddess of sorrow gave it to me.

But Akhmatova’s poems, the image of her lyrical heroine, so different and so close, are so surprisingly heartfelt, so touching the soul of every reader, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, regardless of what power is in the country, what time is outside the window...