Introduction to the poet Yesenin
Sergey Alexandrovich Yesenin (СергейАлександровичЕсенин, 1895? 1925), a Russian pastoral poet. Born in a peasant family in Ryazan Province, he was raised by his grandfather, a rich farmer. Graduated from the Normal School in 1912, and then went to Moscow to work as a proofreader in a printing house. At the same time, he participated in the Surikov Literary and Music Group and took courses at the Shaniavsky Civilian University. In 1914, he published the lyric poem "White Birch". In 1915, he met Blok, Gorky and Mayakovsky, and published his first collection of poems, "Day of the Dead". He enlisted in the army in the spring of 1916 and married Lai Yihe after his discharge. At dawn on December 28, 1925, he committed suicide in a hotel in Leningrad.
Yesenin’s literary characteristics
The October Revolution brought about a fundamental change in his creation. He praised the revolution and the working class, but fundamentally he did not understand the revolution and the Soviet system. . As a result, he revealed his bohemian and cynical "Yesenin temperament". His representative work in this regard is the poem "Voices from a Moscow Tavern" (1921? 1923). "Yesenin's temperament" is easily reminiscent of the "Faustian spirit" that contained two sides in the Romantic era, especially the "Byronic hero". They can be roughly regarded as the performance of the same poet in different eras. Yesenin's temperament is actually a unique manifestation of the last poet in the countryside who found himself standing on the opposite side of the development of the times in the changing times. Pasternak (1890? 1960) believed: Yesenin treated his life like a fairy tale. He was like Prince Ivan riding a gray wolf across the ocean and grabbing Isadora; and Duncan, like Caught the firebird by its tail. His poems are also written in the style of fairy tales. Sometimes he lays out the words like playing cards, and sometimes he records them with the blood in his heart. The most precious thing in his poems is the scenery of his hometown, which is the central region of Russia, Ryazan Province, full of forests. He described it with a dizzying freshness just like he did when he was a child. Yevtushenko (1933) called him "one of the purest Russian poets": "Yesenin's poetry is a native phenomenon." Yesenin's sound radiates the magical brilliance of the minerals unique to the Russian soil structure. Yesenin's poetry is a unique product of Russian nature and the Russian language (including fairy tales, ballads, country folk songs, proverbs and sayings, incantations, elegies, and ritual songs that have been partially handed down from ancient times). ? Their grasp of Yesenin is undoubtedly extremely precise. ?Sometimes he lays out the words like playing cards, and sometimes he writes them down with the blood of his heart? These are two different manifestations of Yesenin's temperament in his poetry creation. And the reason why he is called "one of the purest Russian poets" is precisely because Yevtushenko grasped the cause of "Yesenin's temperament" from a deep level: he was unable to identify with modern times due to his persistent attachment to the Russian countryside. The powerful advance of civilization and its destruction of the countryside. If Pushkin was a poet who was at the forefront of the times and advocated for national freedom, then Yesenin undoubtedly acted as a "villain" of the era intentionally or unintentionally. What he strongly desired to preserve was the regional culture of a specific era. When Gorky analyzed the cause of his death, he believed that he died from the conflict between urban and rural civilizations. This judgment is quite profound. The difference between Yesenin and other poets of the Silver Age is that he did not go into exile after the October Revolution and vowed to be incompatible with the October Revolution like Gippius and others. Except for the two years when he traveled with Duncan, he had always stayed on Russian soil. However, the development of reality made him feel more and more distressed: On the path of the blue field, guests of steel will soon appear. /Oats soaked in morning glow, /Only a few shriveled kernels remain. //The lifeless threshing floor of a stranger, / The song it sings to you will not bring you life! / Only the horses and oats / will grieve for their old masters. ?In "Lenten Festival", he directly uses the typical scene of the race between the "iron horse" (i.e. the train) and the live horse to reflect this conflict. Pasternak, who lived and interacted with him at the same time, was full of understanding and sympathy for Yesenin: The status of Yesenin's landscape poetry was replaced in his works by the labyrinth of the modern metropolis. He depicts the agitated, inhuman miserable state of the lonely soul of a contemporary man who is lost in this labyrinth and destroyed his morals. ?
What is Yesenin called?
Many people have done research on Yesenin, so there are many evaluations of Yesenin. Yevtushenko called Yesenin "the purest Russian poet". Because he believed Yesenin's poetry was an indigenous phenomenon. The phonology of the poem radiates the magical color of the Russian land and is full of the flavor of Russian nature. Moreover, Yesenin's poems contain many Russian languages, such as fairy tales, ballads, folk sayings, proverbs, etc., so Yesenin is an only child of Russia.
The reason why Yevtushenko was able to analyze Yesenin's poems so thoroughly was mainly because he understood Yesenin's temperament and the reasons for the formation of Yesenin's temperament, that is, Yesenin had a deep attachment to the Russian countryside.
The American Slonin once praised Yesenin as a poet who observed nature with the innocent eyes of a shepherd, because Yesenin's nature poems can give people a feeling of unity between nature and man. . Yesenin completely immersed himself in nature and experienced every plant and tree of nature attentively, so he captured the rustic flavor of Russian nature, and then used extremely fresh poems to describe the myriad aspects of nature.
Yesenin is also known as a talented Russian lyric poet, a representative of Russian pastoral scenery, and an important founder of Russian and Soviet poetry. Yesenin is famous in all countries in the world, and many scholars are Yesenin is obsessed with poetry, and his poetry has been translated into many languages ????and spread around the world.