Great ones about poetry:

Poetry is like painting: some works will captivate you more if you look at them closely, and others if you move further away.

Small cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creaking of unoiled wheels.

The most valuable thing in life and in poetry is what has gone wrong.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Of all the arts, poetry is the most susceptible to the temptation to replace its own peculiar beauty with stolen splendors.

Humboldt V.

Poems are successful if they are created with spiritual clarity.

The writing of poetry is closer to worship than is usually believed.

If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow without shame... Like a dandelion on a fence, like burdocks and quinoa.

A. A. Akhmatova

Poetry is not only in verses: it is poured out everywhere, it is all around us. Look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life emanate from everywhere, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.

I. S. Turgenev

For many people, writing poetry is a growing pain of the mind.

G. Lichtenberg

A beautiful verse is like a bow drawn through the sonorous fibers of our being. The poet makes our thoughts sing within us, not our own. By telling us about the woman he loves, he delightfully awakens in our souls our love and our sorrow. He's a magician. By understanding him, we become poets like him.

Where graceful poetry flows, there is no room for vanity.

Murasaki Shikibu

I turn to Russian versification. I think that over time we will turn to blank verse. There are too few rhymes in the Russian language. One calls the other. The flame inevitably drags the stone behind it. It is through feeling that art certainly emerges. Who is not tired of love and blood, difficult and wonderful, faithful and hypocritical, and so on.

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

-...Are your poems good, tell me yourself?
- Monstrous! – Ivan suddenly said boldly and frankly.
- Do not write anymore! – the newcomer asked pleadingly.
- I promise and swear! - Ivan said solemnly...

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. "Master and Margarita"

We all write poetry; poets differ from others only in that they write in their words.

John Fowles. "The French Lieutenant's Mistress"

Every poem is a veil stretched over the edges of a few words. These words shine like stars, and because of them the poem exists.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Ancient poets, unlike modern ones, rarely wrote more than a dozen poems during their long lives. This is understandable: they were all excellent magicians and did not like to waste themselves on trifles. Therefore, behind every poetic work of those times there is certainly hidden an entire Universe, filled with miracles - often dangerous for those who carelessly awaken the dozing lines.

Max Fry. "Chatty Dead"

I gave one of my clumsy hippopotamuses this heavenly tail:...

Mayakovsky! Your poems do not warm, do not excite, do not infect!
- My poems are not a stove, not a sea, and not a plague!

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

Poems are our inner music, clothed in words, permeated thin strings meanings and dreams, and therefore, drive away the critics. They are just pathetic sippers of poetry. What can a critic say about the depths of your soul? Don't let his vulgar groping hands in there. Let poetry seem to him like an absurd moo, a chaotic pile-up of words. For us, this is a song of freedom from a boring mind, a glorious song sounding on the snow-white slopes of our amazing soul.

Boris Krieger. "A Thousand Lives"

Poems are the thrill of the heart, the excitement of the soul and tears. And tears are nothing more than pure poetry that has rejected the word.

Students are usually asked to read the poem “Green Noise” by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov in a literature lesson in the 8th grade. Teachers first analyze the work with the children, and then ask them to learn it completely by heart.

The text of Nekrasov’s poem “Green Noise” was written in 1863. Nikolai Alekseevich rarely wrote landscape lyrics. He believed that there was no need for it. It does not pose any serious questions and thereby does not give answers to them, does not solve any social significant issues. He wrote the poem after listening to Ukrainian songs. It is in them that spring is given such a characteristic as “green noise”. The work of Nikolai Alekseevich has a ring composition. He begins it with a description of nature and ends with the same, adding only moralizing instructions. However, in the poem the writer describes not only nature. He also tells the story of one rural married couple. The wife cheated on her husband while he was working in St. Petersburg. Winter came. Because of the cold weather, they cannot separate, and they have to live together. For a long time the hero wants to kill her. He cannot forgive her for her betrayal. But then spring comes. A man's anger subsides and he still forgives unfaithful spouse.

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The Green Noise is going on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

Playfully, disperses
Suddenly a riding wind:
The alder bushes will shake,
Will raise flower dust,
Like a cloud: everything is green,
Both air and water!

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

My hostess is modest
Natalya Patrikeevna,
It won't muddy the water!
Yes, something bad happened to her
How I spent the summer in St. Petersburg...
She said it herself, stupid
Tick ​​her tongue!

In the hut there is a friend with a liar
Winter has locked us in
My eyes are harsh
The wife looks and is silent.
I’m silent... but my thoughts are fierce
Gives no rest:
Kill... so sorry for my heart!
There is no strength to endure!
And here the winter is shaggy
Roars day and night:
“Kill, kill, traitor!
Get rid of the villain!
Otherwise you'll be lost for the rest of your life,
Not during the day, not during the long night
You won't find peace.
Shameless in your eyes
They'll spit on you!..”
To the song of a winter blizzard
The fierce thought grew stronger -
I have a sharp knife...
Yes, suddenly spring has crept up...

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

Like drenched in milk,
There are cherry orchards,
They make a quiet noise;
Warmed by the warm sun,
Happy people making noise
Pine forests.
And next to it there is new greenery
They babble a new song
And the pale-leaved linden,
And a white birch tree
With a green braid!
A small reed makes noise,
The tall maple tree is rustling...
They make a new noise
In a new way, spring...

The Green Noise goes on and on.
Green Noise, spring noise!

The fierce thought weakens,
The knife falls from my hands,
And I still hear the song
One - both forest and meadow:
“Love as long as you love,
Be patient as long as you can
Goodbye while it's goodbye
And God will be your judge!”

* This is what people call awakening
nature in spring. (Note by N.A. Nekrasov.)

The Green Noise is going on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

Playfully, disperses
Suddenly a riding wind:
The alder bushes will shake,
Will raise flower dust,
Like a cloud: everything is green,
Both air and water!

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

My hostess is modest
Natalya Patrikeevna,
It won't muddy the water!
Yes, something bad happened to her
How I spent the summer in St. Petersburg...
She said it herself, stupid
Tick ​​her tongue!

In the hut there is a friend with a liar
Winter has locked us in
My eyes are harsh
The wife looks and is silent.
I’m silent... but my thoughts are fierce
Gives no rest:
Kill... so sorry for my heart!
There is no strength to endure!
And here the winter is shaggy
Roars day and night:
“Kill, kill, traitor!
Get rid of the villain!
Otherwise you'll be lost for the rest of your life,
Not during the day, not during the long night
You won't find peace.
Shameless in your eyes
They'll spit on you!..”
To the song of a winter blizzard
The fierce thought grew stronger -
I have a sharp knife...
Yes, suddenly spring has crept up...

The Green Noise goes on and on,
Green Noise, spring noise!

Like drenched in milk,
There are cherry orchards,
They make a quiet noise;
Warmed by the warm sun,
Happy people making noise
Pine forests.
And next to it there is new greenery
They babble a new song
And the pale-leaved linden,
And a white birch tree
With a green braid!
A small reed makes noise,
The tall maple tree is rustling...
They make a new noise
In a new way, spring...

The Green Noise goes on and on.
Green Noise, spring noise!

The fierce thought weakens,
The knife falls from my hands,
And I still hear the song
One - both the forest and the meadow:
“Love as long as you love,
Be patient as long as you can
Goodbye while it's goodbye
And God will be your judge!”
_________________
* This is what people call the awakening of nature in spring. (Note by N.A. Nekrasov.)

Analysis of the poem “Green Noise” by Nekrasov

Nekrasov rarely turned to pure landscape lyricism. In his poems there are fragments devoted to the description of nature, but they are not the main thing. The poet was primarily interested in social problems. He considered enthusiastic descriptions of nature a useless activity that only distracts people from reality. Unlike representatives of “pure” art, Nekrasov did not understand how landscape can influence human behavior. The exception to the rule is the poem “Green Noise” (1863). It is believed that the poet wrote it under the impression of Ukrainian songs and used the traditional folk epithet – green noise – as the title and refrain.

Naturally, Nekrasov could not do without peasant theme. The plot is based on the sad story of a man who left the village to work in St. Petersburg. In his absence, his wife cheated with someone else, but in a fit of remorse she confessed everything to her husband. In rural society, divorces were extremely rare, since the breakdown of the family seriously affected the joint household. That's why main character forced to continue living with his wife, harboring anger. In heavy thoughts, he is preparing a terrible revenge on his wife and her lover (“I have a sharp knife”).

Nekrasov acknowledges the influence of nature on a man’s thoughts. “Shaggy Winter” whispers to him every day terrible thoughts about shame in front of his neighbors and about the desecration of a man’s honor. “Fierce thoughts” increasingly take over the consciousness of the deceived husband. Locked by frost in his hut alone with his wife, he simply cannot switch to other thoughts.

“Green noise” becomes a salvation for a woman. The coming spring released people to freedom, awakening new hopes and dreams. The “warm sun” and blossoming nature drove out ominous thoughts from the husband’s soul. He involuntarily gives up revenge and forgives his unfaithful wife. The surrounding natural sounds merge in his mind into a song, the meaning of which is in simple words: “love”, “endure” and “farewell”. The peasant realizes that human laws are nothing compared to the highest divine truth. One of the components of this eternal truth is the forgiveness of sins.

The poem “Green Noise” stands apart in all of Nekrasov’s work. The poet not only recognizes the influence of nature on man, but also sees the solution social problem in divine court. He often repeated that since childhood he had felt anger and hatred of injustice. However, in this case, he himself succumbed to a joyful feeling and came to understand the need for forgiveness.

The poem “Green Noise” was written in 1863 and published in Sovremennik No. 3 for 1863, then included in the collection of 1864.

Nekrasov became acquainted with the image of green noise after reading a Ukrainian song with comments by Maksimovich in 1856. They described how the Dnieper, to which the girls addressed in song, and the entire space around was covered with greenery, the wind rose, clouds of pollen appeared. Nekrasov used these images in the poem.

The poem “Green Noise” was repeatedly set to music (its landscape part).

Literary direction, genre

The poem can be classified as role-playing lyrics. The epic hero is a peasant who came from working in St. Petersburg and learned about his wife’s infidelity. Nekrasov imitates the genre of family songs about love and betrayal. Realist writers valued folk songs this genre, considering that they talk about what happens in life, which is typical.

Theme, main idea and composition

The theme is that a husband experiences his wife’s betrayal and refrains from murder, succumbing to the influence of spring renewal.

The main idea: the victory of life (spring) over death (winter), forgiveness over vengeance. The revival of nature after hibernation and the liberation of man from resentment, unforgiveness and everything that kills the soul.

The poem is built on psychological parallelism (renewal of nature and human soul). Compositionally, it is divided into 4 parts with two alternating themes. The first and third parts tell about the arrival of spring and changes in nature, its decoration and renewal. The refrain is repeated four times.

The second and fourth parts are devoted to the plot of a peasant and his traitorous wife. Nekrasov uses the landscape as a frame to describe the dramatic events in the family of the epic hero and his confession. In the first epic part, he talks about his wife’s betrayal, his hesitation about what to do, and his plan to kill the traitor, which matured over the long winter. The first epic part ends with the arrival of change: “But then spring crept up.” In the second epic part, the state of nature and man comes into harmony, the epic hero seems to receive from nature itself, from the song that sounds everywhere, the gift of wisdom and forgiveness, God's gift.

Paths and images

Nekrasov’s landscape is active and dynamic. “The green noise goes and hums” is the personification of the coming spring and a symbol of a new beginning, change, revitalization of nature and soul. In that folklore image, which Nekrasov borrowed from the song, which he honestly said in the note, combines fresh color and restless sound. Green noise – metonymy (noise of greenery). The poem personifies the high wind (strong spring wind), which “ playfully, disperses" Trees are described using personifications: pine forests cheerful, linden and birch babble a song, by the birch green braid. The spring landscape contains comparisons: green floral alder dust is like a cloud, cherry orchards seem to be doused with milk.

In the landscape part, Nekrasov uses constant folklore epithets: spring noise, warm sun, pale-leaved linden, white birch, green braid, small reed, tall maple. Repetition of a word or words with the same root focuses attention on the word: green noise, reed noise, maple noise, new noise, new greenery, new song.

The epic part also uses epithets and metaphorical epithets: modest housewife, stern eyes, fierce thoughts, shaggy winter, long night, shameless eyes, winter blizzard song, sharp knife. These are permanent folklore epithets or epithets associated with the winter state of nature and the human heart. To further connect winter in nature and in the heart, Nekrasov uses personifications: winter locked the spouses in the hut and roared day and night, demanding to kill the traitor and the villain.

The speech of the epic hero is chaotic, replete with unfinished phrases. Nekrasov imitates colloquial speech with incomplete sentences, phraseological units (“she won’t muddy the waters” - quiet, modest, “tip her tongue”, don’t give a damn in her shameless eyes). The epic hero calls his wife by her first name and patronymic not out of special respect, but according to Russian tradition. He is annoyed that his wife told him about the betrayal, violating the usual harmony, and calls her stupid. The epic hero cannot even utter words about treason, replacing them with a paraphrase: “Something bad happened to her.”

Nekrasov’s word is precise and succinct. Phrase " I feel sorry for her, my dear"reveals the hero's love for his wife. Having made your moral choice, the hero accepts love, patience and forgiveness, and all the worst in the heart, which symbolizes the defeated winter, is handed over to God’s judgment.

Meter and rhyme

The meter of the poem is similar to iambic tetrameter, but numerous pyrrhic elements bring it closer to tonic song verse. The poem has no rhyme (blank verse).

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"Green Noise" analysis of the work - theme, idea, genre, plot, composition, characters, issues and other issues are discussed in this article.

History of creation

The poem “Green Noise” was written in 1863 and published in Sovremennik No. 3 for 1863, then included in the collection of 1864.

Nekrasov became acquainted with the image of green noise after reading a Ukrainian song with comments by Maksimovich in 1856. They described how the Dnieper, to which the girls addressed in song, and the entire space around was covered with greenery, the wind rose, clouds of pollen appeared. Nekrasov used these images in the poem.

The poem “Green Noise” was repeatedly set to music (its landscape part).

Literary direction, genre

The poem can be classified as role-playing lyrics. The epic hero is a peasant who came from working in St. Petersburg and learned about his wife’s infidelity. Nekrasov imitates the genre of family songs about love and betrayal. Realist writers greatly appreciated folk songs of this genre, believing that they speak about what happens in life, which is typical.

Theme, main idea and composition

The theme is that a husband experiences his wife’s betrayal and refrains from murder, succumbing to the influence of spring renewal.

The main idea: the victory of life (spring) over death (winter), forgiveness over vengeance. The revival of nature after hibernation and the liberation of man from resentment, unforgiveness and everything that kills the soul.

The poem is built on psychological parallelism (renewal of nature and the human soul). Compositionally, it is divided into 4 parts with two alternating themes. The first and third parts tell about the arrival of spring and changes in nature, its decoration and renewal. The refrain is repeated four times.

The second and fourth parts are devoted to the plot of a peasant and his traitorous wife. Nekrasov uses the landscape as a frame to describe the dramatic events in the family of the epic hero and his confession. In the first epic part, he talks about his wife’s betrayal, his hesitation about what to do, and his plan to kill the traitor, which matured over the long winter. The first epic part ends with the arrival of change: “But then spring crept up.” In the second epic part, the state of nature and man comes into harmony, the epic hero seems to receive from nature itself, from the song that sounds everywhere, the gift of wisdom and forgiveness, God's gift.

Paths and images

Nekrasov’s landscape is active and dynamic. “The green noise goes and hums” is the personification of the coming spring and a symbol of a new beginning, change, revitalization of nature and soul. In this folklore image, which Nekrasov borrowed from the song, as he honestly said in the note, fresh color and restless sound are combined. Green noise - metonymy (noise of greenery). The poem personifies the high wind (strong spring wind), which “ playfully, disperses" Trees are described using personifications: pine forests cheerful, linden and birch babble a song, by the birch green braid. The spring landscape contains comparisons: green floral alder dust is like a cloud, cherry orchards seem to be doused with milk.

In the landscape part, Nekrasov uses constant folklore epithets: spring noise, warm sun, pale-leaved linden, white birch, green braid, small reed, tall maple. Repetition of a word or words with the same root focuses attention on the word: green noise, reed noise, maple noise, new noise, new greenery, new song.

The epic part also uses epithets and metaphorical epithets: modest housewife, stern eyes, fierce thoughts, shaggy winter, long night, shameless eyes, winter blizzard song, sharp knife. These are permanent folklore epithets or epithets associated with the winter state of nature and the human heart. To further connect winter in nature and in the heart, Nekrasov uses personifications: winter locked the spouses in the hut and roared day and night, demanding to kill the traitor and the villain.

The speech of the epic hero is chaotic, replete with unfinished phrases. Nekrasov imitates colloquial speech with incomplete sentences, phraseological units (“she won’t muddy the waters” - quiet, modest, “tip her tongue”, don’t give a damn in her shameless eyes). The epic hero calls his wife by her first name and patronymic not out of special respect, but according to Russian tradition. He is annoyed that his wife told him about the betrayal, violating the usual harmony, and calls her stupid. The epic hero cannot even utter words about treason, replacing them with a paraphrase: “Something bad happened to her.”

Nekrasov’s word is precise and succinct. Phrase " I feel sorry for her, my dear"reveals the hero's love for his wife. Having made his moral choice, the hero accepts love, patience and forgiveness, and all the worst in the heart, which symbolizes the defeated winter, is handed over to God’s judgment.

Meter and rhyme

The meter of the poem is similar to iambic tetrameter, but numerous pyrrhic elements bring it closer to tonic song verse. The poem has no rhyme (blank verse).