Pushkin in Tbilisi. "On the hills of Georgia" A. Pushkin Despondency of my nothingness
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's poem "Night lies on the hills of Georgia" is written in iambic. It combines five and six-foot iambic. Rhyming in the poem is cross, with alternating male and female rhymes. This gives the work consistency, speech floats slowly and measuredly, as if showing objects one after another, continuously and smoothly. The work was written in 1829 during a long trip to the Caucasus. Pushkin visited the place of hostilities, which was interesting to him because the poet was worried about the fate of the Decembrists. It is interesting that during this period he was in love with Natalia Goncharova, which means he wrote about love for her. Natalya rejected the love of the young poet, but this did not mean that Pushkin could not admire his chosen one. The young poet shows his experiences by conveying a picture of nature. Mist covers the world, peace comes into the soul of the poet. He is not going to violently oppose the choice of his chosen one, but he cannot forget about her. Therefore, the calmness of nature accurately reflects its mood.
We bring to your attention the text of the verse by A.S. Pushkin:
On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night;
Noisy Aragva before me.
I'm sad and easy; my sadness is light;
My sorrow is full of you
You, you alone ... My despondency
Nothing hurts, nothing worries
And the heart burns again and loves - because
That it cannot love.
You can also listen to the text of the poem “On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night” (read by Oleg Pogudin):
The poem "On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night ..." was written by Pushkin in 1829 during the poet's trip to Transcaucasia. Then Pushkin was hopelessly in love with Natalia Goncharova, not even hoping to marry her. Genre - elegy.
The poem deals with the theme of love. The description of nature serves the author as a way of expressing feelings lyrical hero, reflections on the theme of love. The first two verses (lines) give a landscape picture:
On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night;
Noisy Aragva before me.
The landscape contains a hidden opposition of two principles. The first verse draws hills - hills raised to the sky. The second is a deep river lying at the feet of the poet. The third and fourth verses characterize the inner state of the lyrical hero. It is in harmony with the surrounding landscape. The feelings experienced by the hero-author are contradictory: “sad and easy” are not only different, but also difficult to combine feelings. Their explanation is given in the following lines:
I'm sad and easy; my sadness is light;
My sorrow is full of you...
The poetic “you” introduced into the poem (the image of an unnamed beloved) becomes a source of light. Sadness is full of it, and this makes sadness bright. The next four verses change intonation. The calmly sad narrative intonation of the first quatrain becomes more tense:
By you, by you alone... My despondency
Nothing hurts, nothing worries
And the heart burns again and loves - because
That it cannot love.
The last lines are especially important for understanding the poem and Pushkin's concept of love: the very need to love is eternal, love arises in the poet's heart as an echo female beauty and harmony.
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On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night;
Noisy Aragva before me.
I'm sad and easy; my sadness is light;
My sorrow is full of you
By you, by you alone... My despondency
Nothing hurts, nothing worries
And the heart burns again and loves - because
That it cannot love.
29-year-old Alexander Pushkin, upset by the refusal of the first beauty of Moscow, Natalia Goncharova, leaves for the Caucasus, where he writes these poems. In Tbilisi, or as it was customary then to call - Tiflis, Pushkin was two weeks - from May 27 to June 10, 1829. He was seen not only at receptions, but also committed acts unacceptable for his position - he wandered around the bazaars, played with boys, went to sulfur baths and (oh, horror!) Buy pears here on this square and eat them unwashed. Tbilisi had already been turned into a garrison city for the army. Russian Empire, intending to capture not only the Caucasus, but also to conquer Persia and Turkey. Of course, according to Russian tradition, most of the streets of houses being built in the modern districts of Sololaki and Mtatsminda were named after generals and high royal officials. And the enamored and rejected poet was looking for an opportunity to escape from his sadness. Only. And again, according to Russian tradition, the best distraction is to go to war.
One can relate differently to Pushkin's literary talent, but the fact that he was a propagandist of the wars of conquest of the Russian Empire is beyond doubt. When Pushkin returned from the Caucasus, Thaddeus Bulgarin wrote in his newspaper Severnaya Pchela: “Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin returned to the local Capital from Arzrum. He was in the brilliant field of victories and triumphs of the Russian army, he enjoyed the spectacle, curious for everyone, especially for the Russian. Many admirers of his Muse hope that he will enrich our Literature with some work inspired under the shadow of military tents, in view of impregnable mountains and strongholds, on which the mighty hand of the Erivan hero hoisted Russian banners.
Pushkin during the trip enjoyed the full attention of the Erivan hero - General Paskevich, who, during the farewell visit of the poet, July 21, 1829 in Erzerum, presented him with a Turkish saber, and Pushkin in response dedicated lines to him in the poem "Borodino Anniversary":
"Mighty avenger of evil insults
Who conquered the peaks of the Taurus
Before whom Erivan humbled herself
To whom the Suvorov Lavra
The wreath was woven with triple abuse.
Pushkin was called a poet in the army, in our opinion - a propagandist. There was no television then, radio too, newspapers were rarely published and the only way to glorify the conquests was to write laudatory poems. However, Paskevich turned out to be the most sincere after the death of the poet, writing a letter to Nicholas I, in which there are such lines: “It is a pity for Pushkin, as a writer, at a time when his talent was maturing; but he was a bad man. It is also a Russian tradition - to exalt and humiliate, at the same time... a prop...
Your innermost soul feelings Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin displayed on paper, his love lyrics characterized by frankness and tenderness. Such poetry also includes "On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night." You need to read the verse “On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night” by Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich after reading the biography of the poet. The work was written when Alexander Sergeevich was in Transcaucasia (1829), then he was in love with Natalya Goncharova, but did not even hope to marry her. These circumstances should be mentioned in the literature lesson.
The text of Pushkin's poem "Night lies on the hills of Georgia" takes the reader to the banks of the Aragva, where the lyrical hero is in "bright sadness", in thought. His heart is fraught with conflicting feelings: sadness and lightness, sadness, despondency, love. But the heart does not smolder with despondency, because love makes it burn. The mood of the lyrical hero is emphasized by visual (night haze) and auditory (river noise) images.
On the hills of Georgia lies the darkness of the night; Noisy Aragva before me. I'm sad and easy; my sadness is light; My sadness is full of you, You, only you... My despondency Nothing torments, disturbs, And my heart burns and loves again - because It cannot not love.
"On the Hills of Georgia" is one of the few poems about Pushkin's love for his future wife, the beautiful Natalya Goncharova. The poet met Natalya Goncharova in Moscow in December 1828 at the dance master Yogel's ball. In April 1829, realizing that he might be refused, Pushkin asked for the hand of Natalia from her parents through Fyodor Tolstoy the American. The answer of Goncharova's mother was vague: Natalya Ivanovna believed that the 16-year-old daughter at that time was too young for marriage, but there was no final refusal. Having received a very vague answer, Pushkin decided to go to the active army in the Caucasus.
Pushkin's friends, not wanting to endanger the poet's life, nevertheless persuaded Pushkin to stay for several months in Tiflis, where a short and sensual poem "On the Hills of Georgia" was created.
"On the hills of Georgia" is a lyrical poem written in the genre of elegy. The size of the verse is iambic with a cross rhyme. The description of nature serves the author as a way of expressing the feelings of the lyrical hero, reflections on the theme of love. The author narrates only his thoughts, and does not color them emotionally. There is only one metaphor in the verse - "the heart is on fire", but it is so familiar that it is not even perceived as a metaphor.
During the period of writing the poem, Pushkin had a desire to leave the venture with marriage and never return to Moscow. However, the feelings for Natalya Goncharova turned out to be so strong that in 1830 the poet again proposed to Natalya Goncharova and this time received consent. It is curious that after the marriage, Pushkin did not dedicate a single lyric poem to Natalya Goncharova.
