Poem by K*** “I remember wonderful moment..." A.S. Pushkin dates back to 1825. The poet and friend of Pushkin A.A. Delvig published it in “Northern Flowers” in 1827. This is a poem on the theme of love. A.S. Pushkin had a special attitude towards everything related to love in this world. For him, love in life and work was a passion that gave a feeling of harmony.
For the full text of the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment...” by A.S. Pushkin, see the end of the article.
The poem is addressed to Anna Petrovna Kern, young attractive woman, which the twenty-year-old poet first saw at a ball in St. Petersburg in the Olenins’ house in 1819. It was a fleeting meeting, and Pushkin compared it with the vision of the divine beauty from Zhukovsky’s beautiful work “Lalla Ruk”.
When analyzing “I Remember a Wonderful Moment...” you should pay attention to the fact that the language of this work is unusual. It has been cleared of all specifics. You can notice five words repeated twice - deity, inspiration, tears, life, love. Such a roll call " forms a semantic complex related to the field of artistic creativity.”
The time when the poet was in southern exile (1823-1824), and then in Mikhailovskoye (“in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment”) was a crisis and difficult time for him. But by the beginning of 1825, Alexander Sergeevich had come to grips with himself, with his gloomy thoughts, and “an awakening came in his soul.” During this period, he saw A.P. Kern for the second time, who came to visit Praskovya Aleksandrovna Osipova, who lived next door to Pushkin, in Trigorskoye.
The poem begins with a review of past events, the time spent
“In the languor of hopeless sadness,
In the anxieties of the noisy bustle..."
But the years passed, and a period of exile began.
“In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment,
My days passed quietly
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love."
The depression did not last long. And Alexander Sergeevich comes to a new meeting with a feeling of joy in life.
“The soul has awakened
And then you appeared again,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty."
What was the driving force with the help of which the poet’s life regained its bright colors? This is creativity. From the poem “Once again I visited...” (in another edition) you can read:
"But here I am with a mysterious shield
Holy Providence has dawned,
Poetry as a comforting angel
She saved me, and I was resurrected in soul."
Concerning themes of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, then, according to a number of literary experts, love theme is here subordinated to another, philosophical and psychological theme. Observation of "different conditions" inner world the poet in relation to this world with reality” - this is the main thing we are talking about.
But no one canceled love. It is presented in the poem on a large scale. It was love that added much-needed strength to Pushkin and brightened his life. But the source of the author’s awakening was poetry.
The poetic meter of the work is iambic. Pentameter, with cross rhyme. Compositionally, the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is divided into three parts. Two stanzas each. The work was written in major key. It clearly contains the motive of awakening to a new life.
“I remember a wonderful moment...” by A.S. Pushkina belongs to the galaxy of the poet’s most popular works. The famous romance by M.I. Glinka, set to the text “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” contributed to the even greater popularization of this creation.
TO***
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
In the languor of hopeless sadness,
In the worries of noisy bustle,
A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time,
And I dreamed of cute features.
Years passed. The storm is a rebellious gust
Dispelled old dreams
And I forgot your gentle voice,
Your heavenly features.
In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
The soul has awakened:
And then you appeared again,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him they rose again
And deity and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
The poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, addressed to a hidden addressee (“K***”), has a real life basis, since it was presented by the poet to the subject of his feelings - Anna Petrovna Kern. The acquaintance with her took place in the house of Kern’s relative (president of the Academy of Arts A.N. Olenin, whose wife A.P. Kern was a niece), during Pushkin’s stay in St. Petersburg, even before exile, in 1819. The second time they met through six years. At this time, the poet was in Mikhailovskoye as an exile. The owner of the estate adjacent to Mikhailovsky, Trigorsky, turned out to be a relative of Kern, P.A. Osipova, in whose family he was warmly received. Anna Petrovna stopped by Osipova for several weeks on her way to Riga. Leaving Trigorsky, she received as a gift from the author a copy of the second chapter of the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”, which included the message “K***”.
The first stanza (there are six quatrains in the poem, iambic tetrameter with cross rhyme) turns to the past, when the meeting took place, which lyrical hero remembers as a vision of an ideal. Awareness of the reminiscent background helps to identify the meaning of the impression. The image of the “genius of pure beauty” with which the beloved is compared belongs to V.A. Zhukovsky (poem “Lalla Ruk”, 1821, which is an interpretation of the poem of the same name by T. Moore). For him, this is an angel, the embodiment of the heavenly ideal of beauty. In addition to reminding of a specific work, reminiscence is also important due to the fact that it brings to mind a number of characteristics of the ideal in the work of the romantics. For Zhukovsky, beauty is a “guest... from above,” visiting the poet in sleep, in memories, dreams, illuminating earthly life “for a minute,” which is remembered for a long time, “inseparable from the heart.”
Pushkin’s lyrical hero recalls that the meeting with his darling (“cute features”) caused the awakening of emotions and reminded him of the earthly manifestations of the divine principle, that is, both feeling and thought came to life in him in an instant, which made him magical, “wonderful”:
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
The light of the heavenly ideal falls on the beloved, and her features acquire sublimity and tender, beautiful mystery. These impressions persist even in separation, contrasting with the “noisy bustle” of everyday life. But they sound more and more muffled (in showing a subsiding spiritual storm, the motif of a voice that appears in memory, but then forgotten - stanzas 2-3 is decisive) against its background, the reality of the past is only a dream:
Storms outside world stronger than time, which did not influence the hopeless love of the lyrical hero, but even they do not have the power to “dispel” (as their impulse “Dispelled previous dreams”) his commitment to the ideal. The fourth stanza, central in the compositional division of six quatrains into two parts (three stanzas each), where attention is focused on the two stages of love. If in the first three stanzas of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, the analysis of which interests us, an image is created of a feeling that arose several years ago, which tormented with its hopelessness for whole years, then in the final ones the experience changes in character and becomes an internal sensation. And then everything external is relegated to the background. In the poem there is no motive of a romantic choice between two worlds; dreams and storms of life, “the languor of hopeless sadness” and “anxiety of noisy vanity” fill the life of the lyrical hero, making him rich and diverse (a gentle voice and the noise of storm and vanity sound). The importance of focusing on internal aspects is emphasized in connection with the discovery of their life-giving (Zhukovsky) meaning: the divine principle is manifested in them. The darkness of imprisonment becomes a metaphor for the earthly prison, where the empty days of the lyrical hero stretch endlessly (the emptiness is emphasized thanks to the fivefold repetition of the preposition “without”):
In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly,
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
Love is highlighted among all experiences; the conclusion that it is the main thing that the lyrical hero lacks is facilitated by the rising intonation, the idea of which arises thanks to the enumeration. The pinnacle to which it leads is the word “love.” In addition to intonation, phonic artistic means and unusual rhyming help to elevate the concept. In four of the six stanzas, the same consonances in male rhyme are used (in the first and fifth they repeat each other: you are beauty; in the fourth a new rhyme appears, the task of which is to highlight keyword(my - love). This effect is emphasized by the fact that there is no novelty in the female rhyme of the stanza; it is consonant with the endings of the odd terms in the first quatrain (imprisonment - inspiration - moment - vision).
At the semantic level, the meaning of love is affirmed due to the fact that the resurrection of the lyrical hero, the awakening of his soul, is associated with it. The impression is repeated, he again experiences (stanza 5) a “wonderful moment” (the literal repetition of the images of the first stanza is highlighted):
The soul has awakened,
And here we go again you appeared
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
Love fills the heart, like an ideal, spiritualizing earthly darkness with Divine light. In the context of the analyzed poem “I remember a wonderful moment...” by Pushkin, feeling turns out to be no less important than the desire for the infinite, and, in connection with the reproduction of subjective psychological experiences, appears as a tangible and convincing manifestation of spirituality. In the last stanza we're talking about about the miracle he performed - after worries, disappointments, dangers, worries, gloomy forebodings, loneliness, the heart beats again in ecstasy, hopes and creative dreams are resurrected.
Rising intonation leads further, and at the top the main landmark is again highlighted (the intonation elevation, which enlivens oral reading, existing in the reader’s mind, thanks to the inner ear, is facilitated by enumeration - for which the sevenfold repetition of the conjunction “and” is used). The word “love” also stands out thanks to the new consonance. If the female rhyme of the sixth quatrain repeats the one that was used in the first, fourth and fifth stanzas (rapture - inspiration, rhyming with the odd lines of these quatrains, ending with the words: “moment - vision” - 1, “imprisonment - inspiration” - 4, “ awakening - vision” - 5), then the masculine one is built on the assonance “o” (again - love). It encourages you to remember consonant words in previous text, among which were confessions of a long memory of a fleeting impression (I remember, in front of me, fleeting, worries, years, tears - in these words “o” is in the accent position) and an image expressing the tangibility of the memory: “A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time .. .” Together with repetitions of the sounds “e” (in addition to rhymes, the words “genius, languor, scattered, former, heavenly, soul, heart, resurrected”), “and” (“appeared, pure, dreamed, dear, your, life” ) and “u” (“wonderful, sad, noisy, stormy”), the assonance of “o” gives a unique musicality to the poem. In the last quatrain it sounds like the final tonic (main, supporting tone):
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him they rose again
Both Divinity and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
The last chord completes the development of the lyrical plot, where there were wonderful moments, and years of hopeless experiences, and days of imprisonment, with an optimistic emotional note. Inner life the lyrical hero appears as a whole world where beauty and harmony reign. Its sound, phonic characteristics are not accidental, since the impression of consistency, harmony, proportionality is easier and more convincing to convey with musical artistic means(harmony, from the Latin “proportionate, harmonious”, refers to the area expressive means in music based on the combination of tones into consonances and their connections with each other). Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, one of the founders of Russian symbolism, called Pushkin’s skill in creating verbal symphonies (from the Greek “consonance”) “sound writing” (one of Bryusov’s many works on Pushkin’s poetry is called “Pushkin’s Sound Writing”, 1923). If you, following Bryusov and many other writers and philologists, are interested in revealing the secrets of the great poet’s talent, you will have to consider his poem not intuitively, but quite consciously and thoughtfully.
Try reading Pushkin’s poem “K***” aloud, reproducing the rising intonation in quatrains 4 and 6 (the last lines of the stanzas, where repeated prepositions or conjunctions sound), as if climbing to the top, where the word that ends the stanza reigns (“love”, “ Love"). In addition, try to hear the melody created by assonances in strong places in the text, their connection with semivowels and sonorants. It will sound major (from the Latin “bigger”, musical mode, the steady sounds of which create a cheerful, joyful mood), despite the hopelessness and depression expressed in the content. In the second - fourth stanzas, where we talk about the loneliness of the lyrical hero (hopeless sadness, sweet features are only dreamed of, and then completely forgotten, days in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment), about his difficult experiences, sound repetitions are built on the same consonants, as in the first, fifth and sixth quatrains, which convey completely different feelings. " N», « m", And " l"with vowels form melodic combinations: then mlen yah, sounding l me d ol go g olo With Not and ny, With Nile be nice y, d neither my etc. The combination of multidirectional emotional tendencies within the framework of one poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, which we analyzed, allows us to express a harmonious worldview.
It becomes characteristic feature the lyrical hero in Pushkin’s poems, demonstrating his desire to accept life in all the diversity of its features, to combine attention to detail with generalization, spontaneity with philosophical depth. For him, there is nothing one-dimensional and complete in the world. For his soul, “Either all are too few, or one is enough” (“Having voluntarily renounced multiplicity...”, 1825), everything depends on the mirror where the real situation is reflected. But whether it brings details closer or allows you to look at life as a whole, the “immortal sun” is always visible above the canvas (“Bacchanalian Song”, 1825), the present is perceived as a stage (“Everything is instantaneous, everything will pass;/What will pass will be sweet” . - “If life deceives you...”, 1825), a moment stopped by the will of the artist, beautiful, “wonderful” or sad, gloomy, but always sweet with its uniqueness.
The theme of love in the lyrics of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is of particular importance. If Nekrasov, for example, had a Muse, which he identified with a peasant woman, then the “sun of Russian poetry” did not have a Muse as such - but there was love, which the poet needed like air, because without love he was not able to create. So they became Pushkin’s Muses earthly women, who once conquered the poet.
It is worth noting that Pushkin was in love many times - often his chosen ones were married women, for example, Elizaveta Vorontsova or Amalia Riznich. Despite the fact that all these high-society ladies were included in Pushkin’s so-called Don Juan list, compiled by him personally, he did not at all imagine the poet’s closeness with his lovers, with the exception of a spiritual, tender friendship. However, Anna Petrovna Kern, to whom the immortal “I remember a wonderful moment...” is dedicated, becomes Pushkin’s most famous Muse.
This woman captivated the poet in St. Petersburg in 1819 at one of the social events. At that time, Kern had already broken up with her unloved husband, so a romance began between her and the talented descendant of “the Blackmoor Peter the Great,” which high society was unable to condemn.
But the epoch-making poem was created much later, in 1825, when Pushkin again meets ex-lover, and his feelings flare up with renewed vigor. Like Katerina, who became a ray of light in dark kingdom, Anna Petrovna revived the poet, gave him the pleasure of a feeling of love, inspiration, and gave him poetic strength. Thanks to her, one of the most beautiful works of Russian love poetry was born.
So, the history of its creation is well known, which, however, does not prevent literary historians from putting forward other assumptions about the possible addressee of the tender message, including even a certain serf girl Nastenka, about whom, however, nothing is known in Pushkin’s diaries, his personal letters, etc. .
It is important to note that the poem is autobiographical in nature, which is why episodes from the life of the great poet are so easily traced in it, however, the complete identification of the lyrical hero with the author, as well as the lyrical heroine with A.P. Kern, will be incorrect, since the image of the latter, of course, is idealized.
Undoubtedly, the theme of the message “I remember a wonderful moment...” is an intimate revelation, a love confession. As already mentioned, Pushkin needed love, not necessarily shared. Thanks to his feelings, he was able to create. At the same time, in the poem one can find philosophical theme the meaning of love in human life.
“I remember a wonderful moment...” - plot poem. In it, the lyrical hero meets a beautiful lover who revives the best feelings in his soul, but over time loses her. Along with the girl, the hero’s romantic dreams and inspiration go away, and his wings curl behind his back. Over the years, the devastation only intensifies, but then the charming woman appears again in the life of her lover, again bringing with her the beautiful, spiritual.
So, if we transfer this plot to the biography of its author, we will note that the first stanza describes the first meeting with Kern in St. Petersburg. The second and third quatrains tell about the southern exile and the period of “imprisonment” in Mikhailovskoye. However, it happens new meeting with the Muse, who resurrects the best in the poet’s soul.
The autobiographical nature of the message determines its composition. Facilities artistic expression quite modest, but at the same time picturesque. The poet resorts to epithets (“ clean" beauty, " wonderful"moment," rebellious"gust of storms, etc.), metaphors (" genius of pure beauty», « awakening of the soul"), personification ( the gust of storms is animated). Particular expressiveness and melody is achieved by using stylistic figures, for example, antitheses.
Thus, the hero lives “without a deity, without inspiration,” which are resurrected as soon as his beloved returns to his life. In the last quatrain you can see anaphora, and in the second - assonance (“a gentle voice sounded to me for a long time”). The entire poem is written using the technique of inversion.
Pushkin's lyrical heroine is an image of some unearthly being, angelic, pure and gentle. No wonder the poet compares her to a deity.
“I remember a wonderful moment...” is written in Pushkin’s favorite iambic tetrameter with cross alternation of female and male rhymes.
Amazing tenderness and touching messages to Kern make romantic work one of the best examples of love lyrics - on a global scale.
“I remember a wonderful moment...” - one of the most touching and tender poems about love written by A. S. Pushkin. This work is rightfully included in the “Golden Fund” of Russian literature. We offer you to review the analysis of “I remember a wonderful moment...” according to plan. This analysis can be used in a literature lesson in 8th grade.
Brief Analysis
History of creation- poems written in 1825 and dedicated to A.P. Kern. Published in the almanac “Northern Flowers” in 1827.
Theme of the poem- poems about unrequited love, which nevertheless saves a person, elevates his soul and fills life with meaning.
Composition– The poem consists of three conventional parts. the first part is nostalgic, where the hero yearns for his beloved, the second describes the hero’s feeling of loneliness and suffering, the third brings the hero back to life, saving him from despair by the newly resurrected feeling of love.
Genre– love letter
Poetic size– iambic pentameter with cross rhyme ABAB.
Metaphors- “the rebellious gust of storms scattered former dreams”
Epithets- “heavenly features”, “hopeless sadness”, “wonderful moment”.
Comparisons- “like a fleeting vision, like a genius of pure beauty.”
History of creation
The history of the creation of the poem is directly related to the person to whom this sincere declaration of love is dedicated. Pushkin dedicated his poems to Anna Petrovna Kern, married woman, who captivated the poet’s heart with her deep and restrained beauty, as soon as they met her at a social reception in 1819.
True, the poem was written only a few years after they met - in 1825, when Pushkin again met the captivating beauty of St. Petersburg in the Trigorskoye estate, which was located next to the poet’s native estate - Mikhailovsky - where Alexander Sergeevich was serving his exile. There, he finally confessed his feelings to Anna, and she reciprocated Pushkin.
It is possible that Kern was primarily interested in Pushkin as a young poet and therefore the attention of a celebrity pleased her vanity. One way or another, it was not only Pushkin who courted Anna Petrovna, which aroused burning jealousy in the latter, which always became the cause of scandals between lovers.
Another quarrel ended love relationships Pushkin and Kern, but still the poet dedicated several wonderful poems to her, among which “I remember a wonderful moment...” occupies a special place. Pushkin’s lyceum friend Delvig published it in the almanac “Northern Flowers” in 1827.
Subject
Pushkin chose the description of the feeling of unrequited love as the main problem of the poem.
The poem contains the whole range of emotions, the evolution of which is simple: at first the lyrical hero experiences love languor, in his imagination again and again resurrecting the image of his beloved. But gradually the feelings that did not find a response in the beloved’s soul faded away. And the lyrical hero again plunges into a boring and gray world: in this everyday life, his soul seems to die.
But now, after a while, the hero meets her again, his beloved. And the forgotten feeling of love is resurrected, filling the soul and heart of the poet with the fullness of life sensations. Only in love does Pushkin see meaning; only love, in his opinion, can relieve despair and pain, and make a person feel alive again. Love brings life to life - here it is main idea works.
Composition
The composition of the poem conventionally consists of three parts. In the first, the mood of the lyrical hero is nostalgic. He returns again and again in his memories to meeting and getting to know a beautiful woman.
The lyrical hero dreams of “cute features” for a long time and hears her “tender voice.” Then Pushkin describes the dark days of his “imprisonment” in the wilderness. He admits that the loneliness of exile deprived him of even inspiration, and life, once full of vivid emotions, turned into existence.
In the third part of the poem, the lyrical hero again feels the joy of life, since a meeting with a forgotten beloved revives love in his heart, and with it inspiration, passion, and the desire to live return.
Genre
The genre of the poem is a love letter, since in the poem the lyrical hero, addressing his beloved, tells her the story of his feelings for her: love - oblivion - sadness - rebirth to life.
Means of expression
The poem contains only one metaphor - “a rebellious storm dispelled previous dreams”, but it also contains other means of expressiveness: comparisons - “like a fleeting vision, like a genius of pure beauty” and several epithets - “heavenly features”, “hopeless sadness” , “wonderful moment”.
The poetic meter of the work is very typical for Pushkin - it is iambic pentameter with a cross ABAB rhyme method. Thanks to cross-cutting rhymes (vision - imprisonment - inspiration - awakening) and alliteration on the consonants “m”, “l”, “n”. the rhythm of the poem becomes very clear and musical. The melody of the poems is also enhanced by the undulating alternation of iambic feet.
The poem "" dedicated to A.P. Kern is a magnificent example of Russian love poetry. The theme of love literally permeates the entire work.
The creation of such an amazingly beautiful work by Pushkin was inspired by his acquaintance with the hero’s wife Patriotic War 1812 by Anna Petrovna Kern. The fleeting acquaintance that took place in St. Petersburg in 1819 left an indelible impression on the poet’s soul.
We know that the poet's stay in St. Petersburg was short-lived. Disgrace and exile soon followed, first to the Caucasus, and then to Mikhailovskoye. New impressions and meetings somewhat erased the image of the sweet woman from my memory.
A new meeting took place 6 years later, when Pushkin was already living in Mikhailovskoye, and Anna Petrovna came to the village of Trigorskoye to visit her aunt Praskovya Osipova. Pushkin was a frequent guest at the estate of Praskovya Alexandrovna, who was a true admirer of his talent.
When Anna Kern was getting ready to leave for her husband in Riga, where he was appointed to the post of commandant of the fortress, Pushkin presented her with an autograph of the lyrical masterpiece. It should be noted that the meeting in Trigorskoye shook up Pushkin; Anna Petrovna became the poet’s muse, inspiring him to new creations.
For the first time this lyrical work was published by Delvig in his magazine “Northern Flowers”. In the summer of 1827, Pushkin came to St. Petersburg. Perhaps it was then that he handed over the poem to Delvig for publication.
Analyzing the poem, we see that it was written in the genre of a lyrical message. Consists of six stanzas. In terms of composition, the poem consists of three parts. Each pair of stanzas represents a certain period of the author’s life.
- Dating and falling in love
- Parting
- New meeting.
The phrases “wonderful moment” and “fleeting vision” paint an ephemeral picture: the image of a woman flashed in a crowd among men and women. Perhaps she was talking to someone, or laughing. Most likely, the poet remembered her laughter after this meeting. The woman flashed by, and the poet did not even have time to find out who she was. I only heard in my memory “a gentle voice and dreamed of sweet features.”
The second part sounds in contrast, reflecting state of mind poet:
In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
And how surprised he was when, having arrived in the village of Trigorskoye to visit the Osipovs, where he was a frequent guest, he saw his “fleeting vision.” But this time she didn't disappear. For several days they had the opportunity to talk, he admired her gentle voice, admired her beauty, education and intelligence. And he even managed to present an autograph - a poem dedicated to the genius of “pure beauty”. It is no coincidence that the phrases “fleeting vision” and “genius of pure beauty” are repeated. With these words, the poet emphasizes the impression that Anna Petrovna made on him. There are few epithets in the poem, but they are very significant and figurative: gentle, fleeting, sweet, heavenly.
Each stanza has 4 lines. Cross rhyme. Male rhyme is combined with female rhyme. It’s interesting that in the first and third lines the rhymes are different, but the second and fourth lines are always the same – you. As if with this rhyme Pushkin wants to emphasize his closeness to her. It’s a little surprising that Pushkin addresses Anna Petrovna on a first name basis, which was not customary secular society. Moreover, Pushkin clearly emphasizes this appeal with a stressed, strong rhyme in every even-numbered line. This may indicate a huge degree of spiritual closeness and mutual understanding.
The size of the verse is iambic pentameter, making it melodious and light.
The poem is not overloaded with artistic means and lexical figures; it is written in an easy and sonorous language. It is not surprising, therefore, that this work was soon set to music and became one of the most wonderful and beloved romances. It is noteworthy that the composer Mikhail Glinka, who created the romance, dedicated it to Anna Petrovna’s daughter, Catherine, whom he loved.
The poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is still interesting to readers now, 200 years later, and serves as an unsurpassed example of Russian love poetry.
