Even as a child, in the Ryazan province, running through the fields, riding a horse, swimming in the Oka, the future poet realized how beautiful the Russian land is. He loved his region, his country and glorified it in his works brightly, colorfully, using various means of expression.
The author has a special relationship with the birch tree. This character, sung by Sergei Alexandrovich many times, is shown in various works, in different time years, with different moods and lyrical hero, and the tree itself. Yesenin literally breathed in the soul, and seemed to humanize the birch, making it a symbol of Russian nature. The Yesenin birch tree is a symbol of femininity, grace, and playfulness.
The history of the creation of the poem "Birch"
The beautiful and lyrical poetic work “Birch” belongs to poetry early period creativity, when a very young Ryazan guy, who was barely nineteen years old, was just beginning to enter the world of literature. At that time he worked under a pseudonym, so for a long time no one guessed that this delightful work belonged to Sergei Alexandrovich.
Simple in imagery, but very impressive, the poem “Birch” was written by the poet in 1913, when he was eighteen years old and it belongs to his very first works. It was created at the moment when the young man had already left his native and close to his heart corner, but his thoughts and memories constantly returned to his native places.
“Birch” was first published in the popular literary magazine “Mirok”. This happened on the eve of the revolutionary upheavals in the country, in 1914. At a time when no one has yet famous poet, worked under the pseudonym Ariston. So far these were Yesenin’s first poems, which would later become the standard for describing Russian nature in poetry.
Birch
White birch
Below my window
Covered with snow
Exactly silver.
On fluffy branches
Snow border
The brushes have blossomed
White fringe.
And the birch tree stands
In sleepy silence,
And the snowflakes are burning
In golden fire.
And the dawn is lazy
Walking around
Sprinkles branches
New silver.
The Power of a Poem
Yesenin's poem "Birch" is an example of skillful and skillful verbal drawing. The birch tree itself has always been a symbol of Russia. This is a Russian value, this is a folklore zest, this is a connection with the past and future. We can say that the work “Birch” is a lyrical hymn to the beauty and wealth of the entire Russian land.
The main topics that Yesenin describes include the following:
Theme of admiration.
The purity and femininity of this Russian wood.
Revival.
The birch tree in the poem looks like a Russian beauty: she is just as proud and elegant. All its splendor can be seen on a frosty day. After all, around this lovely tree there is a fascinating picturesque picture of Russian nature, which is especially beautiful on frosty days.
For Sergei, the birch tree is a symbol of rebirth. Researchers of Yesenin’s creativity argued that he took his talent and strength for writing his new poetic masterpieces precisely from memories from his childhood. The birch tree in Russian poetry has always been a symbol joyful life, it helped a person not only to console himself on difficult and sad days for him, but also allowed him to live in harmony with nature. Of course, the brilliant Russian poet knew oral folk art and remembered folklore parables that when things get difficult, difficult or disgusting in your soul, you just need to go to the birch tree. And this beautiful and gentle tree, having listened to all the experiences of a person, will ease his suffering. Only after a conversation with a birch tree, according to strange legends, a person’s soul becomes warm and light.
Artistic and expressive means
Admiring native nature In order to express all his love and admiration for her, Yesenin uses various artistic and expressive means:
★Epithets: golden fire, white birch, snowy border, sleepy silence.
★Metaphors: the birch tree is covered with snow, the border has blossomed with tassels, the snowflakes are burning in the fire, it goes around lazily, it sprinkles the branches.
★Comparisons: the birch tree was covered with snow “like silver.”
★Personification: “covered up” is a verb that has a reflexive suffix - s.
This use of artistic and expressive means allows us to emphasize beautiful image birch, its significance for the entire Russian people. The culmination of the entire work is achieved already in the third stanza, where each phrase contains some kind of means of expression. But critics of Yesenin’s work pay attention to the second line of this poem, where the space of the poet himself is indicated and limited. That is why the image of a birch is so close, understandable and familiar.
This poem was included in the very first cycle of Yesenin’s lyrics, which was written specifically for children and is educational in nature. This poem encourages and teaches children to love and admire their native nature, to notice its slightest changes and to be part of this big and beautiful world. Love to native land- this is the main idea of this Yesenin’s work, which is deep in content but small in volume. The division into stanzas in this work violates the usual traditional construction poetic texts, but due to its deep content the reader does not even notice this. The parallel rhyme makes it easy to read.
The style and syntax of Yesenin’s poetic creation is simple, which makes its content easy for any reader to understand. There is no clutter of consonants or vowels, there are no phonetic features that would make this poem difficult to understand. This allows us to achieve that even children younger age The plot of this poem is clear. The poet uses a two-syllable meter for his text. Thus, the entire text is written in trochee, which makes it easy to remember.
Analysis of the poem
It is known that Yesenin has pleasant, warm childhood memories associated with the beautiful birch tree. Also in early childhood The little Ryazan boy Seryozha loved to watch how this tree transformed in any weather conditions. He saw this tree as beautiful with green leaves that played merrily in the wind. I watched as it became naked, throwing off its autumn outfit, exposing its snow-white trunk. I watched the birch tree flutter in the autumn wind, and the last leaves fell to the ground. And so, with the arrival of winter, the dear birch tree put on a wonderful silver outfit. It is precisely because the birch tree is dear and beloved to the Ryazan poet himself, a part of his region and soul, that he dedicates his poetic creation to it.
Let us dwell in more detail on the image of the birch tree, which was created by Evenin with such tenderness and love. The description of this tree reveals the sadness and sadness of Sergei Alexandrovich himself. After all, now he is torn away from his native corner, and his wonderful childhood time will not return again. But the simplest and most unpretentious story about a birch tree also shows the skill of the future great poet, whose name will remain forever in the memory of the people. With pleasant and special grace, the poetic master describes the outfit of the Russian beauty. The winter dress of the birch tree, according to the poet, is woven from snow. But even Sergei Alexandrovich’s snow is unusual! It is fluffy, and silvery, and iridescent, and multi-colored. The poet repeatedly emphasizes that it burns and shimmers in a special way, as if it contains all the colors of the rainbow, which are now reflected in the morning dawn.
The poetic and pictorial master describes in detail the words and tree branches, which supposedly remind him of fringe tassels, but only it is snowy, sparkling and lovely. All the words that the poet chooses to describe are exquisite, and at the same time simple and understandable to everyone.
IN a simple poem Sergei Yesenin connected several at once poetic images: Homeland, mothers, girls. It’s as if he dressed his birch tree in women’s exclusive clothes and now rejoices at her coquetry. It seems that the poet himself is on the verge of discovering something new and mysterious in himself, something he has not yet explored, and therefore he associates love for a woman with a beautiful birch tree. Researchers of Yesenin’s work suggest that it was at this time that the poet fell in love for the first time.
Therefore, such a simple and seemingly so naive, at first glance, the poem “White Birch” evokes a huge range of the most different feelings: from admiration to melancholic sadness. It is clear that each reader of this poem draws his own image of a birch tree, to which he then addresses the beautiful lines of Yesenin’s work. “Birch” is a farewell message to his native places, to parents' house, to a childhood that was so joyful and carefree.
With this poem, Yesenin opened his way into the world of poetry and literature. The path is short, but so bright and talented.
At the time of writing the poem “White Birch,” Sergei Yesenin was only 18 years old, so the lines are filled with romanticism and take us to an episode of a fabulous winter, where the poet sees a white birch tree under the window.
One of the symbols of Russia stands under the window, covered with snow that looks like silver. There is no need for deep analysis here to see all the beauty of Yesenin’s lines, combined with the simplicity of the rhyme. Yesenin pays tribute to the birch, because this tree has been associated with Russia for many centuries. He is remembered in long journey, they rush to him upon his return. Unfortunately, the mountain ash is more glorified in literature - a symbol of sadness and melancholy. Sergei Alexandrovich fills this gap.
Birch image
In order to understand the lines and feel them, you need to imagine a picture in which, in a frosty winter, a birch tree covered with snow stands under the window. The stove is on in the house, it’s hot, but it’s a frosty day outside. Nature takes pity on the birch and covered it with snow, like silver, which is always associated with purity.
The birch reciprocates, revealing itself in all its glory:
On fluffy branches
Snow border
The brushes have blossomed
White fringe.
Nobility of nature
The sun shines gold on the silver, and there is frosty silence all around, which makes the author of the lines sleep. The combination of gold and silver is symbolic; they show the purity and nobility of nature in its original form.
Looking at this picture, one thinks about the eternal. What is young Yesenin thinking about, having just moved to Moscow from Konstantinovo? Perhaps his thoughts are occupied by Anna Izryadnova, who in a year will give birth to his child. Perhaps the author dreams of publication. By the way, it was “Birch” that became Yesenin’s first published poem. Published lines in the magazine "Mirok" under the pseudonym Ariston. It was “Birch” that opened the way for Yesenin to the pinnacle of poetic fame.
In the last quatrain, the poet shows the eternity of beauty. The dawn, which circles the earth every day, sprinkles the birch tree with new silver every day. In winter it is silver, in summer it is crystal rain, but nature does not forget about its children.
The poem “Birch” shows the poet’s love for Russian nature and reveals his ability to subtly convey natural beauty in lines. Thanks to such works, we can enjoy the beauty of winter even in the middle of summer and wait for the approaching frosts with longing in our hearts.
White birch
Below my window
Covered with snow
Exactly silver.
On fluffy branches
Snow border
The brushes have blossomed
White fringe.
And the birch tree stands
In sleepy silence,
And the snowflakes are burning
In golden fire.
And the dawn is lazy
Walking around
sprinkles branches
New silver.
Many people know the text of Yesenin’s poem “White birch under my window” by heart. This is one of the first masterpieces yet young poet. To a wide circle The poem became known to readers in 1914 after it appeared on the pages of the fashionable literary magazine Mirok. It was written a year earlier. At that time, few could have imagined that the work of the poet, hiding under the pseudonym Ariston, would become so popular.
Before Yesenin, many people sang birch in their works. But not everyone was able to so subtly and accurately convey light sadness, tremulous joy and sincere sympathy at the same time. Of course, everyone will read and perceive the poem “Birch” differently. It can be viewed narrowly as admiring the beauty of nature and original artistic description what happens to a tree in winter.
But the poet put much more meaning into the image of the birch. These are memories of native places, an unrealistic hope of returning to childhood, the desire to feel happy again. Behind the description of the birch tree in the poem are hidden images of Russia, which the poet genuinely admired. It was in thoughts about the Motherland and in the feeling of falling in love with it that Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin drew strength and inspiration.
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
White birch
Below my window
Covered with snow
Exactly silver.
On fluffy branches
Snow border
The brushes have blossomed
White fringe.
And the birch tree stands
In sleepy silence,
And the snowflakes are burning
In golden fire.
And the dawn is lazy
Walking around
sprinkles branches
New silver.
It is not for nothing that the poet Sergei Yesenin is called the singer of Russia, since in his work the image of his homeland is key. Even in those works that describe mysterious eastern countries, the author constantly draws a parallel between overseas beauties and the quiet, silent charm of his native expanses.
The poem “Birch” was written by Sergei Yesenin in 1913, when the poet was barely 18 years old.
Sergei Yesenin, 18 years old, 1913
At this time, he was already living in Moscow, which impressed him with its scale and unimaginable bustle. However, the poet remained faithful in his work native village Konstantinovo and, dedicating a poem to an ordinary birch tree, it was as if he was mentally returning home, to an old rickety hut.
The house where S. A. Yesenin was born. Konstantinovo
It would seem, what can you tell about an ordinary tree that grows under your window? However, it is with the birch tree that Sergei Yesenin associates the most vivid and exciting childhood memories. Watching how it changes throughout the year, now shedding its withered leaves, now dressing in a new green outfit, the poet became convinced that the birch tree is an integral symbol of Russia, worthy of being immortalized in poetry.
The image of a birch tree in the poem of the same name, which is filled with slight sadness and tenderness, is written with special grace and skill. Her winter outfit, woven from fluffy snow, the author compares it with silver, which burns and shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow in the morning dawn. The epithets with which Sergei Yesenin awards the birch are amazing in their beauty and sophistication. Its branches remind him of tassels of snow fringe, and the “sleepy silence” enveloping the snow-dusted tree gives it a special appearance, beauty and grandeur.
Why did Sergei Yesenin choose the image of a birch tree for his poem? There are several answers to this question. Some researchers of his life and work are convinced that the poet was a pagan at heart, and for him the birch tree was a symbol of spiritual purity and rebirth.
Sergei Yesenin at the birch tree. Photo - 1918
Therefore, in one of the most difficult periods of his life, cut off from his native village, where for Yesenin everything was close, simple and understandable, the poet is looking for a foothold in his memories, imagining what his favorite looks like now, covered with a blanket of snow. In addition, the author draws a subtle parallel, endowing the birch with the features of a young woman who is no stranger to coquetry and a love of exquisite outfits. This is also not surprising, since in Russian folklore the birch, like the willow, has always been considered a “female” tree. However, if people have always associated the willow with grief and suffering, which is why it got its name “weeping”, then the birch is a symbol of joy, harmony and consolation. Knowing Russian folklore very well, Sergei Yesenin remembered folk parables that if you go to a birch tree and tell it about your experiences, your soul will certainly become lighter and warmer. Thus, an ordinary birch tree combines several images at once - the Motherland, a girl, a mother - which are close and understandable to any Russian person. Therefore, it is not surprising that the simple and unpretentious poem “Birch,” in which Yesenin’s talent is not yet fully manifested, evokes a wide variety of feelings, from admiration to slight sadness and melancholy. After all, each reader has his own image of a birch, and it is to this that he “tryes on” the lines of this poem, exciting and light, like silvery snowflakes.
However, the author’s memories of his native village cause melancholy, since he understands that he will not return to Konstantinovo soon. Therefore, the poem “Birch” can rightfully be considered a kind of farewell not only to his home, but also to childhood, which was not particularly joyful and happy, but, nevertheless, one of the best periods of his life for the poet.
“Birch” Sergei Yesenin
White birch
Below my window
Covered with snow
Exactly silver.On fluffy branches
Snow border
The brushes have blossomed
White fringe.And the birch tree stands
In sleepy silence,
And the snowflakes are burning
In golden fire.And the dawn is lazy
Walking around
sprinkles branches
New silver.
Analysis of Yesenin’s poem “Birch”
It is not for nothing that the poet Sergei Yesenin is called the singer of Russia, since in his work the image of his homeland is key. Even in those works that describe mysterious eastern countries, the author always draws a parallel between overseas beauties and the quiet, silent charm of his native expanses.
The poem “Birch” was written by Sergei Yesenin in 1913, when the poet was barely 18 years old. At this time, he was already living in Moscow, which impressed him with its scale and unimaginable bustle. However, in his work, the poet remained faithful to his native village of Konstantinovo and, dedicating a poem to an ordinary birch tree, it was as if he was mentally returning home to an old rickety hut.
It would seem, what can you tell about an ordinary tree that grows under your window? However, it is with the birch tree that Sergei Yesenin associates the most vivid and exciting childhood memories. Watching how it changes throughout the year, now shedding its withered leaves, now dressing in a new green outfit, the poet became convinced that the birch tree is an integral symbol of Russia, worthy of being immortalized in poetry.
The image of a birch tree in the poem of the same name, which is filled with slight sadness and tenderness, is written with special grace and skill. The author compares her winter outfit, woven from fluffy snow, to silver, which burns and shimmers with all the colors of the rainbow in the morning dawn. The epithets with which Sergei Yesenin awards the birch are amazing in their beauty and sophistication. Its branches remind him of tassels of snow fringe, and the “sleepy silence” enveloping the snow-dusted tree gives it a special appearance, beauty and grandeur.
Why did Sergei Yesenin choose the image of a birch tree for his poem? There are several answers to this question. Some researchers of his life and work are convinced that the poet was a pagan at heart, and for him the birch tree was a symbol of spiritual purity and rebirth. Therefore, in one of the most difficult periods of his life, cut off from his native village, where for Yesenin everything was close, simple and understandable, the poet is looking for a foothold in his memories, imagining what his favorite looks like now, covered with a blanket of snow. In addition, the author draws a subtle parallel, endowing the birch with the features of a young woman who is no stranger to coquetry and a love of exquisite outfits. This is also not surprising, since in Russian folklore the birch, like the willow, has always been considered a “female” tree. However, if people have always associated the willow with grief and suffering, which is why it got its name “weeping”, then the birch is a symbol of joy, harmony and consolation. Knowing Russian folklore very well, Sergei Yesenin remembered folk parables that if you go to a birch tree and tell it about your experiences, your soul will certainly become lighter and warmer. Thus, an ordinary birch tree combines several images at once - the Motherland, a girl, a mother - which are close and understandable to any Russian person. Therefore, it is not surprising that the simple and unpretentious poem “Birch,” in which Yesenin’s talent is not yet fully manifested, evokes a wide variety of feelings, from admiration to slight sadness and melancholy. After all, each reader has his own image of a birch, and it is to this that he “tryes on” the lines of this poem, exciting and light, like silvery snowflakes.
