"Autumn has come, the flowers have dried up" is one of the most famous poems about autumn, which lives in the childhood memories of many Russian people. This is not surprising, because its structure is very simple. Such a creation is easy to perceive even for young children: it evokes in their imagination primitive images of autumn. The verse "Autumn has come, the flowers have dried up" is published in children's books on literature and always authored by Pleshcheyev. It is worth noting that poems of the same structure are often found in various children's magazines and poetry books: it is easy for children to learn them by heart, thus training memory and developing artistic taste. In the poem "Autumn has come, the flowers have dried up" there are only laconic forms: the size of the three-foot chorea with alternating female and male endings (emphasis in the first line on the penultimate syllable; and in the second on the last).
Literary critics have doubts about the poem
to which I dedicated this article. The fact is that this creation was not included in any of the collections of works by Alexei Nikolayevich Pleshcheev. Hence the reasonable question: "Is he the author of the poem?" I will not scold my soul if I say: "It is very likely that the children gave glory to the wrong creator." Having studied the work of Alexei Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev, I realized that autumn was a dull moment for him: he saw in it only withering. This does not contradict the theme of the poem "Autumn has come, the flowers have dried up." Drawing a conclusion from this observation, it can be argued that there is one reason to think of him as the author of this work.
On the other hand, an unknown poet could deliberately imitate Pleshcheyev’s attitude to autumn, and the simple form of his poems. But who and why needed to do this? Maybe someone really wanted his creation to be read, as well as many works of the famous poet; or it was an accidental typo when compiling a collection of children's literature, which first published the verse "Autumn has come, the flowers have dried up." The author is a mystery to me, as I think, for many others. It is worth paying attention to the content of the poem, which, unlike other Pleshcheev’s works, has a meager semantic orientation. Such poems are most often written by inexperienced poets who tend to imitate the work of more famous authors. A superficial perception of the poem by an inexperienced reader can be a cause of approval. The verse at first glance seems figurative, simple and beautiful. If the reader pays attention to its emotional content, then this will give him only a meager and depressing idea of ​​nature.
In his work on this subject, Mikhail Zolotonosov claims that the author of the poem is none other than the writer of an Orthodox textbook on literature. The book was compiled by the inspector of the educational district of Moscow Alexei Baranov and published in 1885. It was in this collection of Russian literature for the first time that the verse “Autumn has come, the flowers have dried” was published. Based on the opinion of a professional and my own guesses, I acknowledge the likelihood of false authorship of this poem. However, there is no reason to believe that there is reliable evidence of who is actually the author.