But in a word, you can paint pictures, create real masterpieces filled with bright colors, aromas, life, philosophy and lyrics. These words cannot be read so simply. The reader will definitely see them, hear, feel the taste, smell and, with a short breath, will re-read again and again. Mystery, hypnosis, trash? Not at all. Just the poetry of Bunin.
Poet or writer?
Probably, difficulties were created specifically to turn people into skilled craftsmen. Ivan Alekseevich Bunin was born on October 22, 1870. He was a native of an impoverished noble family, so from an early age he was forced to work. An outstanding poet and writer, a Nobel laureate in literature, early began to live independently.
He worked in publishing houses of various newspapers and magazines, at times he worked part time in the office and traveled a lot. His first poem saw the world in 1887, and the first collection was published in 1891. During his creative activity, not only Bunin's poetry, but also works written by prose, received worldwide recognition. But the writer himself said that he was more a poet than a writer. Therefore, it is worth considering this very facet of his activity.
Inheritance
They say that everything new is well forgotten old. This is exactly what Bunin's poetry seems like against the background of literary modernity. Ivan Alekseevich successfully continued the best Pushkin traditions. From its strict lines it blows with simplicity and nobility. The poet does not need a "free verse", he feels great among the boundaries of iamba and chorea. He seemed to have inherited them from previous generations of poets. Bunin does not care about new creative techniques and styles of writing poetry. Ivan Alekseevich is sure that the old forms will never exhaust themselves.
Bunin is a poet. He himself has repeatedly insisted on this. And the great thing about him is that he never ranks himself among any schools or schools. He simply wrote beautiful poems, wrote them when he wanted to, and had something to say.
Artist
For the poet Bunin, the examples on which he was equal were always Chekhov, Pushkin and Tolstoy. He considered them the "gods" of literature. But despite the fact that Ivan Alekseevich took an example from them, his works had many of their own characteristics.
In poetry, Bunin uses classic sizes (two- and three-syllable). But this does not limit his thoughts in the least. Bunin manages to fill these small lines with such a wealth of intonation that they acquire a new, incomparable sound. Ivan Alekseevich is a true artist of the word. He subtly feels the beauty of the world: his sounds, colors, emotions. And this is reflected in his poetry. It is impossible to find another poet who could reveal all the splendor of nature to the last sound of a hawkish scream.
Themes of creativity
The poet looked at the world in a special way, and no matter how much you analyze, it is difficult to identify individual themes of Bunin's poetry. The lyrics of Bunin are a combination of certain facets of creativity. He writes about life, loneliness, longing, the joy of earthly being. In a word, Bunin reflects in his poetry all aspects of human life - starting from nature, what surrounds him, and ending with inner experiences.
Love lyrics
The first thing you should start to consider the work of the poet Bunin is love lyrics. He often wrote about the difficulties and tragedies of love, as well as about its fleeting beautiful moments. In verses about love, Bunin penetrates deeply into the most hidden depths of the human heart, revealing to the world its unknown and unknown laws. But even here he sees everything in his own way.
In verses about love, Bunin associates this feeling with the eternal and pristine beauty of nature. He perceives only that love that is natural - not fictitious, not false, not self-serving, but real. Life without love and not life at all, if love dies, then life becomes worthless and hopeless. However, the author does not hide the fact that not only joy should be expected from love. She can bring many sad memories. In one of his letters, he wrote that love and death are inextricably linked: every time he experienced another love catastrophe, he was close to suicide. And despite this, the feeling of love for the poet remains something sublime, ideal and, without doubt, eternal.
"Loneliness"
Bunin once admitted that he had experienced many love tragedies, so the theme of loneliness in the poet’s work can be considered a key one, and Bunin’s loneliness is a natural proof of this. This work was written in 1903, and it can only partially be called autobiographical, since the poet dedicated the poem to his close friend, the artist Peter Nilus, whom he called the "poet of painting."
In the verse "Loneliness" Bunin emphasizes that being alone is the destiny of many creative personalities. These people remain incomprehensible friends and those whom they consider their beloved. The human soul is not a reflection of someone, but a completely different universe, living by its own rules. Therefore, no one will ever be able to understand it, and as for the people of creativity, they will not be understood even more so.
The poem "Loneliness" was written in the midst of summer, but it still blows from the dank autumn dampness, which emphasizes the loneliness and longing of the protagonist so favorably. Everything mixed up in these lines: landscape lyrics, personal tragedy, and accepting life as it is.
Oh her, this rhyme
That is what the poet is interested in. When analyzing Bunin's poetry, one can see that he does not particularly adhere to rhyme. Sentences may break or end where the verse has not ended. The lyric works of the poet seemed to have lost their independence, they are not divorced from ordinary speech, but still remain true works of art. Bunin's poems are natural and lively, they are holistic, even despite the severity of sentences.
Bunin does not boast of an exquisite rhyme, the rhythm of his poems is peculiar, but thanks to her, the reader can see the exquisite beauty in everyday things.
Sound new
As for the features of the lyrics, Bunin's poetry tells of life, its microcosm and individual moods. It is quite normal for a poet to compare the snow-white wings of gulls with an egg shell or call the clouds shaggy. The author is not afraid to poetize everyday realities, not afraid to use the old and at the same time always relevant world values. It is not difficult for Bunin to chant what the writers of the past have repeatedly focused on. It seemed that these topics had already completely exhausted themselves, but in Bunin’s poems they found a new meaning.
Landscape lyrics
When compared with the poetry of Tyutchev, who conveyed his emotions to the world around him, Bunin does not impose personal emotional experiences on nature. He accepts the world as it is, in all its beauty. The poet is confident that nature should not fully correspond to human experiences, but nevertheless she emphasizes them.
Nevertheless, landscape lyrics in Bunin's poetry occupies an honorable place. The poet always worried how accurately he managed to convey the colors, sounds and smells that surround him. It is important for the poet to convey the beauty of the world in its various states in order to capture the irrevocably passing moments. For example, as in the work “Burned April Bright Evening”, which shows a brief moment of the outgoing evening, which is replaced by night.
But the reader is not only imbued with the charm of the April evening - he as if senses its smell and the quiet blow of a playful wind. The poet seems to carry the reader exactly to that last moment of a dying spring day.
Small feature
A special role in landscape lyrics is played by the smell, thanks to which you can truly understand all the charm, grace and beauty of Russian nature. In the poem “Smells of the Fields”, the lyrical hero as if catches the bright fragrance of the fields “from hayfields and oak groves”. Here Bunin was able to convey “meadows cool breath”, and the freezing of nature before a thunderstorm, and even the thunderstorm itself - in the image of a man with “crazy eyes”.
Most of Bunin’s poems about nature have no names, since it is almost impossible to convey the state in which the world is in two or three words.
Background
And as already mentioned, nature is the background on which experiences are reflected more vividly. Thanks to his landscape sketches, Bunin conveys the complexity of the human inner world. When describing the seasons or nature, the author is easily able to emphasize human emotions. But he does not confuse these concepts, but as if reinforces one with another.
The sensations that a person experiences with changes in the environment can be considered universal and understandable to everyone. The cold autumn rain makes you sad, and the bright spring sun inspires hope. These concepts are accessible to everyone, and Bunin, trying to convey the depth of experiences of lyrical heroes, uses this technique, but at the same time nature remains one topic, and emotions - another.
Traditions of Russian classics
Bunin's creative activity fell at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. At this time, the world was on the verge of new changes. All the hackneyed themes went into the ghostly past, covered with temporary dust, and new currents arose in its place. Even literature, this fate is not spared.
The poets of that time seemed to compete with each other in who would come up with the most sophisticated word form. New words, epithets, hyperbole, the size of verses - all this flowed into the literary movement without the right to condemn. Poets were looking for new ways to express their emotions, thoughts and feelings. And even if at times innovative methods were too shocking, difficult to understand and incomprehensible to ordinary people, they were accepted. This is modern. Society wanted to change, sought to completely redraw the world, entering a new era, so it was ready to accept all the innovations.
And only in Bunin's poetry, the traditions of Russian classics were preserved in all their beauty. The poet remained faithful to those values ​​that Fet, Tyutchev, Polonsky and others left behind. He wrote lively, realistic, simple and understandable poems and did not at all try to conduct dubious experiments on the word. The beauty and richness of the Russian language was more than enough for the “simple” Bunin to be recognized in the conditions of a “complex” modern.
Not like everyone
Bunin tried to find the harmony of the world and understand what is the meaning of human existence. In nature, he saw wisdom and an eternal, inexhaustible source of beauty. In his work, all living things were rational, and human life was considered in the context of nature, not changing it, but playing according to its rules.
Bunin is a connoisseur of landscape lyrics. His poems are like living pictures that can transmit smells and sounds. Over time, landscape lyrics acquire philosophical notes. The poet begins to consider the topics of life and death.
Bunin's poems did not reflect the revolutionary processes that took place in the country. While the revolution was going on, one way or another received publicity in the works of other writers of that time, Bunin continued to develop philosophical motives. If you reread all of his poems, then we can confidently say that the poet is more concerned not with “what” is happening, but “why” this or that situation happens to a person.
Just I. A. Bunin
In Bunin's poetry, the problems of today are correlated with the concepts of good and evil, life and death. The poet seeks truth, in its search turns to the history and religion of other countries. He is trying to understand according to what laws a society and a person as a whole are developing. According to him, a person’s life is nothing but a short stretch of eternity. He wants to see what is on the other side of life, and does not want to recognize the destruction of the nobility.
That is the peculiarity of Bunin's poetry. She seemed to be late for a century, did not suffer from the motives of the revolution, did not succumb to modernist trends. Following the best classical traditions, Bunin is free to express his thoughts. He does not waste time thinking of something new, because there are still so many unsaid.
Writer and artist all rolled into one. Suppose he never held brushes in his hands, did not stand thoughtfully at a blank canvas on an easel, his poems are the same pictures. So bright, vibrant and accurate. Laconic, restrained, laconic, sometimes unfinished, but at the same time full. What is this? Mystery, hypnosis, trash? Not at all. Just the poetry of Bunin.