Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky brought a new direction to Russian literature - romanticism, which at the beginning of the 19th century was widespread only in Europe. The poet appreciated the simplicity and charm of verses of this genre and himself created a huge number of works in the spirit of romanticism. One of them is Zhukovsky’s poem “Inexpressible”, written in the form of an elegy in the summer of 1819.
Vasily Andreevich repeatedly resorted to this genre, since he believed that he most accurately expresses the author’s own feelings and secret thoughts. The poet liked to philosophize in his works, to reflect on the question of the essence of the universe.
An analysis of Zhukovsky’s
poem “Inexpressible” shows that even this great writer, who was a reader and teacher at the imperial court, did not have enough vocabulary to reliably convey the picture he saw.
In his work, Vasily Andreyevich praises nature, admires its careless beauty. They have not yet come up with such words that could describe the natural phenomena surrounding landscapes - this is what the analysis of Zhukovsky’s poem “Inexpressible” speaks of. The author asks the question: “What is our earthly language before the wonderful nature?”, He laments the imperfection of the Russian language, its emotional poverty, lack of bright colors.
Vasily Andreevich is sure that a person is not able to see all the beauty of the world around him, he is content with only a small part. It is impossible to draw up a complete picture of the universe from separate, unconnected images and features. Only creative individuals are able to see a little more than an ordinary person, and this knowledge allows them to compose verses, singing the greatness and luxury of mother nature. An analysis of Zhukovsky’s poem “Inexpressible” allows us to catch the poet’s regret that nature did not endow people with the ability to appreciate every moment and notice how beautiful and perfect it is.
The poet is convinced that the soul of each of us is ready to let in a charming image of rivers, fields, forests, but the mind is not able to respond to spiritual impulses and translate feelings into words. The perception of the surrounding world in many respects depends on the mood of a person. If he is not burdened with worries, he will admire the golden sunset, clouds flying across the sky, the murmur of a stream, but if his mind is solving any problems, then he will pass by without noticing the surrounding beauty.
The analysis of Zhukovsky’s poem “Inexpressible” shows the author’s regret about the irretrievably lost time. A person begins to value something only when it loses, Vasily Andreevich himself considers youth a serious loss. The poet was born and raised in one of the villages of the Tula province, it was there that he discovered the beauty of nature, learned to draw inspiration from contemplating endless fields and meadows, green groves and forests, blue rivers and lakes. Zhukovsky wrote The Inexpressible in order to convey his regret about the impossibility of expressing admiration for the surrounding world on a sheet of paper, conveying the beauty of landscapes, conveying to the reader feelings that he himself experiences when he sees a lonely pine tree covered with snow, or pacing through puddles in the summer rain.