The poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is known throughout the world as one of the most gifted and skilled masters of literary words in the history of Russian literature. He wrote a lot of poetic and prosaic works, which became real masterpieces of not only literature, but also of Russian culture as a whole. Such priceless pearls include the poem Anchar, written by him in 1828.
During this period, Alexander Sergeyevich has already lived for several years in Moscow. Emperor Nikolai the First returned him here after a long four-year exile to the south, to Chisinau.
The poet was sent there to serve in 1820, replacing hard labor in Siberia. Such leniency was allowed thanks to the request of Karamzin.
The reason for the link was the poet’s freethinking, which he showed in epigrams on Arakcheev and other poems that did not suit the taste of Emperor Alexander the First. Having left the service in 1924, Pushkin spent another 2 years in exile in Mikhailovsky and only in 1826 he returned to Moscow at the personal invitation of Nikolai the First.
The impressions gained over the years of exile give a new impetus to the development of the work of Alexander Sergeyevich. An analysis of the poem "Anchar" allows you to clearly see that from now on the main motives of Pushkin are topics of supreme power, free will and the struggle of man with omnipotent rock.
The plot of the poem is taken from the legendary tales of the poisonous tree upas-anchar, growing on the island of Java.
An analysis of Pushkin’s poem “Anchar” makes it possible to discern in the image of a poisonous deadly plant a symbolic image of an inevitable evil fate that turns a tree, since ancient times a symbol of life and the connection of generations of the family, into a blind instrument of death. That is precisely how, in the poet’s opinion, evil rock and corrupting spirit make the monarchical traditions of autocracy in Russia destructive for its people.
An analysis of the poem "Anchar" also shows that compositionally it is built on the principle of antithesis. The work is clearly divided into two opposing structural parts.
In the first of these, the poet gives only a detailed description of the poisonous "tree of death": born of the nature of barren "thirsty steppes", it stands "like a formidable sentinel" alone in the middle of the desert "stunted and mean." The poet deliberately exaggerates, repeating in each new stanza the descriptions of the destructive power of a poisoned tree: the nature that gave rise to it on the “day of wrath” gave the deadly poison “green leaves dead” and all of it in its entirety. Therefore, now the poison is "droplet through its bark" and with rain flows into the "combustible sand".
The sound analysis of the first part of the poem “Anchar” is striking in the abundance of the sounds “p” and “h” in the text, at the phonemic level transmitting the author’s gloomy and depressing mood and the atmosphere of the “desert stunted and mean”.
An analysis of the poem “Anchar” by Pushkin, especially the second part of it, shows the image of the inexorable and ruthless lord who sends his faithful slave to the certain death with just one look. This image is contrasted with the image of a poisonous tree and is simultaneously identified with it. The poet, as it were, compares two forms of manifestation of evil rock: spontaneous and spontaneous (poisonous tree) and the intentional expression of human will. An analysis of the poem Anchar makes it clear to us that, as a result of this comparison, the poet concludes that the person, in this case the king, who sent the slave to death with an “imperious look”, is much more terrible than the embodiment of death itself in the form of a “tree poison. "