Symbolist Russian poet Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont wrote the poem Fantasy in 1893. In this immortal lyrical work, he described his own impressions of the wonderful nature and the sleeping forest.
The poet does not just admire the outline of trees in the fairy moonlight. He gives them vitality, comparing them with living statues, filled with secret dreams. His forest trembles and quietly slumbers, hears the murmur of the wind and whispers, hearing a groan of a blizzard.
Inaccessible to the human mind, the unearthly sees Balmont in nature. Fantasy, played out in the admiring imagination of the poet, depicts the image of a winter forest, living its own life, independent of anyone.
The natural elements, wind, snowstorm in the poem are endowed with mysterious forces that can draw unusual pictures in the imagination. It is gratifying to the pines and fir trees, "without remembering anything, without cursing anything." Balmont is very happy about this. The fantasy of his soul is permeated with a sense of satisfaction and harmony.
Slender branches, listening to the sounds of midnight, indifferently and calmly remain in the spell of their bright dreams. Invisible to the human eye, the forces of night - spirits, throwing sparks of eyes, rush among the forest. They fill the space with their sighs, with their singing.
Balmont uses these magical images in his work. The poet’s fantasy, tearing beyond the limits of human understanding, inhabits nature with creatures. They pray, they feel longing and rapture.
The images of spirits, filled with life, are wrinkled by trees, are wrung by the author. Applying such expressive means of language in his verses, Balmont made them artistic, lyrical and romantic.
It shows all the shades of the soul and the delighted look of a person observing the greatness of nature. The reader is immediately tuned to the desired perception. Together with the author, he plunges into the atmosphere of a fabulous being. The lightness and musicality of rhymes is used by Balmont in his brilliant work. "Fantasy" is a work in which the great master of words shares his perception of the world around, masterfully depicting its beauty and spirituality.
An analysis of Balmont’s poem "Fantasy" reveals the eternal question of being: "And what is beyond?" Many writers and poets of our time will address this issue more than once or twice.
“At midnight, spirits rush through the forest.” The poet asks the question of what torments and disturbs them. And he answers it. Thirst for faith, thirst for God. Asking rhetorical questions, he wanted to emphasize the mystery of our world, the anxiety before the unexplored existence.
Silver Age poets left a deep mark on art. A whole armada of talented people left unchanged works, including the Balmont Fantasy. An analysis of the chronological events of that era shows that the fate and work of those who wrote poetry in those distant days are often very close in spirit to our contemporaries.
Indeed, true poetry is eternal. She calls for spiritual development. A galaxy of talented authors, outstanding representatives of this period, beloved and revered in our days, is proof of this.