Poetry of Tyutchev F.I .: analysis “You cannot understand Russia with your mind”

Russia, the Russian soul, the Russian spirit ... These seemingly simple words cause unbridled debate and reflection with an indispensable ellipsis in the end. One of the most famous poems is in this difficult bundle - “You cannot understand Russia with your mind” (author F. Tyutchev). What is its feature?

On a piece of paper

In the work “You Can’t Understand Russia with Mind” (F. Tyutchev) there are a lot of interesting features. First published in 1968, it was written by a poet on a piece of paper in 1966. Today this truly priceless piece is stored in the Pushkin House. The work itself consists of only four lines, one stanza, but what a! You read, and involuntarily there is an association with a certain small deep lake in which the water is so clear that it seems that it’s bottom, at hand, but no, it’s bottomless, and this makes it sad and sublime, and joyful at the same time.

What is Russia?

The poem “You Can't Understand the Mind of Russia” (F. Tyutchev) is a philosophical miniature on a patriotic theme. By the way, this is not the only philosophical miniature monostrophe in the work of the Russian poet ("Nature-Sphinx", "We Can't Predict"). The work is also written in the size inherent to the work of Fedor Tyutchev - a four-foot iambic, which gives the work a sublime, solemnly odic sound. However, along with the exaltation of the fatherland, other notes are heard - the broad Russian soul, the Russian land, it is impossible to know, understand, measure love for it, other laws work here - unconditionality, boundlessness, infinity - which can only be passed through and felt. Is this given to everyone? Probably not, but to those who are endowed with this gift from above, other horizons open - faith and love. F. Tyutchev believes that the Russian people as a whole were awarded with this amazing quality, and this causes and should cause only pride.

Analysis: “Russia cannot be understood by the mind”, F. Tyutchev

A poetic work, a poetic text is a multidimensional phenomenon that has attracted and continues to attract the attention of literary critics, linguists and philosophers. The famous poem by F. Tyutchev was no exception. In the scientific work Golysheva G.E. the compositional analysis “One Can't Understand the Mind of Russia” suggests dividing the monostrophe into three main parts characteristic of reasoning: the thesis, argument and conclusion.

The first two lines are precisely the thesis proposed by the author: it is impossible to deny the obvious that Russia has a special disposition, a special character and soul, and therefore a special path. In the third line, we read an explanation and proof of this: "She has a special to become." By the way, the word “become” in this context can be considered in two ways. The first, as portable - is “an internal warehouse, an internal structure”. The second - as opposed to the stable expression "to match" - "fully correspond to someone or something." Otherwise, it is impossible to give any definition to the device of the Russian soul, and it cannot be compared with anyone and nothing, there simply are no parallels.

Which “conclusion” follows from this? We can learn about him in the fourth line: "You can only BELIEVE in Russia." In other words, everything is based on faith alone, which lives in only one heart, and it will not work out or learn how to do it - it either exists or does not exist. This line is parting words for both the Russian person and the stranger. For the latter, faith is the only way to understand everything that is connected with the word “Russian,” and, therefore, the only possible way of rapprochement and friendship. For a Russian, this is a kind of reminder that faith is only our strength and unwaveringness. She is the only assistant and savior of Russia from all troubles, and her loss brings immediate destruction to the whole country. No faith - no people.

Ways to implement the author’s idea

The linguistic-stylistic analysis “One Can't Understand the Mind of Russia” gives an understanding of how, how the author’s idea is realized, and what language units contribute to that. According to Golysheva G.E., to convey the deep meaning of the work, which was mentioned above, the poet uses the verbs "believe", "measure" and "understand." It is they that influence the formation of the “internal movement of the image”, and the repetition of the negative particle “does not” enhances the contrasting contrast of such concepts as “mind”, “reason” and “soul”, “faith”, “unconditionality”.

We continue the analysis of “Russia cannot be understood by mind” - an amazing work by F. Tyutchev At the syntactic level, amazing author punctuation deserves special attention , in particular, a dash and the absence of a dot at the very end of the quatrain, which are not always preserved when the text is reprinted. So, in the first line, the author initially put a dash: "Mind - Russia does not understand." For what? First of all, for a pause, which, while reading the text, it would seem to last only a fraction of a second, but most powerfully focuses on the words “wisely” and “Russia” and thereby spreads them apart. For this effect, the author used a dash in the second line, and a comma in the third stanza after “At her”.

Conclusion

And in conclusion, everything about her, about Mother Russia, that “one cannot understand Russia with the mind” ... The verse continues to be one of F. Tyutchev's most frequently quoted works. Why? We can say that it carries a certain eternal prophecy, reminding Russia, the Russian people of its unchanging deep essence, and at the same time, all the same negative particles “not” and the word “only” warn Russian people and other nationalities about inevitable disaster, if the attitude is different ...