3Times change, but people's values ​​remain the same. Like hundreds of years ago, humanity is concerned about the issues of its mission in the world, the meaning of life. Eternal themes - love, loneliness, happiness, friendship, longing, worries about the fate of the motherland. And today, when we read poems written hundreds of years ago, they resonate in our hearts. We understand the feelings of long-dead poets with such different and often tragic destinies. Which poets are the best is very difficult to determine. But there are a number of names known throughout the world. Their poetry touches the hearts and souls of people for many years, which means that their work has no statute of limitations and is relevant at all times.
List of the best poets
Who is worth noting? Among the best poets:
- Omar Khayyam.
- Francesco Petrarch
- Dante Alighieri.
- William Shakespeare.
- Alexander Pushkin.
- Mikhail Lermontov.
- Taras Shevchenko.
- George Gordon Byron.
- Charles Baudelaire.
- Heinrich Heine.
- Alexander Blok.
- Anna Akhmatova.
- Marina Tsvetaeva.
- Sergey Yesenin.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky.
- Eduard Asadov.
Poets of the distant past
The Persian poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) and after 9 centuries is familiar to the reading population of our planet. His quatrains - rubai - a true storehouse of wisdom. The poet capaciously and without empty eloquence wrote on philosophical and worldly topics. Today, Omar Khayyam is one of the most quoted poets.
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) - Italian poet, familiar to modern people with sonnets, in which he sings his love for Laura - pure, passionate and disinterested. By his work Petrarch had a great influence on subsequent generations of poets.
The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for composing the “Divine Comedy” - an afterlife vision that Dante filled with allegories expressing his political views and personal preferences. In "The Divine Comedy", in the poem "New Life", the poet introduces a bright image of his muse Beatrice, with whom he was never associated with anything. Dante saw his muse only twice, but she made such a great impression on one of the best poets in Italy that he carried his lofty feelings through his life, despite the girl's early death.
The debate does not cease: whether a certain William Shakespeare (1564-1616) really lived in the world, or one or several people created under this name. One thing is incontrovertible - the genius of Shakespeare's work. Shakespeare’s sonnets, poems and plays are still popular today. Hamlet’s monologue, individual remarks from the monologues of Romeo and Juliet are familiar to almost everyone. This gives Shakespeare the right to be called one of the best poets of all time.
Pushkin and Lermontov
The 19th century gave the world a large number of outstanding talented people. One of the most striking of them is Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) - the sun of Russian poetry. What was written by Russian poets before him, for the most part, is too heavy. Of course, we must not forget about the wonderful poet Vasily Zhukovsky, but his work fades next to the poetry of a true genius. Pushkin’s poems seemed too frivolous to contemporaries. Time has put everything in its place. Pushkin’s contemporaries, considered “serious”, were forgotten, and the light and graceful poetry of Alexander Sergeevich even today causes the readers to admire. There is no doubt that it is Alexander Sergeyevich who is the best Russian poet. His immortal works, such as “Eugene Onegin”, poems “I remember a wonderful moment”, “Winter morning”, “Winter evening”, “For the shores of the distant homeland ...” and many others still delight readers.
If the poetry of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is bright and optimistic, then completely different poetry of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841). Disappointment, pessimism and fatigue are felt in the poems of the young aristocrat Lermontov. They have no hope for a brighter future, faith in people, in happy love, youthful delusions and enthusiasm. Nevertheless, Lermontov’s poetry is so musical, there are no angularities and primitivism at all. This is especially observed in such poems as “Cossack lullaby”, “I go out alone on the road”, “Angel”, “I will not be humbled before you”. Amazing melody and smoothness of versification testify to the poet's irrefutable genius. Perhaps, apart from Pushkin, there are no poets who could challenge Lermontov’s title of the best poet. The ingenious Lermontov “Mtsyri” had a great influence on the worldview of both contemporaries and descendants.
The best Ukrainian poet
Like Pushkin in Russian poetry, Ukrainian has its own luminary - Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko (1814-1861), who is considered the best poet in Ukraine. A former serf, he wrote about the hard life of the Ukrainian peasantry, about the fate of ordinary Ukrainians. Shevchenko also glorified the glorious past: the freedom-loving Cossacks, Ukraine, which was still independent from Russian rule. The poetry of Taras Shevchenko "pours", there is no harshness and embossment in it. She is closely associated with Ukrainian folklore.
Foreign poets of the XIX century
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) - one of the best classic poets - conquered European readers with the poetry of "dark selfishness". The lyric hero created by him is disappointed in life, he is lonely and despises secular society, to which he avenges his rejection. The past of the Byron hero is mysterious. Byron's work influenced the formation of the creative personality of Mikhail Lermontov.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is a wonderful French poet who set the tone for 19th-century French poetry. His poetic collection "Flowers of Evil" made a splash in his time. True, for some works of a particularly frank nature, the author was fined for moral reasons. The main themes of the poems are boredom, gloom and apathy.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) - German romantic poet. One of the best poets, he was appreciated by his contemporaries. Such great composers as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Edward Grieg, Peter Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner and many others wrote music to his verses. Heine managed to give lightweight and rude German language lightness and elegance.
Mysterious block
Elegant and aristocratic Alexander Blok (1880-1921) is a symbolist poet whose poems are fanned with mystery. His Fair Lady is more like not a woman of flesh and blood, but an impeccable ghost, the embodiment of beauty and nobility. The poem "The Stranger" is one of Blok's best poems. On his example, one can trace the symbolic ideals of the poet.
"I taught women to speak ..."
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) - perhaps the first significant Russian poetess. Before her, Zinaida Gippius was a worthy representative of female poetry, but of course, the work of Akhmatova is a step higher. The poetry of Anna Akhmatova is very multifaceted. It is distinguished by penetration, lyricism, emotionality, fidelity to classical traditions. Akhmatova first clothed women's joys and sorrows in poetic lines. The literature, in which men's emotional experiences are represented in abundance, was enriched in a female voice. “Requiem”, “Gripped her hands under a dark veil ...”, “Wide and yellow evening light ...” - one of the most famous works of Akhmatova.
Singer of the young Soviet state
The work of Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) may or may not like, but it is impossible not to recognize the scale of his personality, his talent. The singer of the young Soviet state, the futurist poet, keeping up with the times, created unique poems, the style and language of which are original and recognizable. Today , Mayakovsky’s lyric works dedicated to women with whom he was in love are better known.
The most charming poet
Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) is a brilliant Russian poet, whose poetry can be put on a par with the poetry of Pushkin and Lermontov. Freshness, lightness, passionate interest in life are distinguished by Yesenin's verses. Truly Russian poet! With love and tenderness, he describes the beauty of Russian nature (“The golden grove dissuaded ...”, “You are my fallen maple ...”, “White birch” and many others). A favorite of women, Yesenin sang them in his poems, immortalizing their images. He is one of the best poets who wrote so many wonderful poems about love that readers know and love, a century after they were written.
Incredible marina
The poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) cannot be called female. Poems of the poetess are distinguished by the "masculine" style without undue sentiment and pompous words. Tsvetaeva’s style is not characterized by intimacy and penetration. Her poetry is often ragged, it pulsates, filling with meaning every punctuation mark, every word. Tsvetaeva is an incredibly gifted person whose poetry is much more valuable than the poetry of Bunin, Nabokov, Sologub and many other poets of the XX century, which have received recognition by contemporaries.
Wise Advisor
Eduard Asadov (1923-2004) is a wonderful poet, whose poems are filled with deep meaning. None of his poems have empty phrases or meaningless lyrical digressions. Most of Asadov's poetic works are interesting instructive stories that often happen in the life of every ordinary person. The subjects of his poems are love and hate, good and evil, decency and meanness, fidelity and betrayal, friendship and enmity. The poet gives readers wise advice, following which you can change for the better not only your life, but also the life of those around you.
The Sixties
The work of Bella Akhmadulina (1937-2010) can be put on a par with the work of Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva. At one time, the poetess was considered non-modern. Her poems are inherent in particular sophistication, which distinguishes the works of Akhmadulina from many of her poets.
Evgeny Yevtushenko is a sixtieth poet (1932-2017). In the 1950-1980s, thousands of people gathered at his performances, the poet's popularity was huge. Then he became an influential figure in the literary world of the USSR, and after Russia, he was a mentor to young gifted writers. Today, Yevtushenko is considered one of the best contemporary poets.