It is difficult for us, as readers, to judge poetry from within. We meet her in life, evaluate and analyze her, but we don’t know what labor and cost she creates. In this article we will try to look at the side of poetry that remains in the shadow for us. Consider it through the eyes of writers.
Poetry is an integral part of literature. And almost every writer has ever tried himself in this direction. Someone poetry captures with his head, allows you to express your feelings, emotions and opinions. And someone in the end remains on the sidelines and returns to prose.
In this article, we will examine the role of poetry in the fate and life of writers, whom it has absorbed entirely.
As part of art
Before considering the role of poetry in the life of certain people, it is worth considering poetry as part of art.
There are many different interpretations of the word. But since we are talking about poetry and art, we can give this definition:
Poetry is the art of expressing in words your feelings, thoughts and experiences.
Poetry is one of the most diverse and non-standard forms of art. Allowing the creator to convey his thought without driving it into any framework.
The role of poetry has always been and remains enormous. Poetry, like science, aims to generalize and convey to us the diversity of reality. Writers, covering the same topics in their works, unknowingly make up for us and for ourselves a picture of the world, drawn in words and stocks.
Genres of poetry
Each author creates in his own unique style, which makes his work unique. But every poet in any case adheres to any genres.
There are dozens of genres of poetry, each of which has its own characteristics. Some genres were popular at one time, others at another, and in contemporary art, something completely new appears in addition to the old. Each writer works in a style closer to him, which is why poetry is so vibrant and individual, and often in a work you can recognize the author without even seeing his name.
The most common poetry genres include lyrics:
- Love.
- Philosophical.
- Landscape.
- Civil.
Almost every writer at least once tried his hand in one of these genres. Well, those writers who consider themselves poets usually work in all these genres at the same time. In modern art, the leading positions are occupied by love and philosophical lyrics, while as far back as the last century, civic was in the forefront.
Landscape lyrics in contemporary art have faded into the background a little, as the beauty of our nature is diminishing, and the views from the windows of the houses do not quite fit the definition of “beautiful” worthy of being sung in poetry. Despite the fact that these genres are the most common, along with them there are dozens more genres in which many poets are happy to create.
The role of poetry in the life of a writer. What is she like?
So what is the role of poetry in the life of a writer? This is best judged firsthand.
Many poets dedicated individual works to their work, sang and talked about the difficulties of poetry, confessed love to her and cursed her. So let's read what poets wrote about poetry and the fate of poets.
Nikolai Nekrasov in his poem "Blessed is the unkind poet ..." said:
... feeding hatred to the breast,
Mouth armed with satire,
He walks a thorny path
With his punishing lyre.
The blasphemers chase him:
He catches the sounds of approval
Not in a sweet murmur of praise
And in the wild cries of bitterness ...
For Nekrasov, poetry is not an easy path requiring persistence and patience. And most importantly, desires that cannot be broken.
Robert Rozhdestvensky in his poem "The Poem Has Been Coming Up. She Tortured Me ..." presents the reader with poetry as something alive, capable of evoking emotions, tormenting, teasing:
... The poem was approaching. She plagued me.
It beckoned with easy accessibility, and then it was not given.
The poem was approaching. It began to sound, teasing.
And then suddenly beyond the borders of the voice ...
If I left, then she honestly waited for me,
Waited patiently on the steps near the house.
The poem was approaching. It was slurred and accurate.
Crazy and calm. Cruel and kind ...
Mikhail Lermontov in his work "Journalist, Reader and Writer" notes that poetry is not a mechanical activity. It requires opening the soul, experiencing something important, meaningful. For a work to be born:
... I am very glad that you are sick:
In the cares of life, in the noise of light
Soon the poet’s mind is losing
Your divine dreams.
Among the various experiences
Exchanging the soul for a trifle,
He perishes as a victim of common opinions.
When he is in the heat of fun
Ponder a mature creation? ..
But what grace
Kohl will decide to send the sky
His exile, confinement
Or even a long illness:
Instantly in his solitude
A sweet song will be heard!
Sometimes he falls in love passionately
In his elegant sadness ...
Well? You write? You can’t find out? ..
Alexander Pushkin in his work "The Conversation of the Book Seller with the Poet" focuses on the value of money in art. On what influence they have on the creator and his work.
... I remembered that time,
When, rich in hopes,
Careless poet, I wrote
Out of inspiration, not out of charge.
I saw rock shelters again
And the dark shelter of solitude
Where am I at the feast of imagination
Sometimes, he called for muse.
My voice sounded sweeter there;
There are bright visions
With inexplicable beauty
Curled, flew over me
In the hours of night inspiration.
Everything worried a gentle mind:
Flowering meadow, the moon is shining
There is a noise in the chapel of the old storm
The old women are a wonderful tradition.
Some demon possessed
My games, leisure;
He flew all over me
I whispered wonderful sounds to me,
And a grave, fiery affliction
My chapter was full;
In her wonderful dreams were born;
Slender flocked to size
My obedient words
And ringing rhyme closed.
In harmony, my rival
There was a noise of forests, or a whirlwind of violence,
Or the Orioles chanting alive,
Or at night the sea is a dull rumble
Or the whisper of a quiet river.
Then, in the silence of the labors,
I was not ready to share
With a crowd of fiery delight
And the muses of sweet gifts
Not humiliated by shameful bargaining;
I was the keeper of their mean:
So sure, in dumb pride,
From the eyes of a hypocritical mob
Gifts of a lover
Keeps a lover superstitious ...
And Nikolai Agnivtsev in his poem "The Death of the Poet" touches on the theme of the immortality of creativity. This is no less powerful poem.
Know: somehow, once, and somewhere
The lonely poet lived and was ...
And his whole life, like all poets,
He wrote, drank wine and loved.
Outrunning Wealth and Glory
Death came and said to him:
“You are a poet and immortal! .. And right,
How can I be, I won’t understand at all ?!
Smiling, he spread his arms
And with a bow he said in reply:
- In life, I did not refuse a lady!
Your hand! ..
And the poet died.
Poetry Quotes
But not only the poets themselves spoke about their fate and work. Not only. There are many quotes about poetry and poets. By analyzing these quotes, one can realize the full power of poetry, since the words of people who are only readers coincide with the words of the true creators. So, the reader is able to feel and understand what the author wanted to convey. Some quotes can be compared with fragments of poems that we examined above.
Let's start with a quote about the poetry of Khalil Gibran:
Poetry is a stream of joy, pain, amazement and a small fraction of the words from the dictionary.
This quote can be compared with the lines of Lermontov, who also focuses on the need to survive something in order to start creating. Indeed, poetry is not just lines, but feelings. Words only serve to express these feelings.
But Lev Karsavin’s quote clearly complements Nekrasov’s lines that the poet suffers first of all:
The poet is a child; he laughs with the best laugh in the world - a laugh through tears.
Maurice Blanchot, in his quote about poetry, touches, like Pushkin, the topic of the need not to get used to poetry, because it ruins its beauty for both the poet and the reader. How?
Poetry has become everyday.
So what is the role of poetry in the life of a poet?
Poetry for the poet is both the best friend and the worst enemy. A pier for feelings and emotions, a hole for pain and suffering. Poetry is demanding on its creator, does not tolerate insensibility, needs and benefits. Undoubtedly, poetry plays a special role in the fate of every poet. But for everyone, she is a way of life and a personal diary.
The poet is not a crowd, he is terminally lonely.
Georges Bataille
A true poet dreams in reality, only it is not the subject of dreams that owns him, but he is the subject of dreams.
Charles Lam
Probably not a single person can be a poet, cannot even love poetry, if at least to a small degree he is not insane.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Whoever was not born a poet will never become one, no matter how much he strives for, no matter how much labor he spends.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
After reading several passages and quotes about poetry in this article, we can conclude that you need to be respectful of creativity, including poetry, because this is a huge work of ordinary people!