Comparative analysis of the works of Tyutchev Predestination and Nekrasov I don’t like your irony. Holistic analysis of poetic text
In addition to socially oriented poetry, in the soul of N. A. Nekrasov there was always a place for personal feelings. He loved and was loved. This was reflected in a group of poems that are commonly called the “Panaev cycle.” An example would be the poem “I don’t like your irony...”. The analysis will be given below, but for now let’s briefly get acquainted with his lyrical heroine.
Avdotya Panaeva
A charming, intelligent woman whom her parents hastily married off because the girl with all her soul strived for emancipation. She imitated trying to put on men's clothes and - oh, horror! - I painted on a mustache for myself! She was married to journalist Ivan Panaev, who was not distinguished by fidelity and did not restrict his wife’s freedom.
A brilliant literary society gathered in their salon, and every single one of them was in love with the beautiful and clever Avdotya Yakovlevna. But she responded, not immediately, only to the crazy, crazy feelings of Nikolai Alekseevich, who, not knowing how to swim, drowned before her eyes in the Fontanka. Thus began a great feeling that lasted about twenty years. But everything in the world comes to an end. And when feelings began to cool down, Nikolai Alekseevich wrote: “I don’t like your irony...”. The analysis of the poem will be carried out according to plan.
History of creation
Presumably it was written five years after the start of a close relationship in 1850, and published in Sovremennik in 1855. What could serve to cool such violent feelings? After all, A. Ya. Panaeva herself wrote poems about them. Let’s try to reflect on Nikolai Alekseevich’s lines “I don’t like your irony...”, the analysis of which is part of our task.
Genre of the poem
This is the intimate lyrics of a great civil poet.
The work talks about emerging feelings in the past tense, their state and the inevitable denouement and expected break in the present tense. Apparently, their relationship became habitual and monotonous and did not provide such abundant food for inspiration as civic poetry. Therefore, irony began to appear in the relationship on the part of Avdotya Yakovlevna, which only aggravated the coldness on the part of Nekrasov. This is how the poem “I don’t like your irony...” appeared, the analysis of which we begin. But the poet must be given his due; he directly and delicately told his chosen one what exactly he did not like about her behavior, without hiding anything.
The theme was the emergence of love, its gradual dying and complete cooling.
The main idea is that love must be carefully preserved, since this feeling is rare and not given to everyone.
Composition
ON THE. Nekrasov divided “I don’t like your irony...” into three stanzas. Naturally, we will begin our analysis of the poem with the first.
The lyrical hero speaks directly and simply to a close woman and asks her to stop using irony in conversations with him. Apparently, the sharp-tongued Avdotya Yakovlevna could not restrain herself when she did not like something, when she perceived in something a disrespectful or inattentive attitude towards herself. According to the lyrical hero, irony should belong only to those who have experienced their desires or have never encountered them. And in both of them, who loved so dearly, there are still little flames of love left, and they warm the soul. It is too early for them to indulge in irony: they must carefully preserve what they have today.
In the second stanza of the poem “I don’t like your irony...” Nekrasov (we are currently conducting an analysis) shows the behavior of his beloved woman. She still strives to extend their dates “shyly and tenderly.”
She, very feminine, is still devoted to him with her heart and cannot live without these meetings. And he? He is full of passion. The lyrical hero is still hot and ardent, “jealous dreams” are rebelliously seething in him. Therefore, he asks not to be ironic and not to speed up the outcome. She will inevitably come to them anyway, but let the beautiful relationship last longer.
The third stanza is completely sad. The poet does not hide either from himself or from his beloved that their separation will come soon. Their passions are heating up more and more. They are full of the last thirst for love, but “there is a secret coldness and melancholy in their hearts.” The lyrical hero bitterly states this fact. But you can’t hide from him anywhere. That’s why you shouldn’t destroy a former beautiful and languid, tender passion with irony.
Irony, which initially contains ridicule, offends the lyrical hero, which is why he says: “I don’t like your irony...”. Analysis of the poem shows the hidden context of Avdotya Yakovlevna’s statements and the direct, sincere words of the lyrical hero. He calls on his lady of his heart not to demonstrate his negative position for any reason or without reason, but to express sympathy and understanding to him.
Analysis of the verse “I don’t like your irony...”
The poem is written in iambic pentameter, but there are a lot of missing accents (pyrrhic). They convey to the reader the poet’s excitement. For example, the first line in the first stanza begins with pyrrhichium, and it ends with it, and is emphasized with an exclamation mark.
Each stanza consists of five lines, but the rhymes in each stanza are different. The poet uses ring (first stanza), cross (second stanza), mixed (third) stanza. The inner turmoil of the lyrical hero is fully manifested in this way.
The poem is built on contrasts. It contrasts cold and hot, boiling and glaciation. Metaphorically, love is compared to the raging stream of a river, “but the raging waves are colder...”.
After these final lines there is a significant ellipsis. The river is seething, but it will still freeze, and the cold will bind both of them, “who loved dearly.” The previous relationship, boiling with tenderness and passion, is metaphorically contrasted with “secret cold and melancholy.”
Epithets have a negative connotation: inevitable denouement, jealous anxieties, final thirst. Others, on the contrary, are positively colored: feelings are “rebelliously” boiling, the beloved is waiting for a date “shyly and tenderly.”
Epilogue
Nekrasov and Panaeva broke up. Then her husband died, then she lived alone, and after that she happily married and gave birth to a child. However, the poet loved Panaeva and, despite his marriage, dedicated his poems (“Three Elegies”) to her and mentioned her in his will.
The theme of love is traditional in Russian literature. N.A. Nekrasov also could not pass her by and clothed his experiences in a weighty and straightforward Nekrasov style. The reader can notice how realistic the poet’s love is, for example, in the poem “I don’t like your irony...”.
The writer worked on the poem in 1850, at the height of his affair with a married woman, Avdotya Panayeva. That's who the work is dedicated to. He lived with her in a civil marriage for 16 years, and cohabited with her and her husband in the same apartment. At that time, the lovers suffered a terrible test: their son died. From that moment on, scandals and quarrels became more frequent, and Nekrasov himself began to be jealous of the woman even towards her legal husband. Not surprising, because Avdotya was a beauty known throughout the capital. Even F. M. Dostoevsky was in love with her, but did not receive reciprocity.
Already in 1855, the poem “I don’t like your irony” was published in the Sovremennik magazine, and was also included in the poetry collection for 1856.
Genre and direction
The genre of the poem is a message, since this is one of the works included in the “Panaev cycle” and addressed to A. Panaeva.
The poem refers to love lyrics. There is a rhythm here that is unnatural for Nekrasov, and an atypical rhyme. The meter is iambic pentameter. But you can also notice pyrrhic. It is precisely because of this that the rhythm is lost and the breathing is lost.
Nekrasov also composed an unusual rhyme. Everywhere the rhyme is different: if the first stanza has a ring pattern, then the second turns into a cross stanza, the third crosses together with an adjacent rhyme.
Images and symbols
The author talks about the formation of love relationships, and partly writes about his life: the relationship between Nekrasov and Panaeva was unbalanced. Their passions were either in full swing, or they experienced a temporary cooling towards each other. Therefore, the lyrical hero is an emotional person with jealous anxieties, he is a temperamental and honest man who recognizes the inevitability of separation. His love burns with the last blush of autumn, a break is ahead, but he wants to share the last rays of fading attraction with his beloved, without rushing the gloomy denouement.
His chosen one is also experiencing separation, and therefore the lyrical hero is also worried about the condition of his beloved. She puts her disappointment into irony - that is, she mocks what was once sacred. This is how she hides her melancholy, the pain from the impending loss, which she is already aware of. But with an icy smile the lady extinguishes those sparks of happiness that still remain in their meetings, and the lyrical hero urges her not to do this. You need to be able to enjoy love to the end. The woman still loves him, because she extends the dates and gives tenderness to a jealous, not ideal, but still close and desirable man.
The symbol of autumn is a sign of withering and farewell to love. The water is getting colder, and only the last splashes retain the appearance of life. This is how love passes, and its final convulsions are an attempt to forget, to warm and breathe life into a fading feeling.
Themes and mood
- Love theme- the main theme of the poem. The culmination of the feeling has already passed. A separation looms ahead for the lovers, but the last glimpses of happiness should warm them, because the journey together has not yet been completed. The poet tries to convey to the reader the whole authenticity of romantic relationships between people: how a spark flares up between them, how difficult it sometimes is for them, and how this spark can go out.
- Theme of jealousy. The author believes that jealousy is a clear manifestation of male passion. Nekrasov himself managed to show this emotion, even when he was the lover of a married woman. Therefore, it is not surprising that he sang his own manifestation of love.
- Theme of longing. The hearts of fed-up people are full of boredom and coldness; their feeling from life, where the illusions of novelty have been lost, can be succinctly described by the word “melancholy.”
- Mood the poem can be called autumn, because its heroes clearly see off love, paying their last respects to it. The reader feels slightly tired, nostalgic and involuntarily plunges into his own passion, applying the words from the poem to himself.
main idea
The poet talks about the reality of life, where feelings, even the most sublime ones, come to an end. The main idea of his message is that one must leave with dignity, without negativity. A person must be able to treat others not only with love, but also with respect. The last tenderness, the last passion is no less sweet than the first kisses, you just need to taste them. Don't rush to leave if you can still stay.
The work “I Don’t Like Your Irony” tells about the end of a relationship, which is close, and that’s why it’s so important for the characters to enjoy the last bliss and be alone. The point is not to miss the last breath of a dying attraction, to drink the cup to the bottom. Nekrasov shares a piece of his personal experience, because he broke up with his chosen one after the death of her legal husband.
Means of artistic expression
Nekrasov’s lyrical hero experiences various emotions throughout the entire poem. Thanks to exclamation marks, appeals, comparisons, the author does not allow him to relieve the tension.
Epithets played the main role in conveying emotions. Thanks to them, people can not only feel the state of the lyrical hero, but also find out what the relationships between the characters were: “jealous anxieties and dreams”, “last thirst”, “inevitable denouement”, “secret cold”; “who loved dearly”, “you wish shyly”, “they seethe rebelliously”. It is worth noting that the above epithets seem to be in opposition to each other, some are negative, the other are positive.
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The poem “I don’t like your irony” is part of the “Panaev cycle”. This is Nekrasov’s love letter to his beloved woman, with whom he had a strong quarrel at some point. A brief analysis of “I don’t like your irony,” as planned, can become part of a literature lesson in the 9th grade and help the student better understand the poet as a person.
Brief Analysis
History of creation- the poem “I don’t like your irony” was created in 1850 (presumably), and published only five years later, in 1855 in Sovremennik. A year later (in 1856), Nekrasov included it in a poetry collection.
Theme of the poem– fading and cooling of feelings as a natural stage in the development of relationships between lovers.
Composition– each stanza is part of a description of a sad situation in a relationship, the action develops sequentially.
Genre- love lyrics.
Poetic size- iambic and pyrrhic, each stanza uses its own rhyme scheme.
Metaphors – “passionately loved”, “jealous anxieties and dreams are boiling”, “boiling more intensely”, “filled with the last thirst”, “secret cold and melancholy of the heart”.
Epithets – “jealous anxieties”, “inevitable denouement”, “last thirst”, “secret cold”.
Comparison
History of creation
Nekrasov's relationship with Avdotya Panaeva has never been easy. In fact, the couple lived in a civil marriage with the consent of the woman’s husband, the frivolous womanizer Ivan Panaev. The romance between them began in 1846, and the poem “I don’t like your irony” was written in 1850 - they would be together for another sixteen years, but a premonition of the end already gripped Nekrasov.
This poem was first published in 1855 - it was published in the Sovremennik magazine, which the poet owned together with Ivan Panaev. In 1856, Nekrasov published a collection of poetry, which included this work.
It fully reflects the essence of the lovers’ uneven relationship: despite mutual feelings, an affair outside of marriage weighed heavily on them, and Avdotya’s difficult character became a catalyst for frequent quarrels. Nekrasov describes one of these situations in poetic form - they always sorted out the relationship vigorously, and there were temporary coolings in the relationship, but it was this moment that showed the poet that their love would end someday.
Subject
The main theme of the verse is a quarrel between lovers, when their relationship has developed to the stage that feelings gradually begin to fade away, and a cooling of the once boiling passion begins.
At the same time, Nekrasov expresses the idea that only love can give a person a real taste for life, therefore it must be protected and done especially carefully when the first signs of extinction appear. The lyrical hero expresses this thought, addressing his beloved, who, obviously, made some offensive remark about him.
Composition
The poem consists of three stanzas, each of which expresses its own idea, but they are all part of a consistently unfolding idea.
Thus, in the first stanza, the lyrical hero admits that there is no longer the same fire in mutual feelings, but he believes that this is not a reason to be ironic, because love is still alive, which means it can be preserved.
In the second stanza, this idea develops - both the man and the woman want to be together, but both already understand that the inevitable outcome of their story will be the fading of the relationship.
The third stanza shows that the lyrical hero has ceased to believe that the relationship can still be extended; he understands that conflicts and scandals are inevitable signs that the cold of a breakup is very close.
Genre
This work belongs to the genre of intimate lyrics. It is part of what literary scholars call the “Panaev cycle,” in which Nekrasov addresses the theme of feelings.
In addition, Nekrasov uses an unusual and innovative technique for his time in the rhythmic pattern of the verse. Despite the fact that the work is written in iambic, it very often breaks into pyrrhic, which makes the rhythm look like the breathing of an excited person - ragged and uneven.
The effect is enhanced by the rhyme - the ring is replaced by a cross, and in the last stanza the cross is mixed with the adjacent one. Such disorder completely reflects the inner rebellion of the lyrical hero.
Means of expression
In order to convey the feelings of the lyrical hero, the poet uses a variety of expressive means:
- Metaphors- “those who loved passionately”, “jealous anxieties and dreams are boiling”, “boiling more intensely”, “filled with the last thirst”, “secret cold and melancholy of the heart”.
- Epithets- “jealous anxieties”, “inevitable denouement”, “last thirst”, “secret cold”.
- Comparison– feelings before parting are like an autumn river: the stormiest waters flow before it freezes.
Kurganova Alexandra,
students of class 10 B, MAOU Secondary School No. 14
Teacher: Mironova Elena Vladimirovna.
Holistic analysis of poetic text.
N.A. Nekrasov. I don't like your irony.
N. Nekrasov is known to us primarily as a social poet. I didn’t know his works about love before. But after reading this poem, I realized how important this feeling was for him.
The theme of the poem is love, or more precisely, the life of love, the approaching end of love. And this feeling resists the end, fears it. Passion goes hand in hand with coldness, faith in eternal love goes hand in hand with despair. It is not for nothing that the feeling that still lives in the heroes is compared by N. Nekrasov to autumn. This time of year has long been considered a symbol of the death of all living things. It is pre-winter, that is, the time before death. In autumn, love, like the river, bubbles up more. She tries to “boil up” - “to grow in love”, so as not to miss the allotted time.
Compositionally, the entire poem can be divided into 2 parts: the first two stanzas and the last quatrain. In the first part, outbursts of feelings are visible, hope for a happy ending(“still retaining the remnant of feeling”, “for now”), but notes of despair and hopelessness are already noticeable (loved, saved- past tense,"inevitable denouement"). Exclamations are used as a symbol of a plea not to rush things.
In the second part, the situation is calmer: the lyrical hero understands that there are still feelings, but nothing can be changed(“she’s not far off anyway”, “secret cold and melancholy”). Exclamations were replaced by ellipses and silence, conveying despair and powerlessness in the face of the inevitable.
I don't like your irony.
Leave it obsolete and not living...
N. Nekrasov means by these words people who no longer love and have not loved. And, it seems, he even sympathizes with them, because for now he is glad that there is still a desire to meet.(“You want to extend the date"), that there is also jealousy, dreams, fear of loss. There is, but..., alas, all this does not last forever.
Sadness, sadness from hopelessness, the inevitability of the end overcomes the lyrical hero. The entire poem is permeated with melancholy, but a light melancholy. Bright because there was love. And the key here is not “was”, but “love”.
The poem uses sound writing to highlight the special meaning of the word life. F – life, and we meet this sound everywhere:outdated, not living, loving, tenderly, wishing, rebelliously and inevitably. The author talks about the inevitable end of feelings, but asks his beloved not to rush the denouement, to enjoy this seething, albeit cold, rebellion of feelings that continues to live.
Drawing a parallel with other poets, I involuntarily remember Lermontov. His, perhaps not the most famous, but my favorite poem about life, about a person’s dreams(“What’s the use of dreaming in vain and forever?”) and about love (“To love – but who? – is not worth the effort for a while. But it is impossible to love forever!”) These poets have the same understanding of the duration of love. The past tense, the words “impossible”, “non-eternal”, “inevitable” make it clear to the reader: they do not believe in the eternity of love. However, Lermontov is not a fighter. There is no impulse in him to preserve, even for a while, a feeling, to love, even if not for long. Nekrasov strives to make love with all his might. I would call the time that N.A. Nekrasov describes “the autumn of love.”
The poem is quite small in size, but in terms of its depth, in volume, in terms of the experiences that are invested in it, of course, it is huge, great!
“I don’t like your irony” Nekrasov
“I don’t like your irony” analysis of the work - theme, idea, genre, plot, composition, characters, issues and other issues are discussed in this article.
History of creation
The poem “I don’t like your irony” was written by Nekrasov presumably in 1850, published in the Sovremennik magazine No. 11 for 1855. It is included in the collection of poems of 1856.
The poem is addressed to Avdotya Panaeva, with whom Nekrasov was in love. Their romance, which began in 1846 and lasted almost two decades, never ended in legal marriage. In this sense, the poem “I don’t like your irony” is prophetic.
Avdotya Panaeva was the wife of Nekrasov’s friend Ivan Panaev, with whom they revived Sovremennik together. Since 1847, the trio lived together; Nekrasov, with the consent of the flighty Ivan, became Panaeva’s common-law husband. Both were burdened by this connection, although they loved each other.
The relationship between Nekrasov and Panaeva was uneven. There were stormy showdowns and temporary cooling towards each other. This is what the poem is about.
Literary direction, genre
The poem “I don’t like your irony” refers to intimate lyrics and is included in the so-called “Panaev cycle”. It tells the story of the development of love relationships, realistically explaining the internal reasons for external changes in communication.
Theme, main idea and composition
The theme of the poem is the development of love relationships, the fading and cooling of feelings.
The main idea: only love is real life, so love needs to be protected, you need to take care of its preservation, noticing the first signs of fading.
The poem is an appeal to a beloved. The reason for the appeal was the mockery, the irony of the beloved in relation to the lyrical hero.
In the first stanza, the lyrical hero admits that his feelings are fading away, that the once ardent love is only warming in his heart. Irony, from the point of view of the lyrical hero, is characteristic of “those who have become obsolete and who have not lived,” that is, those who did not love at all or no longer love.
In the second stanza, the lyrical hero describes the current state of the relationship: the woman shyly and tenderly wants to extend the date, in the heart of the lyrical hero “jealous anxieties and dreams are boiling.” But love fades away, which is conveyed by the words “for now.” The last line of the second stanza calls the extinction of love an inevitable denouement.
In the last stanza, the lyrical hero no longer harbors illusions, does not hope to continue the relationship, which he calls for in the first two stanzas, using exclamatory sentences. Scandals and conflicts are a sign of the end of a relationship, when there is already “secret coldness and melancholy” in the heart.
Paths and images
The poem is based on the opposition of cold and hot, boiling and icing. Love is like a boiling stormy stream, which is described using metaphors: those who loved dearly, jealous anxieties and dreams are boiling, boiling more intensely, full of the last thirst. Feelings are opposed secret cold and melancholy hearts (metaphor of indifference).
Nekrasov compares the feelings preceding cooling to a river, which bubbles more strongly in the fall, although it becomes colder. Thus, the strength of feelings (storminess) is not equivalent for the lyrical hero to their quality (warmth or coldness). The river will boil and freeze, and so will love.
The poem has a complete thought even without the last two lines, which are preceded by an ellipsis. Comparing feelings with a stormy river is the last argument that the lyrical hero gives in order to achieve understanding of his beloved.
Epithets are of great importance in the poem. All of them are negatively colored: jealous anxieties and dreams, final thirst, inevitable denouement, secret cold. They are contrasted with adverbial epithets with a positive connotation: passionately loved, wished shyly and tenderly, seething rebelliously. The lyrical hero perceives the actions of the heroes as a manifestation of love, but state ( anxiety, thirst, denouement) considers them deprived of the desired feeling. This is how the idea of a poem works on a linguistic level.
Meter and rhyme
The poem has an unusual rhythmic organization and rhyme pattern. The meter is defined as iambic pentameter, but there are so many pyrrhichs that the rhythm gets confused, like a person who cannot even out his breathing from excitement. This effect is facilitated by the shortened last line in the first stanza.
Each stanza consists of 5 lines, the rhyme pattern in each stanza is different. In the first stanza it is circular, in the second it is cross, in the third the cross alternates with the adjacent one. This disorder corresponds to the internal rebellion of the lyrical hero. The male rhyme alternates with the female rhyme, also disorderly due to different rhymes.
