The poem “Autumn” was created in 1883, when the poet was almost sixty-three years old. Left behind are the vicissitudes with the recognition of the nobility, efforts to preserve literary connections, official intrigues... At this age comes peace and rethinking of one’s path in life. The entire poem “Autumn” is permeated with this philosophical mood.

It consists of three stanzas, and each has its own tonality. In the first, epithets are pronounced almost in a row "sad", "gloomy", "silent", "cold", "bleak". They give rise to a melancholy mood, and exclamation only intensifies the hopelessness of despondency. "Desolate languor"- an oxymoron of the kind that is so inherent in Fet’s work, they very subtly reflect the slightest emotional shades. Exhaustion as a pleasure from one’s own inescapable melancholy, from a dull autumn is familiar to almost everyone... But it is impossible to remain in this state for a long time, so the second stanza becomes a natural transition to a different mood.

Words "gold leaf jewelry", "burning eyes", "sultry whims" evoke associations with warmth, luxury, and sensuality. These lines reveal an unusual metaphor and personification: autumn, like a revived man and an ardent lover, is looking for "blood of gold-leaved headdresses" seeks a response to his passion "burning gazes and whims of love". Autumn - golden foliage - love are united into a single aspiration for life and sensuality. What a contrast with the first stanza!

And the third, final part of the poem is written as if from the perspective of an observer who unwittingly spied these autumn metamorphoses. “Bashful sadness is silent, only defiant is heard”, - notes the lyrical hero. Word "defiant", used in the neuter gender, is involuntarily associated with the word "action". It takes place in autumn nature, it is open... It calls to life! And sadness “freezes so magnificently”, and to her “I don’t regret anything anymore”... These words give rise to an association with farewells to the last journey: it combines sadness, pomp and indifference of the one who is leaving to all worldly sorrows.

So, the personification of autumn is not repeated, but bifurcated: active love aspiration in the second stanza and silent, indifferent sadness in the third. And these same two moods also possess the lyrical hero when he talks about the picture of the withering of nature.

The poem is written in iambic tetrameter with an unstressed third foot. This rhythmic pattern is very suitable for conveying thoughts and a detached, sad state of mind. And the drama of the work is given by the sweeping rhyme, highlighting the final word of each stanza, which carries the main semantic load.

A reflective poem, a philosophical acceptance of the variability of nature, mood and human feelings - this is what Fet’s “Autumn”, a mature and vital work, contains.

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Analysis of the poem "Autumn"

Afanasy Fet is known for his soulful, subtle lyrics, which reflect a deep understanding and sensitive feeling of nature. This gift allowed the poet to paint the world around him with vivid phrases and compare it with personal experiences.

The Great Fet noticed the slightest shades in nature and found a response to them in his own mood. A similar mixture of natural excitement and personal emotions occurs in this wonderful poem. The poet reflects on autumn as a sad time that ends with the peak of the splendor of colors, blossoms, and fragrance.

The poet finds an echo of the feeling of loss and completion of the best moments in his own destiny, because at the time of writing the poem he was already over fifty. All the best is left behind, and winter is ahead, the time of fading of all living things in nature and cold memory in the soul.

And yet autumn also gives wonderful moments. The poet happily notices the gold of autumn decoration, the anticipation of “burning gazes”, and the mystery of the great silence. Still possible. The colors are still bright and the thoughts are alive; a lot of mysterious and grandiose things can still happen.

Identifying himself, nature and any other person, Afanasy Fet does not expect peace and quiet contemplation. Nature is still ready for changes and accomplishments, it is just as majestic and strong, and its “bashful sadness” covers up challenging thoughts and hopes.

And even if there is no longer a chance for an outbreak, a revival, the leaves fall, the green cover withers. The sunset of the autumn season and the final stage of human life is approaching. Sad regret about the departed is also felt in the beautiful autumn, but she tries not to show it.

The poet subtly senses this unsteady state, transferring his experiences into it, he calls not to regret anything, just as nature does not regret it. Having shown all its strength and beauty, it subsides into a new special time, majestic and wise.

Everything passes, as the poet sums it up. Even the last bright splash does not save him, because he is also doomed before the coming winter. Thus, nature, with its special state, conveyed the author’s tremulous excitement and at the same time calmed it with its great philosophical truth.

How sad the dark days are
Soundless and cold autumn!
What joyless languor
They are asking to enter our souls!

But there are also days when there is blood
Gold leaf decorations
Burning autumn looks for the eyes
And the sultry whims of love.

Bashful sadness is silent,
Only the defiant is heard,
And, freezing so magnificently,
She no longer regrets anything.

Analysis of Fet's poem "Autumn"

Afanasy Fet knew how to very subtly feel the world around him and convey its beauty in his poems. Moreover, his own mood often changed from what he saw during walks or from the window of the family estate. But it also happened that the poet’s feelings turned out to be in tune with what was happening in nature. And then poems like “Autumn,” which was written in 1883, were born.

“How sad are the gloomy days of silent and cold autumn,” the poet notes in the first lines of his poem, thereby drawing a parallel between the changing seasons of the year and his own life. After all, by the time this poem was written, Fet had already turned sixty and was no longer expecting anything for the lot of this life. He managed to regain his lost inheritance and titles, successfully married a girl from a wealthy family, but suddenly realized that this was extremely little for real happiness. The most important thing in his life was missing - love, which the poet no longer expected to find. It is this circumstance that explains the pessimism that Fet puts into this work and sets a certain tone for it. The poet compares the autumn days with the joyless languor that overcomes everyone who reaches a certain point and understands that behind it all the best and brightest that was in his life remains.

At the same time, Fet remembers with pleasure the joyful moments that he associates with the golden autumn, warm and welcoming. She “seeks the gaze and sultry whims of love,” symbolizing the period of maturity of feelings and relationships. But this stage in the poet’s life was quite short and left a bitter aftertaste associated with the tragic death of his beloved. Therefore, autumn for Fet is rather a symbol of withering and preparation for the transition to another world. It is not surprising that the author perceives the splendor and riot of colors, the gold of falling leaves and the warmth of the last sunny days as nature’s last gift, generous and rather cruel. After all, according to Fet, “she no longer regrets anything,” and the ending will be inevitable - a little more, and the whole world will be enveloped in a white blanket of snow, under which feelings, thoughts and desires will remain. This forces the poet to feel very keenly not only the bright beauty of autumn, but also his own old age, realizing that nothing delightful, romantic or worthy of attention will happen in his life. Something for which it would be worth starting all over again, or at least trying to feel happy.

1.Topic: Autumn

2.Idea: In the autumn of Fet we hear echoes of the human soul.

1) Autumn, like a person, is capable of living (“...in blood golden-leafed headdresses”), love (“...Autumn is looking for burning gazes // And the sultry whims of love”), growing old and dying (“...And, dying so magnificently, // She no longer regrets anything”)...

2) Autumn, like a person, is capable of experiencing sad moments in her life and happy ones. And, like a man, autumn “fading away so magnificently” “no longer regrets anything.”

3.Composition:

Second part contrasted with the first. Here autumn revives, blooms, fills with light and warmth. To enhance the semantic and poetic significance of this part, A.A. Fet uses the technique of gradation. These metaphors are contextual synonyms in the poem. The words “sultry whims of love” contain all the richness of the color and semantic range of autumn, its bewitching charm.

In the third part emotions subside and acquire a moderate, sedate rhythm. There are no more bright colors, no movement, there is only “bashful sadness.” Everything becomes quiet again.

This composition is supported by rhyme: ring.

4.Features (from impressionism):

• before us are snippets of events, phenomena, when the reader needs to figure out,
• Unlike other works, where everything is built on a change of actions and characters, here emotions and sensations change.
• Important: Fet uses many adjectives, his speech is epithetic, which is natural when describing a moment = impressionist.

5.Trails:

epithets: gloomy days; silent autumn and cold; gold leaf decorations.

metaphor: in the blood of gold leaf decorations.

gradation: golden-leafed headdresses... burning gazes... and sultry whims of love.

Where else is there a similar description of autumn?

Alexander Pushkin "Sad time! The charm of the eyes!"

Each poet has his own autumn. Fet loved to sing about spring, the awakening of nature and the human soul, joy. In the collection of poems by A. Fet there are few poems about autumn. What is it like, Fetov's autumn?

Before us are three stanzas, three images of autumn, three moods.

The beginning of the poem is recognizable. A poet of feeling, Fet loved to begin his lyrical works with exclamatory particles “how”, “what”.

The first stanza is full of emotional and evaluative epithets: “sad gloomy days”, “despairing languor”.

“Gloomy” days are not only those devoid of bright sunlight, but also gloomy, joyless, gloomy. In the “silent” and “cold” autumn there is not only the silence and silence of empty forests, not only the coldness of the autumn wind, but also sadness and despondency. Nature and man in Fet’s lyrics are fused together, they live one life, one feeling, one mood, and therefore the autumn days of “languid, joyless” “ask for the soul.”

The second stanza is the second image of autumn, opposite to the first. The bright and unusual metaphor “in the blood of gold-leafed jewelry” not only conveys the red color of autumn leaves, but also evokes in the associative memory the metaphor “fire burns in the blood,” conveying the state of a passionately loving soul. With the help of the epithets “burning” (gazes), “sultry” (whims of love), the poet depicts love-passion, which he saw in the lush decoration of autumn, in a riotous feast of bright autumn colors.

But autumn only “looks” for “burning gazes” and “sultry whims of love” and does not find them. The third stanza is about this, behind the lines of which you see Pushkin’s autumn - a “consumptive maiden”, condemned to death and regarding her fate “without murmur, without anger”, Pushkin’s autumn - “a sad time”, “the charm of the eyes” and her “ farewell beauty”, with its “lush nature withering”. There are many similarities in Fetov’s autumn with Tyutchev’s “touching, mysterious charm of autumn evenings.”

Many lines, phrases, individual words echo: Fetov’s “joyless languor” and Tyutchev’s crimson leaves falling with a languid rustle; Fet’s “sad” autumn days are Tyutchev’s “sad orphaned land”; Fet’s “cold autumn” and Tyutchev’s “cold wind”; Fet’s “blood of golden-leafed headdresses” is Tyutchev’s “ominous shine and mottled trees,” and Pushkin’s “crimson and gold-clad forests” are correlated with these images.

Tyutchev felt the “divine modesty of suffering” in the gentle smile of the withering autumn nature with its “damage and exhaustion.” In Fetov’s autumn, “bashful sadness is silent.” Pushkin and Tyutchev depict autumn and convey the attitude of the lyrical hero to this time.

The lyrical hero Feta and autumn nature are in the same state, experiencing the same mood of sadness.

It's interesting to compare the meters of the poems and see what kind of tonality they create.

Pushkin's iambic hexameter sounds lively, expressive, emotional, but at the same time simple, like colloquial speech:

It's a sad time! Ouch charm!

I am pleased with your farewell beauty.

Tyutchev's iambic hexameter sounds measured. Thoughtfully. Before us is a philosophical reflection on the essence of “autumn evenings”:

There are in the brightness of autumn evenings

A touching, mysterious charm...

Fet's iambic tetrameter sounds emotional and lyrically excited.

The main thing for the poet is to convey the inner state of the lyrical hero through the perception of nature.