"I remember wonderful moment…” are some of the most touching and tender poems about love written by A. S. Pushkin. This work is rightfully included in the “Golden Fund” of Russian literature. We offer you to review the analysis of “I remember a wonderful moment...” according to plan. This analysis can be used in a literature lesson in 8th grade.
Brief Analysis
History of creation- poems written in 1825 and dedicated to A.P. Kern. Published in the almanac “Northern Flowers” in 1827.
Theme of the poem- poems about unrequited love, which nevertheless saves a person, elevates his soul and fills life with meaning.
Composition– The poem consists of three conventional parts. the first part is nostalgic, where the hero yearns for his beloved, the second describes the hero’s feeling of loneliness and suffering, the third brings the hero back to life, saving him from despair by the newly resurrected feeling of love.
Genre – love letter
Poetic size– iambic pentameter with cross rhyme ABAB.
Metaphors- “the rebellious gust of storms scattered former dreams”
Epithets- “heavenly features”, “hopeless sadness”, “wonderful moment”.
Comparisons- “like a fleeting vision, like a genius of pure beauty.”
History of creation
The history of the creation of the poem is directly related to the person to whom this sincere declaration of love is dedicated. Pushkin dedicated his poems to Anna Petrovna Kern, a married woman who captivated the poet’s heart with her deep and restrained beauty as soon as they met her at a social reception in 1819.
True, the poem was written only a few years after they met - in 1825, when Pushkin again met the captivating beauty of St. Petersburg in the Trigorskoye estate, which was located next to the poet’s native estate - Mikhailovsky - where Alexander Sergeevich was serving his exile. There, he finally confessed his feelings to Anna, and she reciprocated Pushkin.
It is possible that Kern was primarily interested in Pushkin as a young poet and therefore the attention of a celebrity pleased her vanity. One way or another, it was not only Pushkin who courted Anna Petrovna, which aroused burning jealousy in the latter, which always became the cause of scandals between lovers.
Another quarrel put an end to the love relationship between Pushkin and Kern, but still the poet dedicated several wonderful poems to her, among which “I remember a wonderful moment...” occupies a special place. Pushkin’s lyceum friend Delvig published it in the almanac “Northern Flowers” in 1827.
Subject
Pushkin chose the description of the feeling of unrequited love as the main problem of the poem.
The poem contains the whole range of emotions, the evolution of which is simple: at first the lyrical hero experiences love languor, in his imagination again and again resurrecting the image of his beloved. But gradually the feelings that did not find a response in the beloved’s soul faded away. And the lyrical hero again plunges into a boring and gray world: in this everyday life, his soul seems to die.
But now, after a while, the hero meets her again, his beloved. And the forgotten feeling of love is resurrected, filling the soul and heart of the poet with the fullness of life sensations. Only in love does Pushkin see meaning; only love, in his opinion, can relieve despair and pain, and make a person feel alive again. Love resurrects to life - this is the main idea of the work.
Composition
The composition of the poem conventionally consists of three parts. In the first, the mood of the lyrical hero is nostalgic. He returns again and again in his memories to meeting and getting to know a beautiful woman.
The lyrical hero dreams of “cute features” for a long time and hears her “tender voice.” Then Pushkin describes the dark days of his “imprisonment” in the wilderness. He admits that the loneliness of exile deprived him of even inspiration, and life, once full of vivid emotions, turned into existence.
In the third part of the poem, the lyrical hero again feels the joy of life, since a meeting with a forgotten beloved revives love in his heart, and with it inspiration, passion, and the desire to live return.
Genre
The genre of the poem is a love letter, since in the poem the lyrical hero, addressing his beloved, tells her the story of his feelings for her: love - oblivion - sadness - rebirth to life.
Means of expression
The poem contains only one metaphor - “a rebellious storm dispelled previous dreams”, but it also contains other means of expressiveness: comparisons - “like a fleeting vision, like a genius of pure beauty” and several epithets - “heavenly features”, “hopeless sadness” , “wonderful moment.”
The poetic meter of the work is very typical for Pushkin - it is iambic pentameter with a cross ABAB rhyme method. Thanks to cross-cutting rhymes (vision - imprisonment - inspiration - awakening) and alliteration on the consonants “m”, “l”, “n”. the rhythm of the poem becomes very clear and musical. The melody of the poems is also enhanced by the undulating alternation of iambic feet.
“I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is one of the most important works in the lyrics of A.S. Pushkin. Today people learn about this poem from school desks, because it has not lost its popularity. The poem is a frank confession of the poet's unbridled feelings for Anna Kern, who was a famous person in St. Petersburg and was known as an extraordinary beauty. The poet wrote this masterpiece in July 1825, and it was published by Pushkin’s friend A.A. Delvig only in 1827 in the collection “Northern Flowers”.
Love and passion are the main themes that the author touches on in his works. Many of the poet’s works are devoted to this topic. In this poem, Pushkin describes his attitude towards the young beauty, whom he saw at a social reception in 1819 with the Olenins. Since then, there was no peace in Pushkin’s heart; it burned with passion for many years. The southern exile disrupted the opportunity to see his beloved, which the poet recalls in the work. But returning to the village of Mikhailovskoye, he again sees Anna Kern at a reception at the nearby Trigorskoye estate. Feelings flared up with renewed vigor. Unfortunately, the relationship between the young people did not work out, because Anna saw Pushkin only as a promising poet. Pushkin even proposed to her after she divorced her first husband, but was refused.
The main theme of the poem
From the first lines of the poem it becomes clear that it is filled with bright, pure, sincere feelings of love for a woman. This is the main theme of the work. There are no portrait characteristics of the object of Pushkin’s adoration here. He gives short description to his beloved: “a genius of pure beauty.” The poem is composed of three parts, each of which describes a different period of time with a specific mood.
In the first part, the poet mentions the sensations that he experienced when meeting his beloved: “a wonderful moment,” “a fleeting vision.” The use of gentle epithets allows the reader to feel the author’s feelings. The second part of the verse speaks of the poet’s sad period of exile and imprisonment, in which he could not feel anything, having forgotten about the sweet features of the woman he loved. But in the third part, feelings are resurrected with renewed vigor, the poet’s soul comes to life again. He can experience the same sensations as before: “life, tears, and love.” The author's spiritual strength returns again, because love occupies the main place in his life.
“I Remember a Wonderful Moment” can rightfully be called an ode to love for a woman whose beauty is comparable to a genius, that is, a spirit, a model, a standard. This describes a love that neither years of separation, nor captivity, nor mental anguish could subdue.
Structural analysis of the poem
The artistic means used by the author are the use of epithets. The poem contains a single metaphor, which confuses critics, because this did not affect the emotional richness of the poem and its lyricism. The poet uses some other comparisons: “the genius of pure beauty”, “a fleeting vision”.
The composition of the poem divides it into three parts. They differ in emotional intensity. The mention of the first line at the beginning and at the end of the poem is called a ring composition. The chosen genre of the work is a form of message, a confession of feelings. The poem can be called autobiographical; it clearly highlights the periods of Pushkin’s life: being in St. Petersburg, Southern exile, staying in family estate Mikhailovskoe. In the text, the author interweaves tender feelings with philosophical thoughts.
The verse is written in iambic pentameter. Cross rhyme is used - with alternating male and female rhymes. Each stanza has a clear meaning and completeness of thought. Due to its melody and ease of perception, the poem has been reproduced more than once as a romance. The most famous romance is the musical work of M.I. Glinka.
This poem is considered a masterpiece in poetry. It reveals the sincere feelings of the poet, which makes it possible for future generations to learn about sensuality, tenderness, and the meaning of life, which lies in love. Using the example of a poem, you can understand what it means to truly love.
The poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, addressed to a hidden addressee (“K***”), has a real life basis, since it was presented by the poet to the subject of his feelings - Anna Petrovna Kern. The acquaintance with her took place in the house of Kern’s relative (president of the Academy of Arts A.N. Olenin, whose wife A.P. Kern was a niece), during Pushkin’s stay in St. Petersburg, even before exile, in 1819. The second time they met through six years. At this time, the poet was in Mikhailovskoye as an exile. The owner of the estate adjacent to Mikhailovsky, Trigorsky, turned out to be a relative of Kern, P.A. Osipova, in whose family he was warmly received. Anna Petrovna stopped by Osipova for several weeks on her way to Riga. Leaving Trigorsky, she received as a gift from the author a copy of the second chapter of the novel in verse “Eugene Onegin”, which included the message “K***”.
The first stanza (there are six quatrains in total in the poem, iambic tetrameter with cross rhyme) turns to the past, when a meeting took place, which the lyrical hero recalls as a vision of the ideal. Awareness of the reminiscent background helps to identify the meaning of the impression. The image of the “genius of pure beauty” with which the beloved is compared belongs to V.A. Zhukovsky (poem “Lalla Ruk”, 1821, which is an interpretation of the poem of the same name by T. Moore). For him, this is an angel, the embodiment of the heavenly ideal of beauty. In addition to reminding of a specific work, reminiscence is also important due to the fact that it brings to mind a number of characteristics of the ideal in the work of the romantics. For Zhukovsky, beauty is a “guest... from above”, visiting the poet in sleep, in memories, dreams, illuminating earthly life“for a minute”, which is remembered for a long time, “inseparable from the heart.”
Pushkin’s lyrical hero recalls that the meeting with his darling (“cute features”) caused the awakening of emotions and reminded him of the earthly manifestations of the divine principle, that is, both feeling and thought came to life in him in an instant, which made him magical, “wonderful”:
I remember a wonderful moment:
You appeared before me,
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
The light of the heavenly ideal falls on the beloved, and her features acquire sublimity and tender, beautiful mystery. These impressions persist even in separation, contrasting with the “noisy bustle” of everyday life. But they sound more and more muffled (in showing a subsiding spiritual storm, the motif of a voice that appears in memory, but then forgotten - stanzas 2-3 is decisive) against its background, the reality of the past is only a dream:
The storms of the outside world are stronger than time, which did not influence the hopeless love of the lyrical hero, but even they do not have the power to “dispel” (as their impulse “Dispelled previous dreams”) his commitment to the ideal. The fourth stanza, central in the compositional division of six quatrains into two parts (three stanzas each), where attention is focused on the two stages of love. If in the first three stanzas of the poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, the analysis of which interests us, an image is created of a feeling that arose several years ago, which tormented with its hopelessness for whole years, then in the final ones the experience changes in character and becomes an internal sensation. And then everything external is relegated to the background. In the poem there is no motive of a romantic choice between two worlds; dreams and storms of life, “the languor of hopeless sadness” and “anxiety of noisy vanity” fill the life of the lyrical hero, making him rich and diverse (a gentle voice and the noise of storm and vanity sound). The importance of focusing on internal aspects is emphasized in connection with the discovery of their life-giving (Zhukovsky) meaning: the divine principle is manifested in them. The darkness of imprisonment becomes a metaphor for the earthly prison, where the empty days of the lyrical hero stretch endlessly (the emptiness is emphasized thanks to the fivefold repetition of the preposition “without”):
In the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment
My days passed quietly,
Without a deity, without inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love.
Love is highlighted among all experiences; the conclusion that it is the main thing that the lyrical hero lacks is facilitated by the rising intonation, the idea of which arises thanks to the enumeration. The pinnacle to which it leads is the word “love.” In addition to intonation, phonic artistic means and unusual rhyming help to elevate the concept. In four of the six stanzas, the same consonances in male rhyme are used (in the first and fifth they repeat each other: you are beauty; in the fourth a new rhyme appears, the task of which is to highlight keyword(my - love). This effect is emphasized by the fact that there is no novelty in the female rhyme of the stanza; it is consonant with the endings of the odd terms in the first quatrain (imprisonment - inspiration - moment - vision).
At the semantic level, the meaning of love is affirmed due to the fact that the resurrection of the lyrical hero, the awakening of his soul, is associated with it. The impression is repeated, he again experiences (stanza 5) a “wonderful moment” (the literal repetition of the images of the first stanza is highlighted):
The soul has awakened,
And here we go again you appeared
Like a fleeting vision
Like a genius of pure beauty.
Love fills the heart, like an ideal, spiritualizing earthly darkness with Divine light. In the context of the analyzed poem “I remember a wonderful moment...” by Pushkin, feeling turns out to be no less important than the desire for the infinite, and, in connection with the reproduction of subjective psychological experiences, appears as a tangible and convincing manifestation of spirituality. In the last stanza we're talking about about the miracle he performed - after worries, disappointments, dangers, worries, gloomy forebodings, loneliness, the heart beats again in ecstasy, hopes and creative dreams are resurrected.
Rising intonation leads further, and at the top the main landmark is again highlighted (the intonation elevation, which enlivens oral reading, existing in the reader’s mind, thanks to the inner ear, is facilitated by enumeration - for which the sevenfold repetition of the conjunction “and” is used). The word “love” also stands out thanks to the new consonance. If the female rhyme of the sixth quatrain repeats the one that was used in the first, fourth and fifth stanzas (rapture - inspiration, rhyming with the odd lines of these quatrains, ending with the words: “moment - vision” - 1, “imprisonment - inspiration” - 4, “ awakening - vision” - 5), then the masculine one is built on the assonance “o” (again - love). It encourages one to remember consonant words in the previous text, among which were recognitions of a long memory of a fleeting impression (I remember, before me, fleeting, worries, years, tears - in these words “o” is in the stressed position) and an image expressing the tangibility of the memory : “A gentle voice sounded to me for a long time...” Together with repetitions of the sounds “e” (in addition to rhymes, the words “genius, languor, scattered, former, heavenly, soul, heart, resurrected”), “and” (“appeared, pure , dreamed, dear, your, life”) and “u” (“wonderful, sad, noisy, storms”) the assonance “o” gives a unique musicality to the poem. In the last quatrain it sounds like the final tonic (main, supporting tone):
And the heart beats in ecstasy,
And for him they rose again
Both Divinity and inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love.
The last chord completes the development of the lyrical plot, where there were wonderful moments, and years of hopeless experiences, and days of imprisonment, with an optimistic emotional note. The inner life of the lyrical hero appears as a whole world where beauty and harmony reign. Its sound, phonic characteristics are not accidental, since the impression of consistency, harmony, proportionality is easier and more convincing to convey with musical artistic means(harmony, from the Latin “proportionate, harmonious”, refers to the area expressive means in music based on the combination of tones into consonances and their connections with each other). Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, one of the founders of Russian symbolism, called Pushkin’s skill in creating verbal symphonies (from the Greek “consonance”) “sound writing” (one of Bryusov’s many works on Pushkin’s poetry is called “Pushkin’s Sound Writing”, 1923). If you, following Bryusov and many other writers and philologists, are interested in revealing the secrets of the great poet’s talent, you will have to consider his poem not intuitively, but quite consciously and thoughtfully.
Try reading Pushkin’s poem “K***” aloud, reproducing the rising intonation in quatrains 4 and 6 (the last lines of the stanzas, where repeated prepositions or conjunctions sound), as if climbing to the top, where the word that ends the stanza reigns (“love”, “ Love"). In addition, try to hear the melody created by assonances in strong places in the text, their connection with semivowels and sonorants. It will sound major (from the Latin “bigger”, a musical mode, the stable sounds of which create a cheerful, joyful mood), despite the hopelessness and depression expressed in the content. In the second - fourth stanzas, where we talk about the loneliness of the lyrical hero (hopeless sadness, sweet features are only dreamed of, and then completely forgotten, days in the wilderness, in the darkness of imprisonment), about his difficult experiences, sound repetitions are built on the same consonants, as in the first, fifth and sixth quatrains, which convey completely different feelings. " N», « m", And " l"with vowels form melodic combinations: then mlen yah, sounding l me d ol go g olo With Not and ny, With Nile be nice y, d neither my etc. The combination within the framework of one poem “I remember a wonderful moment...”, the analysis of which we carried out, of multidirectional emotional tendencies allows us to express a harmonious worldview.
It becomes characteristic feature the lyrical hero in Pushkin’s poems, demonstrating his desire to accept life in all the diversity of its features, to combine attention to detail with generalization, spontaneity with philosophical depth. For him, there is nothing one-dimensional and complete in the world. For his soul, “Either all are too few, or one is enough” (“Having voluntarily renounced multiplicity...”, 1825), everything depends on the mirror where the real situation is reflected. But whether it brings details closer or allows you to look at life as a whole, the “immortal sun” is always visible above the canvas (“Bacchanalian Song”, 1825), the present is perceived as a stage (“Everything is instantaneous, everything will pass;/What will pass will be sweet” . - “If life deceives you...”, 1825), a moment stopped by the will of the artist, beautiful, “wonderful” or sad, gloomy, but always sweet with its uniqueness.
The poem is dedicated to Anna Petrovna Kern.
It is based on real biographical facts
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
The poem is divided into three equal parts - according to
two stanzas. Each part is imbued with a special tone and
mood. The first part is dedicated to memories
about the first meeting: “I remember a wonderful moment”,
The second part begins with the words: “The years passed”,
The days of exile dragged on long and tediously, and time
erased “heavenly features” from memory, Part Three
talks about the amazing awakening of the soul
the lyrical hero - about how he was overcome by the impulse
old bright feelings.
Describing the first meeting with his beloved,
the poet chooses bright, expressive epithets (wonderful
new moment; fleeting vision). Pushkin is not
draws a portrait of Anna Kern. He only gives the reader
generalized image - “genius of pure beauty” (word
genius, which is repeated twice, while mentioning
was required in poetic language in the meaning of spirit or
image). The image of pure beauty that arose in the first stanza
honeycombs are perceived as a symbol of beauty and poetry
life itself. Love for a poet is deep,
sincere, magical feeling that completely
captures him.
The next three stanzas talk about the exile
poet - about the difficult time in his destiny, full
life trials. Pushkin calls this time
“languor of hopeless sadness.” This is growing up
and parting with youthful ideals when "storms
a rebellious impulse dispelled previous dreams.” It seemed
What life's troubles forever erased from
memory of a joyful youthful vision. In the link -
“in the wilderness, in the darkness of confinement” - the poet’s life is like
froze and lost its meaning.
“The Darkness of Imprisonment” is not just a biography
logical hint. This is an image of bondage that deprived
the life of a poet with all its joys. It's impossible for him
to live “without the Divine, without inspiration e. Divinity,
inspiration, tears, life, love Pushkin puts
in one row because they symbolize completeness
and the brightness of feelings, the bright side of being - everything that
opposite to the “darkness of imprisonment.”
But no matter how difficult the trials that befell
the poet's share, no matter how hopeless life may seem
in the “darkness of imprisonment,” the poet’s soul is always ready to
answer the call of beauty.
And in the fifth stanza the poet talks about his
birth: “The soul has awakened...” - he
feels inspired again, the desire to create,
meets his beautiful Muse again. That's why
this stanza is very similar to the first - to the poet
a fleeting and beautiful vision of him revolves
youth, which is so dear to his heart.
Musicality, always characteristic of poetry
A. s. Pushkin, in his message to A.P. Kern reaches
the highest degree of perfection. Pushkin's poetry
inspired many composers - his poems
More than 60 romances have been written. Romance “I remember wonderful things”
moments was written in 1825 by N. s. Titov,
in 1829 he wrote a romance composition based on the same verses
tor A. A. Alyabyev, and in 1832 the most
famous romance by M. and. Glinka.
The poem is written in iambic pentameter with
cross rhyme. Of the six stanzas of the poem
four are built on a soft feminine rhyme: “yenye”.
This sound combination is repeated eight times.
The essence of every person's life is love. It is this feeling that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin teaches to appreciate in many of his works. Love was the inspiration for the poet to create his masterpieces. The love lyrics of the genius discuss many philosophical and everyday problems. An example of a brilliant and brilliant amorous message is Alexander Pushkin’s poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment.” An analysis of this creation will demonstrate to you the inspired state of a person in love, the features of the composition and language of the masterpiece. The generally accepted version of the title of this work is “K***”. This title hides who “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is dedicated to. Well, it's worth meeting this mysterious lady.
The history of Pushkin's poem "I remember a wonderful moment"
Rows belonging to the top of the world love lyrics, dedicated to a social beauty named Anna Kern. This beauty was idolized by many fans, among whom was the emperor himself. Her maiden name is Poltoratskaya. An easy-to-remember surname was given to her by her elderly husband. So, the famous masterpiece was intended for the socialite St. Petersburg beauty Anna Kern. The first meeting between the future lovers took place at a gala reception in 1819. The beautiful woman immediately called young poet ardent passion. But the fatal temptress was married at that time. Secular laws did not allow married women to express their feelings.
Flirty Anna, in turn, did not even pay attention to the unattractive Alexander among the famous gentlemen. Some of the young man's statements and remarks even irritated her. The next time they met was at the Trigorskoye estate (1825). By this time, Anna had already become a fan of Pushkin’s work. The lady was simply charming and did not behave as timidly as before. When analyzing “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” it is worth mentioning that it was after this incident that Kern’s message was written. Such attention was very flattering to Anna, but did not evoke mutual feelings. Soon Pushkin went into exile to Mikhailovskoye and agreed to correspond with the beauty.
For two years the poet devoted ardent confessions to Kern. She was a deity to him, filled with incredible virtues. The most brilliant confessions are dedicated to the beauty. Later he became jealous of her, which he sometimes expressed insultingly. In 1827, Anna separated from her husband and started an affair with her husband’s nephew, 20 years younger than her. Alexander Sergeevich was disappointed in her. One day, a connection took place between the lovers in St. Petersburg, after which the poet completely lost interest in his muse. She also became the happy wife of the same young nephew.
In the analysis of “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” it would not hurt to mention that this message was published by Kern herself in Delvig’s almanac “Northern Flowers” (1825). Being six months younger than Alexander Sergeevich, she outlived the poet by 42 years. Anna concluded that Pushkin did not seriously love anyone.
Main motive
Getting acquainted with the analysis of “I Remember a Wonderful Moment,” readers clearly see in the poem main topic. This is, of course, love. Pushkin provides his beloved with a small description of his life between their first and second meeting, when he was going to Mikhailovskoye. During this time, a southern exile flashed through, bitter disappointment in life, and the creation of pessimistic works. But the poet’s bad mood changes the image of the divine muse. Joy has returned to the author’s work again. It was during this meeting with the heroine that his soul awakened.
Message idea
Analysis of “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” cannot be imagined without highlighting main idea poems. Pushkin shows love not only as a feeling for a woman, but also as an inspiration for creativity. Love for Alexander Sergeevich is a sincere, deep, magical feeling that has completely taken possession of him. In addition, Pushkin wanted to show inner world poet in cruel reality.
Masterpiece composition
The composition of the poem consists of three fragments. Each of these episodes has its own meaning and its own mood. The first part conveys to the reader the poet’s memories of his meeting with the genius of pure beauty. The second part is a description of the dark days in captivity, when there was no inspiration. The third fragment conveys the state of mind of the lyrical hero, who again wants to create and love.
Genre originality
Now we know to whom “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is dedicated. Let's determine the genre of the work. This is a love letter. The poet did not deprive him of philosophical reflections. You can see moments from Pushkin's biography. The first stanza talks about life in St. Petersburg, the second - about southern exile, the third - about the upcoming exile to Mikhailovskoye.
Features of language and means of expression
The vocabulary of the poem “I Remember a Wonderful Moment” is filled with epithets and comparisons. The colorful phrase “tender voice” is repeated twice like a musical refrain. All rhymes are filled with harmony and songfulness. It is not for nothing that the famous composer M.I. Glinka wrote a romance based on this text.
In addition to repetitions, the message contains inversion, parallelism, and silence. The poet resorts to a rhetorical question. By using complex syntax Pushkin strives for lightness and clarity of the text. The author uses direct and reverse word order, different positions of epithets, and alternating anaphors. To write the message, the poet used iambic pentameter with cross rhyme. The alternation of vowels in assonance gives the poem melodiousness and smoothness.
This ingenious creation of a genius is known in many parts of the world. In 2013, a book was published that collected translations of this work by Pushkin into 210 languages. 13% of Russians surveyed named this work their favorite.
