The main theme in Yesenin's work was Russia. And only in the last years of his life the poet created a number of lyrical works dedicated to feelings for a woman. They contain heartfelt confessions and longing for the passing of youth. One of these creations is “The blue fire swept up”. An analysis of the poem is presented in this article.
What preceded writing?
In 1923 Yesenin returned to Russia. The poet was absent from his homeland for fifteen months. Outwardly, he was a kind of European dandy. There was an emptiness in his soul. At least, the poet's friends later recalled that another Yesenin had returned from abroad. There was no former fire, enthusiasm, naive and a little childish faith in the great future of Russia in him.
According to the memoirs of imaginist poets, Yesenin resembled a person who had been looking for something for a long time, but never found it. Pain and disappointment gave rise to new creative ideas. Afterhoneymoon trip with Duncan, the poet was capable of creating works endowed with deep philosophical meaning.
In this dark time, the poem "The Black Man" was born. She was criticized by envious people. Not all of Yesenin's contemporaries were ready to accept it. Gorky, having heard the "Black Man" in the author's expressive performance, burst into tears.
What else is remarkable about the last stage in the life of the great poet? In the period from 1923 to 1925, he also came to know a feeling that had hitherto been unfamiliar to him. “A blue fire swept up”, the analysis of which is given below, is a work of a mature person. This poem is not so much about love, but about the ability of a deep, bright feeling to change the course of life.
About love
Yesenin never wrote about what he did not touch in his life. Not far-fetched feelings are dedicated to the verse “A blue fire swept up”. The analysis of a work of art must begin with the history of writing. As Anatoly Mariengof stated in his memoirs, Yesenin once complained to him that he did not have poems about love. It was not possible for him to write a lyrical work. After all, for this you need to fall in love.
For the poet's happiness, it was on the very day when the conversation about lyrics took place that he met Augusta Miklashevskaya for the first time. It is to this woman that the penetrating poem “The blue fire swept forth” is dedicated, the analysis of which has been done more than once by literary critics and critics in order to understand what the poet felt in the last years of his life. After all, a year after the creationa work full of hope and self-confidence, Yesenin died tragically.
Augusta Miklashevskaya
She was a very talented actress. Played on the stage of the Chamber Theatre. Miklashevskaya was not only a beautiful woman, but also possessed rare spiritual qualities. Their love seemed poetic, pure and, as one of the author's friends claimed, created solely for the sake of a lyrical theme. And this was a characteristic feature of extraordinary talent. This is evidenced by the sincerity and penetration with which Yesenin endowed "The blue fire swept."
The verse, the analysis of which can create the impression of eternal, true love, is actually dedicated to a woman with whom the poet had little connection. Everything Yesenin did was for the sake of poetry. In order to create a lyrical work, he fell in love, for real, without looking back. Yesenin did not write about feelings that were unknown to him. He lived by them, passed them through his soul. And only thanks to selfless and unconditional love for poetry were born poems included in the anthology of Russian literature.
When he first sang about love…
After the poet read the lines dedicated to Miklashevskaya, it was as if a dam had burst. Up to this point, communication between Yesenin and the actress was somewhat cold. But after that they started seeing each other every day. And at this time, according to the memoirs of Miklashevskaya, Yesenin was neither scandalous nor rude. “A blue fire swept up” - a verse, the analysis of which confirms the sincerity of the author, the willingness to submitfeeling.
Yesenin did not pretend to be in love. He truly cared for her. Although a few weeks after the cycle, which included the poem, saw the light, the poet forgot about his feeling. After all, all his life he was in search of new topics for creativity.
Love bully
There were a lot of rumors about Yesenin. They said that he was rude to women, sometimes unbearable. The poems that the poet dedicated to Isadora Duncan did not at all contain tenderness. They contained many obscene allusions, which, however, does not detract from their literary value.
The first truly lyrical work that Yesenin created is the verse "A blue fire swept". An analysis of the first stanza indicates that the poet was not just in love, but was in a state of some humility. However, such sentiments did not reign in Yesenin's soul for long.
Forgot the tavern forever…
Yesenin dedicated to tenderness and pure feeling "The blue fire swept". An analysis of this famous work speaks of the poet's confidence that the love that has come into his life can change everything. He promises not only not to go to taverns from now on, but even to stop writing. Here the author exaggerated a lot. After all, he could not live without writing.
Miklashevskaya knew another Yesenin, one who was inconvenient for his "friends". He was a sober, reasonable, friendly and open person. However, she soon became a witness to a drunken brawl arranged by Yesenin in one of the restaurants. Ugly story a lotsaddened the young woman. Nevertheless, she never spoke of the poet in a bad light. Feelings for a talented actress, a kind, partly naive person, are dedicated to the words of the work “A blue fire swept…”.
The verse, the analysis of which is presented in the article, is a sample of lyrics. One of its features is the ring composition. In the first stanza, the poet promises to renounce his former life. With these words, the work ends. Yesenin often used a similar technique.
Other lyrics
Of course, even before the advent of Miklashevskaya, the poet wrote about love. But it was a different feeling: heavy, painful. Yesenin compared love with a plague, an infection, a whirlpool. The poems that he dedicated to Duncan had nothing to do with those that were included in the "Hooligan's Love" cycle. The creation of a new lyrical hero was facilitated by the experienced sorrows, disappointments, betrayal - all that was a lot in Yesenin's life. He dedicated "The Hooligan's Love" to a woman who really was worthy of the poet's love.
Miklashevskaya, unlike Yesenin's other lovers, wrote kindly about her rivals in her memoirs. But in her memoirs, the actress admitted that, like other admirers of the outstanding poet's talent, she could not help him. It was difficult with Yesenin, sometimes unbearable. After the publication of the cycle, which included the poem discussed in this article, Miklashevskaya met Yesenin only a few times. She never visited him in the hospital. The poet, who dedicated so many poems to the people around him, was in fact unbearably lonely.
