The poem of 1839 “Mtsyri” is one of the main program works of M. Yu. Lermontov. The problematics of the poem are connected with the central motifs of his work: the theme of freedom and will, the theme of loneliness and exile, the theme of the hero’s merging with the world and nature.
The hero of the poem is a powerful personality, opposing the world around him, challenging it. The action takes place in the Caucasus, among the free and powerful Caucasian nature, kindred to the hero’s soul. Mtsyri values freedom most of all and does not accept life “half-heartedly”:
Such two lives in one.
But only full of anxiety,
I would trade it if I could.
Time in the monastery was for him only a chain of tedious hours, intertwined into days, years... Three days of freedom became true life:
You want to know what I did
Free? Lived - and my life
Without these three blissful days
It would be sadder and gloomier
Your powerless old age.
These three days of complete, absolute freedom allowed Mtsyri to get to know himself. He remembered his childhood: suddenly pictures of his infancy appeared to him, his homeland came to life in his memory:
And I remembered my father's house,
The gorge is ours and all around
A scattered village in the shadows...
He saw the “lifelike” faces of his parents, sisters, and fellow villagers...
Mtsyri lived his whole life in three days. He was a child in his parents' home, a dearly loved son and brother; he was a warrior and a hunter, fighting with a leopard; was a timid young man in love, looking in delight at the “Maiden of the Mountains.” He was in every way a true son of his land and his people:
... yes, the hand of fate
I was led in a different direction...
But now I'm sure
What could happen in the land of our fathers
Not one of the last daredevils.
In three days in freedom, Mtsyri received an answer to a question that had long tormented him:
Find out if the earth is beautiful
Find out for freedom or prison
We were born into this world.
Yes, the world is beautiful! - this is the meaning of the young man’s story about what he saw. His monologue is a hymn to a world full of colors and sounds, joy. When Mtsyri talks about nature, the thought of will does not leave him: everyone in this natural world exists freely, no one suppresses the other: gardens bloom, streams make noise, birds sing, etc. This confirms the hero in the thought that man is also born for will, without which there can be neither happiness nor life itself.
What Mtsyri experienced and saw in three “blessed” days led the hero to the thought: three days of freedom are better than the eternal bliss of paradise; Better death than humility and submission to fate. Having expressed such thoughts in the poem, M. Yu. Lermontov argued with his era, which doomed the thinking person to inaction, he affirmed struggle and activity as the principle of human life.
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What did Mtsyri see and learn during his three days of freedom?
Wow, I never thought that anyone would remember Mtsyri!
Do you want to know what I did when I was free?
Lived And my life without these three blissful days,
Your old age would be sadder and gloomier!
This is what Mtsyri said to the old monk who came to him
to find out what Mtsyri was doing all these three days when he ran away.
Do you want to know what I saw when I was free? – Lush fields,
hills covered with a crown of trees growing all around...
I saw piles of dark rocks as the stream separated them.
And I guessed their thoughts... I saw mountain ranges,
bizarre, like dreams... In the distance I saw through the fog,
In the snow, burning like a diamond,
The gray, unshakable Caucasus;
Lord, what a poem! What words!
He saw mountains, sky, mountain wild river, a Georgian girl.
He fought with a leopard. He wanted freedom
wanted to return to my relatives, from whom
it was torn off as a child. For three days he wandered around
mountains, and then found himself back where he had fled from.
They found him unconscious in the steppe and returned to the monastery
brought.
We are talking about Lermontov's poem. Main character In three days of life in freedom, Mtsyri feels all the beauty of freedom and lives a whole life. While in captivity, he always wanted to know:
As a result, he became convinced that the world was very beautiful and interesting. I saw nature, felt myself, remembered my childhood and parents, love and freedom.
During three days of freedom, Mtsyri learned, in fact, what freedom is. What is life without shackles and responsibilities? He saw the world outside the monastery in which he lived. These were mainly the beauties of nature, since it took place in the mountains and steppes of the Caucasus.
He also saw very beautiful girl, and experienced feelings for her that a normal young man should experience when he sees a beautiful girl.
As a foolish child, Mtsyri was left in a monastery, where he grew up, turning into a young man who had not seen big world. However, when he was being prepared to become a monk, the young man decided to escape to freedom.
opened before him amazing world nature. He learns a lot more in 3 days than some people learn in their entire lives.
The first thing Mtsyri feels is admiration for the beautiful nature of the Caucasus, she seems incredibly beautiful. Against the backdrop of the luxurious landscapes of the Caucasus, the young man remembered his native village, pictures of his childhood, and close people.
His sensitive nature speaks of Mtsyri’s belonging to people who communicate with wildlife prefer to a society spoiled by falsehood.
One feels that Lermontov contrasts the hero of the poem with his environment, which, for the most part, was empty; young people often complained of boredom, wasting their lives every day at balls and salons.
On the background mountain landscapes Mtsyri will experience the breath of first love in the image of a young slender Georgian woman. However, passionately dreaming of seeing his homeland, he will not succumb to the temptation of love, continuing on his way.
And here, hitherto so beautiful nature, turns to him with a different face, overtaking him in a cold and impenetrable night. The young man again feels the loneliness that tormented him in the monastery, and nature, instead of a friend, suddenly becomes an enemy. In the guise of a leopard, she stood in the way of Mtsyri, inviting him to win the right to continue the path he had begun. Battle with a leopard took away from him last strength During his time in the monastery, he lost contact with nature, that special instinct that helps him find the way to his native village, therefore, having made a circle, he involuntarily returns to the places from which he fled, and here he loses consciousness.
As a result, Mtsyri again finds himself in the monastery, among the people who left him, but they represent a completely different culture. Now he himself is approaching his death, he is only saddened by the thought that he will die as a slave, without ever seeing his homeland and loved ones.
During three days of freedom, Mtsyri learned and felt much more for himself than during his entire sluggish life within the walls of the monastery. His escape and these three days in freedom became real happiness. During these three days he breathed in freedom deeply. He saw the whole world from a different side, which was previously completely unknown to him. He simply enjoyed the splendor of the surrounding nature, the Caucasian mountains, the splendor of mountain air, a rushing river, and waterfalls. This wandering through the mountains was something incredibly beautiful for him. He also had the opportunity to meet with a dangerous opponent, the leopard, where he showed all his best good qualities- he was brave and courageous.
And even though his fate was to die, it was no longer so hard for him to die after three days of real dizzying happiness.
The desire to get to his homeland, to gain freedom, pushed Mtsyri to escape from the monastery. Not for long, just for three short days, he found the long-awaited freedom, and how eventful those days turned out to be. Mtsyri learned the splendor of free nature, he enjoyed the view of wild waterfalls and mountains, he breathed free air and I think he was infinitely happy these days. This is the main thing that he learned during his escape - what happiness is. With such knowledge, it probably wouldn’t have hurt him so much to die. He felt the taste of life, he could have known love, because he was fascinated by the singing of a young Georgian woman, but the craving for home was stronger and he continued on his way. He had a chance to feel a sense of danger, an adrenaline rush from a fight with a leopard, in which he managed to win and become a Knight, that is, a warrior, a free man. Mtsyri's life flared up for three days like a bright torch and he burned in its fire.
What did Mtsyri see and learn during his three days of freedom?
Wow, I never thought that anyone would remember Mtsyri!
Do you want to know what I did when I was free?
Lived And my life without these three blissful days,
Your old age would be sadder and gloomier!
This is what Mtsyri said to the old monk who came to him
to find out what Mtsyri was doing all these three days when he ran away.
Do you want to know what I saw when I was free? - Lush fields,
hills covered with a crown of trees growing all around...
I saw piles of dark rocks as the stream separated them.
And I guessed their thoughts... I saw mountain ranges,
bizarre, like dreams... In the distance I saw through the fog,
In the snow, burning like a diamond,
The gray, unshakable Caucasus;
Lord, what a poem! What words!
He saw mountains, the sky, a stormy mountain river, a Georgian girl.
He fought with a leopard. He wanted freedom
wanted to return to my relatives, from whom
it was torn off as a child. For three days he wandered around
mountains, and then found himself back where he had fled from.
They found him unconscious in the steppe and returned to the monastery
brought.
We are talking about Lermontov's poem. The main character Mtsyri, in three days of life in freedom, feels all the beauty of freedom and lives his whole life. While in captivity, he always wanted to know:
As a result, he became convinced that the world was very beautiful and interesting. I saw nature, felt myself, remembered my childhood and parents, love and freedom.
During three days of freedom, Mtsyri learned, in fact, what freedom is. What is life without shackles and responsibilities? He saw the world outside the monastery in which he lived. These were mainly the beauties of nature, since it took place in the mountains and steppes of the Caucasus.
He also saw a very beautiful girl, and experienced feelings for her that a normal young man should experience when he sees a beautiful girl.
As a foolish child, Mtsyri was left in a monastery, where he grew up, turning into a young man who had not seen the big world. However, when he was being prepared to become a monk, the young man decided to escape to freedom.
The amazing world of nature opened up before him. He learns a lot more in 3 days than some people learn in their entire lives.
The first thing Mtsyri feels is admiration for the beautiful nature of the Caucasus, she seems incredibly beautiful. Against the backdrop of the luxurious landscapes of the Caucasus, the young man remembered his native village, pictures of his childhood, and close people.
His sensitive nature speaks of Mtsyri’s belonging to people who prefer communication with wild nature to a society spoiled by falsehood.
One feels that Lermontov contrasts the hero of the poem with his environment, which, for the most part, was empty; young people often complained of boredom, wasting their lives every day at balls and salons.
Against the backdrop of mountain landscapes, Mtsyri will experience the breath of first love in the image of a young slender Georgian woman. However, passionately dreaming of seeing his homeland, he will not succumb to the temptation of love, continuing on his way.
And here, hitherto so beautiful nature, turns to him with a different face, overtaking him in a cold and impenetrable night. The young man again feels the loneliness that tormented him in the monastery, and nature, instead of a friend, suddenly becomes an enemy. In the guise of a leopard, she stood in the way of Mtsyri, inviting him to win the right to continue the path he had begun. Battle with a leopard took away his last strength, during his stay in the monastery he lost contact with nature, that special instinct that helps him find the way to his native village, therefore, having made a circle, he involuntarily returns to the places from which he fled, and here he loses consciousness.
As a result, Mtsyri again finds himself in the monastery, among the people who left him, but they represent a completely different culture. Now he himself is approaching his death, he is only saddened by the thought that he will die as a slave, without ever seeing his homeland and loved ones.
During three days of freedom, Mtsyri learned and felt much more for himself than during his entire sluggish life within the walls of the monastery. His escape and these three days in freedom became real happiness. During these three days he breathed in freedom deeply. He saw the whole world from a different side, which was previously completely unknown to him. He simply enjoyed the splendor of the surrounding nature, the Caucasian mountains, the splendor of mountain air, a rushing river, and waterfalls. This wandering through the mountains was something incredibly beautiful for him. He also had the opportunity to meet with a dangerous opponent, the leopard, where he showed all his best qualities - he was brave and courageous.
And even though his fate was to die, it was no longer so hard for him to die after three days of real dizzying happiness.
The desire to get to his homeland, to gain freedom, pushed Mtsyri to escape from the monastery. Not for long, just for three short days, he found the long-awaited freedom, and how eventful those days turned out to be. Mtsyri learned the splendor of free nature, he enjoyed the view of wild waterfalls and mountains, he breathed free air and I think he was infinitely happy these days. This is the main thing that he learned during his escape - what happiness is. With such knowledge, it probably wouldn’t have hurt him so much to die. He felt the taste of life, he could have known love, because he was fascinated by the singing of a young Georgian woman, but the craving for home was stronger and he continued on his way. He had a chance to feel a sense of danger, an adrenaline rush from a fight with a leopard, in which he managed to win and become a Knight, that is, a warrior, a free man. Mtsyri's life flared up for three days like a bright torch and he burned in its fire.
Three days of freedom for Mtsyri turned his whole life upside down, because he learned the diversity and beauty of the World. He was amazed by the splendor of nature and absorbed the smallest part of it with interest. Mtsyri breathed deeply, contemplating the beauty and feeling a hitherto unknown freedom. The young man even managed to fall in love, although this feeling did not lead to reciprocity. It is a pity that Mtsyri again found himself in the monastery, and the World again turned out to be closed to him.
Composition
First question: the purpose of Mtsyri’s escape. Mtsyri fled to “find out whether the earth is beautiful,” “to find out whether we will be born into this world for freedom or prison,” and to “go to our native country.” What did Mtsyri see? The answer is in stanzas 6, half of the 9th, 10th and 11th. Having escaped during a thunderstorm, Mtsyri saw a world that had previously been closed from him by the monastery walls. That’s why he peers so greedily at every picture that opens to him, so carefully notes everything he sees, and then talks so enthusiastically about nature. It is impossible not to recognize the unique Caucasian landscape in the pictures described by the hero. We see the relief of the Caucasus: “lush fields”, hills with tall grasses, mountain ranges and rocks, gorges and abysses, streams and turbulent streams. We learn about the vegetation of Georgia: about the tall grasses of its valleys (stanza 9), about rich vineyards (stanza 11), about thorns tangled with ivy and dense eternal forests (stanza 15).
The nature that amazed Mtsyri is not silent: either the noise of a mountain stream is heard, or the rustling of damp leaves agitated by the wind, or the singing of birds can be heard in the foggy silence, or the cry of a jackal is heard. The appearance of a picture of Caucasian nature in Mtsyri’s story is motivated by the fact that the hero fled from the monastery to see the world, to find out what it is like. The landscape in the poem is important as a specific picture of this world, as a background against which the action unfolds, but at the same time it helps to reveal the character of the hero, that is, it turns out to be one of the ways of creating romantic image. Mtsyri's personality and character are reflected in what pictures attract him and how he talks about them. He is struck by the richness and diversity of nature, contrasting with the monotony of the monastery environment. And in close attention with which the hero looks at the world, one can feel his love for life, for everything beautiful in it, sympathy for all living things.
Every manifestation of life pleases the young man, although he does not speak about it directly. When he remembers the animals he met in the mountains, he has special, as if specially chosen words (“the birds are singing,” the jackal is “crying like a child,” the snake glides, “playing and basking”). Mtsyri perceives nature as it is. He sees in it both serene, almost idyllic pictures, when the world seems to him “God’s garden,” and menacing, harsh: “piles of dark rocks,” separated by a stream and stone embraces stretched out in the air, scary forest. He enjoys the splendor of the summer morning, sees the transparent blue sky Georgia, but he also remembers the withering midday heat in the mountains, and the black nights, when the world becomes dark and silent. This inconsistency does not frighten the young man; it does not blind him to the harmony that exists in nature. And the fact that Mtsyri knows how to perceive nature in its entirety speaks of the hero’s spiritual breadth.
In Mtsyri's story, nature does not appear as something abstract, it is concrete and visible. But at the same time, it is not difficult to see that the very selection of paintings and depictions is unique. Attention is drawn to what speaks of the beauty of nature, its greatness, grandeur; real pictures are not embellished, but from what is seen, only that which confirms the hero’s thoughts about the perfection of the natural world is drawn. Therefore, the landscape in “Mtsyri”, despite its truthfulness and concreteness, cannot be called realistic. Real pictures appear in a romantic light through the perception of the hero. The romanticism of the landscape is enhanced by the fact that Mtsyri, speaking about what he has seen in nature, strives to convey his impression of it. This adds emotionality to the description of nature. Concrete images lose their real outlines and acquire a slightly abstract emotional pattern. Epithets play a significant role in creating ideas about objects and natural phenomena. Often it is thanks to them that the real image appears in a new quality. In most cases, epithets have a pronounced emotional character: “burning abyss”, “angry shaft”, “ magical voices", etc. Even in cases where the epithet emphasizes the attribute of an object, it does not lose emotional coloring. For example, “transparent green leaves” is a realistic image, and at the same time it is emotionally rich, giving the impression of youth, freshness, and purity.
The emotionality of images is often enhanced by comparisons. For example, “ridges as weird as dreams”; trees rustling “in a crowd, like brothers in a circle dance,” etc. It is characteristic that these comparisons are not born by chance; they reveal life experience, and the presentation of the hero. “Like brothers in a circular dance” - an image inspired by Mtsyri’s vague memories of his childhood in his native village; “bizarre, like dreams” - an image associated with monastic life: in cramped, gloomy cells, dreams seem fantastic, bizarre.
Lermontov does not strive for original visual means; he often uses familiar ones that have developed in romantic literature and oral folk poetry. From here a large number of such ordinary comparisons as “slim as a poplar”, “burning like a diamond”, “crying like a child”, etc. and such epithets as “free youth”, “greedy embrace”, “holy homeland”. But they enhance the expressiveness of the hero’s monologue and the excitement of the overall tone of the poem. Observations on character visual arts in the poem, accumulating students' ideas about the features of the romantic style, they help to more clearly understand the hero's attitude to the world that revealed itself to him during his wanderings.
Mtsyri saw nature in its diversity, felt its life, and experienced the joy of communicating with it. Getting to know the world gave Mtsyri the answer to the first question, “is the earth beautiful?” Yes, the world is beautiful! - this is the meaning of the young man’s story about what he saw. His monologue is a hymn to this world. And the fact that the world is beautiful, full of colors and sounds, full of joy, gives Mtsyri the answer to the second question: then man was created, why does he live? Man is born for freedom, not for prison - this is the conclusion. In freedom, a person is happy, and Mtsyri calls the three days spent outside the monastery “blessed”; he says that his life without these days
* Ø “I would be sadder and gloomier than powerless old age”
Mtsyri’s feeling of happiness is caused not only by what he saw, but also by what he managed to accomplish.