The theme of love occupies a significant place in Yesenin's lyrics. In his poems, the poet conveys various experiences associated with this feeling: the joy of meeting, the melancholy of separation, love impulses, the sadness of doubt, despair. Already in early lyric poetry, rich imagery and varied intonations served to glorify the beauty of bright feelings. The poet perceives love as a miracle: “whoever invented your flexible figure and shoulders put his lips to the bright secret.”
Yesenin was very loved by women, but the poet’s intimate lyrics are often tinged with tragedy. Yesenin’s book “Moscow Tavern” includes two cycles: “Moscow Tavern” and “Love of a Hooligan.” They do not describe love in a high sense, but feelings characteristic of teenagers, when a woman attracts and irritates at the same time. In youthful immaturity, hysterical intonations appear. Having no “friendship among people,” the poet compares love with a terrible, incurable disease:

I didn't know that love is an infection
I didn't know that love was a plague.

In Moscow, tavern love is a tavern, corrupt, deceitful, pathetic imitation of a real feeling, in which the lyrical hero sees “death”:

Don't look at her wrists
And silk flowing from her shoulders.
I was looking for happiness in this woman,
And I accidentally found death.

Yesenin, who knew the bitterness of such “love,” could not ignore this theme and reflected in his work love-despair, love-delirium, love at the level of animal instinct. Realizing the failure of such love, the disappointed lyrical hero of the poem cycle asks his friend for forgiveness. The hero's soul is alive, full of kindness and humanity:

Darling, I'm crying
Sorry Sorry…

Admiration for a woman, her beauty and mystery arises in the cycle “The Love of a Hooligan.” The hero no longer wants to go to taverns, “drink and dance” and “lose his life without looking back.” He is glad to look at his beloved, to see the “golden pool” of her eyes and to “subtly touch his hand and hair” with her “autumn color.”
In the poem “A Blue Fire Has Swept Up,” the poet admits: “This is the first time I’m writing about love,” emphasizing that he does not consider what he wrote about in the “Moscow Tavern” cycle to be love. The blue fire is a metaphor for love, conveying the poet’s hope for resurrection. But very soon the hero becomes sad, and he begins to doubt himself and his feelings:

That's why I didn't save myself
For you, for her and for this one.
The guarantee of gloomy happiness -
The crazy heart of a poet.

In the following poems of the cycle, the tragic intonation intensifies, and motives of jealousy appear. The hero sympathizes with his beloved, who has a difficult life:

It makes me sad to look at you
What a pain, what a pity!

It seems to him that in life there is “nothing left but yellow decay and dampness.”

After all, I didn’t save myself either
For a quiet life, for smiles.
So few roads have been traveled
So many mistakes have been made.

The poet, who dreamed of a high feeling, of spiritual intimacy, finds only passion. Such love does not enlighten, but devastates a person.
The cycle of poems “Persian Motifs” was considered the best of all written. “Persian motives” were created in the Caucasus in 1924–1925. The cycle represents lyrical and philosophical reflections, in which the merging of the tragic and philosophical principles has reached its completion. In it, Yesenin inspiredly created an imaginary Persia, which he wanted to visit. The most important feature of “Persian Motifs” is their musicality, created by the repetition of refrains.
The most characteristic in this regard is the poem “You are my Shagane, Shagane!..”, in which the poet addresses a specific girl, a young teacher named Shagane Talyan, whom the poet met in December 1924. He often visited her, gave her flowers and read poetry. When parting, the poet gave her a book with the inscription: “My dear Shagane, you are pleasant and dear to me.” The girl at that time was 24 years old, she was Armenian by origin, she was distinguished by her extraordinary beauty, and the poet based his Persian girl on her.
The refrain “You are my Shagane, Shagane!..” enhances admiration for the beauty of the beloved. Yesenin tells the girl about his only love, about love for his native land.

Because I'm from the north, or something?
I'm ready to tell you the field,
About wavy rye under the moon.

The poet is unable to forget his Russian girlfriend:

Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
There, in the north, there is a girl too,
She looks an awful lot like you
Maybe he's thinking about me...

Many of Yesenin's love poems are dedicated to specific women. For example, the cycle “Love of a Hooligan” is dedicated to the Chamber Theater actress Augusta Leonardovna Miklashevskaya, and the poems “Letter to a Woman”, “Letter from a Mother”, “Kachalov’s Dog” talk about the poet’s complex relationship with his most beloved woman - his first wife Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich :

Do you remember,
Of course, you all remember
How I stood
Approaching the wall
You walked around the room excitedly
And they threw something sharp at my face.

In the last year of his life, Yesenin created poems about love, in which he condemns lies in human relationships, writes with sadness about hearts that have grown cold, unable to give people love. These poems are incredibly tragic. He considers himself no longer capable of loving, this is a fair retribution for the indiscriminateness of feelings in his youth. The only hope is that the woman he loves will remember him at least someday. In the poem “You don’t love me, you don’t regret me...” he writes:

He who loved cannot love,
You can't set fire to someone who's burned out.

Yesenin's hero goes from an enthusiastic perception of love, admiration for female beauty to the thought of the impossibility of harmonious relationships between two people.

The theme of love in the lyrics of S. A. Yesenin

The creativity of S. A. Yesenin is inextricably linked with the theme of love; it seems that it does not exist without this high feeling. The soul of a poet cannot help but love, admire, and burn with passion. She breathes love, lives it, which is reflected in the lyrics.

The poet's first love is born in his homeland, in the “land of birch calico.” Poems dating back to this period (the beginning of the tenth years of the 20th century) are similar in mood to folk songs, full of rustic melody and melodiousness. Folklore motifs can be clearly heard in them (“Imitation of a Song”, 1910). From an early age, folk tales, sayings, and riddles sank into the soul of S. A. Yesenin. Therefore, his first poems are distinguished by their fullness of colors, sounds, and smells. His poems contain the soft greenery of fields, the scarlet light of dawn, the white smoke of bird cherry, the blue sand of the sky.

Love lyrics occupy a significant place in the poetry of S. A. Yesenin. His poems reflect the poet’s various experiences - the joy of meeting his beloved, melancholy in separation, sadness, despair. But the theme of love in his poems is closely intertwined with the main Yesenin theme - the theme of love for the Motherland. His love for a woman is revealed through his love for his native land. With an amazing ability, he animates the nature of his father’s land:

Green hairstyle,

Girlish breasts.

Oh, thin birch tree,

Why did you look into the pond?

The birch tree, his favorite image, becomes a birch-girl with a green hem with which the wind plays; maple on one leg; rowan burning with its fruits; aspen trees looking into pink water; rye with a swan neck and many other amazing metaphors and images create their own special world in the works of S. A. Yesenin - the world of living and spiritualized nature in which he himself lived.

The poetry of love, merging with the poetry of nature, draws from it the chastity of spring blossoms, the sensuality of summer heat.

The poet’s beloved is the embodiment of the beauty of the surrounding world, the beauty of his native village landscape. She appears before us “with a sheaf of oat hair”, “with scarlet berry juice on her skin”, and her “flexible figure and shoulders” were invented by nature itself. This is how S. A. Yesenin describes his beloved in the poem “Don’t walk, don’t crush in the crimson bushes...”, written in 1916.

In the poem “The green one is hiding...” the girl appears before us in the poet’s favorite image - in the image of a thin birch tree that “looked into the pond.” The birch tree itself tells us how “on a starry night” the shepherd “embraced her bare knees... and shed tears,” saying goodbye to her “until new cranes.”

In the early twenties, there was a sharp change in the poet’s mood in poems about love. Yesenin, having witnessed the events of the revolution, seeing the changes taking place in the country, deeply felt the inner mood of the people. It was reflected in the cycle of poems “Moscow Tavern”, where rustic song lyricism is replaced by a distinct, sharp rhythm. The poet, experiencing difficult changes in Russia together with the people, cannot determine his place in life, and suffers deeply from the consciousness of spiritual duality. He expected from the revolution the fulfillment of the dream of a “peasant paradise”, a free, well-fed, happy life on earth. But in reality, the ruin of the rural “Blue Rus'” occurred. S. A. Yesenin felt that harmony with nature was being destroyed. In one of his letters from this time, he wrote: “What touches me... is only sadness for the passing of the dear, dear animal and the unshakable power of the dead, mechanical... I am sad now that history is going through a difficult era of the killing of the individual as a living thing. , because what is happening is completely different from the socialism I thought about.” This heavy mood is also expressed in love lyrics. Here we will no longer find words about sublime love, there is no admiration for nature that was always present in the early poems. The poet leaves his “native fields” “without return.” "Yes! Now it's decided. No return...,” he writes in 1922. Feelings are trampled upon, momentary desires come to the fore: “When... the moon is shining... God knows how,” he goes “down the alley to a familiar tavern.” There is no beauty of a pink sunset, there is only “the noise and din in this terrible lair.”

The attitude towards a woman changes dramatically: she is no longer a slender birch girl, but a “lousy” prostitute who has been “loved” and “dirty.” She is dirty, stupid, and instead of love she only causes hatred. This mood of the poet is expressed in the poem “Rash, harmonica. Boredom... Boredom...,” written in 1923. However, such images are a demonstrative expression of the depressed state of the poet’s inner world. Vicious “tavern” love is a desperate poetic cry about the destructive passion of taverns. And yet, through the painful spiritual mood of the poetic works, the lyricism inherent in S. A. Yesenin breaks through, sincerity breaks out onto the pages of the poems, which further emphasize the deep tragic state of the poet’s soul: Darling, I’m crying, I’m sorry... I’m sorry... .

In 1923, the poet returned from a long trip abroad, which played a significant role in his work. He is disillusioned with the bourgeois-democratic principles of the Western world, and is also disillusioned with past ideals. S. A. Yesenin is convinced “how beautiful and rich Russia is. It seems that such a country does not yet exist and cannot exist.” He does not write poems about foreign impressions, nothing inspires him to create creativity away from his native land. His lyrics contain a motif of sadness, regret about lost youth, wasted years, wasted energy and time in taverns among tramps and prostitutes. Now the poet “sang about love” again, swearing off scandal. In the poem “A blue fire swept through...” he writes: I stopped liking drinking and dancing and losing my life without looking back. The lyrical hero is again enveloped in a “blue fire”, he is kindled by his “gentle step, light figure” and, of course, his hair “the color of autumn.” Love, as a saving force, leads the poet to rebirth, to the desire to live and create. In the poem “Darling, let’s sit next to you...” he writes:

This is autumn gold

This strand of whitish hair -

Everything appeared as salvation

Restless rake.

In the poem “Son of a Bitch,” written in 1924, S. A. Yesenin remembers the forgotten “girl in white,” and his soul comes to life again: The pain of the soul surfaced again. With this pain, I seem to be younger... Thoughts of a bright, clean village youth are revived in my memory. But the riotous tavern life has already left its mark on the poet’s fate and it is no longer possible to return the “former song”: Yes, I liked the girl in white, But now I love her in blue. During the same period, Yesenin created a cycle of poems “Persian Motifs”, the most famous of which is “Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!” It talks about how, being far from his homeland, the poet wants to tell his beloved woman about the incomparable beauty of the Ryazan expanse, which filled his life with bright, unforgettable impressions:

... I'm ready to tell you the field,

About wavy rye under the moon...

No matter how beautiful Shiraz is,

It is no better than the Ryazan expanses...

Like the entire cycle of poems, it is filled with a romantic mood and light sadness:

There in the north, the girl too,

Maybe he's thinking about me...

“Apparently, it’s been like this forever...” - this poem, written in 1925, pours out the sadness of unfulfilled hopes for happiness “by the age of thirty.” The lyrical hero was ready to burn with “pink fire,” “burning” together with his beloved. And although she gave her heart “with laughter” to another, nevertheless, this love, unrequited and tragic, “led the stupid poet... to sensual poetry.” Being rejected, the lyrical hero remains faithful to his former feeling. He finds again a faithful messenger - this is “dear Jim”:

She will come, I give you my guarantee.

And without me, in her staring gaze,

For me, lick her hand gently

For everything I was and wasn’t guilty of.

The poems of S. A. Yesenin continue to excite us with their dramatic lyrical experiences many years after they were written. This is due to the fact that Yesenin’s lyricism, tragic and sublimely romantic, evokes in the reader feelings that are close and understandable to everyone.

Love lyrics by S.A. Yesenin can be traced in several cycles of his work: the urban cycle “Moscow Tavern”, the cycles “Love of a Hooligan” and “Persian Motifs”.

Purity, tenderness, sincerity - this is how Yesenin’s love can be characterized. This feeling is perceived by him as a rebirth, the awakening of everything beautiful in a person, as the death of all negative traits. This is the desire from darkness to light under the influence of this magical feeling. We see this rebirth in many of his poems, but it was especially clearly and clearly expressed in the poem “A Blue Fire Swept Up”...

For the first time I sang about love,
For the first time I refuse to make a scandal...

Yesenin emphasizes that he loves so much for the first time that his beloved is very dear and necessary to him. He says that he “refuses to make scandals,” and this is a big step for the poet, who tried to hide from the Russian “storm” in scandals and taverns. Apparently, Yesenin understood that love is stronger than any adversity, that it can save a person, protecting him from worries with a gentle but powerful hand. The poet does not hide that “ is greedy for women and potions", but promises his beloved that he will leave " drink and dance" He will give up so that she, Isadora, is next to him, so that she lives in the present and not in the past.

I was all like a neglected garden,
He was greedy for women and potions,
I stopped liking singing and dancing
And lose your life without looking back.
... And so that, not loving the past,
You couldn't leave for someone else.

The love for Augusta Miklashevskaya was so strong that Yesenin promises to quit writing poetry, and this is a big step for the poet; he is ready to sacrifice the most precious thing - literary creativity.

I would forget the taverns forever
And I stopped writing poetry,
Just touch your thin hand
And your hair is the color of autumn.

Yesenin's love for Duncan is boundless and so tender that we can even catch a whiff of light but intoxicating perfume. We feel a light trail of aroma thanks to the assonance used by Yesenin:

If only I could touch a thin hand...

In the first stanza, it seemed to me that a glass broke somewhere nearby. This can be heard thanks to the explicit alliteration:

For the first time I sang about love
For the first time I refuse to make a scandal.

The clink of a broken glass is heard, which becomes the personification of the poet’s willingness to change for the sake of the woman he loves.
Cross rhyme gives lightness, expressiveness, and melody to the entire poem.

Gentle gait, light groan,
If only you knew with your persistent heart, J.
How a hooligan knows how to love, M.
How he knows how to be submissive.

Yesenin, to show that he knows how to be not only a hooligan. But also a romantic, uses anaphora.

With the help of the visual and expressive means used in the poem - tropes, Yesenin increases the aesthetic impact on the reader and emphasizes the splendor of the language. Epithets ( a blue fire, a neglected garden, a golden-brown pool, a stubborn heart, a submissive bully, alien distances) in Yesenin’s lyrics exist not by themselves, for the sake of form, but in order to more fully and deeply reveal the thought, to show what Isadora generally means to him. In my opinion, Yesenin had one favorite trope - personification, with the help of which he revives the whole world, endowing it with a soul. In the poem “A blue fire swept away”, the personification of “a blue fire swept away” in the image of a fire Yesenin shows his restless heart, which does not find peace for itself.

Using a three-syllable verse size, anapest, Yesenin conveys complex but strong feelings in the poem.

A blue fire swept around
_ _ / _ _ / _ _ /
Forgotten relatives.
_ _ / _ _ / _ _ / _

Love, capable of changing the world, did not overcome Yesenin’s craving for women and wine. Living together with Isadora became a line, crossing which Yesenin began to party even more violently. He didn't keep his promise. At the same time, he understood that love for him was no longer that strong feeling, it had lost its strength and became only a “sensual tremor.”

In a poem dated December 13, 1925, “Maybe it’s too late, maybe it’s too early...” Yesenin himself admits to the reader that he has become like Don Juan and challenges him:

What's happened? What happened to me?
Every day I am at other knees...
...Accept the challenge, Don Juan.

Yesenin despises himself more and more every day for his wild life.

Every day I lose pity for myself,
Without putting up with the bitterness of betrayal...
...Hold me, my contempt,
I have always been marked by you...

But at the same time he despised himself, he clearly realized that love had ruined him. He believed that she deprived him of song courage, he said that he would sing "more tender and wonderful", if not “Dear hands - a pair of swans”.
Yesenin experienced as many real feelings in his short 30 years as he could not experience in a longer period. Therefore, by the end of his life, his heart, which had known so much grief and happiness, became a “block of gold”

If you love your soul to the bottom
The heart will become a block of gold...

Yesenin's love lyrics are a small piece of his rich literary heritage. It is worth noting that even Yesenin himself noted that love for women was not the main theme of his work. Yesenin saw his main theme as love, but love for the Motherland and native land.

The theme of love runs like a red thread through all stages of the creative path of the great Russian poet. Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin seemed to put a piece of his soul into every line he composed, expressing sincere love for his native land, for nature, for people. His feelings, experiences, thoughts are close to every reader. That is why Sergei Yesenin’s lyrics to this day remain beloved and revered among representatives of different generations.

From the very beginning of his creative career, the image of his native land was firmly entrenched in the poet’s lyrics: beloved and irreplaceable, warming the heart in the most difficult times. Rural life, Russian folklore, girlish laughter and the beauty of Russian nature - all this inspired the poet, thanks to which many wonderful works were born.

Love for his native land became the main theme of the poet’s work. In the poem “The hewn horns began to sing,” warm, sincere love has a slightly sad tint, but in the famous “Go, my dear Rus',” Yesenin expresses delight, joy and devotion to the Motherland. Sergei Alexandrovich did not like city life, but praised only what was close to nature, to the origins of the culture of the people. In his later works, such love is expressed in regret for the departed, as well as in contempt for godlessness and unwillingness to live according to the new laws of society (“Return to the Motherland”, “Soviet Rus'”).

Love for Russia closely echoes in Yesenin’s lyrics with love for his mother. The famous poem “Letter to a Mother” is a tense lyrical monologue. In this letter-message, using colloquial vocabulary, vernacular, jargon, metaphors in combination with a high book style, the author expresses many feelings that overwhelm his vulnerable heart: anxiety, pain, tenderness, trust, melancholy. And this is not surprising, because sometimes only a mother can be trusted and opened up.

Yesenin’s philosophical lyrics reveal a love for the animal world. The tragic poem “The Fox” shows how ruthless people are towards defenseless animals. In the works “Cow” and “Song of the Dog” the author conveys tragedy through the perception of the animals themselves. For the poet, the animal world is an important part of nature, part of his native land, which means it is impossible not to love it.

Sergei Yesenin's love lyrics are filled with both joyful and sad feelings. Many poems are dedicated to a specific woman. Despite the fact that the fair sex did not deprive the talented poet of attention, and he himself was married three times, Yesenin’s love poems are mostly tragic in nature. These are “Letter to a Woman”, “You don’t love me, you don’t regret me”, “Well, kiss me, kiss me” and others.

For a poet, love becomes not just a source of inspiration, but also the meaning of life. This is manifested in all areas of his work, filled with a range of truly human feelings that Sergei Yesenin himself experienced and which every person experiences after becoming acquainted with his lyrics. The poet sang sincere, pure, sublime love, and, for sure, believed that it was she who would overcome all sorrows and adversity.

Essay Love in the works and lyrics of Yesenin

The great poet, who was born in Russia at that time, was very talented. Yesenin, since it was he, from the very moment he began to write his beautiful works, put his whole soul into them. He loved his land, loved his family, and also often had exalted feelings for just all the people on earth, since he was a bit of a humanist. When he wrote about something, about his feelings, or about anything else, he addressed all his emotions that he conveyed in the lines to his readers.

Love was the most important theme in all of Yesenin’s works. Because, as mentioned above, he was very humane, that is, he loved people, nature and everything around him, and did not hate the whole world, as is sometimes pursued by some poets and writers. But most of all, he probably loved his own land - so beautiful, so prosperous, all the nature around him, so romantic and mysterious.

For Yesenin, his native land was a very important factor in life, which is why he often mentions the nature around him in his poems, describing all its beauties, as well as the emotions and feelings that he has towards it. That is why, reading his works, my soul somehow becomes more joyful, much sweeter. You begin to imagine this seemingly unearthly land - so dear to the poet. Nature has always been dear to the poet Yesenin. After all, even she was like a lively hero in his poems. She lived, felt pain, joy and peace.

Sometimes in Yesenin’s works such emotions as sadness and grief in relation to the nature of Rus' are pursued. It turned out that Yesenin did not always express delight and joy; sometimes sadness, and even sometimes pain, slips into his lines in poems.

In addition to the theme of love for nature, Yesenin expressed in his works his love for Rus', so majestic and at the same time simple. For the sensitive poet, Russia was identified with the image of a mother, tender and loving. That is why Yesenin sometimes grieves that the past is gone and will never return.

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The theme of love occupies a special place in Yesenin’s lyrics. True connoisseurs of Russian literature cannot be left indifferent by these heartfelt lines, filled with a living, bright feeling. You read them and it seems that you are touching eternity, since they awaken the most intimate feelings in your soul. The recipients of Yesenin's love lyrics are the women whom he admired and idolized. It should be noted with what sincere tenderness he addresses them, how charming he chooses epithets. Yesenin's poems about love are incredibly melodic and beautiful. I want to read them out loud, thinking about every word.

No one can remain indifferent to these stunning lines. In this article we will look at the theme of love in Yesenin’s lyrics. How is it different? What can be found in it that is truly amazing for an ordinary person?

Features of Yesenin's love lyrics

When you get acquainted with these mesmerizing poems, it seems that they touch every string of your soul. There is a complete immersion in the process of contemplating these heartfelt lines. You read them and are filled with some kind of majestic beauty that brings joy and moral satisfaction. The peculiarity of Yesenin’s love lyrics is that they fit very easily to music.

That is why so many beautiful and soulful songs appeared based on the poems of this wonderful poet. Literary scholars rightly call Sergei Yesenin a “poetic singer” who knew how to say a lot by expressing his feelings in rhyme.

“A blue fire started to spread”

One of the most beautiful lyrical works. The poem is imbued with tender feelings and reflects the reassessment of values ​​that occurs in the soul of the lyrical hero. It seems that he is ready to completely submit to fate, give up bad habits and even “stop making trouble.” The heart of the lyrical hero is filled with bright emotions; he feels within himself the opportunity to change a lot in life, to correct the mistakes of the past.

Sergei Yesenin uses very beautiful means of artistic expression to express his state: “blue fire”, “golden-brown whirlpool”, “hair the color of autumn”. It can be seen that the experience of feeling awakens in his soul feelings leading to change. The poem leaves a pleasant feeling of gentle sadness for unfulfilled dreams and helps to remember real goals.

“You don’t love me, you don’t regret me”

The poem is quite famous and beautiful. These lines captivate the imagination and make the soul shrink with delight. The lyrical hero is in a state of confusion. The key line here is “Whoever has loved cannot love.” The heart of the lyrical hero is not yet ready to experience new love. There are too many scars in the soul that prevent you from feeling truly happy. It may seem that he is too withdrawn and is afraid of the onset of additional experiences. Moral torment causes a lot of mental pain, from which it is sometimes impossible to find relief. The lyrical hero is to some extent disappointed in life.

He simultaneously wants to change something and is afraid to accept significant events into his destiny, which is why the words appear in the poem: “He who has loved cannot love.” After all, there is always the possibility that you will find yourself deceived and abandoned. These are the feelings the lyrical hero experiences, fearing the onset of new disappointment.

“Dear hands - a pair of swans”

The poem is incredibly tender, reverent and filled with warmth. The lyrical hero of Sergei Yesenin admires female beauty and finds himself captivated by it. He wants to find his true happiness, but conflict is inevitable: there are too many regrets in his soul that interfere with a happy sense of self. There is a great concentration on experiencing subjective feelings.

“I don’t know how to live my life” is an expression of confusion, anxiety and invisible loneliness. The lyrical hero is worried about the idea that most of his life has been lived in vain. It is difficult for him to decide on the direction in which he needs to follow. The feeling of love beckons him to conquer unknown heights, but he is afraid of experiencing disappointment, afraid of being deceived. The lyrical hero often turns to his previous experience in order to compare certain things and understand what to do.

“Sing, sing. On the damn guitar..."

The poem is incredibly sensual and dedicated to experiencing a passionate feeling. The lyrical hero feels like an unarmed knight who has embarked on an exciting adventure. He is attracted by wonderful impulses and at the same time wary. This is one of the most heartfelt works of Sergei Yesenin.

“I didn’t know that love was an infection” - this line shows how unprepared we sometimes are to experience the feeling of love. It frightens many people because they have to deal with something hitherto unknown and go into unknown distances. The lyrical hero understands love as “destruction,” which inevitably comes when it comes to a beautiful woman. He is already internally prepared for disappointment.

"Fool heart, don't beat"

The poem reflects the state of the lyrical hero, experiencing an existential crisis. The lyrical hero does not believe in love, calls it deception, because the feeling itself always makes him suffer. He has already gone through numerous trials as a result of past relationships and does not want to repeat the mistakes he once made. The work is shrouded in a note of sadness, but there is no sense of hopelessness in it. The theme of love in Yesenin's lyrics occupies a central place.

“I remember, darling, I remember”

The poem is imbued with a note of nostalgia. The lyrical hero yearns for the time when he was different: without thinking about anything, he started a relationship, and did not impose certain obligations on himself. He yearns for the past and seems to want to return to it for a moment. At the same time, some life circumstances do not allow me to return there.

The hero regrets some mistakes of the past, but at the same time understands that there is no more time left to try to correct them. Yesenin's poems about love are imbued with unprecedented tenderness, inspiration and light sadness. Strong feelings grip the reader’s soul and do not let go for a long time. I want to re-read these lyrical works again in order to feel all their charm and grandeur.

Instead of a conclusion

Thus, the theme of love in Yesenin’s lyrics is a special direction in the poet’s work. Feelings and their development are of great importance here. The lyrical hero reveals himself from an unexpected and beautiful side. He has to learn a lot about himself, learn to accept his own emotional state.