Fet Biography Characteristic

To share the poet-lyricist, the son of the German Carolina Fet, who was taken from her husband by the Russian nobleman A. At the age of 14 he was deprived of the surname Shenshin, the nobility and even Russian citizenship.

He tried unsuccessfully to return the nobility of the summer military service, after which he married by calculation and became the economic landowner. Only in the city of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich - poet K. Romanov - considered himself a student of Fet. Having achieved all the desired efforts, Fet sharply contrasted practical life and poetry. In the later years, he became famous as a militant conservative as a publicist and essayist in E GG.

Published books of poetry in, gg. In the pumped up public atmosphere of the x. For two decades, these books remained non -exposed. Fet’s poetry was “discovered” at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the lyrics of Fet there are no finished psychological portraits, characters, the images of addresses are not outlined, even the image of the beloved abstract. There is no lyrical hero in the narrow sense: about his social status, life experience, habits, nothing is known.

The main place of “action” is generally a garden, generally a house, etc. Time is presented as a “cosmic” existence of life on Earth-its disappearance, natural season, time of day and only in the most general form as a biological life-death, youth or, more precisely, years of full force-old age, and there are no milestones and boundaries, but in no case historical time. Thoughts, feelings, sensations are expressed, designed to have a universal meaning, albeit a small, private, but understandable to any thinking and feeling personality.

Fet is a late romantic with a clear gravity to psychological realism and accuracy of objective descriptions, but thematically narrow. Three main topics are nature, love, art, usually poetry and most often “song”, united by the theme of beauty. Fet is extremely inventive in their specific filling. Nature is not only a landscape for him, but also the universe, space, and the laws of being.

Fet is the founder of the space theme in Russian poetry. A lot, like none of the poets, Fet wrote about the stars, about a certain mysterious connection between them and them. The mercy of man and the universe is expressed in the "night" theme, only the cycle of "Evenings and Nights" includes 25 poems of the GG. The night is associated with purity and eternity, thanks to the moon and stars, it can be bright and even radiant.

But the poet rejoices in Zare, the new day “I came to you with greetings ...”, G. mainly this poetry is bright and peaceful. In the late work, when Fet experienced the influence of the pessimistic philosophy of A. Schopenhauer, more sad, but more magnificent firmness, nature is understood here as the element of organic wisdom, “unconscious power”, before which the life of man is negligible, but which is healing for his soul.

A strikingly observant Fet literally hunted for fleeting. The beauty of reality is recognized above the beauty of art, but the latter perpetuates the transient. Fet paints nuances, changes in nature, for example, oscillating reflection in the water "Diana",; G., G., such impressionism is also characteristic of the reproduction of feelings, vague, integral, and often contradictory, also violating the usual logic: “A smile of languid boredom ...”, “I am silent in silence ...” Feeling of Fet in both early and later verses is usually joyful, dusty, but not to leave me ...

”; “I won’t tell you anything ...”, a stormy passion appears to be a " The theme of love goes into the themes of nature and art. Fet "Song" is always about the eternal. The sound harmony of some poems is extremely expressive. Fet uses all types of repetitions, parallelism, gradations, etc., he invented many new stanzas, is very diverse in combinations of lines of unequal stupidity. He experimented in a metric Dolnik, a free verse.