Analysis of Bryusov's poem The Coming Huns.  V.Ya.Bryusov

“The Coming Huns” Valery Bryusov

Trample their paradise, Attila.
Vyach. Ivanov

Where are you, future Huns,
What a cloud hanging over the world!
I hear your cast iron tramp
Through the not yet discovered Pamirs.

An intoxicated horde is upon us
Fall from the dark places -
Revive a decrepit body
A wave of flaming blood.

Place, slaves of freedom,
Huts near the palaces, as it used to be,
Rake up the merry field
On the site of the throne room.

Stack books like fires,
Dance in their joyful light,
You create abomination in the temple, -
You are innocent of everything, like children!

And we, sages and poets,
Keepers of secrets and faith,
Let's take away the lit lights,
In catacombs, in deserts, in caves.

And what, under the flying storm.
Under this storm of destruction,
Will save the playing Case
From our treasured creations?

Everything will perish without a trace, perhaps
What only we knew
But you, who will destroy me,
I greet you with a welcome anthem.

Analysis of Bryusov’s poem “The Coming Huns”

Valery Bryusov did not take revolutionary ideas seriously, although he understood that society needed change. However, the poet considered his path of development through wars and upheavals to be erroneous. The events of 1904-1905, when mass strikes swept across Russia, turning into a kind of dress rehearsal for the 1917 revolution, forced Bryusov to take a closer look at this social phenomenon, in which he saw a parallel with the fall of the Roman Empire. That's when it was born the poem "The Coming Huns", predicting the death of the mighty Russian state.

By “the coming Huns,” the author meant modern barbarians - workers and peasants who are ready to trample on the centuries-old traditions and culture of the Russian people for the sake of their crazy and ambitious ideas. Bryusov had no doubt at all that events would develop exactly according to this scenario, predicting: “Collapse upon us from the dark places like an intoxicated horde.” The only difference is that if earlier raids were carried out by foreigners, now the ruin of the country begins from within, and its initiators are people who were nourished and raised by the Russian land. However, this, according to the poet, will not stop the vandals from erecting huts near the palaces and breaking up agricultural land in the throne rooms, thereby destroying everything that Russia was so proud of.

By resorting to such allegories, the poet pursues the only goal - to show how low people can fall, intoxicated by the thirst for power. Bryusov understands that revolution in any of its manifestations is an evil that must be resisted. Otherwise, his homeland will turn into a barbaric country, where human life will be worth absolutely nothing. The author compares the bearers of revolutionary ideas to small children who are happy to dance around bonfires made from books and destroy churches. However, there is no one to resist this merciless force, because all the sages will simply be forced to hide from the vandals, taking “the lit lights into the catacombs, into the deserts, into the caves.” This is the fate of many civilizations that failed to discern their enemies and defend against them in a timely manner. True, Bryusov sees a certain pattern in such a scenario of events. If society is not able to solve its problems on its own, then some external force always appears, sweeping away everything in its path. Therefore, the poet believes that there is no point in trying to change anything, much less resist the barbarians. “I greet you, who will destroy me, with a welcoming hymn,” the poet sums up.

Valery Bryusov lived in an era when the revolutionary movement in Russia was gaining strength and momentum. This great and multifaceted man was born in 1873 in Moscow. Therefore, he could not stand aside from the political events of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This is confirmed by the poem “The Coming Huns,” which the poet considered finally completed in 1905. The author spent almost a year creating his masterpiece, in which he expressed his personal attitude towards the revolutionary movement. How Bryusov himself understands the meaning and significance of future events, he sincerely described in this work.

Surprisingly, even then he prophetically predicted that spiritually rich people who had gone underground would be able to save the culture of the state. The author counts himself among them. He, among others, will go into the catacombs, into caves and take with him the hidden cultural heritage of great Russia.

Bryusov understands that the arrival of the Huns is inevitable, the tramp of their cast-iron boots on the pavement is heard more and more clearly and loudly, it can no longer be drowned out. He predicts that they, people of a new way of life, who consider themselves to be the only ones right, will burn bridges behind them, destroying the past at the root, and will create abominations in the Russian church and in all Orthodox churches.

The poet also foresees the inglorious end of those who will not be able to hide from the revolution looming over the world. And it is surprising, at first glance, his statement that, anticipating that he will be an outcast in the new world, he is nevertheless ready to greet its representatives with an anthem.

But perhaps it was precisely this line of his that saved Bryusov from the punishing hand of the revolution. Some considered this anthem an obvious suicide. And only a few figured out how cunningly the poet cast his fishing rod into the world ocean of revolution. The Huns who appeared were hooked; they liked this hymn. The new government not only spared the poet, but also accepted him into their society, exalted him and allowed him to create.

So it turns out that, thanks to the subtle psychology of people like Valery Bryusov, many values ​​of Russian culture did not disappear without a trace. They were preserved and passed on to future generations. And even though the poet had to resort to some cunning to achieve this, the result fully justifies his actions. What was known only to representatives of the Silver Age did not disappear without a trace, and this is happiness.

Valery Bryusov wrote the poem “The Coming Huns” for almost a whole year and finished it on August 10, 1905.
In “The Coming Huns” - the most detailed and fully revealing of his attitude to the revolution and understanding of its meaning. Sweep away, break, destroy, destroy - this is the main meaning of the revolution, as Bryusov saw it. What will happen next, what concrete world will emerge from the ruins of the past, how it will actually be built - all this seemed to Bryusov in a very abstract form.
In Bryusov, during the years of the first Russian revolution, faith in the supreme unity of human culture was shaken. He had to almost physically feel that he and his contemporaries and literary associates were standing on the border of two cultures - one dying, the other emerging and, for now, dark and alien. It was that feeling of historical cataclysm that dictated to him “The Coming Huns” - poems about the death of culture and the wild renewal of the world. Since then, this feeling has not left Bryusov.
Speaking about the “coming Huns,” he speaks of those barbarians whose invasion Herzen foresaw. At the same time, it also sounds like a premonition of the events that followed soon after. One of the stanzas begins like this:

Stack books like fires,
You create abomination in the temple,
And we, sages and poets,
Keepers of secrets and faith,
Let's take away the lit lights

In other words, he foresaw a spiritual underground that would save culture when the “coming Huns” laid down the old “books as bonfires.”
Bryusov's most sincere and probably most powerful poem, "The Coming Huns," perfectly demonstrates the ideology of the Silver Age.

Where are you, future Huns,
What cloud hangs over the world?
I hear your cast iron tramp
Along the not yet discovered Pamirs.

What only we knew.
But you, who will destroy me,

What a suicidal hymn, what a complex man, many readers of that time thought enthusiastically. But Bryusov is a man, although talented, not at all complex, but on the contrary, primitive and even with a primitive cunning, so that the Huns will take into account his anthem. And the Huns, having appeared, really took this hymn into account and spared Bryusov himself and even slightly exalted him.

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“Analysis of Bryusov’s poem “The Coming Huns””

Valery Bryusov wrote the poem “The Coming Huns” for almost a whole year and finished it on August 10, 1905. “The Coming Huns” most fully and fully reveals his attitude to the revolution and understanding of its meaning. Sweep away, break, destroy, destroy - this is the main meaning of the revolution, as Bryusov saw it. What will happen next, what concrete world will emerge from the ruins of the past, how it will actually be built - all this seemed to Bryusov in a very abstract form.

In Bryusov, during the years of the first Russian revolution, faith in the supreme unity of human culture was shaken. He had to almost physically feel that he and his contemporaries and literary associates stood on the border of two cultures - one dying, the other emerging and, for now, dark and alien. It was that feeling of historical cataclysm that dictated to him “The Coming Huns” - poems about the death of culture and the wild renewal of the world. Since then, this feeling has not left Bryusov. Speaking about the “coming Huns,” he speaks of those barbarians whose invasion Herzen foresaw. At the same time, it also sounds like a premonition of the events that followed soon after. One of the stanzas begins like this:

Stack books like fires,
Dance in their joyful light,
You create abomination in the temple,
You are innocent of everything, like children!
And we, sages and poets,
Keepers of secrets and faith,
Let's take away the lit lights
In catacombs, in deserts, in caves.

In other words, he foresaw a spiritual underground that would save the culture when the “coming Huns” would lay down the old “books as bonfires.”
Bryusov’s most sincere and probably most powerful poem, “The Coming Huns,” perfectly demonstrates the ideology of the Silver Age.

Where are you, future Huns,
What cloud hangs over the world?
I hear your cast iron tramp
Along the not yet discovered Pamirs.

And the poem ends like this:

Perhaps it will disappear without a trace
What only we knew.
But you, who will destroy me,
I greet you with a welcome anthem!

What a suicidal hymn, what a complex man, many readers of that time thought enthusiastically. But Bryusov is a man, although talented, not at all complex, but on the contrary, primitive and even with a primitive cunning, so that the Huns will take into account his anthem. And the Huns, having appeared, really took this hymn into account and spared Bryusov himself and even slightly exalted him.

“The Coming Huns” V. Bryusov

“The Coming Huns” Valery Bryusov

Trample their paradise, Attila.
Vyach. Ivanov

Where are you, future Huns,
What a cloud hanging over the world!
I hear your cast iron tramp
Through the not yet discovered Pamirs.

An intoxicated horde is upon us
Fall from the dark places -
Revive a decrepit body
A wave of flaming blood.

Place, slaves of freedom,
Huts near the palaces, as it used to be,
Rake up the merry field
On the site of the throne room.

Stack books like fires,
Dance in their joyful light,
You create abomination in the temple, -
You are innocent of everything, like children!

And we, sages and poets,
Keepers of secrets and faith,
Let's take away the lit lights,
In catacombs, in deserts, in caves.

And what, under the flying storm.
Under this storm of destruction,
Will save the playing Case
From our treasured creations?

Everything will perish without a trace, perhaps
What only we knew
But you, who will destroy me,
I greet you with a welcome anthem.

Analysis of Bryusov’s poem “The Coming Huns”

Valery Bryusov did not take revolutionary ideas seriously, although he understood that society needed change. However, the poet considered his path of development through wars and upheavals to be erroneous. The events of 1904-1905, when mass strikes swept across Russia, turning into a kind of dress rehearsal for the 1917 revolution, forced Bryusov to take a closer look at this social phenomenon, in which he saw a parallel with the fall of the Roman Empire. That's when it was born the poem "The Coming Huns", predicting the death of the mighty Russian state .

By “the coming Huns,” the author meant modern barbarians - workers and peasants who are ready to trample on the centuries-old traditions and culture of the Russian people for the sake of their crazy and ambitious ideas. Bryusov had no doubt at all that events would develop exactly according to this scenario, predicting: “Collapse upon us from the dark places like an intoxicated horde.” The only difference is that if earlier raids were carried out by foreigners, now the ruin of the country begins from within, and its initiators are people who were nourished and raised by the Russian land. However, this, according to the poet, will not stop the vandals from erecting huts near the palaces and breaking up agricultural land in the throne rooms, thereby destroying everything that Russia was so proud of.

By resorting to such allegories, the poet pursues the only goal - to show how low people can fall, intoxicated by the thirst for power. Bryusov understands that revolution in any of its manifestations is an evil that must be resisted. Otherwise, his homeland will turn into a barbaric country, where human life will be worth absolutely nothing. The author compares the bearers of revolutionary ideas to small children who are happy to dance around bonfires made from books and destroy churches. However, there is no one to resist this merciless force, because all the sages will simply be forced to hide from the vandals, taking “the lit lights into the catacombs, into the deserts, into the caves.” This is the fate of many civilizations that failed to discern their enemies and defend against them in a timely manner. True, Bryusov sees a certain pattern in such a scenario of events. If society is not able to solve its problems on its own, then some external force always appears, sweeping away everything in its path. Therefore, the poet believes that there is no point in trying to change anything, much less resist the barbarians. “I greet you, who will destroy me, with a welcoming hymn,” the poet sums up.

“The Coming Huns” by Bryusov, analysis of the poem - on Parnassus of the Silver Age

January 19, 2016

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, an extraordinary man, encyclopedically educated, stood at the origins of symbolism.

Brief description of creativity

In his youth, having received an excellent historical education, he could not imagine himself without writing poetry. He positioned himself as no more and no less than a genius. He really did a lot to loosen the field of art that had become ossified after Nekrasov, and created new forms of versification. He had many followers and students who were significantly ahead of him in creativity. These include such poets who have reached truly the highest heights, such as Alexander Blok and Andrei Bely. That is, the students bypassed their teacher. As a writer, he is interesting from a historical perspective, from which a huge legacy remains, which literary scholars are studying. For the common reader there are only a few works, for example, “The Coming Huns” (Bryusov), an analysis of the poem that will be done below. Bryusov is a symbolist who at times deliberately obscured the meaning of the work, complicating it with its multifaceted nature.

Who are the Huns

From Asia to Europe came the invasion of wild nomadic tribes - the Huns. The name of their leader Attila inspired fear and horror, because the savages destroyed everything in their path. In 451, on the Catalaunian fields in Gaul, eternal enemies stood side by side - Roman centurions and Germans - to stop the destruction of their culture and protect their lives. A bloody battle took place, and the Huns rolled back. In history, their name has become a household name. These are barbarians for whom there are no values, who are only capable of destruction. They come from nowhere and go nowhere. The poem begins with a metaphorical question-exclamation “Where are these Huns!” Who did the author mean by them? The Russian people, who, when they rise up, do not know how to restrain their strength and power, who will crush all aesthetic culture, leaving no stone unturned? He compares it to a cloud that is still hanging, but has not rained blood on the ground, so one must assume that it is blood that the poet expects from the future. With fear mixed with curiosity, he seems to be looking into the abyss, from where he hears the cast-iron stomping, a wonderful epithet chosen by the author, which determines the severity of the invasion and disasters that the coming Huns will bring (Bryusov, analysis of the poem).

Stanza two

Just as he himself once exchanged traditional poetic forms for symbolism, so now Bryusov proposes that the barbarians collapse on everyone, crush them. This is a drunken crowd lost in wine. For what? But we need to shake up the decrepit, ossified world of everyday life, and refresh it. How? Only blood, which will cover everything in a flaming wave. The coming Huns can give an apocalyptic picture of the destruction that is necessary, in the poet’s opinion. (Bryusov, analysis of the poem continues in the third stanza and the next stanza).

Stanzas three and four

He invites the slaves to destroy the palaces and sow a field in place of the throne rooms. Then, as a continuation, you should burn books and joyfully dance around the fires. They don’t need temples either - they should be trashed too. They don’t know what they are doing, so the coming Huns (Bryusov, analysis of the poem shows this) must be forgiven, gospel motives can be heard in this. In their actions, he sees delight in the process of destroying the past and creating a new, natural, or rather, simplest one. This is a sign of revolutionary times. Such will be the impact of historical change.

What to do? The age-old question

People shouldn't fight them. We must hide at the turn of change along with our cultural achievements. Will anything cherished be preserved under the flying storm? This is a matter of Chance, which plays, creating chaos, and nothing more. This is how we must act when the coming Huns come. Bryusov (the analysis gives this conclusion) will say that he welcomes everyone. Let everyone and him be destroyed, but he is ready to accept everything and forgive everything. The poem is extremely exalted and filled with pathos. This is emphasized by verbs in the imperative mood. Behind them lies both fear and misunderstanding of what seas of blood will mean when brother goes against brother. How ugly death, death and destruction really are. Hymns of welcome are inappropriate here. Valery Bryusov did not understand this. “The Coming Huns” - analysis of the poem leads to rather gloomy conclusions, in the light of what we know today: civil war, re-enslavement of the peasantry into collective farms, mass repressions and executions. This is a terrible part of our history. In the meantime, in 1905, the poet glorifies the onset of a new world, and these are the coming Huns (Bryusov, the analysis says, will not see the terrible consequences of the 17th year.)

What size is used?

The brilliantly erudite experimental poet did not use conventional poetic forms. He chose something exotic from his piggy bank - a three-strike dolnik. In schematic notation, the first stanza looks like this:

U_ _U_ _U_
_U _ _U _ _U _

U_ _U_ _U_
_ _U_ _U _ _U_

This concludes the analysis of the verse “The Coming Huns.” Bryusov used metaphors, epithets, definitions, but they are characterized in the text.

For schoolchildren

If homework is assigned, then you can make the following heading: “The Coming Huns” (Bryusov) analysis according to plan:

• Size (dolnik).
• Paths (metaphors, epithets, definitions).
• Phonetics (combination of vowels and consonants, their repetition, oxymorons that create alarm bells).
• Genre (message, anthem).

Listen to Bryusov's poem The Coming Huns

1. To the young poet- from the series “New Testaments”, collection. “Me eum esse” (“This is me”). Date of creation: 1896, publ.: 1897.
Art, according to Bryusov, is valuable in itself. He worships the artistic gift and creativity as a deity: “Worship art, / Only it, undividedly, aimlessly.”
The poet is only 23 years old, but the poem is perceived as a testament, an instruction to future generations. As we see, Bryusov, who sincerely considered himself a genius, outlined his own program in the poem, symbolically addressing himself.
Bryusov later wrote about the period of his first collections in a mature poem: “We were impudent, we were children.” ()

6. Dagger- the poem was written in 1903.
It is a declaration that reveals Bryusov’s understanding of the essence and tasks of poetry. Both the title and the epigraph (“Or never, in response to the voice of vengeance / From a golden scabbard, will you snatch your blade ...”) refer the reader to the image of Lermontov’s lyrical hero. Bryusov’s lyrical hero is also proud, strong, and self-confident: “I am the songwriter of struggle, / I echo the thunder from the sky.”
Bryusov is a poet of an intellectual nature; in his work there is a lot of rationality, coming from the mind, and not from feeling. “Dagger” is a logical development of the thought, the thesis “The poet is always with people when the thunderstorm is noisy, / And the song with the storm is forever sisters.” The second and third stanzas explain the departure of the lyrical hero from a “shamefully petty, ugly” life into historical exoticism. The hero contrasts petty-bourgeois submission with struggle at the peak of his capabilities. (

Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich "The Coming Huns"

2. Date of creation.

3. Theme of the work.

The poet describes the invasion of the Huns - a nomadic conquering people.

Their huts near the walls of palaces, the fires they make from books, the riots they create in temples, their barbaric attitude towards mystery, faith, art.

4. The idea of ​​the work, the main idea.

Hidden in the image of the Huns is the image of workers and peasants, the author’s contemporaries, who are ready to destroy the centuries-old traditions of Russia and its culture for the sake of fulfilling their ambitious idea - revolution. Valery Bryusov, as we know, was not a supporter of revolutionary ideas, although he understood that changes in society could not be avoided. It is precisely this attitude of the poet to the revolution that we see in the poem “The Coming Huns.”

Despite the fact that the revolution is tantamount to a catastrophe, the poet considers these events to be natural, so all that remains for the wise men is to hide in caves and catacombs, and for the citizens to meet the revolutionaries: “But you, who destroy me,

I greet you with a welcome anthem."

5. Means of artistic expression.

Epithets: “cast iron tramp”, “intoxicated horde”, “decrepit body”, “flaming blood”.

Metaphors: “Where are you, the coming Huns, /Who are hanging over the world like a cloud!”

Comparisons: “You are innocent of everything, like children!”

Alliteration: combinations of sounds gr, gu are repeated to create a feeling of thunder, rumble.

Oxymoron: "slaves of the will."

6. Features of the genre, composition.

This poem belongs to the genre of civil lyricism.

The symbolist Bryusov put many symbols into this poem, referring to history.

The epigraph to the poem is taken from the poem “Nomads of Beauty” by Vyacheslav Ivanov, written in 1904.

The first four stanzas describe the actions of the Huns, the last three describe the fate of the sages and poets.

7. Poetic size.

Three-punch cutter.

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Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Trample their paradise, Attila.
Vyach. Ivanov

Where are you, future Huns,
What a cloud hanging over the world!
I hear your cast iron tramp
Through the not yet discovered Pamirs.

An intoxicated horde is upon us
Fall from the dark places -
Revive a decrepit body
A wave of flaming blood.

Place, slaves of freedom,
Huts near the palaces, as it used to be,
Rake up the merry field
On the site of the throne room.

Stack books like fires,
Dance in their joyful light,
You create abomination in the temple, -
You are innocent of everything, like children!

And we, sages and poets,
Keepers of secrets and faith,
Let's take away the lit lights,
In catacombs, in deserts, in caves.

And what, under the flying storm.
Under this storm of destruction,
Will save the playing Case
From our treasured creations?

Everything will perish without a trace, perhaps
What only we knew
But you, who will destroy me,
I greet you with a welcome anthem.

Valery Bryusov

Valery Bryusov did not take revolutionary ideas seriously, although he understood that society needed change. However, the poet considered his path of development through wars and upheavals to be erroneous. The events of 1904-1905, when mass strikes swept across Russia, turning into a kind of dress rehearsal for the 1917 revolution, forced Bryusov to take a closer look at this social phenomenon, in which he saw a parallel with the fall of the Roman Empire. That's when it was born the poem "The Coming Huns", predicting the death of the mighty Russian state.

By “the coming Huns,” the author meant modern barbarians - workers and peasants who are ready to trample on the centuries-old traditions and culture of the Russian people for the sake of their crazy and ambitious ideas. Bryusov had no doubt at all that events would develop exactly according to this scenario, predicting: “Collapse upon us from the dark places like an intoxicated horde.” The only difference is that if earlier raids were carried out by foreigners, now the ruin of the country begins from within, and its initiators are people who were nourished and raised by the Russian land. However, this, according to the poet, will not stop the vandals from erecting huts near the palaces and breaking up agricultural land in the throne rooms, thereby destroying everything that Russia was so proud of.

By resorting to such allegories, the poet pursues the only goal - to show how low people can fall, intoxicated by the thirst for power. Bryusov understands that revolution in any of its manifestations is an evil that must be resisted. Otherwise, his homeland will turn into a barbaric country where human life will be worth absolutely nothing. The author compares the bearers of revolutionary ideas to small children who are happy to dance around bonfires made from books and destroy churches. However, there is no one to resist this merciless force, because all the sages will simply be forced to hide from the vandals, taking “the lit lights into the catacombs, into the deserts, into the caves.” This is the fate of many civilizations that failed to discern their enemies and defend against them in a timely manner. True, Bryusov sees a certain pattern in such a scenario of events. If society is not able to solve its problems on its own, then some external force always appears, sweeping away everything in its path. Therefore, the poet believes that there is no point in trying to change anything, much less resist the barbarians. “I greet you, who will destroy me, with a welcoming hymn,” the poet sums up.