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- PRISONER
We free birds; it's time, brother, it's time!
Alexander Pushkin:
Aleksandra Sergeevich Pu’shkin (May 26 (June 6), 1799, Moscow - January 29 (February 10), 1837, St. Petersburg) - Russian poet, playwright and prose writer. Member Russian Academy (1833).
Most biographers and bibliographers of Pushkin speak of him as a great or greatest Russian poet, as the creator of new Russian literature, who in his work established the norms of modern Russian literary language. His works are recognized as the standard of language, like the works of Dante in Italy or Goethe in Germany.
Even during his lifetime, the poet began to be called a genius, including in print. From the second half of the 1820s, he began to be considered the “first Russian poet” not only among his contemporaries, but also among Russian poets of all times, and a real cult developed around his personality among readers.
Alexander Pushkin, portrait by O. A. Kiprensky
Nicknames:
Alexander NKSHP, Ivan Petrovich Belkin,
Feofilakt Kosichkin (magazine), P. Art. Arz. (Old Arzamas). A.B.
Date of Birth:
May 26 (June 6) 1799
Place of Birth:
Moscow, Russian Empire
Date of death:
January 29 (February 10) 1837 (age 37)
A place of death:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation:
poet, novelist, playwright
Years of creativity:
1814-1837
Direction:
romanticism, realism
Genre:
Poems, stories, poems, novel in verse, drama
Language of works:
Russian, French
Debut:
To a poet friend (1814)
PRISONER
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecking under the window,
He pecks and throws and looks out the window,
It’s as if he had the same idea with me;
He calls me with his gaze and his cry
And he wants to say: “Let’s fly away!”
There, where the mountain turns white behind the clouds,
To where the sea edges turn blue,
Where we walk only the wind. Yes I. »
1822
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It is interesting that in “The Prisoner” the word “freedom” is never used, while the poem is permeated through and through with this feeling. Freedom - that’s what the heroes of the poem were striving for, freedom - that’s what its author lacked.
PRISONER
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecking under the window,
He pecks and throws and looks out the window,
It’s as if he had the same idea with me;
He calls me with his gaze and his cry
And he wants to say: “Let’s fly away!”
We are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time!
There, where the mountain turns white behind the clouds,
To where the sea edges turn blue,
Where we walk only the wind. Yes I. »
1822
Arriving at the indicated place, the poet was shocked by the striking change: instead of the blooming Crimean shores and azure sea - bare, endless steppes scorched by the sun. The absence of friends, noisy conversations and arguments with them immediately affected.
There was also no constant cheerful din that filled the Raevskys’ house from morning to night. There was only an office, boring, monotonous work and feeling complete dependence from the authorities. To dispel this oppressive boredom, to drive away the feeling of mortal melancholy and loneliness, the feeling of abandonment, forgetfulness, isolation from everything that made his life a life and not an existence, the poet began to educate himself: he read, re-read, pondered. And, despite the fact that his horizons became wider, and answers were found to many questions, the feeling of dependence on something and someone did not give the poet peace. He felt like a prisoner. It was at this time that Pushkin wrote the poem “The Prisoner”.
The poem is small in volume: it has only twelve lines. But each word is so appropriate to its place that it cannot be replaced by any other. In its form, the poem resembles a folklore work, which is why it later became so easy to perform as a song.
The idea of the poem “Prisoner” is a call for freedom. We understand this immediately, as soon as we read it. The call for freedom is in the cry of an eagle pecking food under a prisoner’s window. The eagle is also a captive, he grew up and was fed in captivity, but the desire for freedom in him is so great that no other joys can replace it. “Let's fly away! “- calls the freedom-loving bird to the prisoner. And he further explains and encourages: “We are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time! “These words contain Pushkin’s thoughts that by nature, man, like a bird, must be free. Freedom - natural state every living being.
“The Prisoner,” like many other poems by Pushkin, is divided into two parts, differing from each other in intonation and tone. The parts are not contrasting; they have a gradual, increasing intensification of feeling. It begins with the eagle calling: “Let's fly away! “Here the calm story quickly turns into a passionate appeal, into a cry for freedom. Increasing more and more, this cry seems to hang on the highest note. It is in the words: “... only the wind. Yes I! "
It is interesting that in “The Prisoner” the word “freedom” is never used, while the poem is permeated through and through with this feeling. Freedom - that’s what the heroes of the poem were striving for, freedom - that’s what its author lacked.
PRISONER
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecking under the window,
He pecks and throws and looks out the window,
It’s as if he had the same idea with me;
He calls me with his gaze and his cry
And he wants to say: “Let’s fly away!”
We are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time!
There, where the mountain turns white behind the clouds,
To where the sea edges turn blue,
Where we walk only the wind. Yes I. »
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecking under the window,
He pecks and throws and looks out the window,
It’s as if he had the same idea with me.
He calls me with his gaze and his cry
And he wants to say: “Let’s fly away!”
We are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time!
There, where the mountain turns white behind the clouds,
To where the sea edges turn blue,
Where we walk only the wind... yes me!..."
Analysis of the poem “Prisoner” by Pushkin
A. S. Pushkin in 1820-1824 for his too free verses he served the so-called southern exile (in Chisinau and Odessa). The poet faced a much more severe punishment (exile to Siberia with deprivation of noble rights). Only personal petitions from friends and acquaintances helped achieve a reduced sentence. Nevertheless, the poet's pride and independence suffered greatly. Creative person Pushkina could not calmly endure the violence against his person. He considered the exile as a grave insult. As punishment, the poet was assigned to do routine clerical work, which depressed him even more. A kind of “rebellion” of the author was his negligent attitude towards his duties. He continues to write caustic epigrams and “inadmissible” poems. In 1822, he created the poem “The Prisoner,” in which he allegorically described his situation. There is an assumption that Pushkin described his impressions of visiting the Chisinau prison and talking with prisoners.
Pushkin uses a multi-stage comparison. He imagines himself as a prisoner “in a damp dungeon.” The prisoner, in turn, is compared to a “young eagle” locked in a cage. Great importance has the characteristic of a captive - “raised in captivity.” It can be interpreted in two ways. Or Pushkin hints at an unlimited character autocratic power, in which any person cannot consider himself absolutely free. His imaginary independence can be limited and confined at any moment. Either he emphasizes that he ended up in exile in a very early age when his character was just beginning to take shape. Such brutal violence against a young person can seriously damage him state of mind. In any case, the poet strongly protests against his “conclusion.”
In the poem, the image of a “sad comrade” of a prisoner appears - a free eagle, whose life does not depend on anyone’s whim. Initially, equal “free birds” are separated by a lattice. It's not just the two eagles that are sharply contrasted. Pushkin shows the contrast between the food received from the owner and the “bloody food” - a symbol of freedom and independence.
The free eagle calls on the prisoner to leave his prison and fly to distant, beautiful lands, where there is no violence and coercion. The dream takes away lyrical hero to where only the free wind reigns.
It is known that in 1825 Pushkin seriously planned to escape abroad. It is possible that in the poem “The Prisoner” he first vaguely expressed his plans (“I had one thing in mind,” “let’s fly away!”). If this assumption is true, then we can only be glad that the poet was not able to bring his plans to life.
PRISONER
Alexander Pushkin
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecking under the window,
He pecks and throws and looks out the window,
It’s as if he had the same idea with me;
He calls me with his gaze and his cry
And he wants to say: “Let’s fly away!”
We are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time!
There, where the mountain turns white behind the clouds,
To where the sea edges turn blue,
Where we walk only the wind... yes I!..”
The now popular tune dates back to the second half of the 19th century, when Pushkin’s “Prisoner” received wide use in a revolutionary environment and became a folk song, repeatedly recorded by folklorists in real life. The “remade” version of “Prisoner” was widely used as a “prison” and “thieves” song.
Anthology of Russian songs / Comp., preface. and comment. Victor Kalugin. - M.: Eksmo Publishing House, 2005.
Romances based on poems were created by more than 40 composers: Alexander Alyabyev (1832), Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1850s), Anton Rubinstein (1860), Pauline Viardot (1864), Nikolai Medtner (1929) and others.
Takun F.I. Slavic Bazaar. – M.: “ Contemporary music", 2005.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837)
FOLLORIZED OPTIONS (5)
1. Prisoner
I'm sitting, boy,
In a damp dungeon,
flies to me
Young eagle
He wants to say:
- Let's fly away,
Let's fly far, to distant lands,
Where the sun never rises, the month never
Behind high mountains, beyond the blue seas...
By blue sea ships are sailing,
Two ships are white, the third is blue,
My dear sits in this ship.
Recorded from A. T. Lebedenkova, born in 1917, Issyk, in 1976. A folklorized song version of A. S. Pushkin’s poem “The Prisoner”. The author's text "Songs and Romances of Russian Poets", series "Poet's Library", M.-L., 1965, No. 186, significantly changed. A total of 6 song lyrics were recorded. From Savinova V.A.:
In vain, in vain
I look out the window...
To the Siberian regions...
Where people are not timid
They always celebrate.
Bagizbaeva M. M. Folklore of the Semirechensk Cossacks. Part 2. Alma-Ata: “Mektep”, 1979, No. 282.
2. I’m sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon
(Folk version of "The Prisoner" by A. S. Pushkin)
I'm sitting behind bars
In a damp dungeon,
Yes, raised in the wild
Orelik is young.
Oh, and yes, raised in the wild
Orelik is young.
My faithful comrade,
Flapping its wing,
Yes bloody food
Pecks under the window.
Oh, and yes, bloody food
He pecks under the window.
He pecks and throws
And looks out the window
Yes, as if with me
He had one thing in mind.
Eh, and yes, it’s as if it’s with me
I thought of one thing.
He calls me with his eyes
And with your cry
And he wants to say:
"Come on, brother, let's fly away."
We are free birds
It's time, brother, it's time,
Yes, the prison is not our father,
Prison is not our sister.
Eh, and the prison is not our father,
Prison is not our sister.
Where they turn blue
Sea edges,
Where he walks
Just the wind and me.
Eh, and yes to where he walks
Just the wind and me.
Songs of prisoners. Compiled by Vladimir Pentyukhov. Krasnoyarsk: Production and Publishing Plant "OFSET", 1995.
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon...
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon,
In eager captivity, a young eagle,
My overweight comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecked under the window.
As if he had the same idea with me,
He calls me with his gaze and his cry,
Will say:
If you want, let's fly!
We are free birds, let's fly away
It's time, brother, it's time. There,
Where the sea edges shine,
There, where the mountain is white above the cloud,
Where only the wind and I walk.
I was behind bars...
Was behind bars
Young eagle
He pecked at the bloody food,
He pecks and throws, he looks out the window,
He is waiting, waiting for the falcon.
I thought, comrade, I thought of one thing:
- Come on, brother, let's fly -
Let's fly
Come on, brother, let's fly
For the blue sea.
On the blue sea
The wave worries
Behind this wave
The mountain turns blue.
Behind this mountain
The prison is turning white.
In this prison
The robber sits
The boy is planted
Sixteen years old.
He waits, awaits his executioner.
The executioner opened the doors -
Robber at the window.
The executioner looked back -
The robber is here
Swung his sword -
There is no robber.
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon...
I'm sitting behind bars
in a damp dungeon,
flies to me
young eagle. (2 times)
He flaps his wings
knocking under the window. (2 times)
Comrade, comrade,
it's time for us to go there (2 times)
For the high mountains,
in dark forests, (2 times)
Where the sun doesn't rise
and a month never (2 times).
Where the snowballs turn white, the seas turn blue.
Across the blue sea
ships are sailing (2 times).
On the first ship -
flapping the sails (2 times)
On the second ship -
young sailor, (2 times)
Sits on the third ship
mother and father.
Gurevich A.V., Eliasov L.E. Old folklore of the Baikal region. Volume one. Ulan-Ude, 1939. P. 1-2. Section “Tramp Prison Songs”, No. 1-3. With approx. (p. 441-443):
1. The text was recorded by Comrade K.A. Dmitriev. from the words of t.t. Greblishchikova A.D., Lobazerova G.T. And Solodukhin in the village. B. Kunaley, Tarbagatai district, BMASSR, 1936
2. The text was written down by Gurevich A.V. according to Comrade V.F. Basharova, 75 years old, fisherman, in the village. Ust-Barguzin, Barguzin aimag, BMASSR, 1927
3. The text was recorded by Gurevich A.V., from the words of Comrade T.F. Klikunov, a worker at a fish canning plant, in the village. Ust-Barguzin, Barguzin aimag, BMASSR, 1927
"Prisoner" A.S. Pushkin was recorded by collectors in different parts of Siberia. Here are some options:
I. A young eagle sits behind bars,
He pecks and throws, he looks out the window...
Dear brother-comrade, I have one thing in mind...
What are you up to, what have you wished for?
Let's fly, brother-comrade, beyond the blue seas:
On the blue sea the current is agitated,
Behind this stream the mountain turns white,
Behind this mountain a robber lives:
Robber, executioner, to the death of the executioner.
(N.M. Kostyurina “Siberian folk songs, recorded in suburban villages near Tobolsk in the summer of 1894. With some melodies attached,” with notes by member of the editorial committee L.E. Lugovsky). “Yearbook of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum,” - 1895, issue III, p. 54, text No. 78 - “Vocal songs.”
II. A young eagle sat behind bars,
Pecking food under the window,
He pecks, throws, and looks out the window:
Wait, brother, let's fly, wait, let's fly
Beyond the blue beyond the sea...
Beyond the blue, beyond the sea, the mountain turns black,
Behind this mountain lies a white prison;
In this prison there is a robber,
He's waiting have a fun day,
Your own executioner.
-Cut off my head
The bodies slept
Scatter my ashes
Into the dark forests.
(V. Arefiev - “Several prison and settlement songs”, newspaper “Yenisei”, 1898, No. 89, pp. 2-3). (The song was recorded in the Yenisei district).
III. A young eagle sits behind bars,
Pecks nutritious food under the window,
He pecks, throws, and looks out the window.
- Come on, brother, let's fly, let's fly away.
-Where are we going, where are we going?
- Beyond the high mountains, behind the dark forests,
Behind that mountain there is a blue wave,
Behind that wave the prison is black.
There is a robber in that prison,
He is awaiting execution any minute now.
- Sharpen your daggers, sharpen them sharper.
Cut me, cut me quickly.
I deserve it, I deserve it.
(V. Plotnikov “Songs of the Cossacks of the Siberian Cossacks.” Notes of the Semipalatinsk department of the Western-Siberian department of the Russian Geographical Society», Issue I, Semipalatinsk, 1911, p. 49, “Voices”, text No. 14).
IV. Was behind bars
Young eagle.
Pecking food
Pecking under the window,
Pecks and throws
He looks out the window himself.
And one of my comrades
I thought of one thing.
Where are we going, comrade?
Shall we fly with you?
Let's fly, comrade,
On the blue of the sea.
On the blue sea
The wave is raging.
Behind this wave
The prison is turning white.
In this prison
The unfortunate man was sitting.
The unfortunate man sits
He looks out the window himself.
Looking out the window -
The executioner is waiting for him.
The executioner is going to prison
And a whip on his hand.
The executioner entered the prison -
There is no robber.
Tsked, stomped,
The robber has arrived.
- Judge, rank,
Management, me,
Beat with whips
You wash my back
I know, boy,
Worthy of it.
Look guys
Through the telescope -
I'm going to my death.
Burn, burn
Bonfires made of fire
Sharpen, sharpen
Knives and spears
Flog, chop
You are my head,
Throw into the fire
You are my meat
Let the meat burn
Blazing from the fire.
(The song was recorded by A.V. Andrianov in the village of Zilina, Barnaul district, Tomsk province. “Notes of the Krasnoyarsk subdivision of the East Siberian department of the Russian Geographical Society” volume I, issue I, Krasnoyarsk, 1902, text No. 41, p. 154).
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon. A young eagle, raised in captivity, My sad comrade, flapping his wing, pecking at bloody food under the window, pecking, and throwing, and looking out the window, as if he had the same idea with me; He calls me with his gaze and his cry And wants to say: “Let’s fly away! We are free birds; it’s time, brother, it’s time! To where the mountain turns white behind the cloud, To where the sea edges are blue, To where only the wind walks... yes I !.."
The poem “Prisoner” was written in 1822, during the “southern” exile. Arriving at the place of his permanent service, in Chisinau, the poet was shocked by the striking change: instead of the blooming Crimean shores and sea, there were endless steppes scorched by the sun. In addition, the lack of friends, boring, monotonous work and the feeling of complete dependence on the authorities had an impact. Pushkin felt like a prisoner. It was at this time that the poem “Prisoner” was created.
The main theme of the verse is the theme of freedom, vividly embodied in the image of an eagle. The eagle is a prisoner, just like the lyrical hero. He grew up and was raised in captivity, he never knew freedom and yet strives for it. The eagle's call to freedom (“Let's fly away!”) implements the idea of Pushkin's poem: a person should be free, like a bird, because freedom is the natural state of every living creature.
Composition. “The Prisoner,” like many other poems by Pushkin, is divided into two parts, differing from each other in intonation and tone. The parts are not contrasting, but gradually the tone of the lyrical hero becomes more and more excited. In the second stanza, the calm story quickly turns into a passionate appeal, into a cry for freedom. In the third, he reaches his peak and seems to hover on the highest note with the words “... only the wind... yes me!”
"The Prisoner" Alexander Pushkin
I'm sitting behind bars in a damp dungeon.
A young eagle raised in captivity,
My sad comrade, flapping his wing,
Bloody food is pecking under the window,He pecks and throws and looks out the window,
It’s as if he had the same idea with me;
He calls me with his gaze and his cry
And he wants to say: “Let’s fly away!”We are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time!
There, where the mountain turns white behind the clouds,
To where the sea edges turn blue,
Where we walk only the wind... yes I!..”
Analysis of Pushkin's poem "The Prisoner"
The poem “The Prisoner,” written by Alexander Pushkin in 1822, dates back to the period of his southern exile (1820-1824), when the poet, by order of the Governor General of St. Petersburg, was forced to leave the capital and go to Chisinau. Despite the fact that the local mayor, Prince Ivan Inzov, treated the poet quite leniently, Pushkin perceived his new appointment to serve in the office of a remote province as a personal insult. Being by nature freedom-loving and deprived of the right to choose, the poet understood that for his too free verses, at a minimum, exile to Siberia awaited him. And only thanks to the petition of his friends, he retained the title of nobleman and the position of collegiate secretary. Nevertheless, the poet perceived his stay in dusty and dirty Chisinau as imprisonment. And it was precisely this period of his life that he dedicated the poem “Prisoner”.
From the first lines, Alexander Pushkin draws very sad picture, comparing Southern City With damp dungeon . He was free in his actions and quite often ignored his official duties, but the lack of opportunity to return to St. Petersburg or Moscow gave the poet a feeling of impotent anger. Therefore, he associated the sultry south with a prison cell, and work in the office with imprisonment.
The imagery with which Pushkin characterizes this period of his life is enhanced by many metaphors. Thus, in the poem “Prisoner,” in order to emphasize the hopelessness of his situation, the poet draws a parallel with an eagle, fed in captivity, which is his brother in misfortune. At the same time, the author notes that the proud bird, who has never experienced the heady feeling of freedom, is much stronger and more freedom-loving than him, because with her cry and gaze she seems to “... want to say: “Come on, let's fly away!”
And, succumbing to her persuasion, the poet himself realizes - “we are free birds; it's time, brother, it's time! What exactly did Pushkin mean by comparing himself to a young eagle? First of all, this was an awareness of his own freedom-loving self, as a result of which the poet’s irritability only intensified. The author understood that he was born free and independent person, and no one has the right to tell him how and where to live. However, the existing tsarist regime seeks to impose its rules of the game on all its subjects. Russian Empire regardless of titles and rank. This discovery not only shocks the poet, but also forces him to look for a way out of the current situation. In the poem “The Prisoner” he quite clearly hints that he is going to go “to where the edges of the sea turn blue.” And indeed, soon the poet submits a petition addressed to Count Vorontsov, who is the mayor of Odessa, to transfer him to serve in the office of this port city. This step was not caused by the desire to leave boring provincial Chisinau, but by the desire to change at least something in one’s destiny and act contrary to those in power, violating their direct order. The transfer to Odessa itself did not change the fate of the poet, who was still forced to live in exile, but allowed him to assert himself and prove that only he himself has the right to dispose own life. This means that no one can prevent a poet from writing poetry and making it public.
It is noteworthy that it was in southern exile that Alexander Pushkin fully realized himself as involved in Russian literature and for the first time tried to formulate what it means to be a poet. The very first condition for this is spiritual freedom, therefore, while in exile, Pushkin created many truly talented and delightful works, including the poem “The Prisoner,” which became a kind of life motto of the young poet.