“Description of nature in the works of Bunin. The main themes in the works of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin are eternal themes: nature, love, death

Composition

I. A. Bunin with extraordinary skill describes in his works the natural world full of harmony. His favorite heroes are endowed with the gift of subtly perceiving the world, the beauty of their native land, which allows them to feel life in all its fullness. After all, a person’s ability to see beauty around him brings peace and a feeling of unity with nature into his soul, helps him better understand himself and other people. We see that not many heroes of Bunin’s works are given the opportunity to feel the harmony of the world around them. Most often this simple people, already wise life experience. After all, only with age does the world open to a person in all its completeness and diversity. And even then, not everyone can comprehend it.

The old farmhand Averky from the story “The Thin Grass” is one of those heroes of Bunin who achieved spiritual harmony. This no longer a young man, who has seen a lot in his life, does not experience horror from the knowledge of approaching death. He waits for it resignedly and humbly, because he perceives it as eternal peace, deliverance from vanity. Memory constantly returns Averky to the “distant twilight on the river”, when he met “that young, sweet one, who now looked at him indifferently and pitifully with senile eyes.” This man carried his love throughout his life. Thinking about this, Averky remembers both the “soft twilight in the meadow” and the shallow creek, turning pink from the dawn, against which a girl’s figure can be seen.

We see how nature participates in the life of this hero Bunin. Twilight on the river now, when Averky is close to death, gives way to autumn withering: “Dying, the grass dried up and rotted. The threshing floor became empty and bare. A mill in a deserted field became visible through the vines. The rain sometimes gave way to snow, the wind howled through the holes of the barn, angry and cold.” The onset of winter caused in the hero of “The Thin Grass” a surge of life, a feeling of the joy of being. “Ah, in winter there was a long-familiar, always pleasing winter feeling! First snow, first blizzard! The fields turned white, drowned in it - hide in a hut for six months! In white snowy fields, in a snowstorm - wilderness, game, and in a hut - comfort, peace. They will sweep the bumpy earthen floors clean, scrub them, wash the table, heat the stove with fresh straw - good!” In just a few sentences, Bunin created a magnificent living picture of winter.

Like his favorite heroes, the writer believes that the natural world contains something eternal and beautiful that is beyond the control of man with his earthly passions. Laws of life human society, on the contrary, lead to cataclysms and shocks. This world is unstable, it is devoid of harmony. This can be seen in the example of the life of the peasantry on the eve of the first Russian revolution in Bunin’s story “The Village”. In this work, the author, along with moral and aesthetic problems, touches on social problems caused by the reality of the early 20th century.

The events of the first Russian revolution, reflected in the village in peasant gatherings, burning landowner estates, and the revelry of the poor, brought discord into the usual rhythm of life in the village. There is a lot in the story characters. Her characters are trying to understand their surroundings, to find some kind of support for themselves. So, Tikhon Krasov found it in money, deciding that it gives confidence in the future. He devotes his entire life to accumulating wealth, even marrying for profit. But Tikhon never finds happiness, especially since he has no heirs to whom he could pass on his wealth. His brother Kuzma, a self-taught poet, is also trying to find the truth, deeply experiencing the troubles of his village. Kuzma Krasov cannot calmly look at the poverty, backwardness and downtroddenness of the peasants, their inability to rationally organize their lives. And the events of the revolution further aggravate social problems villages are destroyed by normal human relations, pose insoluble problems to the heroes of the story.

Krasov brothers - extraordinary personalities, looking for their place in life and ways to improve it not only for themselves, but also for the entire Russian peasantry. They both come to criticize the negative aspects peasant life. Tikhon is amazed that in the fertile black earth region there can be hunger, ruin and poverty. “The owner should come here, the owner!” - he thinks. Kuzma considers the reason for this situation of the peasants to be their profound ignorance and downtroddenness, for which he blames not only the peasants themselves, but also the government “empty talkers” who “trampled and killed the people.”

The problem of human relationships and the connection of a person with the world around him is also revealed in the story “Sukhodol”. At the center of the narrative in this work is the life of an impoverished noble family Khrushchev and their servants. The fate of the Khrushchevs is tragic. Young lady Tonya goes crazy, Pyotr Petrovich dies under the hooves of a horse, and the feeble-minded grandfather Pyotr Kirillovich dies at the hands of a serf. Bunin shows in this story the extent to which human relationships can be strange and abnormal. This is what the former serf nanny of the Khrushchevs, Natalya, says about the relationship between masters and servants: “Gervaska bullied the barchuk and grandfather, but the young lady bullied me. Barchuk - and, to tell the truth, grandfather themselves - doted on Ger-vaska, and I doted on her.” And what does such a bright feeling as love lead to in Sukhodol? To dementia, shame and emptiness. The absurdity of human relationships is contrasted with the beauty of Sukhodol, its wide expanses of steppe with their smells, colors and sounds. The world around us is beautiful in Natalya’s stories, in the conspiracies and spells of holy fools, sorcerers, wanderers, wandering around native land. “There is no nature separate from us; every slightest movement of air is the movement of our own soul,” wrote Bunin. In his works, imbued with deep love to Russia and its people, the writer was able to prove this. For the writer himself, the nature of Russia was that beneficial force that gives a person everything: joy, wisdom, beauty, a sense of the integrity of the world:

* No, it’s not the landscape that attracts me,
* It’s not the colors that I’m trying to notice,
* And what shines in these colors,
* Love and joy of being.

Probably, of all Russian poets, it is Bunin who stands out for his love of nature and its detailed description and chanting in verse. The poet interweaves melancholy and joy, truth, life in his poems. Bunin has a keen sense of the world around him, and it was nature that became the main theme of his work. It is nature that influences his mood, so he tries to find all the details, describe it in as much detail as possible, and not miss anything.

His early work critics described it as “autumn sadness,” and the author himself was called “quiet, peaceful.” However, one could find many examples when Bunin rebelled and showed contradictions. On the one hand - a tender love for nature, harmony and peace, and on the other - the ugliness and injustice of life. Here you can notice social problems in his work. For example, in the story “On the Farm,” a person became a part of nature, felt a blood relationship with it, and not with people and the village.

In the novel “The Life of Arsenyev”, Bunin the painter “paints” a picture of autumn withering, revealing to the reader all the richness of color. He immediately finds the main color so that a lush view opens up for everyone: “yellow space,” “yellow wasps,” “yellowing withered grass.” And it is in this work that nature shows internal state hero, reflects his slight sadness and fatigue.

In the story “Antonov Apples,” Bunin managed, with the help of his love for central Russia, to turn this boring gray landscape into a curious sight. Images appear before the reader’s eyes: “a yellow, thinning garden”, “the smell of apples, honey and freshness”, “happy blackbirds on scarlet bunches of rowan berries in the depths of the garden”, and much more. Love for the Motherland helped Bunin create such a sensual landscape.

Bunin's description of nature reveals to us his philosophy - the desire for universal harmony. The functions of describing nature are different - to show the internal state of the hero, to show the contrast between the harmonious and the ugly, to fill the works with emotions. The vivid and expressive description of nature cannot be compared in power to any of the poets.

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Kuleshova Ekaterina,

7th grade MBOUSOSH No. 1

them. M.M. Prishvina

Yelets

Few people know how to love nature so much,

How Bunin can do it. World

Bunin is the world of visual and

sound impressions.

A.A.Blok

Ivan Alekseevich Bunin - writer and poet, whose works were sung simple life Russian village and ordinary people, their integrity and simplicity indicate greatest talent and mastery of the art of words. The theme of nature is one of the main ones in Bunin’s work.

Bunin was born into an impoverished noble family; he spent his childhood and youth in a village in the Oryol province, where he fell in love with nature and learned to appreciate its beauty. His burning desire was to become an artist, and he indeed became one, but an artist of words who creates a flawless canvas with artless strokes.

The work of the great Russian writer Ivan Alekseevich Bunin represents a special beautiful world. His stories and tales can remain in the soul for a whole century, making it more receptive to life and the beauty of nature. Native nature is a special reality in the writer’s work. Many of his inspired lines are dedicated to her - both in prose and poetry. Throughout his life, Bunin deepened his sense of organic connection with nature in its global sense. In his works, he asserted the unique value of every minute lived by a person under open air, in the forest, in the field, on seashore. The beauty of nature is the only value of the world. The writer makes his readers his fellow countrymen, regardless of where they were born and live. He invites them to walk together through grain fields, dense forests, steppe roads, ravines overgrown with forest.

The first poem that brought him fame and literary prize, called "Leaf Fall". In it he accurately conveyed the image autumn forest. It’s as if we see through the eyes of a poet the multi-colored “painted tower”, we feel the smell (“The forest smells of oak and pine”), we feel the silence in which we can “hear the rustling of leaves”, we feel how before the frost “the forest stands in a daze.” Following Pushkin, Bunin admires autumn, conveys its quiet nostalgia, which turns into anxiety and dying.

Bunin would write many more poems about nature. Love for the summer thunderstorm in “The Fields Smell”, delight in the changing weather in “Pigeons”, beautiful sketches of nature in the works “On the Open Sea”, “From the Window”, “River”, “Two Rainbows”, “Sunset”, “Evening” . Every word in them speaks of love for nature, how subtly interconnected it is with man, how much perfection there is in even the tiniest of its creations.

According to creativity researchers, the sky is one of the poet’s favorite images. The sky is a joy for him, because it is so good to look and think in it. The poet reflects in his poems about life, about man, about his destiny:

Why should I enjoy this torment?

This sky, and this ringing,

And the dark meaning with which it is full,

Fit sounds into consonance?

Happiness for Bunin is complete merging with nature, but it is available only to those who have penetrated the secrets of nature. Nature contains the harmony to which man strives. To be natural, like nature itself, is Bunin’s ideal at all times.

Bunin the prose writer continued to create poetic, romantic, very pure works, many of which are more like prose poems than short stories. It is not without reason that they say that he does not have ordinary stories, but there is a story-impression, a story-mood. And in them he continues the theme of nature.

In his work “Antonov Apples” Bunin revealed one of the main eternal themes of humanity - the theme of nature. There is no exciting plot in the story, but simply a beautiful and gentle description of nature in autumn time and pastimes of the nobles. But it is precisely these descriptions that deserve the reader’s close attention.
If you carefully read the story, you will notice that the author shows us every detail, every little detail of the environment, right down to the sounds and smells. Speaking about smells, it is worth noting their special beauty and uniqueness: “the subtle aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples, the smell of honey and autumn freshness”, “the strong smell from the ravines of mushroom dampness, rotted leaves and wet tree bark.” During the course of the story, moods change, smells change, life changes.
Color plays a very important role in the picture of the surrounding world. Like the smell, it changes noticeably throughout the story. In the first chapters we see “crimson flames”, “turquoise sky”; “the diamond seven-star Stozhar, the blue sky, the golden light of the low sun” - here we see not even the colors themselves, but their shades, thanks to which the author reveals to us his inner world. But with a change in the worldview, the colors of the surrounding world also change, the colors gradually disappear from it: “The days are bluish, cloudy... All day long I wander through the empty plains,” “a low, gloomy sky,” “a gray-haired gentleman.”
This work, imbued with the subtle aroma of Antonov apples, takes us to a turning point - the heyday of the nobility and its rapid decline. The “golden age” of the nobility is gradually passing: “The smell of Antonov apples disappears from the landowners’ estates... The old people on Vyselki died, Anna Gerasimovna died, Arseny Semyonich shot himself...” The fading spirit of the landowners is supported only by hunting. The author recalls the ritual of hunting in the house of Arseny Semyonovich, a particularly pleasant rest when he happened to oversleep the hunt, silence in the house, reading old books in thick leather bindings, memories of girls in the Noble estates... But all this is in the past, and the hero understands that he is not return.
In the story you can trace a slight feeling of sadness and nostalgia for a bygone time. Sadness about the noble nests becoming a thing of the past. It is expressed through a description of autumn and through pictures of the decline of large-scale farming. It is not just the old way of life that is dying, but an entire era of Russian history, the era of the nobility. But for the hero, “...this miserable small-scale life is also good!” It opens up new feelings, memories and sensations for the author.
Summarizing the above, we can conclude that Bunin was able to convey all his memories of noble life, immersing us in the atmosphere of that era with the help of sounds, colors and smells that convey the subtlest shades of feelings.

The narration in the story “Antonov Apples” is told on behalf of the lyrical hero, remembering early autumn on the estate. Pictures of village life appear before us one after another. The narrator admires nature, the beauty of the earthly world, men pouring picked apples, and is carried away by memories into the distant past. The image of fragrant Antonov apples is key in the story. This is a symbol of simple village life.

Nature and people - everything delights the storyteller-barchuk. Daytime is riotous beautiful nature, at night - a sky full of stars and constellations, which the hero never tires of admiring: “How cold, dewy and how good it is to live in the world!”

The prose written by the poet is unique in its artistry and depth. Bunin painted with words how genius artist paints. By nature, the writer was endowed with extraordinary acuity of senses: vision, hearing and smell that exceeded human capabilities. That is why, reading Bunin’s stories, we hear birds, wind and rain, see the smallest details of the world around us that we ourselves would not notice, and smell many smells. “The subtle aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples.” The author glorifies the wisdom of nature, its eternal renewal and beauty.

Bunin's works convey many different smells: from the mushroom dampness of a ravine to the hot aroma of the steppes. And everywhere the writer strives for maximum accuracy. This is shown very well and colorfully in the story “Antonov Apples,” when the hero drives through the village and hears the smell of Antonov apples. This smell awakens childhood memories in him and makes him sad, because that happy time has long passed. And here’s how he described the smells of wormwood: “And it’s getting hotter, the warmth is blowing wider from the steppes, and the bitter wormwood is getting drier and sweeter.” Very often Bunin turned to nature in his poems. His favorite image was the sky. The sky is a joy for him, because it is so good to look and think in it.

Nature in Bunin’s work is alive, the author projects it onto his own feelings, onto human life. If “there was a scent of spring,” then “the secret of young life came into the world” (“Three Nights”), if he sees wild flowers, then they “speak of long-forgotten bright days” (“Wild Flowers”), and the bright light and He associates silk sand with his childhood (“Childhood”).

Bunin's poetry and prose are tender, sad, sad about the past. And his nature is the same, it has only delicate colors: pink morning, matte green bread, blue lowland (“Village”). And Bunin’s people live according to the laws of nature, obeying its cyclicality, its dying and rebirth, and even its mood. Look how the description of nature, “cold autumn stormy weather”, rain-drenched roads, harmonize with the description of the heroes, “a serious and dark-faced man with a stern and tired look (“Dark Alleys”).

Bunin is a poet who glorifies nature, a continuer of the traditions of Pushkin and Tyutchev, a romantic who will always be sad about his homeland, and who, even when apart, will write only about his native open spaces, forests, fields, flowers. All his work is an expression of his quiet love to native nature and the ordinary person.

Subject native nature always present in Bunin's work. Only over time does it change: the writer talks more and more emotionally about the trees, sky, clouds, river, etc. So, when he writes about a blizzard, he tries to convey its howl and the feeling that covers a person at the same time. Bunin can skillfully convey the howl of the wind, the rustling of leaves, and the barely audible flutter of a butterfly’s wings.

Bunin belongs to the last generation of writers from noble estate, which is closely related to the nature of the central strip. “Few people can know and love nature as Ivan Bunin can,” wrote Alexander Blok in 1908. No wonder the Pushkin Prize was awarded to Bunin in 1903 for his collection of poems “Falling Leaves,” glorifying Russian rural nature. In his poems, the poet connected the sadness of the Russian landscape with Russian life into one inseparable whole. “Against the background of a golden iconostasis, in the fire of falling leaves, gilded by sunset, stands an abandoned estate.” Autumn - the “quiet widow” - is in unusual harmony with empty estates and abandoned farmsteads. “My native silence torments me, the nests of my native desolation torment me.” Bunin’s stories, which are similar to poetry, are also imbued with this sad poetry of withering, dying, desolation. Let us return once again to the beginning of his famous story “Antonov Apples”:

"I remember early, fresh, quiet morning: I remember a large, all golden, dried up and thinning garden, I remember maple alleys, the subtle aroma of fallen leaves and the smell of Antonov apples, the smell of honey and autumn freshness: “And that same smell of Antonov apples accompanies him in all his wanderings as a memory of his homeland.” But in the evenings,” Bunin describes, “I read old poets, close to me in everyday life and in many of my moods. And my desk drawers are full Antonov apples, and the healthy autumn aroma takes me to the countryside, to the estates of the landowners."

We always only remember about happiness,
And happiness is everywhere. Maybe it's
This autumn garden behind the barn
And clean air flowing through the window.
In the bottomless sky light white edge
The cloud rises and shines. For a long time
I'm watching him... We see little, we know,
And happiness is given only to those who know.

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Love and death are constant motifs of Bunin's poetry and prose. In the face of love and death, all social and class differences are erased. Summing up a person's life, death emphasizes the insignificance and ephemerality of the power of the gentleman from San Francisco from story of the same name Bunin, revealing the meaninglessness of his life philosophy, according to which he decides to “start life” at 58 years old. And before that, he was only busy getting rich.

And now, when it would seem that the master’s dreams of an idle, carefree life have begun to come true, he is overtaken by an accidental, absurd death. She comes as retribution to the master for his passion for selfish goals and momentary pleasures, his inability to comprehend the pettiness of his aspirations in the face of nothingness.

Second important topic creativity of I. Bunin - nature. This is a subtle instrument in the hands of a writer, she knows how to “think”, “talk”, “sad”, “rejoice”, “warn”... Such Attentive attitude to nature is partly due to the fact that he “comes from the village.”

The sky is pale from the heat,

Not a cloud in the hot azure;

The whole world seems to be closed

In a circle of sand in a bright desert.

Bunin was born in 1870 in Voronezh. He spent his childhood on his father’s estate in the Oryol province - in central Russia, where Lermontov, Turgenev, Leskov, Lev Tolstoy were born or worked. Bunin recognized himself as the literary heir of his great countrymen.

He was proud of the fact that he came from an old noble family, which gave Russia many prominent figures both in the field civil service, and in the field of art. Among the writer’s ancestors is V. A. Zhukovsky, famous poet, friend of A.S. Pushkin.

The world of Bunin's childhood was limited to his family, estate, and village. He recalled: “Here, in the deepest silence, in the summer among the grain that approached the very thresholds, and in the winter among the snowdrifts, my childhood passed, full of poetry, sad and peculiar.”

Bunin wrote his first poem at the age of eight. At the age of sixteen his first publication appeared in print, and at eighteen, having left the impoverished estate, in the words of his mother, “with one cross on his chest,” he began to earn his living through literary work.

Oh we always just remember

And happiness is everywhere. Maybe it's

This autumn garden behind the barn

And clean air flowing through the window.

In the bottomless sky with a light white edge

The cloud rises and shines. For a long time

I'm watching him... We see little, we know,

And happiness is given only to those who know.

Simultaneously with poetry, Bunin also wrote stories. He knew and loved the Russian village, was imbued with respect for peasant labor from childhood, and even absorbed “an extremely tempting desire to be a peasant.” It is natural that rustic theme becomes common in his early prose. Before his eyes, Russian peasants and small nobles are becoming poor, the village is going bankrupt, and dying out. As his wife, V.N. Muromtseva-Bunina, later noted, his own poverty brought him benefit - it helped him deeply understand the nature of the Russian peasant.

And in prose, Bunin continued the traditions of Russian classics, using realistic images, types of people taken from life. He did not strive for external entertainment or event-driven plots. His stories contain lyrically colored paintings, everyday sketches, and musical intonations. It is clearly felt that this is the prose of a poet. He himself did not recognize the “division” at all. fiction for poetry and prose."

In pre-revolutionary criticism, Bunin was assigned the characteristic of “the singer of impoverishment and desolation of noble nests,” of estate sadness, of autumn withering. True, his “sad elegies” were considered belated by his contemporaries, since Bunin was born almost 10 years after the abolition of serfdom in 1861, and A. Goncharov, I. Turgenev and many other Russian poets expressed their attitude to the destruction of the world of the landowner’s estate much earlier and writers. Without witnessing cruel serfdom, Bunin idealized the past and sought to show the unity of the landowner and the peasant, their involvement in their native land, the national way of life, and traditions. As objective and truthful, Bunin reflected the processes that took place in his contemporary life, on the eve of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907. In this sense, the stories “Bonanza” and “Dreams” with their anti-landowner orientation deserve attention. They were published in M. Gorky’s collection “Knowledge” and were highly appreciated by A. Chekhov

The most significant work The story "The Village" (1910) became the pre-October period of Bunin's work. It reflects the life of peasants, the fate of village people during the years of the first Russian revolution. The story was written during the closest relationship between Bunin and Gorky. The author himself explained that here he sought to paint, “besides the life of the village, and a picture of all Russian life in general.”

There has never been such a heated debate about any other Bunin work as about “The Village.” Advanced criticism supported the writer, seeing the value and significance of the work “in the truthful depiction of the life of a falling, impoverished village, in the revealing pathos of its ugly sides.” At the same time, it should be noted that Bunin was unable to comprehend the events taking place from the standpoint of advanced ideas of its time.

The story shocked Gorky, who heard in it “a hidden, muffled groan about his native land, a painful fear for it.” In his opinion, Bunin forced the “broken and shaky Russian society seriously think about the strict question - to be or not to be Russia?

The heroes of Bunin's stories and stories persistently seek, set goals for themselves and achieve them. And often it is the achieved goal that reveals its moral inconsistency, because it does not give the heroes happiness and satisfaction. This is convincingly confirmed by the story “The Cup of Life”, in which the reader is offered different variants happiness. The heroes, who fell in love with the same girl thirty years ago, stubbornly and persistently strive for their chosen goals. The official Se-lekhov, who married Sana Diesperova, became a rich man, becoming famous throughout the city for his usury. Seminarian Jordan rose to the rank of archpriest, becoming the most significant, respected and influential person in the city. Horizontov also gained fame, although he had neither wealth nor power. Endowed with extraordinary abilities and supernatural memory, he could achieve a lot, but chose the modest path of a teacher, after which he “returned to his homeland and became the fairy tale of the city, striking with his appearance, his appetite, his iron constancy in habits, his inhuman calm - his philosophy.” And this philosophy was simple and consisted in using all your strength exclusively to prolong your life. To do this, Gorizontov had to give up both his scientific career and communication with women, because all this was harmful to health, and he had to strictly take care of his huge, ugly body. That is, the goal of Mandrilla (as he was nicknamed in the city) is longevity and enjoyment of it.

In whose hands is the precious cup of life? The fates of the heroes convince us that neither zoological existence, nor wealth, nor vanity can give a person true happiness. Heroes pass by what is of the highest value human existence, - love, the joy of unity with nature, harmony with the world around us.

Russian lyrics are rich poetic images nature. Poets deified motherland, unforgettable Russian open spaces, the beauty of ordinary landscapes. I.A. Bunin was no exception. Once you fell in love with nature home country, he constantly addresses this topic in his poems, conveying unusual colors, sounds, smells native side. The theme of nature will become the main one for the lyricist Bunin, many poems will be dedicated to it.

I.A. Bunin captured various moments of existence in his poetry. It is important for the poet to convey the various states of nature. In the poem “April Burnt Down” bright evening…” shows a brief moment of fading of a quiet spring evening.

Bunin conveyed natural changes when “the rooks are sleeping,” “a cold twilight has fallen across the meadows,” “the holes are shining calm water" The reader not only feels the charm of an April evening, its special breath, but also feels that “the young, chilled black soil smells of greenery,” hears how “the cranes, calling to each other, carefully move in a crowd,” “sensitively listens to the rustling of the trees.” Everything in nature is lurking and, together with Spring itself, is “waiting for the dawn, holding its breath.” Bunin’s lines exude silence, peace, and an unforgettable feeling of the beauty of existence.

Smell plays a special role in Bunin’s poetry; the reader feels the inexplicable charm of Central Russian nature. In the poem “The fields smell like fresh herbs,” the lyrical hero catches the fragrance “from hayfields and oak groves.” The poem conveys “the cool breath of the meadows.” In nature, everything froze in anticipation of a thunderstorm, which is personified by the poet and appears to be a mysterious stranger with “crazy eyes.”

“Dusk and languor” in nature before a thunderstorm. The poet depicted a brief moment when “the distance grows dark over the fields,” “the cloud grows, covers the sun and turns blue.” Lightning resembles “a sword that flashed for an instant.” Initially, Bunin titled the poem “Under a Cloud,” but then he removed the title, since such a title does not give that full picture which the poet wanted to portray. In general, many poems by I.A. Bunin's stories about nature do not have titles, since it is impossible to express the state of nature and convey the feelings of the lyrical hero in two or three words.

The poem “It’s also cold and damp...” depicts a February landscape. IN lyrical work an image of God’s world is given, which is transformed and rejuvenated with the onset of spring: “bushes and puddles”, “trees in the bosom of the sky”, bullfinches. The last stanza of a poetic work is significant. The lyrical hero is attracted by the landscape that does not open,

...And what shines in these colors:

Love and joy of being.

Human feelings, dreams and desires are closely intertwined in Bunin’s poetry with images of nature. Through landscape sketches I.A. Bunin conveys complex world human soul. In the poem “Fairy Tale,” reality and fantasy are mixed, dream and reality, fairy tale and reality are inseparable from each other.

The lyrical hero dreams fairytale dream: deserted shores, Lukomorye, “pink sand”, northern sea.” A picture of a fairy-tale land opens before the reader. The feeling of unreality of what is happening is conveyed by epithets: “along deserted shores”, “under the wild blue seaside”, “in a remote forest”, “pink sand”, “mirror reflection of the sea”, which create a mood of mysterious expectation of a miracle.

From the final quatrain of the poem it is clear that landscape sketches of a distant desert region help the poet convey a feeling of longing, longing for his irretrievably lost youth:

I dreamed of the northern sea,

Deserted forest lands...

I dreamed of the distance, I dreamed of a fairy tale -

I dreamed of my youth.

The poetic world of I.A. Bunin's works are varied, but it is the pictures of nature that reveal the inner world of the lyrical hero in his poetry. The brightest cloudless times human life childhood is considered. It is about him that I.A. writes. Bunin’s poem “Childhood,” which also conveys the feelings and experiences of the lyrical hero through natural images. The poet associates childhood with sunny summer, when “it’s sweeter to breathe the dry, resinous aroma in the forest.”

The lyrical hero’s feelings of happiness and the fullness of life are conveyed by the following poetic epithets, comparisons and metaphors: “to wander through these sunny chambers”, “the sand is like silk”, “there is bright light everywhere”, “the bark... is so warm, so warmed by the sun.”

I.A. Bunin is rightfully considered the singer of Russian nature. In the poet's lyrics, landscape sketches reveal the feelings, thoughts, experiences of the lyrical hero, conveying a brief moment of enchantment with the pictures of life.