Analysis of the poem "The Beggar", Lermontov M.Yu.

The work "Beggar" Lermontov wrote in 1830 at the age of sixteen. This is one of the lyrical poems of the so-called "Sushkov cycle", the appearance of which is associated with the events of the biography of the young poet.

The plot of the poem "Beggar" Lermontov took from his personal experience. In 1830 Arseniev (grandmother with grandson Michael) and other families: Stolypins, Vereshchagins and Sushkovs visited together in the Troitsko-Sergeevskaya Lavra. There the young man heard the story of a blind, wretched old man who complained that recently a young handful of jokers had put a handful of pebbles in his cup at his church porch. This case deeply shocked the receptive young man. Writing the poem "Beggar" almost at the house, Lermontov revealed in it a kind of similarity between what had happened and his attitude towards Sushkovoy.

Often the events taking place in the life of an outstanding creative person become important not only for him, but also for the history of national culture. Poem "Beggar" Lermontov, then a novice poet, created in response to an ardent but unrequited feeling for Catherine Sushkova.

M.Yu. Lermontov "The Beggar" (analysis part 1)

Conditionally, the work can be divided into two unequal parts. The first part - the plot (8 verses). The central image of the miserable beggar is created with the help of epithets: begging, withered, hardly alive from hunger and thirst. He asked only necessary, not money - bread, his gaze full of suffering from suffering and adversity. The more criminal it seems the substitution of a vital need for a useless, cold stone. The result is clear: without bread, this person will not survive.

"Beggar" Lermontov (analysis of part 2)

The second part is an epilogue, an explanation (4 verses), expressed in a figurative and detailed metaphor. The need for a reciprocal feeling the poet equated to the need for a piece of bread of a man dying of hunger.

The basis of the poem and its artistic solution was the event in the laurels, used by the author as a symbol of the human, and in the case of the lyrical hero - female indifference and mental deafness.

The real, non-poetic history of relations between Lermontov and Sushkova continued in 1834. They met again, this time in Petersburg. For a whole month the poet courted Ekaterina Alexandrovna, despite the fact that she was going to marry his friend Alexei Lopukhin. Mikhail visited her house, accompanied him at all balls as a gentleman, surrounded him with care and attention, trying to win the girl's heart and get revenge for rejected youthful feelings, but depicting the case as if rescuing his friend from an early marriage. When he achieved love recognition, the enamored Catherine received a letter from an unknown person, which opened the whole truth and caused the rupture of relations. Until the end of her days, Ekaterina Sushkova did not know that Lermontov himself wrote this letter, disappointed in women's love and sincerity. He saw in the behavior of the girl only a mercantile desire to make a successful party.

The poem is an example of a romantic style in the poetry of the nineteenth century. It is imbued with a melancholy mood of loneliness, disappointment in people and their morals.