Analysis of the poem “Being Famous is Ugly” Pasternak B.L. Analysis of the poem “Being Famous is Ugly” by Pasternak Test on the poem

What meaning did the poet put into the final lines of the poem?

Read the poem below and complete tasks B8-B12; SZ-S4.

B. L. Pasternak, 1956

“Being famous is ugly,” “The purpose of creativity is dedication.” What are such laconic sayings called, containing philosophical or worldly wisdom, an instructive conclusion? Give your answer in the singular.

Explanation.

Such sayings are called aphorisms or catchphrases. An aphorism is an original complete thought, expressed or written down in a laconic, memorable text form and subsequently repeatedly reproduced by other people.

Answer: aphorism.

Answer: aphorism|catchphrase

Alexander Rybakov 27.04.2016 22:09

Excuse me, but why is the answer “aphorisms” not correct? After all, the question is asked in the plural: “What are the names of...the sayings...? Then it is necessary to indicate in the assignment that the answer is in the Nominal case.

Tatiana Statsenko

The assignment clearly states: “write your answer in the singular.”

Name the stylistic figure associated with the repetition of a word at the beginning of poetic lines:

And plunge into the unknown, And hide your steps in it...

Explanation.

This stylistic figure is called anaphora or unity of command. Anaphora or unity of principle is a stylistic figure consisting of the repetition of similar sounds, words or groups of words at the beginning of each parallel series, that is, the repetition of the initial parts of two or more relatively independent segments of speech (hemistyses, verses, stanzas or prose passages).

Answer: anaphora or unity of command.

Answer: anaphora

What is the name of the technique used by the poet in the fifth stanza of the poem (“And hide your steps in it, / How the area hides in the fog...»)?

Explanation.

This technique is called comparison. Let's give a definition.

Comparison is the bringing together of two objects or phenomena with the aim of explaining one of them with the help of the other; a figurative allegory that establishes similarities between two life phenomena.

Answer: comparison.

Answer: comparison

Indicate the term that denotes a trope based on the transfer of the properties of some objects and phenomena to others (“love of space”, “call of the future”).

Explanation.

This term is called metaphor. Let's give a definition.

Metaphor is the transfer of the properties of one object or phenomenon to another based on the principle of their similarity, a hidden comparison.

Answer: metaphor.

Answer: metaphor

What is the name of a stylistic device that enhances the sound expressiveness of a verse and is associated with the use of identical consonant sounds (“They will pass your path by an inch”)?

Explanation.

This technique is called alliteration. Let's give a definition.

Alliteration is the repetition of identical or homogeneous consonants in a poem, giving it a special sound expressiveness.

Answer: alliteration.

Answer: alliteration

Tatiana Abrams 28.01.2017 23:21

When solving printed collections, the answer was simply “sound writing,” since this concept already implies the repetition of any sounds.

Tatiana Statsenko

If collections allow such answers, it does them no credit. If the task clearly states “identical CONSONANT sounds,” then the answer should be unambiguous - “alliteration.”

Which Russian poets addressed the topic of creativity and in what ways are their works consonant with the poem by B. L. Pasternak?

Explanation.

Our contemporary E. Yevtushenko said: “A poet in Russia is more than a poet,” - these lines perfectly define the essence of poetic creativity. For a real poet, life and creative credo are synonymous. Marina Tsvetaeva, in the poem “I am happy to live exemplary and simple,” sees her happiness in “living the way I write: exemplary and concise.” Her predecessor N.A. Nekrasov considered it his duty to be a poet-citizen and to benefit people with his creativity and serve the Motherland. For N. A. Nekrasov, a true poet cannot exist without a close connection with the events of public life. Lines from the poem “The Poet and the Citizen”:

It’s even more shameful in a time of grief

The beauty of the valleys, skies and sea

And sing of sweet affection... -

become the poetic credo of N. A. Nekrasov.

B. Pasternak in the poem “Being Famous is Ugly” proclaims his purpose:

The goal of creativity is dedication,

Not hype, not success.

Shameful, meaningless

Be the talk of everyone.

Explanation.

In 1956, Pasternak wrote his famous poem “It’s Ugly to Be Famous,” which he addressed to his literary colleagues. The poem became a kind of code of honor for a true writer. Discussing the purpose of creativity, in the last quatrain the author comes to the conclusion that a poet or writer should

...to be alive, alive and nothing more,

Alive and only until the end.

The only value that is an absolute value for Pasternak is the opportunity to “be alive” to the end, i.e. be able to sincerely love, despise and hate, and not portray these feelings to please someone in your works. A poet should not deviate from his calling - to seek the truth and bring it to people.

Don't sleep, don't sleep, artist,

Don't give in to sleep.

You are a hostage to eternity

Trapped by time.

B. Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is a poet-philosopher, a thoughtful artist who peers with interest at the life around him. The inquisitive mind of the poet wants to penetrate into the very essence of things, understand them and tell the world about his discoveries.

Late Pasternak is academic. He uses the artistic means that are in his arsenal sparingly, but this does not make his poems drier, but only emphasizes the artist’s skill. The poem “Being Famous is Ugly” was written by a recognized master during the period of his “last songs.” It conveys the poet’s internal perception of his role and essence on earth.

Being famous is not nice.

This is not what lifts you up.

There is no need to create an archive.

Shake over manuscripts.

Indeed, human love is fleeting, unfair, subject to fashion. But the poet is above the crowd. He creates for people, without listening to their admiration and blasphemy.

The goal of creativity is dedication,

Not hype, not success.

Shameful, meaningless

Howl is a proverb on everyone's lips.

Pasternak treats fame as a worldly vanity; his art is akin to celestial beings who give people benefits without demanding anything in return. He experiences joy from creativity itself. It is his element and way of existence. A poet cannot help but compose; for him it means to live, pouring out his soul in sounds, filling the world with beauty.

A true artist is always a pioneer. Others will follow him, maybe not even remembering whose footsteps they are following, but it will be easier for them, and that’s the main thing.

Others on the trail

They will follow your path within an inch.

But defeat comes from victory

You don't have to differentiate yourself.

Only then is a masterpiece of art born when the human soul is alive, when it is open to the world and people. Living like this is hard, sometimes unbearable, but such is the fate of a poet. If an artist begins to take care of himself, to save his strength, his creativity ends, and the remaining skill will not bear new fruit.

In this poem, Boris Pasternak uses phraseological units: “To be a byword on everyone’s lips” and “Not to be seen in sight.” They give special expressiveness to speech with a small volume of words. The repetition of the word “alive” in the last quatrain indicates the great meaning that the author attaches to this epithet.

And should not a single slice

Don't give up on your face

But to be alive, alive and only,

Alive and only until the end.

In just a few quatrains, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak’s poem makes you take a fresh look at creativity. This is not a way of making money, not work - this is the poet’s way of life, which he cannot refuse while he is alive.

Composition

“In the field of words, I love prose most of all,
but he wrote mostly poetry. Poem
Regarding prose, this is the same as a sketch
regarding the picture. Poetry seems to me
a large literary sketchbook."
B.L. Parsnip

The work of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak stands apart in the history of Russian literature. He lived and worked in a very difficult time for Russia. Old canons collapsed, old life changed harshly, people and destinies were broken... And in the midst of all this - a wonderful poet with a subtle soul and a unique vision of the world. Born at a turning point in fate, Boris Pasternak managed to become one of the symbols of his century.
Poems occupy a special place in his work. Many wonderful lines came from his pen. The last collection of poems, never published during Pasternak’s lifetime, entitled “When it clears up,” contains selected works of the author. The theme of renewal and hope is clearly heard in the book, which is a reflection of the changes taking place in the country. It was in this collection that the poem “Being Famous is Ugly...” was published, which can be called a kind of set of rules for a real poet. It is in this work that Pasternak reveals his attitude towards creativity.

The poem has a programmatic meaning, as if continuing Pushkin’s appeal to the “Poet”. The lyrical hero, continuing the great poet’s thought about the artist’s independence from “people’s love,” introduces a moral assessment into his judgment:
Being famous is not nice. This is not what lifts you up. There is no need to start an archive, to tremble over manuscripts.

The goal of creativity is dedication,
Not hype, not success.
Shameful, meaningless
Be the talk of everyone.

We see that Pasternak does not accept empty, undeserved fame; it is easier for him to sink into obscurity than to be on everyone’s lips without doing anything for it. This position deserves only respect. The artist makes his lonely path “in the fog,” where “you can’t see a thing,” hearing only “the call of the future” ahead. He must leave a “living trace” in modernity, which will be continued by “others”.
The unique fate of the poet is understood by Pasternak as a link between the past and the future in a single chain of art, loyalty to his calling:

And should not a single slice
Don't give up on your face
But to be alive, alive and only,
Alive and only until the end.

Once having chosen this path, the poet should never deviate from it.
Also an important work for revealing the image of the poet in Pasternak’s view can be the poem “In everything I want to get to the very essence...”, written in the same year as the first one, and included in the same collection.

I want to reach everything
To the very essence.
At work, looking for a way,
In heartbreak.

From this quatrain follows the aspiration of the lyrical hero, who can conditionally be equated to Pasternak himself. The desire for life, for knowledge of its secrets and mysteries, the thirst for activity and feeling. In this poem, the lyrical hero sets himself an almost impossible task - to penetrate the secret essence of life, deduce its laws, unravel its secrets... He tries to grasp the “thread of destinies and events.” But the task is complicated by the fact that he strives not only to understand, but also to express in words the general law of existence:

Oh if only I could
Although partly
I would write eight lines
About the properties of passion.

Discarding empty words, he looks for the main, fundamental ones. Isn’t this the task and goal of poetry in general and each poet in particular?.. Pasternak always believed that what is meaningful does not have to be complex. The truth of things and phenomena lies precisely in their simplicity. Hence the poet’s desire to express in eight lines the properties of passion, which for Pasternak is life, because only when a person feels does he really live. This is the recipe for penetrating the mystery of life.

The role of nature in Pasternak’s work in general and in this poem in particular is interesting. It miraculously comes to life, but not as an accumulation of living and inanimate objects of the world around us, but as embodied poetry:
I would plant poems like a garden.

With all the trembling of the veins the linden trees in them would bloom in a row,
Single file, to the back of the head.

The world of poetry and the world of nature are intertwined, and it is not entirely clear where one ends and the other begins, and the poet’s linden trees line up in orderly rows, like words in a line...

"It's not nice to be famous"

In the third stanza of the poem B.L. Pasternak emphasizes the special position of the creative person in time and space. At the same time, he formulates another principle, important and necessary for a human creator: “Hear the call of the future.” Only then will the poet be able to become interesting not only to his contemporary, but also to his descendants. However, in this stanza there is also a certain mystical motive of the sacrament; the artist needs to “attract the love of space to himself.” In fact, the motive will remain unclear until the end. The “love of space” metaphor, which is quite deep in its philosophical content, can symbolize good luck, a muse that brought creative insight, and favorable life circumstances (interesting meetings with people, nature). But still, the point here is not that he should realize his place in the world.

Being a poet-philosopher, B.L. Pasternak encourages learning from nature. His lyrical hero is able, without fear of the future, to “plunge into the unknown,” just as the area hides in fog.

BL. Pasternak writes about the need for a talented person not to revel in victories, but to maintain personal modesty in relation to his successes. After all, the main thing is to lead other people, who will decide who in history will receive glory and who will be forgotten. B.L. Pasternak, by personal example, teaches not to prevaricate, not to become isolated in your experiences, to maintain a keen interest in the world around you, to love life until the very last hour. The theme of the purpose of the poet and poetry is deeply embedded in the Russian classical poetic tradition.

In this regard, the poem by B.L. Pasternak’s “Being Famous is Ugly” creatively continues it. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter. All seven stanzas of it are connected by cross rhyme, while female and male rhymes alternate. The poem makes extensive use of figurative and expressive means of language: phraseological units (“a parable on everyone’s lips”, “a span of five”), antithesis (“it’s time to marry” - “victory”), as well as the technique of emphasizing the vertical coordinates of artistic space (“lifts up”, “plunge into the unknown”), this compositional technique goes back to Tyutchev’s poetic tradition and is characteristic of meditative lyrics in general. The main epithet is the epithet “alive”, reinforced in the final stanza by a threefold repetition. So obviously B.L. Pasternak sees the meaning of life in life itself, in living it honestly and openly. It is no coincidence that the words “should”, “must”, “must not” appear so often in the poem.