Analysis "House by the road" Tvardovsky
The poetry of the post-war and war periods sounds completely different than the works of peacetime. Her voice is piercing, it penetrates the very heart. This is how Tvardovsky wrote "House by the Road". A summary of this work is presented below. The poet created his poem not only to express the pain of the destinies of his contemporaries destroyed by the war, but also to warn his successors against the terrible tragedy - war.
About the poet
Vasily Trifonovich Tvardovsky was born in 1910 in the Russian Empire. His parents were educated people, his father read the classics of Russian and world literature to children from early childhood.
When Vasily was twenty years old, the period of repression was in full swing. His father and mother fell into the millstones of the revolution and were exiled to the north of the country. These events did not break the poet, but put him at a crossroads and made him think about whether the raging revolution is really necessary and just. Sixteen years later, his original utopia comes out, after which the poet's works began to be published. Alexander Trifonovich survived the war, about this - his "Vasily Terkin". About the war and "House by the Road", Tvardovsky liked to retell the summary even before the poem was published.
The history of the creation of the poem
The idea and the main strokes of the poem were born in 1942. It is not known exactly why Tvardovsky did not immediately finish his "House by the Road". The history of the creation of the poem is most likely similar to the history of other post-war and military works. There is no time for poetry on the battlefield, but if its idea and creator survive, then the lines carried through the hail of bullets and explosions will certainly be born in peaceful days. The poet will return to the work in four years and complete it in 1946. Later, in his conversations with his wife, he would often recall how he thought about the dilapidated house by the road, which he once saw; how he imagined who lived in it, and where the war of its owners scattered. These thoughts seemed to take shape in the lines of a poem, but there was not only no time to write it, but nothing to write it on. I had to keep in my thoughts, as in a draft, the most successful quatrains of the future poem, and cross out not entirely successful words. This is how Tvardovsky created his "House by the Road". See the analysis of the poem below. But it should be said right away that she leaves no one indifferent.
"House by the road": a summary. Tvardovsky about the war. First and third chapters of the poem
The poem begins with the poet's address to the soldier. It was about him, about a simple soldier, that Alexander Tvardovsky wrote “House by the Road”. He compares the protracted return of the warrior to his wife with his completion of the poem, which was waiting for him "in that notebook." The poet tells about what he saw the deserted dilapidated house of a soldier. His wife and children were forced to leave, and after the end of the fighting she returned home with the children. Their poor procession is called by the author "the soldier's house".
The next chapter tells about the last peaceful day of a soldier, when he was mowing the grass in the garden, enjoying the warmth and summer, looking forward to a delicious dinner in a close circle at the family table, and so with a scythe they caught him talking about the war. The words "the owner of the meadow did not mow down" sound like a bitter reproach to the war that interrupted the master's affairs. The orphaned meadow was mowed by the wife, furtively crying for her beloved husband.
The third chapter of the poem "House by the Road" is ambiguous, Tvardovsky himself was difficult to convey the summary. She describes the hardships of war - soldiers in battle and women in non-female labor, hungry children and abandoned hearths. The distant paths that a mother-soldier with three children is forced to go. He describes the fidelity and love of his wife, which in peacetime was manifested by cleanliness, order in the house, and in wartime - by faith and hope that the beloved would return.
The fourth chapter begins with a story about how four soldiers came to a house by the road and said that they would put a cannon in the garden. And a woman with children should leave here, as it is reckless and dangerous to stay. Before leaving, the soldier asks the guys if they have heard of Andrey Sivtsov, her husband, and feeds them a hearty hot dinner.
Chapter five describes a terrible picture of walking captured soldiers. Women look into their faces, afraid to see their relatives.
Sixth-ninth chapters of the poem
At the end of the war, The House by the Road was published. Summary Tvardovsky repeatedly retold his relatives, describing his experiences in the war.
Chapter six shows Anyuta and Andrei. The roads of war brought him home, just for one night. The wife sends him on the road again, and she leaves her home with the children and goes through the dusty roads to save the kids.
Chapter seven tells about the birth of the fourth child - a son, whom his mother names Andrei in honor of his father. Mother and children in captivity, on a farm besieged by the Germans.
A soldier returns from the war and sees only the ruins of his native house by the road. Having grieved, he does not give up, but begins to build a new house and wait for his wife. When the work is finished, grief overcomes him. And he goes to mow the grass, the one that he did not have time to mow before he left.
Analysis of the work
Tvardovsky's poem "House by the Road" tells about broken families scattered across the earth. The pain of war sounds in every line. Wives without husbands, children without fathers, yards and houses without a master - these images run like a red thread through the lines of the poem. Indeed, in the very heat of the war, Tvardovsky created his “House by the Road”. Many critics did an analysis of the work, but they are all sure that the work is about the destinies of people tragically broken by the war.
But not only the theme of separation in its not quite familiar recreation (not the wife at home waiting for the soldier, but he, grieving and rebuilding the house, as if restoring his former, peaceful life) sounds in the poem. A serious role is played by the mother's appeal to her newborn child - her son Andrei. The mother in tears asks why he was born in such a turbulent, difficult time, how he will survive in the cold and hunger. And she herself, looking at the carefree dream of the baby, gives the answer: the child is born to live, he does not know that his ruined house is far from here. This is the optimism of the poem, a bright look into the future. Children must be born, burned houses must be restored, broken families must be reunited.
Everyone should return to his house by the road - so wrote Tvardovsky. An analysis, a summary of the poem will not convey its fullness and feelings. To understand the work, you must read it yourself. Feelings after this will be remembered for a long time and will make us appreciate peacetime and loved ones nearby.
Lyric-epic narrative about the fate of the people in the poem
A.T. Tvardovsky "House by the road"
In the poem "Vasily Terkin" A Tvardovsky showed the heroic side of the Great Patriotic War. But this war also had another side, which, according to Kondratovich, “Terkin did not embrace and could not embrace; for all its figurative richness, it was a front-line poem…” [Kondratovich, p.154].
But the soldier in the war also lived a different life, in his heart the memory of the most precious thing was always kept - about the house and family. And this could not but reflect in his work A. Tvardovsky, who so sensitively responded to everything that his people lived with and what worried him. The poem "House by the Road" became such a work, revealing the remarkable talent of the poet from a new perspective. The poem “House by the Road” is a lyrical chronicle story, which, according to Tvardovsky himself, reflects “the theme of not only the war itself, but the “house”, abandoned by the owner, who went to the front, survived the war that had come down to him; “at home”, in its human composition, abandoned from their native places to distant Germany, to the shores of someone else’s house, “at home”, which found in our victory liberation from captivity and rebirth to life [Bessonova, p.98].
The poem "House by the Road" has become a unique phenomenon, even somewhat unexpected, striking in its harsh truth. The first and obvious thing in it is the simple memory of the war, the “cruel memory”. On August 12, 1942, Tvardovsky writes in his workbook about his intention to implement “a purely lyrical, narrowly poetic solution to the problem”, “to tell strongly and bitterly and the torments of a simple Russian family, about people who long and patiently wished for happiness, to whose lot fell so much war , upheavals, trials ... ". And such a work, which embodied the goals outlined by the poet, was the poem "The House by the Road", a mournful story about the devastated "house", the wife and children of the soldier Andrei Sivtsov, who experienced torment in the Nazi concentration camp and endured them with honor. The poem was written in three stages - the first sketches were made by Tvardovsky in 1942, further work was continued in 1943, then in 1945 and at the beginning of 1946. And the whole poem was published in the Znamya magazine for 1946.
The focus of the author is no longer the army, but the civilian population, and mainly the house, Mother and wife, who are sources of goodness and happiness, symbols of the best for the Russian people and constituting the foundations of human existence. These images-symbols are traditional for Russian folklore. Thus, the source material for Tvardovsky's poem was the folk poetic consciousness, the comprehension of the spirit of the people and its world of contemplation.
Tvardovsky uses in the poem "Road House" folk principles of building an image, revealing the character traits of the heroes of the poem. Andrey and Anna Sivtsov experienced a lot of suffering and deprivation, while demonstrating moral strength and stamina - the best national traits. The beauty of their national character is also reflected in their grief. Tvardovsky, revealing their characters, seeks to emphasize the universality of their qualities, thanks to which they achieve a truthful display of the typical aspects of folk life, conveying the national identity of life and customs, as well as the peculiarities of the mental warehouse of a Russian person. This manifested the blood connection of the poet with his people, as well as boundless devotion to him.
Thus, Andrei and Anna are images that reveal the typical features of the Russian national character. It is no coincidence that almost until the middle of the poem, the heroes are not even named. So, depicting a picture of the last peaceful day of the peasant Andrei Sivtsov, the poet uses the pronoun "You", thereby emphasizing that there is no specific hero here yet - this is the peaceful life of every peasant family, "a small, modest, inconspicuous particle of the people":
At that very hour on a Sunday afternoon,
For a festive occasion
In the garden you mowed under the window
Grass with white dew.
And you mowed it, sniffing,
Groaning, sighing sweetly.
And I overheard myself
When he rang with a shovel.
Labor evokes joyful feelings in the hero and the author, like in every peasant who loves his land. The poem "House by the Road" is held together by one through poetic image - the image of an early working day, expressed by a refrain that runs through the entire poem:
Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we're home.
A. V. Makedonov believes that this refrain can be called the main leitmotif of the poem, which “at first appears as a detail of a direct concrete image of the peaceful labor and life of the owner of the house and the road. And then it appears as a memory, a reminder, a repeated metonymy and a metaphor - the memory of this work, of this peaceful life, and as a detail - a signal that resurrects a new affirmation of the power of human constancy, the irresistible beginning of a peaceful life" [Makedonov, p. 238].
It is the scythe, and not the agricultural machine, that acts as a tool of labor in the poem, for which the poet was reproached by critics, complaining that he thereby leaves the truth of the image of Soviet reality. But Tvardovsky, as a truly folk poet and master of words, does this consciously and completely, in our opinion, justified. He seeks thereby to preserve and continue folk traditions, to reflect the features of the life of his people, his spirit. It was he who did not break, did not bend either Andrei Sivtsov or his wife Anna, who experienced a lot of suffering during these terrible years of the war. And this can be said about the whole nation. Therefore, the main characters of the poem "Road House" are depicted to a greater extent not as individual characters, but as images of a broad generalization. So, we learn relatively little about the personal life of Andrei Sivtsov. In the story about him, Kulinich believes, “the poet focuses on the most important thing that characterizes his fate as the fate of the people: a hard worker and a family man, he was torn away from his home and family by a cruel war, became a warrior in order to defend the right to peace and work, to protect wife and children. A soldier took a sip of grief on the roads of the war, left the encirclement, looked death in the eyes, and when he returned home, he did not find a home, a wife, or children ... ".
What helped such people to survive when, it seemed, there was no more strength. In all trials, they were supported by selfless love for the Motherland and for their people. When Andrei Sivtsov, exhausted and tired, having fallen behind the war, comes home, he faces a moral choice - to go to the front or stay at home and live “in the village furtively”, “hiding from prying eyes”. The hero of Tvardovsky's poem "House by the Road" shows a true sense of patriotism and thus shows the greatness of the Russian character:
So I have to get there.
Reach. Even though I'm an ordinary
Not at all willing to leave.
So the concrete image of the soldier Andrey Sivtsov grows into an image of a broad generalization, which embodies the best qualities of a Russian person, enriched by a new historical era, the main of which is devotion to one's Motherland.
In the guise of the main character Anna Sivtsova, the poem reflects, first of all, what makes her a generalized image of “a woman-mother, whose cares kept the house and who fell to the lot of hard trials of military hard times”.
In the poem "House by the Road" the image of Anna Sivtsova reflected the best features of a Russian woman, depicted in classical literature: beauty, spiritual purity, unbending strength, endurance, devotion and fidelity to her husband, love for children. Many of these features of Anna are close to the female images of Nekrasov's poems "Frost - a red nose", "Who in Russia should live well." Tvardovsky depicts his heroine as follows:
Let it not be girlish time
But from love surprisingly -
Sharp in speeches
Fast in business
How the snake kept walking.
Tvardovsky's poem, with great force of artistic truth, reflected the features of the tragic worldview of the people, revealed in the image of the main character of the poem. After her husband left for the war, Anna constantly thinks about him with anxiety and often mentally turns to her lover:
My distant
my darling,
Alive, dead - where are you?
Used constant epithets "distant", "dear", used in folk songs, become key in this passage of Tvardovsky's poem to convey the feelings of the heroine, whose heart is overwhelmed with longing for her beloved. For Anna, separation from her husband is a real tragedy, and what used to bring her joy and pleasure (joint work on the mowing) now causes heartache:
When I mowed that meadow,
Itself oblique unbeaten.
Tears blinded her eyes,
Pity burned my soul.
Not that braid
Not the dew
Not the grass, it seemed ... .
Anna Sivtsova also embodies the features of a Soviet woman: the connection of her fate with the nation's, a sense of collectivism, civic duty. According to Vykhodtsev, the poet, “depicting the Soviet people, at the same time knows how to emphasize their primordial, traditional features. It often happens that these qualities are captured by the people themselves in oral poetic works. Tvardovsky very rarely refers directly to the "folklore model", but always creates an image, a situation that is very close to the widely used ones. Thus, he captures the fundamental features of the people.
One of them is compassion for others. It was about this feeling that the poet told the reader in the fifth chapter of the poem, which tells about the tragic scenes - the entry of the enemy into our land and the meeting of Russian women with our captured soldiers:
…Sons of the native land
Their shameful prefabricated formation
They led through that land
To the west under guard.
They walk along it
In shameful prefabricated companies,
Others without belts
Others without caps.
Among these women is Anna Sivtsova, she also, looking with bitterness at the faces of the captured soldiers, with fear tries to find her husband among them. She is afraid of even the very thought that her Andrey might be here. Tvardovsky describes these experiences of the heroine in the form of an internal monologue of a female soldier addressed to her husband. This excited speech, filled with such lyricism, conveys not only the feelings of Anna Sivtsova, but also the feelings of all abandoned wives for their husbands, the people's grief about women's happiness destroyed by the war. It reflects the truly Russian character of a woman:
Don't be ashamed of me.
That the windings slipped down,
What, maybe without a belt
And maybe without a pilot.
And I will not reproach
You, who are under escort
You go. And for the war
Alive, did not become a hero.
Call out - I'll answer.
I'm here, your Anyuta.
I will break through to you
At least I'll say goodbye again
With you. My minute! .
Andrey Sivtsov goes to war from his home, taking away in his heart a piece of this shrine, which will warm him in the cold trenches and give him strength to fight the enemy. Home is a hope, a dream that every soldier in the war aspires to in his thoughts. And Anna Sivtsova has to leave her home, where the best years of her life passed, there were happiness and joy. In the touching scene of farewell to him, the specific image of the house becomes a symbol of the land - the Motherland, which the peasant woman Anna Sivtsova leaves. The poet wraps Anna's feelings in the form of a sincere folk song - a cry that conveys all the pain and longing of the heroine, which is also a feature of folk lyrics:
Forgive - goodbye, dear home,
And the yard, and the lumberjack,
And everything that is remembered around
Care, intention, work, -
The whole life of a person.
In some places this lyrical song - crying is replaced by a battle call, turning into a spell and a song of anger and revenge, giving this scene features of publicism, which is the pinnacle of emotionality in the poem:
For everything from the one who is to blame,
For all articles of the charter,
Seek with the severity of the soldiers,
Yours, master, right.
The poem "House by the Road" is not only a story about the suffering that befell a Russian woman during these difficult years of the war. This is a hymn to the mother woman and her boundless love for children. Anna Sivtsova, having ended up in Germany, thanks to her maternal love and female endurance, was able not only to save her children in this hell, but also to accomplish another real maternal feat. On straw, behind barbed wire, she gave birth to a son, Andrei. The trials that this courageous woman endures acquire in the poem a symbol of national suffering, the suffering of defenseless mothers, wives and children who were captured by Germans during the war years.
In the poem, we hear Anna's song over her son, pouring out her grief, in which one can observe the poet's use of artistic means characteristic of folk poetry: the postpositive use of epithets, the use of words with diminutive suffixes, figurative appeals:
Why are you so sad
My tear, dewdrop,
He came into the world at a dashing hour,
Beauty is my blood?
You were born alive
And in the world there is unsatisfied evil.
Alive - trouble, but the dead - no,
Death is protected.
Folklore poetics penetrates into the structure of the plot, which helps to reveal to the author the inner world of the heroine - in this case, her fear of the unknown future fate of the child. In our opinion, this form of folk poetics can be correlated with the lullaby of a mother who mentally recreates, despite sometimes difficult living conditions, a happy future fate for her child.
Anna Sivtsova believes in the happiness of her son, comparing him with a “green branch”, this color epithet is associated with youth and new life, which is a characteristic feature of the color symbolism of folk poetics.
The last chapter completes the entire movement of the poem "with a return from war to peace, from the roads of war and someone else's home to the original home and road ..." [Makedonov, p.239]. Here, the motive of the road is also inseparable from the house, but it manifests itself in all its significance: both as the road of war, and as the road to one's home, and as the road of human life and the fate of the people. Life won, the house won, although it was destroyed:
And where they sunk into the fire
Crowns, pillars, rafters, -
Dark, oily on the virgin soil,
Like hemp, nettle.
Deaf, joyless peace
Meet the owner.
Cripples - apple trees with longing
They shake the branches.
This is how the soldier Andrei Sivtsov, who returned from the war, sees his home. This fate is not only for the Sivtsov family. This is the fate of the people. And, despite the tragedy of these exciting scenes, they still carry a humanistic and life-affirming orientation, no matter how paradoxical it may sound - no matter how hard the trials befall our people - they are invincible, they will survive, they will stand. It is not for nothing that nettles break through the “crowns”, “pillars” and “rafters”, and the “crippled apple trees” still shake their bare branches, returning to the returned owner hope for lost family happiness and peaceful life. The author here uses the technique of poetic parallelism, which, as one of the artistic features of folk poetics, is built on the basis of a comparison of the human and natural worlds. Therefore, the end of the lyrical narrative about the war in the poem is associated with pictures of peasant labor. Andrei Sivtsov, as at the beginning of the poem, is busy with his favorite pastime - mowing, which brings him back to life, despite the sadness and pain that lives in his soul after so much suffering:
And the hours went by in a good way,
And the chest breathed eagerly
The floral scent of dew
Living dew from under the scythe -
Bitter and cool.
Thus, the poem "House by the Road" occupies a large place in the work of Tvardovsky, being the first major epic work of the poet with a predominance of the lyrical beginning. With its combination of lyrical and epic principles, the motives of peace and war, with all the utmost simplicity, the poem is an innovative work.
The actual significance of the poem "Road House" is that in it the poet was able to express on behalf of the people the power of protest against wars and those who unleash them. The historical and literary significance of Tvardovsky's poem lies in the fact that it is one of the first works in our literature in which the Patriotic War and peaceful post-war building are shown as a single humanistic struggle of our people for peace and happiness of people.
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The deep democratism of Tvardovsky, so clearly manifested in Vasily Terkin, also distinguishes the idea of his poem The House by the Road (1942-1946). It is dedicated to the fate of a simple peasant family that experienced all the hardships of the war. The subtitle of the poem - "lyrical chronicle" - exactly corresponds to its content and character. The genre of the chronicle in its traditional sense is a presentation of historical events in their temporal sequence. For the poet, the fate of the Sivtsov family, with its tragedy and typicality for those years, not only meets these genre requirements, but also causes complicity, deep empathy, reaching a huge emotional intensity and prompting the author to constantly intervene in the narrative.
A fate similar to that of Andrei Sivtsov was already outlined in Vasily Terkin, in the chapters Before the Battle and About the Orphan Soldier. Now it is depicted in more detail and even more dramatized.
The picture of the last peaceful Sunday that opens the poem is full of that “traditional beauty” of rural labor (mowing “on a festive occasion”), which was poeticized by Tvardovsky since the time of the “Country of the Ant”. This dear and bitter memory of the familiar and beloved peasant life, of "housing, comfort, order", interrupted (and for many - forever interrupted) by the war, will subsequently constantly resurrect in the poem along with the age-old proverb:
Mow, scythe,
While the dew
Down with dew -
And we are home.
In a difficult time of retreat, Sivtsov secretly comes home for a short time - “thin, overgrown, as if all sprinkled with ashes” (the “fringe of the sleeve” of a frayed overcoat is briefly mentioned), but stubbornly paving the “unwritten route” behind the front.
His wife's story is even more dramatic. Always bowing before the image of a woman-mother, capturing it in many poems of different years (“Song”, “Mothers”, “Mother and Son”, etc.), this time Tvardovsky created a particularly multifaceted character. Anna Sivtsova is not just charming (“Sharp in speeches, quick in deeds, She walked all over like a snake”), but full of the greatest selflessness, spiritual strength that allows her to endure the most terrible trials, for example, being sent to a foreign land, to Germany:
And even though she is barefoot in the snow,
Have time to dress three.
Catch with a trembling hand
Hooks, ties, mother.
Strive with a simple lie
Childish fear to appease.
And put all your luggage on the road,
Like fire, grab it.
The mother's tragedy and, at the same time, Anna's heroism reach their peak when her son is born in a hard labor barracks, seemingly doomed to death. Wonderfully using the poetics of folk lamentations, crying (“Why did a twig turn green at such an unkind time? Why did you happen, son, my dear child?”), Tvardovsky conveys an imaginary, fantastic conversation between a mother and a child, the transition from despair to hope:
I am small, I am weak, I am the freshness of the day
I can feel it on your skin.
Let the wind blow on me
And I will untie my hands
Ho you won't let him blow
Do not give, my dear,
While your chest sighs
As long as she's alive.
The heroes of "House by the Road" also find themselves face to face with death, hopelessness, despair, as was the case with Terkin in the chapter "Death and the Warrior", and also emerge victorious from this confrontation. In the essay “In native places”, talking about his fellow villager, who, like Andrey Sivtsov, built a house on the ashes, Tvardovsky expressed his attitude to this with journalistic frankness: “It seemed to me more and more natural to define the construction of this unpretentious log house as a kind of feat . The feat of a simple worker, a grain grower and a family man who shed blood in the war for his native land and now on it, devastated and depressed over the years of his absence, starting to start life again ... ”In the poem, the author provided the opportunity to draw a similar conclusion to the readers themselves, limiting themselves to the most a laconic description of this quiet feat by Andrey Sivtsov:
...pulled with a sore leg
To the old seliba.
Smoked, overcoat down,
Marked out the plan with a shovel.
Kohl to wait for a wife with children home,
This is how you build a house.
She pulled somehow
Along the highway track -
With the smaller, asleep in his arms,
And the whole crowd of the family.
The reader would like to see Anna in it, but the artist's tact warned Tvardovsky against a happy ending. In one of the articles, the poet noted that many of the best works of Russian prose, “having arisen from living life ... in their endings, tend to merge with the same reality from which they came out, and dissolve in it, leaving the reader wide scope for the mental continuation of their , for thinking out, "additional research" of the human destinies, ideas and issues touched upon in them. And in his own poem, Tvardovsky allowed readers to vividly imagine the tragic end that such stories had in the lives of many people.