In the depths of Siberian ores

Keep proud patience

Your mournful work will not be lost

And doom high aspiration.

Unfortunately faithful sister,

Hope in the dark dungeon

Wake up cheerfulness and fun,

The desired time will come:

Love and friendship up to you

They will reach through the gloomy gates,

Like in your hard labor holes

My free voice is coming.

Heavy chains will fall

The dungeons will collapse - and freedom

You will be gladly received at the entrance,

And the brothers will give you the sword.

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Historical and biographical material

History of creation and date of writing the poem

During the uprising on December 14, 1825, the exiled poet was in Mikhailovskoye. He was not a member of a secret society, but many Decembrists kept lists of his freedom-loving poems in their archives. July 24, 1826 The sentence was carried out on 5 people well known to Pushkin, among whom was the poet K.F. Ryleev. Two of Pushkin's closest friends, Pushchin and Kuchelbecker, almost became victims, the execution was replaced for them by hard labor and a fortress.

Returning in September 1826 to Moscow, and then to St. Petersburg, the poet seeks not only to support his friends, but also to substantiate the historical significance of their actions.

The poet's message reached the addressees: it was brought to Siberia by A.G. Muravyova, who was on her way to her husband.

The place of the poem in the work of the poet

The theme of the past of Russia at this time becomes one of the main ones in his work. In the message "In the depths of Siberian ores" the author writes modern events into history, showing their meaning in the development of civilization.

The main theme of the poem

The theme of memory of friendship, hope, freedom

Lyrical plot

The poem is addressed to like-minded people. For the sake of their common “high aspiration” for freedom, they undertook “mournful work”, finding themselves in the “convict holes” of Siberia

The problem of the poem

It is very important to keep hope and faith in any conditions, not to let yourself and your will be broken even in such terrible conditions.

Composition of the poem

The first stanza begins with the image of hard labor, but gradually we move from this sketch to the image of the free world, which is already clearly drawn at the end.

Lyrical hero

The lyrical hero hopes, he believes in a person, in a fighter who is able, in the most difficult conditions, to preserve in himself “proud patience”, fidelity to his ideals, “thought high aspiration”. The hero is sure that “love and friendship”, “free speech” of a like-minded person are able to support the exiles, help them endure all the hardships of hard labor. He is also sure that sooner or later justice will prevail, and this makes him rejoice.

The prevailing mood, its change

The poem is gradually gaining more and more optimistic sound, it is full of hope and faith.

Civic lyrics

Consists of 4 stanzas. Quatrains.

Basic images

The author draws a gloomy space in which the characters found themselves: "gloomy dungeon", "convict holes", "heavy fetters", "dungeons". These images create a tragic atmosphere of misfortune that befell the poet's friends.

Vocabulary of the poem

As is typical of Pushkin and his time, the vocabulary is predominantly high (“dum”, “heavy fetters”, “voice”), and the commonly used one is also used.

Poetic Syntax

Figurative means of allegory.

Epithets: "proud patience", "mournful work", "free voice"

Comparison: "as in your hard labor holes ..."

Personifications: "Freedom will welcome you joyfully at the entrance."

Figurative means of allegory

The syntax throughout the poem is quite complex. The sentences are compound, non-union.

sound recording

In the second and third stanzas, the stressed “u” accentuates precisely those words in which faith in the future sounds: “wake up”, “friendship”. The phonic level shows the dynamics of the feelings of the lyrical hero of the poem from grief to confidence in the historical rightness of the cause, to which his friends gave their youth.

iambic tetrameter. The foot is two-syllable with the stress on the second syllable.

Rhythm and rhyme. Ways to rhyme

Rhythm and rhyme. Rhyming methods.

1st stanza - cross

2nd, 4th stanzas - inclusive

3rd - adjacent

When analyzing Pushkin's poem, one must take into account that the history of the creation of this work is inextricably linked with the events that took place in Russia: the December uprising on Senate Square and the execution of the participants in this uprising. This work is a message to like-minded people, friends who found themselves in Siberian penal servitude after a failed coup attempt. The poem, like most of Pushkin's other freedom-loving works, was distributed in lists.

Two events prompted Pushkin to write this work. The first is the anniversary of the uprising, and the second: he learned about the departure of A.G. Muravieva. Great was the desire of the poet to support the people with whom he was connected by spiritual closeness, and with some of the Decembrists - friendship.

The work is written in the genre of a lyrical poem, but it contains the idea of ​​civic duty. The theme of the poem is friendship and freedom.

The message is written emotionally. Consists of 4 stanzas. Despite the epithets - mournful, gloomy, heavy, hard labor, it breathes with faith in a brighter future. It contains sublime vocabulary: fetters, freedom, voice.

In the first stanza, the poet calls on those sentenced to hard labor to be patient and believe that everything can change. In the following stanzas, he shows what changes can take place: the desired time will come; Love and friendship ... will reach through the gloomy gates, and finally,

Heavy chains will fall
The dungeons will collapse - and freedom
You will be gladly received at the entrance,
And the brothers will give you the sword.

When Pushkin wrote this poem, he was well aware that under the existing government it could not be published in the open press. With his message, the poet sought to be heard by the prisoners of the tsarist regime. He was worried that on such an important day for the country, he could not be where all the progressive youth of St. Petersburg were.

The whole poem is built on antitheses, that is, on oppositions: mournful work - high aspiration, misfortune - fun, hard labor holes - a free voice, dungeons - freedom.

The rhythm of the poem, set out in four step iambic, gives the work vigor and vivacity. The feet are two-syllable with stress on the second syllable. In the poem, combined rhyme is used: in the 1st stanza - cross, in the 2nd and 4th - inclusive, in the 3rd stanza, adjacent rhyme is used.

The sublime energy of the poem is also facilitated by assonance and alliteration - a special sound organization of the text, in which vowels (with assonance) and consonants (with alliteration) sounds are repeated.

In the depths of Siberian ores
Keep proud patience
Your mournful work will not be lost
And doom high aspiration.

Alliteration to the sound "r" gives the work firmness and determination.

The main idea of ​​the poem is directed to the future. The future of society, the country, each of the Decembrists separately.

Was this sacrifice needed by the country? What social cataclysms resulted in the development of the liberation movement, stretching for a hundred years, neither Pushkin, nor the Decembrists, nor Herzen, whom the Decembrists woke up, never knew. They simply believed that they were acting for the good of the country and the enslaved people.

“In the depths of Siberian ores” is a work closely connected with Russian history, the social movement of the first half of the 19th century. It is studied by schoolchildren in the 9th grade. We propose to facilitate the preparation for the lesson, using a brief analysis of "In the depths of Siberian ores" according to the plan.

Brief analysis

History of creation- the work was written in 1827 in support of the Decembrists exiled to Siberia.

Theme of the poem- the memory of those who found themselves in exile for "dum high aspiration"; hope for a speedy release.

Composition- A. Pushkin's poem - can be conditionally divided into two parts: a story about the patience and hopes of people who are in Siberia and the prediction of liberation from the "dungeon". Formally, the poem is divided into 4 quatrains.

Genre- a message.

Poetic size- iambic tetrameter with pyrrhic, rhyme in the first stanza is cross ABAB, in the rest - ring ABBA.

Metaphors – "in the depths of the Siberian ores keep proud patience", “dum high aspiration”, “unfortunately faithful sister hope”, “heavy fetters will fall”.

epithets – "sorrowful labor", "dark dungeon", "dark locks", "free voice".

Comparisons – “Love and friendship will reach you through gloomy gates, just as my free voice reaches your convict holes.”

History of creation

For Russian literature of the first half of the 19th century, the problems of freedom and movements for it were topical. In the work of A. S. Pushkin, they occupy a place of honor. The poet's poems were kept in the Decembrist archives, although he himself was not a participant in the uprising. In December 1825, Alexander Sergeevich was in exile in Mikhailovsky.

In July 1826, the sentence passed on the Decembrists, with whom the poet was well acquainted, came into effect. Among them was Kuchelbeker, Ryleev, Pushchin. They wanted to execute the participants in the uprising, but then the sentence was changed and they were sent to hard labor.

In 1826, Pushkin returned to Moscow, and soon arrived in St. Petersburg. He supported his friends in every way, tried to justify their actions. At this time, he met with Nicholas I, but even after talking with the tsar, the poet did not leave his friends. Under the threat of exile, he sends them letters with poems.

Such is the history of the creation of the analyzed work, written in 1827. Those to whom the poem is dedicated received a forbidden letter. He was brought to Siberia by A. G. Muravyova, the wife of one of the Decembrists.

Topic

In the work, the author reveals the theme of the memory of those who were exiled to hard labor for their high aspirations. In connection with the theme, an idea is developed about how important the support of friends and the strong hope of liberation are. The poet is sure that hope is able to awaken joy and fun in a person even when he is in a "dungeon".

The lyrical hero of the verse addresses people who are imprisoned. He does not indicate who the addressees are to him, creating a composite image of people living "in the depths of the Siberian ores." He is sure that the actions and thoughts of the imprisoned will definitely bear fruit.

The sender tries to cheer up the captives, saying that hope will find them even in a gloomy dungeon. Love and "friendship" will come after her. The lyrical hero is sure that the fetters are not eternal, and when they "fall", the liberated will again be able to fight for their rights, moreover, with the support of the "brothers" who were at large.

Composition

The composition of the poem is conditionally divided into two parts: a brief description of the people in prison, their high thoughts, the prophecy of the lyrical hero about the imminent release of convicts. The transition between parts is smooth, accompanied by changes in mood from gloomy to joyful, sublime. The work consists of four quatrains, which continue the content of each other.

Genre

The genre of the analyzed work is a message, as the author addresses his words to other people. The poetic size is iambic tetrameter with pyrrhic. The poet uses different types of rhyme: cross ABAB and ring ABBA. There are both male and female rhymes in the verse.

means of expression

Pushkin's message is full of artistic means. The paths help the poet to express his feelings for his friends, to support his comrades in difficult times.

Most of the text metaphors: “keep proud patience in the depths of Siberian ores”, “dum high aspiration”, “unfortunately faithful sister hope”, “heavy fetters will fall”, “freedom will welcome you joyfully at the entrance”. With the help of this linguistic means, the poet revives abstract concepts. epithets serve to create a Siberian atmosphere, so most of them are gloomy: “mournful labor”, “gloomy dungeon”, “gloomy locks”, “heavy fetters”.

Comparison there is only one in the text, but it occupies a whole stanza: “Love and friendship will reach you through gloomy gates, just as my free voice reaches your hard labor holes.”

Some stanzas use alliteration, for example, in the first lines, the stringing of words with the consonant "p" indicates the unshakable spirit of the convicts, their willpower: "keep proud patience in the depths of Siberian ores."

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The brotherhood that developed within the walls of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, where Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin studied, survived until the last days of each of the lyceum students. It is no coincidence that every year on October 19, all graduates of the Lyceum gathered, if such an opportunity arose. And Pushkin wrote another poem for almost every anniversary. Therefore, for him, the news of the Decembrist uprising in 1825 became a personal tragedy, when officers came to Senate Square, including former classmates - Wilhelm Kuchelbecker and Ivan Pushchin.

When the main participants in the uprising were exiled to Siberia, Pushkin showed considerable courage and wrote the famous message "In the depths of Siberian ores...". Many of the poet's comrades were members of secret societies, but they did not initiate Alexander Sergeevich into the plans for the uprising, who was already in conflict with the authorities and had been in exile twice. However, when he was summoned to Nicholas I himself for a personal audience, Pushkin said that if he had been in St. Petersburg on December 14, 1825, he “would certainly have stood in a rebellious punishment.”

With his poem "In the depths of the Siberian ores", the young poet wanted to cheer up the exiled Decembrists, following the lyceum traditions, he dreamed of supporting their faith in the final triumph of freedom. He addresses the Decembrists as a comrade who was forced to remain at large, but still divides them. "dum high aspiration". This poem was written on the anniversary of the December uprising - in early January 1827.

The original version of this message was placed in the family album of Princess E. A. Rostopchina. Later, the poet changed the second and third stanzas, and the poem was even more lit up with hope, and love and friendship were given even more importance. The second version of this poem came to Siberia: the poet sent it with Alexandra Muravyova, who went to Siberia to her husband.

The message is written in a high style: words written with a capital letter give it special solemnity - Hope, Love, Freedom, Misfortune. The poet understood that his Decembrist friends, deprived of their freedom, honor and dignity, needed, first of all, the moral support of their comrades. That is why Pushkin dared not only to write such a poem, but also to send it to his friends in Siberia. Referring to them, the poet is sure: “Your mournful work and thoughts of high aspiration will not be lost”. The author believes that the ideas of the Decembrists will still find their embodiment in life, because the idea of ​​freedom is decisive in Pushkin's work.

The theme of freedom and fidelity to the Decembrist ideas, Pushkin will retain in his subsequent poems: “Arion”, “Stans”, “Prophet”. However, it was in the poem "In the depths of the Siberian ores" that the idea of ​​heroism and courage was most clearly embodied. Hence the lexicon: "convict burrows", "dark shutters", "free voice". The poet Alexander Odoevsky responded to Pushkin's message with a poem that contained lines that became the motto of the revolutionaries of the early twentieth century: "From a spark, a flame will ignite!"

Consoling his friends who ended up in Siberia, from where many will never return, Pushkin wrote: "Love and friendship will reach you through the gloomy gates". The poet was sure that subsequent generations would remember the feat of the Decembrists, while expressing the hope that fate would turn out to be more favorable to the heroes of his poem than the government and the tsar: “Heavy fetters will fall, dungeons will collapse - and freedom will joyfully receive you at the entrance”. Only this prediction will not come true: in a quarter of a century, the few Decembrists who survived the exile will receive an amnesty and return home sick and helpless old people, deprived of titles and noble privileges.

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The poem “In the depths of Siberian ores” can be considered a work of civil lyrics, which was addressed, in particular, to the wife of the Decembrist Muravyov, exiled to Siberia for hard labor, A.G. Muravyova, who went to fetch her husband. The poem goes back to civil lyrics, and it is written in the genre of a friendly message. The main theme of the poem is the theme of freedom. The idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthis poem is that people who are devoted to their ideals to the end, enduring hardships and hardships, hoping for a brighter future, will find the strength in themselves to achieve the triumph of their own lofty thoughts at all costs. And most importantly, they will have loyal associates. The author focuses on the direction of the poem to the future, it is for this purpose that the antithesis is introduced: a sharp contrast between the “gloomy dungeon” and the “high desire of thoughts”, between the gloomy “convict holes” and “free voice”. The rhythm of the poem is given by iambic tetrameter. Numerous visual means were used to reveal the topic, by which, bit by bit, one can restore the motive for writing the poem “In the depths of Siberian ores”: epithets (“proud patience”, “mournful labor”, “gloomy locks”), faithful sister, hope…”, “convict burrows”), a detailed comparison (“Love and friendship will reach you through gloomy locks, as my free voice reaches your convict burrows”), personifications (“Hope in a gloomy dungeon will awaken cheerfulness and fun ”, “Love and friendship will reach you through gloomy gates”, “and freedom will gladly accept you at the entrance”, alliteration and assonance (“In the depths of Siberian ores, keep proud patience, your mournful work and thoughts will not be lost”). Triumph freedom, according to the author, is inexorable and merciless to obsolete orders and arbitrariness.Sooner or later, independent thoughts that originated in a person will come true, but this requires fortitude and patience.