"Anchar" is a poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1828 .
| Anchar | |
|---|---|
| Genre | poem |
| Author | Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin |
| Original language | Russian |
| Date of writing | 1828 year |
| Date of first publication | 1832 year |
Creation History
Returning from exile , Pushkin realized that his dreams of free creativity would not come true, his works were censored .
In 1828, a lawsuit was instituted against Pushkin on charges of writing the anti-government work “ Andrei Chenier ” and the godless poem “ Gabrieliad ”: these circumstances of personal life served as the occasion for the creation of the allegorical poem “Anchar”.
Pushkin used semi-legendary stories about the existence of the poisonous tree Anchar on the island of Java : the travelers said that this tree poisons the surrounding air, and its juice is deadly. The leaders of local tribes sent sentenced to death to collect the poisonous resin of anchara, which was used to poison the arrows.
The poet used these tales of a poisonous tree to create the image of a despot , bringing death and destruction to all living things. This poem was used by A. S. Arensky to create a piece of the same name for a mixed choir .
The size of the poem is a four-foot iambic. Emphasis falls on the second syllable, which is typical of the Pushkin style of writing works consisting of two-stroke and four-stroke lines.
Comparison with Communism
Philosopher Ivan Ilyin , a supporter of the White movement and an anti-communist, used Pushkin's metaphor for a brief description of the tragedy of Tsarist Russia:
<...> the all-Russian dishonesty predicted by Dostoevsky and the impoverishment of the spirit unfolded; and on this spiritual impoverishment, on this dishonor and corruption, the state Anchar of Bolshevism , prophetically foreseen by Pushkin , grew up - a sick and unnatural tree of evil, sending its poison to the whole world to death in the wind.
Links
- Article M. Yu. Lotman (inaccessible link)