Romantic landscape
The romantic landscape has its own peculiarities: thanks to it, a non-ordinary, often fantastic world is created, which is opposed to reality. It reflects one of the central themes of Romanticism: the discord between the dream and life itself. In the poem “The daylight shone.” (1820), the poet speaks of “magical lands”, where he seeks with “excitement and anguish” from “the banks of his sad misty homeland” of his own. Such epithets as “distant shore,” “distant limits,” “deceptive seas,” emphasize the idea of an unrealizable “familiar dream.” And she really did not come true. Between the hope to see the “noonday land”: Italy, Greece, Spain – and the poet lay “sullen ocean”, which he was not allowed to cross.
But the imagination of the poet knows no boundaries, it pierces the space and time, and among his works appear landscapes that he has never seen,
In the poem “To Ovid” (1821), he compares his fate with the fate of the exiled to the same places, to the shores of the Black Sea, Ovid, a Roman poet, who yearned for his solar homeland. He saw around him only a “gloomy desert,” “a misty vault of heaven, ordinary snow and a brief warmth warmed meadows.” P-well, accustomed to the “snow of the gloomy midnight,” a completely different picture opened up: “the oak forests and meadows are animated by the luxuriance of nature,” “the noise ripples and shines the waters,” “myrtle noises above the fallen urn,” “the roving
He recalls the places of his exile with gratitude and is afraid that he will not see again “through the dark forests and vaults of rocks, and the sea shines azure, and clear, as joy, the heavens.” Farewell to this sunny world, with the sea, which was for the poet the personification of freedom, became the theme of the poem “To the Sea” (1824). With grief, P says that he did not manage to leave the boring, immobile shore and go to his “poetic escape” along the waves of the free ocean. But he will never be able to forget his “solemn beauty” and “dialect of the waves.” All this he will transfer “into the woods, into the desert silent.” Impressions from the Caucasus were reflected in the poems of the poet “The Collapse” (1829) and “The Caucasus” (1829).
The wild, terrible nature of the mountains, gloomy rocks, proud eagles – all amazed the imagination of the poet. He speaks of nature as a living creature: “the clouds humbly go”, Terek “plays in a fierce fun”, P compares this stormy mountain river with a hungry beast that “beats about the shore” and “licks the cliffs.” Thus, P-on can be called a singer not only of Russian nature, but also a singer of nature in general. He loved her so much, so subtly felt that he was able to depict not only the landscapes that surrounded him, but also the nature of the countries he had never seen.
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