Vasily Terkin. This name has long become a household name for the Russian soldier. This hero can rightfully be called epic, since his image is large-scale, great and comprehensive.
As the poem progresses, Terkin's character changes and develops. At first, he is simply a cheerful, simple-minded, lucky, energetic, cheerful and resourceful person. This was Tvardovsky’s original plan. He wanted to collect in the image of Terkin character traits Russian private. Gradually, Terkin’s character goes beyond author's intention. He literally becomes an epic figure. However, it should immediately be noted that what distinguishes him from the traditional epic hero is the combination of the everyday and the heroic, the comic and the serious. Heroism is complemented by humor, something lyrical, songlike, and all together presents an attractive image Soviet man at war.
Terkin went through the entire war from beginning to end. He absorbed all the bitter experience that a person can have in war. He fought in a swamp, crossed rivers, entered into hand-to-hand combat, shot down an enemy plane, was wounded more than once, faced death, and lay in hospitals. The author allowed him alone to experience all the hardships and hardships of the war. Tvardovsky could not do otherwise, feel sorry for his hero, because Terkin is not a person who can be pitied, but a portrait of the entire people. Like all the people, he had to experience the yoke of war. Maybe he went through something that others did not go through, but this is what gave him the opportunity to understand what a national tragedy is. That’s why this character is so unexpectedly revealed when Terkin remembers his native Smolensk region with the words:
My dear mother earth,All Smolensk relatives,
I'm sorry, I don't know why,
Just forgive me.
The tears of a soldier are worth a lot. He doesn’t know why to forgive him, and he doesn’t know why he’s crying. But his soldier's tears are a reaction to the terrible misfortune that he saw in front of him for so long. This scene reveals the depth of Vasily Terkin’s character and his spiritual growth. The meaning of these lines is vague, the author does not explain them, but gives the reader every opportunity to figure it out.
And in Terkin’s unexpected moods one can discern the deep sense of responsibility of everyone that has matured in him for everything the country has experienced, for its pain and suffering. The earth did not deserve this pain, but it endured it and remained the same as it was.
Vasily Terkin’s feeling of guilt can be explained in the same way as the guilt of survivors towards those who died. And many died, perhaps just a few weeks or even days before victory. Your friend has died. He still has relatives on earth. And you're alive. This motive is heard more than once in Tvardovsky. Who knows if Vasily Terkin considered himself responsible for those who did not see the spring of 1945? Here Terkin again appears as an epic hero, since he seems to take the blame for all those who died upon himself, becoming the people's conscience. The word "Guilty!" - the last thing Terkin says. Further, he will not be directly present in the poem.
Finally, Terkin also embodies that highest sadness, without which there is no joy, acquired at such a high price. It's about about the fate of the "orphan soldier". Not a word is mentioned that this is Terkin. The author only gives a slight hint of this, mentioning that the land on which everything happens is the Smolensk region. Terkin was just from Smolensk. And here it is, the people's grief, embodied in an ordinary soldier:
Maybe he was crying about his son,About the wife, about anything else,
About myself, what I knew: from now on
There is no one to cry for him.
We are not talking about just one soldier - about all those who did not spare themselves for the good of the Motherland, about those who returned to their home and found out that this home, drunk at night, no longer exists. This is a story about those who lived throughout the war with the dream of meeting their relatives and in one terrible moment learned that they had no relatives.
Terkin also appears at the end of the poem, but already invisible, as if behind the stage. Here Terkin is present both as a generalized image of a Russian soldier and as a specific person, but it is no longer clear whether it is Vasily himself or someone who simply called himself by a famous name. The fact is that Terkin is not alone. It found its embodiment in literally every soldier. If earlier he had one double - Ivan Terkin - now there are a great many of these doubles - the whole country.
IN final chapter Terkin is presented as a collective image of the entire soldier's comradeship. We are talking about the chapter "In the Bath". The unknown soldier, as the author emphasizes, “is the same as Terkin.” Terkin's final dissolution into the mass of soldiers emphasizes his origins from the popular element. That is why they call the figure of Vasily Terkin epic. The author was able to reveal the richness of the unique personality of the hero of the poem, emphasizing that this is not a person, but an entire people, individualized solely so that the poem does not become a boring chronology of the war, but is imaginative and understandable to anyone.
Our world has existed for several million years. Each era has its own distinctive features, including the “hero of his time”. Such a person always stands out from the crowd; he is remembered because of his extraordinary character or some kind of feat. For example, Grigory Pechorin from famous novel Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov is such because of his life principles and values. However, all this was in the 19th century. Who is the "hero" of the 20th century? Some readers nominate Vasily Terkin, the hero poem of the same name Alexander Tvardovsky. Can he be considered a “hero of his time”? Let's try to figure it out.
To answer the question posed, it is worth first analyzing the character and actions of Terkin.
Let's start with the fact that the hero is a participant in the Great Patriotic War, for whom it is important to be brave, courageous and resilient. Terkin fits this description completely. In the chapter “Crossing,” the hero acts honorably: he swims across an incredibly cold river in winter to report on the circumstances on the other side. Having overcome such a difficult path, Terkin is still able to joke: when he receives a refusal about the second glass of alcohol, in response to the colonel’s saying: “Well done, but there will be a lot - two at once,” he replies: “So there are two ends.” Also in the chapter “Two Soldiers,” the hero behaves like a real man: he helps old people with housework, without demanding anything in return, so they decide to treat him: “He ate a lot, but not greedily, he gave honor to the snack.” Leaving the hut, when asked by the old man whether they will beat the lazy German, Tyorkin replies: “We will, father...”, that is, what he does when a worthy soldier who, no matter what, believes in victory. In the chapter "Duel", being exhausted, he continues to fight the enemy, because people like him always go to the end. The chapter "Death and the Warrior" leads main argument about the fact that Terkin is a hero. Dying, the soldier asks the “oblique” to resurrect for one day in order to rejoice at the victory. Having been refused, Terkin gathers all his strength into his fist and defeats death.
Thus, after analyzing the character and actions of the character, we can conclude that he is a “hero of his time”. As mentioned earlier, in those years, perseverance, courage, and patience were considered important traits. Terkin certainly possessed them. In addition, he had a lot of other, no less remarkable qualities. Vasily Terkin is a man who can rightfully be called a “hero of his time.”
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Throughout the war, while at the front, Tvardovsky worked on the poem “Vasily Terkin” - a work that was at the same time a truthful chronicle of the war, an inspiring propaganda word, and a deep understanding of the heroic feat of the people. The poem reflects the main stages of the Great Patriotic War, from its first days to complete victory over the enemy. This is how the poem develops, this is how it is constructed:
These lines and pages -
There is a special count of days and miles,
Like from the western border
To your home capital,
And from that native capital
Back to the western border
And from the western border
All the way to the enemy capital
We did our own hike.
The battle is holy and right,
Mortal combat is not for glory,
For the sake of life on earth.
“Vasily Terkin” is a “book about a fighter.” Terkin appears on the first pages of the work as an unassuming soldier-buffoon, who knows how to amuse and amuse the soldiers on a campaign and at a rest stop, innocently laughing at the mistakes of his comrades. But his joke always contains a deep and serious thought: the hero reflects on cowardice and courage, loyalty and generosity, great love and hatred. However, the poet saw his task not only in truthfully drawing the image of one of the millions of people who took on their shoulders the entire burden of the fight against the enemy. Gradually, Terkin’s image increasingly acquires generalized, almost symbolic features. The hero personifies the people:
Into battle, forward, into the utter fire
He goes, holy and sinful,
Russian miracle man.
The poet’s high skill was manifested in the fact that he was able, without embellishing, but also without “grounding” the hero, to embody in him the fundamental moral qualities Russian people: patriotism, consciousness of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland, readiness for self-reliance
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To understand and appreciate the true scale of the artist’s talent, his contribution to literature, one must proceed from what he said new about life and man, how his vision of the world relates to the moral and aesthetic ideals, ideas and tastes of the people. Tvardovsky never sought to be original. Any pose, any artificiality is alien to him.
The brilliant craftsmanship and nationality of Alexander Trifonovich’s creativity are visible in the principles artistic comprehension our lives, and in creation national characters era, renewal of poetic genres. V. Soloukhin said very correctly: “Tvardovsky is the largest Russian Soviet poet of the thirties, forties and fifties because the most important, most decisive events in the life of the country and people were best reflected in his poetry.”
Throughout the war, while at the front, Tvardovsky worked on the poem “Vasily Terkin” - a work that was at the same time a truthful chronicle of the war, an inspiring propaganda word, and a deep understanding of the heroic feat of the people. The poem reflects the main stages of the Great Patriotic War, from its first days to complete victory over the enemy. This is how the poem develops, this is how it is constructed.
Depicting war presented considerable difficulties for writers. Here one could fall into embellished reports in the spirit of superficial jingoistic optimism or fall into despair and present the war as a complete hopeless horror. In the introduction to “Vasily Terkin,” Tvardovsky defined his approach to the theme of war as a desire to show “the real truth,” “no matter how bitter it may be.” The poet depicts the war without any embellishment. The melancholy of retreat, painful anxiety for the fate of the Motherland, the pain of separation from loved ones, hard military labors and sacrifices, the ruin of the country, severe cold - all this is shown in “Terkin” as the truth demands, no matter how much it hits the soul. But the poem does not leave a depressing impression at all, does not plunge one into despondency. The poem is dominated by faith in the victory of good over evil, light over darkness. And in war, as Tvardovsky shows it, in the respites between battles, people rejoice and laugh, sing and dream, happily take a steam bath and dance in the cold. The author of the poem and its hero are helped to overcome the difficult trials of the war by their boundless love for the Motherland and understanding of the just nature of the fight against fascism. The refrain runs through the entire poem:
The battle is holy and right,
Mortal combat is not for glory,
For the sake of life on earth.
“Vasily Terkin” is a “book about a fighter.” Terkin appears on the first pages of the work as an unassuming soldier-buffoon, who knows how to amuse and amuse the soldiers on a campaign and at a rest stop, innocently laughing at the mistakes of his comrades. But his joke always contains a deep and serious thought: the hero reflects on cowardice and courage, loyalty and generosity, great love and hatred. However, the poet saw his task not only in truthfully drawing the image of one of the millions of people who took on their shoulders the entire burden of the fight against the enemy. Gradually, Terkin’s image increasingly acquires generalized, almost symbolic features. The hero personifies the people.
The poet’s high skill was manifested in the fact that he was able, without embellishment, but also without “downgrading” the hero, to embody in him the fundamental moral qualities of the Russian people: patriotism, consciousness of responsibility for the fate of the Motherland, readiness for selfless feats, love of work. The image of the folk hero Vasily Terkin created by Tvardovsky personifies the unbending character of the soldier, his courage and fortitude, humor and resourcefulness.
Tvardovsky's poem is an outstanding work, truly innovative. Both its content and form are truly folk. Therefore, it became the most significant poetic work about the Great Patriotic War, fell in love with millions of readers and, in turn, gave rise to hundreds of imitations and “sequels” among the people.
How is the theme of war presented in the works of A. T. Tvardovsky? (Based on the poem “Vasily Terkin”) 1. Transformation of the former Vasya Terkin, a popular popular hero, into a beloved character.
2. The image of the Motherland in the poem.
3. The poem “Vasily Terkin” as an encyclopedia of war.
4. The author’s attitude towards his work. In addition to the poems and essays written by Tvardovsky during the winter campaign of the Red Army of 1939-40, he took some part in the creation of the feuilleton character that appeared on the pages of the Leningrad Military District newspaper “On Guard of the Motherland” - the cheerful seasoned soldier Vasya Terkin.“The enormity of the terrible and sad events of the war” (in the words of “Answer to Readers...”) sang to the significant transformation of the character of the newspaper feuilletons of 1939-1940. The former Vasya Terkin was a simplified, popular figure: “a hero, fathoms in the shoulders... he takes enemies with a bayonet, like sheaves with a pitchfork.” Perhaps this was also influenced by the then widespread misconception about the ease of the upcoming campaign. “Vasily Terkin” is a wonderful poem by A. T. Tvardovsky. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, the poet was in the ranks Soviet army . He spent the entire war at the front, writing a large number of
poems for Red Army newspapers. Born and raised in the difficult trials of war
main character
The poem has absorbed both grief and people's joy; it contains harsh, mournful lines, but even more filled with folk humor, full of great love for life. It seemed incredible that it was possible to write about the most cruel and difficult war in the history of nations so life-affirmingly, with such light life philosophy. Terkin is an experienced soldier, a participant in the war with Finland. He participated in the Great Patriotic War from the first days: “in service from June, into battle from July.” Terkin is the embodiment of the Russian character.
Like from the western border
He retreated to the east;
How did he go, Vasya Terkin,
From the reserve private,
In a salted tunic
Hundreds of miles of native land.
How big is the earth?
The greatest land.
And there was a husband's bonus.
Someone else's, or your own.
The soldiers consider Terkin their boyfriend and are glad that he ended up in their company. Terkin has no doubts about the final victory. In the chapter “Two Soldiers”, when asked by the old man whether he can beat the enemy, Terkin replies: “We will, father.” He is convinced that true heroism It’s not about the beauty of the pose. Terkin thinks that in his place every Russian soldier would have done the same thing.
I would dream, not for the sake of glory, Before the morning of battle, I would wish to go to the right bank, Having gone through the battle, to enter alive.
The image of the Motherland in the poem will always permeate deep love. This is an old mother, and vast expanses, and a great land on which real heroes are born. The homeland is in danger, and it is everyone’s duty to defend it at the cost of their own lives.
The year has struck, the turn has come, Now we are responsible for Russia, for the people and for everything in the world. From Ivan to Thomas, Dead or alive, All of us together are us, That people, Russia. And since this is us, I’ll tell you, Sh>ats, We have nowhere to go from this mess. Here you cannot say: I am not me. I do not know anything. You can't prove that your house is on edge these days. It's not a big deal for you to think alone. The bomb is stupid. Foolishly will hit the spot. Forget yourself in war,
Remember the honor, however,
Get to work - chest to chest.
A fight means a fight.
The poem “Vasily Terkin” can be called an encyclopedia of the Great Patriotic War. In addition to the main character, the poem contains many other characters - soldiers serving with Terkin, ordinary residents experiencing a terrible time in the rear or in German captivity. Today we can say with confidence that the poem “Vasily Terkin” remains one of the most beloved works about the war.
The author himself wrote about “A Book for a Fighter”: “whatever its own literary significance, for me it was true happiness. She gave me a sense of the legitimacy of the artist’s place in the great struggle of the people, a sense of the obvious usefulness of my work.”