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“Bunin’s poem “The Last Bumblebee.” Analysis of the poem by I.A. Bunin "The Last Bumblebee" (text and subtext) (6th grade) The last bumblebee Bunin analysis according to plan

Black velvet bumblebee, golden mantle,
Mournfully humming with a melodious string,
Why are you flying into human habitation?
And it’s like you’re pining for me?

Outside the window there is light and heat, the window sills are bright,
The last days are serene and hot,
Fly, sound your horn - and in a dried-up Tatar,
On a red pillow, fall asleep.

It is not given to you to know human thoughts,
That the fields have long been empty,
That soon a gloomy wind will blow into the weeds
Golden dry bumblebee!

Analysis of the poem “The Last Bumblebee” by Bunin

The work of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is often turned to nature. A master of mixing landscape and philosophical lyrics, he creates the poem “The Last Bumblebee.”

The poem was written in 1916. Its author is 46 years old, his authority in literary circles is very high, he has several collections of poetry and prose under his belt, and a number of travels abroad. During this period, the heaviness on the writer’s heart intensifies; he has a presentiment that the First World War will be followed by a new, even more formidable crisis. He also notices the public's fatigue with art and craving for entertainment.

By genre - elegy, by size - multi-foot anapest with cross rhyme, 3 stanzas. The rhymes are only open. The lyrical hero is the author himself. His sadness has not yet reached the limits of despair, so he almost melancholy watches the bumblebee that has flown into the room with tenderness, even mentally turning to it. The serenity of the unsuspecting bumblebee contrasts with the “omniscience” of man: the lyrical hero has met autumn many times, seen the dying and rebirth of nature, he is almost a predictor of the little bumblebee’s fate. However, his own future is unknown to him. The poem begins with a question and ends with an exclamation. The poet seems to see some kind of affinity between himself and the bumblebee, and is ready to share his sad thoughts with him. He reflects on the fragility of human existence, the mortality of all living things. Maybe he’s a little jealous of the “velvet” insect’s ignorance.

Epithets: a melodious string, bright window sills, hot days, a red pillow, a gloomy wind. Personifications: you are sad, go to sleep. Metaphor: golden mantle. In fact, in the description of the appearance of the unexpected guest there are no original details, except perhaps the beautiful old word “mantle” (a type of richly decorated clothing collar among the nobility). The poet does not drive him out of “human habitation”, he invites him: fly, sound your horn. Tatarka is a prickly weed plant that looks similar to thistle. Since it is “dried up,” it means that the summer days are really coming to an end. The image of the wind resembles the image of a stern janitor. The diminutive suffix adds affection to a situation that is quite dramatic: fall asleep on a red pillow (that is, on a flower). Sleep here means, of course, death.

If I. Bunin's prose of the last pre-revolutionary year acquires a social sound, then the lyrics are still full of reflections about man and his place in the universe.

He belongs to the number of masters of the pen whose creativity is difficult to limit to any boundaries. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he became famous for his lyrical works, releasing seven collections of poems about his homeland, life, and love over 20 years. Many critics specifically note his love poetry, imbued with erotic motives. In 1903, the Academy of Sciences even awarded the young poet the Pushkin Prize for his poetry collection “Falling Leaves” and his translation of “The Song of Hiawatha” by the American poet G. Longfellow.

Bunin's prose brought him even wider fame. The story “Antonov Apples”, the stories “Village” and “Sukhodol” expressed the author’s truly poetic attitude towards the world. In these works, the author expressed his sadness over the disappearance of the former noble way of life. As a result, never accepting the changes in Russian society, especially after the October Revolution of 1917, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin left Russia forever, ending his life at the Saint-Genevieve-des-Bois cemetery in Paris.

Perhaps it is precisely the state of “great sadness”, the feeling of something passing away, the last in life, that the poet conveys in his poem "The Last Bumblebee", written in 1916. This poem will be the subject of analysis. Small in volume, it evokes a whole range of feelings in the reader. In terms of theme, it can rather be classified as philosophical lyricism, because this poem contains serious reflections on life and death, on purpose in this world, on the frailty of earthly existence - in a word, on everything that is typical for lyricism of this kind.

Lyrical plot quite simple: the hero sees a bumblebee accidentally flying into the room, but he "mournfully humming", causes the hero a feeling of melancholy and sadness. Of course, such thoughts do not bring joy, so the hero asks with some degree of reproach:

Why are you flying into human habitation?
And it’s like you’re pining for me?

If the flight of the bumblebee inspired the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to create an immortal masterpiece of the same name, full of joy, vigor and movement, then Bunin’s poem sounds very measured, unhurried, largely thanks to the tetrameter anapest with which this work is written. The name itself - “The Last Bumblebee” - evokes an association with the passing of summer, with the onset of autumn, and then winter, which in the lyrics is traditionally associated with dying in nature. Death theme Bunin is often associated with theme of memory. That is why the heroine of the story “Dark Alleys” says: “Everything passes, but not everything is forgotten.”

Wise nature arranged it in such a way that her children - birds, animals, insects - do not have intelligence, which means they cannot know that their lives are sometimes too short. This is probably what makes them happier than a person who knows that sooner or later death awaits him, and thinking about it plunges him into a pessimistic state. For the bumblebee from Bunin's poem, death is just a dream: without painfully waiting for death, he will simply fall asleep “in a dried tartar, on a red pillow”, therefore, his last days can be considered serene, that is, devoid of thoughts about what will happen after death.

Probably the lyrical hero states with some envy:

It is not given to you to know human thoughts,
That the fields have long been empty...

After all, a person just thinks, and often thinks about death. He was always worried about the question: how much has fate measured out for me? Some people jokingly try to find out this from the cuckoo, others go to fortune tellers or clairvoyants. The lyrical hero of this poem hides his emotions: his internal state can only be known by epithets - "mournfully humming" Yes "gloomy wind".

Overall, the poem does not produce the gloomy impression that may arise from discussions about death. Yes, the hero is endowed with knowledge of the end of his earthly existence, but this, rather, should help him choose a worthy path in life in order to leave a memory of himself for centuries. This is exactly the path that Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, a writer, poet and philosopher, chose for himself, during his long life he probably knew well its true value.

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Class: 6

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Mournfully humming with a melodious string,
And it’s like you’re pining for me?

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Fly, sound your horn - and in a dried-up Tatar,
On a red pillow, fall asleep.

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That the fields have long been empty,
That soon a gloomy wind will blow into the weeds
Golden dry bumblebee!

Lesson objectives:

1. Formation of skills in analyzing poetic text (observation of the work of formal elements).
2. Formation of speech competencies (oral statement, written analysis of a poem).
3. Development of expressive reading skills as the first stage of analysis.
4. Development of figurative, associative thinking (making a slide film).
5. Formation of an aesthetically developed reader.

Homework for the lesson:

• Prepare an expressive reading of the poem;
• Choose illustrations for the poem.

During the classes

1. If desired, one student expressively reads I.A. Bunin’s poem “The Last Bumblebee.”

- What mood is permeated by the poem?

Sad, thoughtful, calm.

- What is this poem about?

About the bumblebee, about nature, about the coming autumn.

It turns out that we have said everything about the poem in a few words. Somehow it is too simple and understandable. Or does he have secrets? Did you have any questions when you read the poem at home?

It’s strange, the poem seems to be sad, but at the end there is an exclamation point.

What is a Tatar?

In the last stanza, it’s as if a person is talking to a bumblebee, but a bumblebee cannot hear or understand a person.

Why does a man talk to a bumblebee?

What is the human thought that a person knows about, but a bumblebee does not?

So, the poem still has secrets. Let's try to solve them.

2. Place illustrations and photographs that you found at home on the board.

(Basically, these are photographs of a bumblebee, summer and autumn landscapes, an image of a lonely person. The teacher deliberately adds photographs of winter and spring landscapes).

- Are there any unnecessary illustrations on the board? Move them aside.

Landscapes of winter and spring are moved to the side.

- Why did you remove these particular landscapes?

Because the poem is not talking about winter and spring.

Let's imagine that we are making a film based on this poem. Arrange the illustrations so that they correspond to the poetic plot. Now we will work with the text of the poem, with what we read about in the lines.

Several very beautiful illustrative series appear.

3. Did our illustrations support ideas about the theme and mood of the poem?

Yes. This is a poem about nature, about a bumblebee, sad, especially towards the end. The illustrations become less vibrant.

Did you help us answer the questions?

No. We just found out what Tatara is (this is a prickly plant with a red fluffy flower).

4. We must look for answers to our questions in the poem itself, but not only in its lines, but also between them, i.e. we need to look subtext poems. It is the subtext that will help us understand what the poet I.A. Bunin was thinking about at the beginning of the 20th century and whether his thoughts are modern.

How is the poem structured?

What does the poem sound like? What is its rhythm, meter, rhyme?

Consider the composition: it has three parts, how does the mood of the poem change?

What artistic means does the author use to create images?

What can you say about the features of sentences, why exactly these punctuation marks are at the end of each?

Does the mood of the lyrical hero change?

5. Let's return to our questions, can we answer them now? Let's try!

- Why does a person talk to a bumblebee, because a bumblebee cannot hear and understand a person?

A man is lonely, a bumblebee flies into his open window and involuntarily becomes his interlocutor. A man of philosophy, he talks about the laws of existence: everyone is mortal (both bumblebees and humans) // in nature everything is reborn (new bumblebees and people will be born) - this is the law of existence, nature.

- What is the human thought that a person knows about, but a bumblebee does not?

Man knows this law that after autumn and winter spring comes, but the bumblebee does not.

- It’s strange, the poem seems to be sad, but at the end there is an exclamation point.

An exclamation point because hope for rebirth does not die, but bitterness can come from the fact that even the most beautiful things will die.

6. Has your opinion about the theme of the poem changed?

Yes, this is not just a description of a bumblebee, this is a philosophical reflection on the laws of life.

- How did you learn about the philosophical reflections of the lyrical hero? Is it only from the text?

- From text and subtext.

You are convinced that when reading and understanding a poem, it is necessary not only to see the words and lines, but also what is worth behind words and between lines. That's what it is subtext, i.e. something that the author does not say openly, and only an intelligent, thoughtful reader can read the subtext. I think that today you have become just such readers.

Is it interesting to discover the subtext of a poem, guess the deep thoughts of the author, talk to him, agree or argue?

Reading works of fiction is always a dialogue between the author and the reader!

What can you say about the poet I.A. Bunin?

This is a poet-philosopher.

Do you, people of the 21st century, agree with the thoughts of I. Bunin?

Yes, we need to accept these laws of life.

7. Try your illustrations again. Perhaps you can make some additions?

Yes. To the third stanza you can add pictures of winter and spring (these are illustrations of “human thought”, this subtext poems).

8. Homework: write a short reflection poem “The Butterfly Woke Up” or read A. Fet’s poem “The Butterfly”.

1. This lesson was taught in the 6th grade using a SMART board, on which illustrations brought by the students were displayed in advance.

The use of communication and information technologies allows:

• enhance the impact of the poetic text through visuals;
• develop imaginative thinking using modern methods;
• increases interest in working on the analysis of the poem;
• to form not only subject competencies, but also interdisciplinary ones (information, analytical, research)

2. The lesson was structured, on the one hand, as a traditional analysis of the poem, on the other hand, as a search for the secrets of the poem, an explanation of the “oddities of the poem,” which is dictated by the age characteristics of the students. The students were looking for the philosophical background of the poem, which they did not immediately grasp, but felt through the illustrations. The analysis of formal elements helped to reach the ideological and thematic level.

3. Lesson results:

• meeting with a new philosophical problem;
• acceptance and understanding of this problem;
• work with literary terminology;
• quickly learning a poem by heart (thanks to visual cues);
• writing your thoughts (essay);
• own creativity (poem about a butterfly);
• independent acquaintance with A. Fet’s poem “Butterfly”.

4. When asked about the exclamation mark at the end of the poem, sixth-graders generally tend to answer optimistically. Therefore, their poems came out with faith in beauty and life, which is very pleasing!

Examples of verses:

Here's a butterfly. She
Awoke.
From the hot sun
Woke up
And it's quiet in the snow
I perked up.
Flew up onto a flower and
Smiled:
Well, hello sunshine,
I'm back!
(Dasha S.)

Haiku
In the sakura flower
A sleeping butterfly.
How fragile she is...
(Sasha B.)

Composition

I.A. Bunin is the greatest lyricist of the 20th century. The main mood of his lyrics is elegance, contemplation, sadness as a habitual state of mind. The same mood is reflected in the poem “The Last Bumblebee.”

The genre of the poem gravitates towards philosophical lyrics. The poem reflects the feeling of the universality of life, its eternal cycle. Earthly life, the life of nature and man, is perceived by the poet as part of what is happening in the vastness of the universe.

The poem “The Last Bumblebee” depicts a moment in a person’s inner life, his experiences. A bumblebee that accidentally flies into the window evokes sad thoughts in the lyrical hero about the frailty of life.

The poem is simple in composition and consists of three stanzas: the first two are narrative in nature, and the last stanza is the culmination of the feelings and thoughts of the lyrical hero.

In the first stanza the poet asks:

Why are you flying into human habitation?

And it’s like you’re pining for me?

The lyrical hero is in a depressed state, the “black velvet bumblebee” causes him rejection, that’s why he, the bumblebee, hums with a “mourningly melodious string”, and all that he has that is noticeable is the “golden mantle”, but against the background of a mournful black velvet and it does not please.

In the second stanza, a contrast is created between the bright window sill and the withered Tatarka, in which the bumblebee will have to sleep. “The last days are serene and hot.” After all, they, just like the bumblebee, are unaware of their frailty:

Outside the window there is light and heat, the window sills are bright

The last days are serene and hot,

Fly, sound your horn - and in a dried-up Tatar,

Sleep on a red pillow.

The third stanza is the result of the painful thoughts of the lyrical hero:

It is not given to you to know human thoughts,

That the fields have long been empty,

That soon a gloomy wind will blow into the weeds

Golden dry bumblebee.

The bumblebee is not given to know that soon “the fields will be empty” and he will be “blown away into the weeds”, which is why he flies serenely, and man knows about his frailty, but only he is not given the opportunity to know the time of his departure.

I. A. Bunin showed his artistic perception of nature very subtly in his poetry, from which, in principle, he began his creative path. Here he showed the characteristic features of his poetic and literary talent. In his lyrical works there are gentle and subtle notes of harmony and optimism, where the laws of life of human nature are freely perceived. Bunin has absolutely no doubt that only in merging with nature can one feel the strong threads of contact with life and come to an understanding of God’s plan. Bunin's poem "The Last Bumblebee" is a clear example of this. Its title immediately sets up a wave of light sadness and melancholy, withering and the end, which, according to the systematic course of the poem’s plot, receive a smooth and melodious development.

Bunin: analysis of the poem “The Last Bumblebee”

This poem consists of three stanzas, each of which contains a separate compositional part. The first can be considered an introduction; it immediately makes clear the character’s train of thought and defines his complex psychological state.

Together with his hero, Bunin also feels these fading colors of the soul. An analysis of the poem “The Last Bumblebee” suggests that the bumblebee becomes an assistant and guide to the hero’s melancholic state. The insect has become a kind of symbol of care, melancholy and death. Why such sadness and sorrow? This secret will be revealed a little later, at the very end of the work. In the meantime, there is a call to the imaginary interlocutor to rejoice and enjoy the magnificent, serene and hot, but last, summer days. And, in the end, having caught all these rosy moments, he will have to fall asleep forever. As quickly as time flies for this insect, so does a person’s life - one moment, and he will already be, like that bumblebee, lulled to sleep by nature.

The second quatrain is filled with bright life tones and colors, but they sharply contrast with the theme of rapid fading, which makes the human soul scared and lonely, and all the more painful at the thought of unexpected and inevitable death.

Inevitable sadness

And finally, the third stanza puts everything in its place, or, more precisely, brings the topic to its logical conclusion. Where does this sadness and sadness come from? Because sooner or later a person comes to understand that life is fleeting, and therefore he begins to be overcome by thoughts about its frailty and fleetingness. After all, very soon the summer warmth and joy will be replaced by the piercing and cold wind of autumn, and the bumblebee, as an integral part of a joyful and happy time, will be killed by the ruthless forces of the harsh laws of nature.

Here Bunin surpasses himself. An analysis of the poem “The Last Bumblebee” says that the author seems to feel sorry for his lyrical hero. The bumblebee will soon disappear, and from the deep understanding of this comes great pain and regret. This is how life, without having time to begin, can sometimes disappear in its prime, since death will come at the most unexpected moment.

Metaphorical image of a bumblebee

Ivan Bunin created “The Last Bumblebee” based on metaphorical artistic expression. Without the attractive image of the bumblebee, it would not be so beautiful and sincere; for the author, he is a mute interlocutor to whom the writer asks rhetorical questions.

Phonetic means of expression are used very accurately - with the help of whistling and hissing sounds, the writer conveys the behavior of a bumblebee - “a mournful hum”, as well as the autumn “gloomy wind”.

This verse is very poignant and alarming, suggesting philosophical thoughts. This is most likely what Bunin was counting on. An analysis of the poem “The Last Bumblebee” suggests that it was created on the model of philosophical lyrics, which touches on the eternal issues of the transience of life and the inevitability of death, and in the period of youth you need to have time to enjoy every moment of earthly existence.

"The Last Bumblebee Bunin." History of creation

Bunin began writing poetry at the age of seven. When the writer created at that time he was 46 years old, he already knew what to tell his reader about, especially since he was a true master of a beautiful style. A very important thing should be noted here: Bunin was twice awarded the literary Pushkin Prize (in 1903 and 1909), and he was an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg in the class of fine literature. And, most importantly, Bunin became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1933.

Incredibly, Bunin’s poem “The Last Bumblebee” was written on June 26, 1916. This was literally a year before the October Revolution, he seemed to have a presentiment, but did not suspect that very soon Russia would practically perish for Bunin, precisely in the form in which he passionately loved it, and would find itself in the chaos of destruction, godlessness and fratricidal war . This is probably why at the subconscious level he was depressed and depressed. Even then he stopped having illusions about a cloudless future.