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Since ancient times in Rus', poets were revered as prophets because of their inexplicable ability to foresee the future. Often they were credited with something they did not do, something they were far from, something they didn’t think about. And although in ordinary life poets often found themselves in absurd, strange or curious situations, their life and work were shrouded in some mystical secrets, guesses and conjectures.

Poets left for another world along with their truth of life, leaving behind immortal works - poems. Descendants tried to analyze them from the point of view of history, politics, economics, personal life and the views of poets. Links were made to friends, directions of literary thought, manner of presentation, degree of disclosure of artistic images...

Each generation reacted to the fruits of creative thought in its own way, but...
Truly talented works did not leave anyone indifferent. Because the value of a poem lies not in iambs and trochees, not in stylistic figures, not in poetic phonetics, but in the impression left after reading and the result - the desire to create. As I. Severyanin says:

My poems are a hazy dream.
It leaves an impression.
Even if it is unclear to me,
It awakens inspiration...

This is the poem “The Sixth Sense” by Sergei Gumilyov that leaves an impression. Written in 1920, it was first published a year later in the collection “Pillar of Fire” - in the last, thirty-fifth year of Gumilyov’s life.

The first stanza (verse) of the poem talks about the benefits of ordinary earthly life - food, drink, pleasure. About the fact that all this is wonderful, necessary, good and familiar...

But the second stanza paints a completely different, more beautiful picture - “ pink dawn, cooling skies, silence and unearthly peace, immortal poems" Inaccessible, intangible, majestic beauty! Impressed, Gumilyov asks twice: what should we do with this beauty?

After all, you cannot eat it (third stanza) like food, drink it like wine, hug it or kiss it like a loved one. She is close and far at the same time. She is instant. And the man, wringing his hands from the powerlessness to stop the moment, is forced to pass by. Forced by whom or what? Vanity, your desires, external circumstances. It’s as if the inexorable judges have passed a sentence: “ ...again condemned to go on and on and on».

The fourth and fifth stanzas are beautifully depicted artistically, subtle, vivid comparison images. Gumilyov compares the longing for the beautiful and distant with a yearning desire: a mysterious desire that a boy suffers from while watching the girls bathe.

His thoughts are pure, he has not known carnal love. The boy simply looks at beauty (natural, natural) and contemplation of it gives rise to something new in him, covered in a canopy of mystery. Or an ambiguous comparison: a slippery creature that sensed on the shoulders “ wings that have not yet appeared", roaring from powerlessness... Because she is vile and despised by everyone, she could fly - from the dream that touched her.

Epilogue of reflections - sixth stanza. Gumilyov asks the Lord: “ ...soon"? What soon? Will the torment that continues from century to century cease? Or " under the scalpel of nature and art"the same thing will be born" sixth Sense”, which will help you capture and feel instant beauty? Question and answer. And in both guises - Nikolai Gumilyov.

From a good tree the fruit is good. Nikolai Sergeevich Gumilev left behind worthy fruits. A traveler and scientist, he felt with his skin the hot air of Africa, the smell of danger and death. The creator of the new - he created an entire literary movement - Acmeism. A leader, young people followed him. A literary critic, he was able to re-evaluate what was previously published. Translator - Gumilyov spoke several languages.

Defender of the Fatherland - he took part in the First World War. But, despite numerous exploits and merits, Nikolai Gumilev for current and future generations forever remained a knight and an eternal romantic - an extraordinary poet of the Silver Age.

The wine we love is wonderful
And the good bread that goes into the oven for us,
And the woman to whom it was given,
First, after being exhausted, we can enjoy.

But what should we do with the pink dawn?
Above the cooling skies
Where is the silence and unearthly peace,
What should we do with immortal poems?

Neither eat, nor drink, nor kiss.
The moment flies uncontrollably
And we wring our hands, but again
Condemned to go by and by.

Like a boy, forgetting his games,
Sometimes he watches the girls' bathing
And, knowing nothing about love,
Still tormented by a mysterious desire;

As once in the overgrown horsetails
Roared from the consciousness of powerlessness
The creature is slippery, sensing on the shoulders
Wings that have not yet appeared;

So century after century - how soon, Lord? —
Under the scalpel of nature and art
Our spirit screams, our flesh faints,
Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.

Analysis of the poem “The Sixth Sense” by Gumilyov

Nikolai Gumilyov is a great Russian poet of the Silver Age who began writing poetry from an early age. Having reached adulthood, the poet managed to publish his first book of poems.

The talented poet had a unique gift of foresight. In one of his works, he managed to very accurately describe his death and the killer. Nikolai did not know the specific day, but felt that it would happen soon.

Gumilyov dedicated the famous poem “The Sixth Sense” to his gift. The poet wrote it in 1920. The work does not contain any mysterious prophecies. In it, the author tries to understand for himself what the sixth sense is.

In the work, the poet examines different aspects of human life, while emphasizing that, first of all, people strive to acquire material goods that can be spent on other joys of life.

The situation with spiritual values ​​is much more complicated, because nothing can be done with them. In his poem, Gumilev comes to the idea that being able to enjoy and be content with beauty is a great skill that contributes to the development of the five main senses. But it also gives the gift of foresight.

Gumilyov compares his gift to the wings of an angel, as he is sure that he has divine origin. The purer and brighter a person’s soul, the easier it is for him to discern what fate is hiding. The poet also notes that this gift can also appear in a person who does not have high moral qualities.

The author believes that the process of acquiring a gift takes a long time, and it is also painful. In the work, the process is compared to an operation through which a person begins to see the future. But for the author this gift is very burdensome, because of it the soul and body suffer.

According to the recollections of relatives and friends, the poet suffered greatly from the gift of foresight. Knowing about the events that would happen, Nikolai could not influence them. In addition, it is known about his tragic love for Anna Akhmatova. The poet considered his beloved to be a product of dark forces. He called his wife a witch. Because of this, he tried to commit suicide so that it would all stop. The poet knew that he could not live without the woman he loved, but at the same time he was sure that if she became his wife, his life would be terrible.

Gumilev knew and wanted his death, as he was sure that he would not live long. It was his sixth sense that told him this. He was shot for love a year after writing the poem.

The wine we love is wonderful
And the good bread that sits in the oven for us,
And the woman to whom it was given,

But what should we do with the pink dawn?
Above the cooling skies
Where is the silence and unearthly peace,
What should we do with immortal poems?
Neither eat, nor drink, nor kiss -
The moment flies uncontrollably
And we wring our hands, but again
Everyone is condemned to go by, by.
Like a boy, forgetting his games,
Sometimes he watches the girls' bathing,
And knowing nothing about love,
Still tormented by a mysterious desire,
As once in the overgrown horsetails
Roared from the consciousness of powerlessness
The creature is slippery, sensing on the shoulders
Wings that have not yet appeared,
So century after century - how soon, Lord? -
Under the scalpel of nature and art
Our spirit screams, our flesh faints,
Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.

He died at the age of 35. As he predicted, “not on the bed, in front of a notary and a doctor.” He was shot. For failure to report a conspiracy. Could he, a fearless, courageous man who went through the war and was awarded two Crosses of St. George, rush to betray his comrades and please the new government? Funny. It’s funny, “if only it weren’t so sad.” 1921 - the year of death of A. Blok and N. Gumilyov - can be considered the end of the “Silver Age”. It was replaced by the “Iron Age”, where there was no place for honest poetry, courageous poems glorifying romantic devotion to the ideal, loyalty to duty, officer’s honor, and woman.

For sixty years, Gumilyov’s name was under the strictest ban. For six decades his poems waited in the wings. And now they are open to everyone. What's in them? The poet's political manifesto? Curses against the Bolsheviks? Hatred of the new government, as in the poems of Z. Gippius, in the diaries of I. Bunin, in the articles of M. Gorky in “New Life”?

Not at all. Gumilyov was an apolitical person. We will not find in his poetry a denial of the revolution, a protest against the violence and cruelty of the Bolsheviks. But his poems are heroic in essence, this is the poetry of the ideal “without breaking oneself to changing political slogans.” His poems are a hymn to a courageous man who worships beauty. It was not for nothing that he headed the Workshop of Poets, whose motto was “Acme”, that is, perfection, peak, flourishing. On the Acmeist shield it was inscribed: “clarity, simplicity, affirmation of the reality of life.” Gumilyov himself emphasized in the poetry of the Acmeists a “courageously firm and clear view of life.”

N. Gumilyov’s close friend G. Ivanov paints the poet’s appearance with the following strokes: “By nature, a timid, quiet, sickly, bookish person, he ordered himself to be a lion hunter, a soldier, awarded two St. Georges..., and the same as with his life, he did on his poetry. A dreamy, sad lyricist, he broke his lyricism, tore off his not particularly strong, but unusually clear voice, wanting to return poetry to its former greatness and influence on souls - to be a ringing dagger, to burn the hearts of people.”

This poem, written by the poet a year before his death, was published in 1921, in the last year of Gumilyov’s life. The poem is included in the last lifetime collection of poems, “Pillar of Fire.” This collection is qualitatively new compared to the poet’s first volumes. Here the voice sounds not of a young man dreaming of distant countries from the Nile to the Neva, but the voice of a mature poet and man.

“In the poems of “The Pillar of Fire” we see a new, “peak” Gumilyov, whose refined poetic art as the leader of Acmeism was enriched by the simplicity of high wisdom, pure colors, and the masterful use of intricately intertwined prosaic, everyday and fantastic details to create a multidimensional... artistic image.” The lyrical hero of “The Pillar of Fire” is busy with eternal problems - the search for the meaning of life and happiness, the contradictions of the ideal and the real, the doubts of a person who already knows what life is. The reader follows the hero in search of happiness, rejoices and grieves with him. The poems in this collection have acquired deep metaphor and precision, a clear and precise sound, and the wisdom of life experience. “It is difficult to call the mood of this book optimistic, although pure and bright feelings arising from contact with love, beauty and harmony permeate the entire fabric of the collection,” wrote A. Mandelstam in the book “Silver Age: Russian Fates.”

In one of his first poems, “Credo,” Gumilyov said prophetic words about himself:

Always alive, always powerful,
In love with the charms of beauty...

The poet carried this love throughout his entire life, short but filled with trials. And in the last verses, he does not renounce his credo, life and poetry, but openly proclaims a hymn to beauty, the “sixth sense”, which is not given to a person at his birth, but can be born in him in pain.

The poem “The Sixth Sense” begins slowly. The poet speaks about the joys of life, quite earthly, real:

The wine we love is wonderful,
And the good bread that goes into the oven for us,
And the woman to whom it was given,
First, after being exhausted, we can enjoy.

Well, it’s human nature to eat, drink, and indulge in love. This is the essence of life. And the poet speaks about this without irony. Human senses: sight, touch, sensation, taste, smell - are satisfied by everyday joys. But is this really all that a person needs?

The second stanza of the poem is the questions tormenting the lyrical hero, these are his thoughts out loud. This is not a doubt about the “usefulness” of bread, wine, love pleasures, but a doubt that this is all a person needs. An unconscious dispute arises with people of Bazarov’s persuasion, who approve only of what is useful. But how then should we relate to life phenomena that “neither eat, nor drink, nor kiss”? Why do people need them? How do they please his five very earthly senses? Is admiring the “rosy dawn over the cooling skies” useful? What is the use of “immortal verses”?

The unique moments of life “flee uncontrollably.” The author of the poem himself is filled with melancholy about the impossibility of delaying and prolonging the passing moments of beauty: “And we wring our hands, but again we are condemned to go on and on.” How poignant is this repetition of the words: “past, past”!

But many people live without seeing the stars above their heads, without experiencing the shock of rhyming lines, they cannot be excited by admiring nature. They will never exclaim: “Stop, just a moment: you are wonderful!” What is this? Simplicity or underdevelopment of feelings? Perhaps these people are deprived of the organ with which you perceive beauty? Or maybe they are endowed with this “sixth sense”, but did not allow it to manifest themselves? Most likely, there is an embryo of a sense of beauty in every person. After all, the boy was shocked, feeling the previously unknown delight of admiring the beautiful. He, “knowing nothing about love, is still tormented by a mysterious desire.”

Even the “slippery creature” can develop wings.

But the development of the “sixth sense” is associated with pain: this “creature” “roared from the consciousness of powerlessness...”, not realizing (if this word can be attributed to amphibians) that, “born to crawl,” it gets the opportunity to fly.

The lofty and beautiful gives rise to pain in the human soul. Dostoevsky's statement that the path to happiness lies through suffering comes to mind. Many people consciously or unconsciously protect themselves from suffering, from experiences to which a sensitive person is doomed. These people are depriving themselves of their wings. But human nature takes revenge for betrayal.

How can one not recall I. Drach’s ballad about the wings that grow “uncle Kiril” against his will. (In class, if there is a lively conversation about Gumilyov’s poem, you can read “The Ballad of Wings” to the students, give them the opportunity to think about the common ideas of the two works, about the distinctive artistic properties of Gumilyov’s poem and Drach’s ballad. Written work of a comparative nature is possible).

The ending of N. Gumilyov's poem is truly high. He feels confident that everyone will be endowed with an “organ for the sixth sense.” It takes time (“century after century”), the work of spirit and flesh, and the intervention of “nature and art.” The poet hurries this moment, calls for it, turns to the Lord with a request for the approach of this hour (“Is it soon, Lord?”).

The poem is sparingly endowed with artistic decorations in the form of tropes and stylistic figures. There are capacious epithets (pink dawn, cold skies, immortal poems, slippery creature, mysterious desire, etc.), there are precise, detailed comparisons (the content of the fourth and fifth stanzas). The metaphorical nature of the concept of the “sixth sense” expands the limits of understanding this phenomenon to immense extent. What is this: a feeling of beauty, a feeling of the lofty, ideal, unreal, irrational? Each reader, hopefully, will give his own answer.

The poem contains rhetorical questions that, without requiring an answer, still make you think about true human values.

But these few artistic means are always appropriate, laconic, and precise. The poem is courageous in the sense that it was written by a real man who, without unnecessary words or floridity, speaks about the main thing, about what worries him. The author addresses the reader with the most intimate, hoping that he will share his feelings with him. The poet had been looking for such a reader all his life. He spoke of a reader-friend who “experiences a creative moment in all its sharpness... For him, a poem is dear in all its material charm... A beautiful poem enters his consciousness as an immutable fact, changes him, determines his feelings and actions. Only under the condition of its existence does poetry fulfill its global significance of ennobling human nature. There is such a reader...” Gumilyov believed in this. And we will believe that readers of N. Gumilev’s poems are ennobled by his poetry and that their sixth sense when reading Gumilev’s lines will receive high aesthetic pleasure. The poem “The Sixth Sense” burns. It is beautiful and sublime. The lines excite and call, insist and convince, foreshadow and expect.

The poem really has a great resonance in the hearts of high school students. I was convinced of this in lessons devoted to Gumilyov’s poetry. The poem may be difficult for students to understand the first time, but as you gradually delve deeper with your students into the meaning of the poetic lines of “The Sixth Sense,” you see how it bewitches the hearts of young readers. Perhaps they sometimes cannot define this feeling, but their vague guesses somehow turn into insight.

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Gumilyov has many wonderful poems, but the best, in my opinion, is “The Sixth Sense.”
The sixth sense is the sense of beauty. Man perceives the world around him with the help of the five senses given to him by the creator. When the poet talks about a special organ for perceiving beauty, then this is an artistic image of enormous impressive power, reinforcing and, as it were, materializing the main idea of ​​the poem.
The wine we love is wonderful
And the good bread that goes into the oven for us,
And the woman to whom it was given,
At first, exhausted,
us to enjoy.
But what should we do with the pink dawn?
Above the cooling skies
Where is the silence and unearthly peace,
What should we do with immortal poems?
Neither eat, nor drink, nor kiss -
The moment flies uncontrollably
And we wring our hands, but again
Everyone is condemned to go by, by.
Like a boy, forgetting his games,
The poet watches the girls' bathing
And, knowing nothing about love,
Still tormented by a mysterious desire;
As once in the overgrown horsetails
Roared from the consciousness of powerlessness
The creature is slippery, sensing on the shoulders
Wings that have not yet appeared,
So century after century - how soon, Lord?
Under the scalpel of nature and art
Our spirit screams, our flesh faints,
Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.
In our age of declining spirituality, in the age of the pursuit of material things, this brilliant poem helps a person maintain and strengthen his craving for the beauty of nature and the creations of the human mind and heart.
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One of the best poems by N.S. Gumilyov - “The Sixth Sense”. In order to understand what the author wanted to bring into the reader’s world, an analysis of Gumilyov’s poem should be done. “The Sixth Sense” was written in the year of the poet’s death. This is his last poem, which is included in the collection “Pillar of Fire”. The collection itself is significantly different from his previous works - these are not poems by a young boy with his head in the clouds, but works written by a mature man.

Gumilyov showed that the main idea of ​​the “Sixth Sense” is the desire to feel the beautiful. Nowadays people are losing spirituality, and this poem is directly imbued with it. It calls to feel the beauty, the splendor that surrounds us. After reading the poem, you can acutely feel the craving for the grace and charm of nature. This is the sixth sense he writes about

An analysis of Gumilyov’s poem “The Sixth Sense” reveals two main themes of the work: the poet’s dream of the supremacy of beauty and philosophical views on humanity as a whole. Gumilev values ​​life and thanks it for every moment lived and the opportunity to enjoy natural desires. This is well expressed at the beginning of the poem. It begins slowly, unhurriedly - the earthly joys of people are described (first stanza).

It shows the basic feelings, sources of pleasant emotions - eating, drinking, indulging in love (“wine”, “bread”, “woman”). And in the second stanza the author seems to ask questions: “Is this really all that a person needs? Are only base, innate desires really what everyone needs?” He does not despise the “basic” needs of people, but he doubts that only this is enough for a person.

Analysis of Gumilyov's poem forces us to think about how to relate to the fact that we cannot “Neither eat, nor drink, nor kiss”? Why do we need “rosy dawn” and “cold skies” if we have no desire to understand this beauty? Why “immortal poems” that we cannot appreciate with our base feelings?

Our life rushes by (“The moment runs uncontrollably”), and we try to hold on to the moment and enjoy the beauty, but we cannot (“we wring our hands” and “are condemned to pass by”).

An analysis of Gumilyov's poem shows that a new feeling can open up in the reader, like a boy who has forgotten about his games.

...And, knowing nothing about love,

Still tormented by a mysterious desire...

He feels delighted with what he sees, and a “sense of beauty” awakens in him. And in stanza 5, the author also points out that it can be painfully difficult to awaken within oneself.

And the last stanza indicates that everything high and amazing is accompanied by pain, as if a person must earn the ability to feel the splendor of nature.

A poem that gives birth to something new in us, making our souls tremble, is Gumilyov’s “The Sixth Sense.” An analysis of this work showed that the author calls on readers to awaken this feeling in themselves and succumb to it. It is filled with rhetorical questions that torment the author’s soul, but make us think about what is given to us by nature and what we can still get. This poem can also be considered prophetic. If you look at his second stanza, you can assume that Nikolai Stepanovich prophesied his own death.

Perhaps the author meant that “pink skies” are his poetic inspiration, and “cold skies” are the decline of his work. The last lines of the work can also be interpreted as a description of death, but this cannot be known for sure.

Shortly after writing The Sixth Sense, Gumilyov was killed.