Konstantin Balmont short biography presentation. Presentation for a literature lesson on creativity K
Description of the presentation by individual slides:
1 slide
Slide description:
The life and work of Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont (1867-1942) Performed by Lidiya Ivanovna Zaitseva, GBOU secondary school in the village of Alekseevka, Samara region
2 slide
Slide description:
Senior Symbolists The poet Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont belongs to the representatives of the older generation of Russian symbolism. Bryusov Merezhkovsky Gippius Sologub
3 slide
Slide description:
Family Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont was born in 1867 in the village of Gumnishchi, Shuisky district, Vladimir province. He spent his childhood in the log manor of his father, a poor nobleman. In the poet's memory he remained quiet and kind person, who passionately loved nature and hunting. The poet's mother came from the family of a general. Active, educated, she was known in Shuya for treating peasants, participating in amateur performances and concerts, and publishing in the local newspaper.
4 slide
Slide description:
Education Since the fall of 1886, Balmont has been a student at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University. But he did not finish university: at next year, in the fall, a violent movement began at the university, students protested against the introduction of a reactionary university charter, and Balmont, as a person involved in the riots, was arrested, put in Butyrka prison for several days, and then deported to Shuya without trial. Balmont was nervously tired and could no longer study at the university.
5 slide
Slide description:
First poems In 1890, Balmont's first book of poems was published in Yaroslavl. The book was imitative; it only caused ridicule from his comrades. Like young Nekrasov once did, Balmont bought up and destroyed its circulation. He now found himself in a difficult position, at a crossroads in life. Marriage to the hysterical and eccentric daughter of a Shuya manufacturer, with whom Balmont fell in love, quarreled him with his mother and deprived him of any cash from my parents' house. The marriage did not justify itself in any way. His wife tormented him with her jealousy and taught him to drink wine. He no longer knew what awaited him in the future. In March 1890, the mentally tormented Balmont, after reading Tolstoy’s “Kreutzer Sonata,” decided to commit suicide. From the window of one of the Moscow houses where rooms were rented out and where he lived then, Balmont jumped from the third floor onto a cobblestone courtyard. He did not fall to death, but remained bedridden for a year. The fractures caused a slight limp that remained permanently.
6 slide
Slide description:
“Under the Northern Sky” Need did not retreat from Balmont, but he endured it steadfastly. He said that for months “I didn’t know what it was to be full, and I went to bakeries to admire the rolls and bread through the glass.” He began translating scientific and fiction books, published his poems in the press for the first time, and gave public lectures. In 1884, a collection of Balmont’s poems “Under the Northern Sky” was published, with which the chronicle of his poetic creativity begins.
7 slide
Slide description:
Moonlight When the Moon sparkles in the darkness of the night With its sickle, brilliant and tender, My soul strives for another world, Captivated by everything distant, everything boundless. To the forests, to the mountains, to the snow-white peaks I rush in dreams, as if the spirit is sick, I am awake over the serene world, And I cry sweetly, and I breathe - The moon I drink in this pale radiance, Like an elf, I swing in a net of rays, I listen, as silence speaks. The suffering of my dear people is far away, The whole earth with its struggle is alien to me, I am a cloud, I am the breath of the breeze.
8 slide
Slide description:
Friendship with Bryusov Valery Bryusov valued his friendship with Balmont very much. “The evenings and nights I spent with Balmont,” Bryusov wrote in 1912, “when we endlessly read our poems to each other and read each other poems by our favorite poets: he told me Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, I told him Verlaine , Tyutchev, - these evenings and nights when we talked with him de omni re scibili (About everything that can be known (lat.).), - will forever remain among the most significant events of my life. I was alone before meeting him. Balmont and became different after meeting him."
Slide 9
Slide description:
“Let's be like the Sun” Balmont’s early poems are dominated by moods of sadness, hopelessness and despondency. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tone of Balmont's poetry changed dramatically. The poems are filled with ecstatic joy and light. One of the collections is called “Let’s be like the Sun”
10 slide
Slide description:
I came into this world to see the Sun and the blue horizon. I came to this world to see the Sun and the heights of the mountains. I came to this world to see the Sea and the lush color of the valleys. I have concluded the worlds in a single gaze, I am the ruler.
11 slide
Slide description:
I defeated cold oblivion, Having created my dream. Every moment I am filled with revelation, I always sing. My dream was awakened by suffering, But I am loved for that. Who is equal to me in my singing power? Nobody, nobody. I came into this world to see the Sun, And if the day goes out, I will sing... I will sing about the Sun In the dying hour!
12 slide
Slide description:
Impressionism Balmont worshiped the moment, the instant, believing that the moment is always unique, unrepeatable, that the moment reveals the truth, makes it possible to see the distant distance. The poet himself is, as it were, inscribed in this moment: it will pass, and in the next moment he feels different and different. In poetry he said: I do not know wisdom suitable for others, I only put fleeting things into verse. In every fleeting moment I see worlds, Full of changing rainbow play.
Slide 13
Slide description:
Musicality Readers were struck by the musicality of his poems. They had sonority, melodiousness, and generous sound signature. Balmont seemed to re-show the reader the beauty and intrinsic value of the word, captivating the reader with smooth repetitions in which the melody flowed: I caught the passing shadows with a dream. The fading shadows of the fading day, I climbed the tower, and the steps trembled, And the steps trembled under my feet.
Slide 14
Slide description:
Master of alliteration Balmont - master of alliteration “Reeds” At midnight in the wilderness of the swamp, the reeds rustle barely audibly, silently.
15 slide
Slide description:
Slava Slava Balmont was noisy. Even Chekhov sent him letters, admitting that he reads every new book by the poet with pleasure and excitement. “Hundreds of studies were written about Balmont, his books were republished every year, it was impossible to get a ticket to his lecture,” says I. Ehrenburg. “As soon as the poet appeared in the theater or on the street, he was surrounded by frantic fans.” Balmont appeared on the stage pale, green-eyed, proudly throwing back his head with red hair, curls falling over his shoulders, with an orchid flower in the buttonhole of his tailcoat. “I will wait for you painfully, I will always wait for you, You beckon sweetly and exclusively, You promise forever,” Balmont threw into the audience, and she was spellbound and at the same time a little shocked by such stanzas.
16 slide
Dmitry Konstantinovich BalmontThe poet's father served
in Shuisky district
court and zemstvo:
collegiate first
registrar,
then a justice of the peace,
finally
chairman of the district
th zemstvo council.
Vera Nikolaevna Lebedeva
Mother VeraNikolaevna,
nee
Lebedeva,
came from
general's family,
in which they loved
literature and
were doing it
professionally. In 1876-1884. the poet studied in classical
gymnasium in Shuya and was expelled for
belonging to the "revolutionary"
mug.
Parents' connections helped finish
gymnasium course in Vladimir (1886), and
then go to law school
Moscow University, where Balmont is from
was expelled again and sent under secret
police supervision over participation in student activities
unrest.
In 1888 he entered the university again, but at
This time he quits classes on his own.
1889 tries to continue his education in
Demidov Legal Lyceum
Yaroslavl, but again refuses this
ideas, as everything is increasingly determined in
his literary vocation. In 1890 he tries to commit suicide
suicide by jumping out of
window, followed by a long
treatment. But this leads to
an insight that radically changed
Balmont's worldview. According to him
words, he learned great
the fairy tale of life, I understood its sacred
inviolability. And when,
finally stood up, his soul became
free as the wind in the field, no one else
had no power over her except
creative dreams, and creativity
blossomed wildly. 1890 The first one is published in Yaroslavl
Balmont's book - "Collection
poems".
His first works, included in
book, were published back in 1885.
in the magazine "Picturesque Review" and
met thanks to populist
sentiments, sympathetic
attitude of V. G. Korolenko.
Since the mid-1890s. it all begins
more increasing, wider and
Balmont's noisy popularity. This
associated with the highest flowering of it
artistic talent and
a peculiar situation that
Balmont ranks in Russian
symbolism. Fame comes to the poet
after release in 1894
collection "Under the Northern
sky" and several
subsequent ones, especially books
poems "Let's be like the sun" and
"Only Love" (1903),
strengthened the poet's fame
one of the leading masters
symbolism. Between 1905 and 1913 Balmont is located behind
abroad for political reasons: lives in Paris,
travels a lot.
In May 1913, the poet returned to Russia.
February Revolution of 1917 Balmont
welcomed, the Bolshevik coup was denied as
an act of violence and suppression of the individual.
In June 1920, Balmont went abroad and
settled in Paris with emigrant status
In France, where the poet lived most of the time
the rest of his life, he initially actively cooperates in
newspaper "Paris News", magazine "Modern
notes" and others periodicals, regularly
publishes (in different countries) books of poems: “Gift to the Earth”,
"Bright Hour" (both 1921), "Haze", "Song of a Worker
hammer" (both 1922), "Mine is hers. Poems about Russia" (1923), "In
widening distance" (1929), "Northern Lights" (1933),
"Blue Horseshoe", "Light Service" (both 1937)
In 1930 he published a translation of “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign.” Despite the fact that in Balmont’s work of the 1920-1930s there are
In 1930 he published a translation of “The Lay ofIgor's regiment." Despite the fact that in
Balmont's work of 1920-1930
there are negative assessments
revolutionary events, he is very
yearns for his homeland and remaining in
Russia's daughter (the collection is dedicated to her
1905 "Fairy Tales"). Recent years he practically
didn't write. Died in Noisy-le-Grand, near
Paris.
Analysis of the poem “Verblessness”
There is tiredness in Russian naturetenderness,
The silent pain of hidden sadness,
Into the cool wilderness of the village
garden, -
Hopelessness of grief, voicelessness,
vastness,
The trees are so gloomy and strangely silent,
Cold heights, receding distances.
And the heart is so sad, and the heart is not
glad.
Come to the slope at dawn
slope, -
And my heart hurts so much, and my heart doesn't
glad.
Motionless reed. Doesn't tremble
sedge.
The meadows run far, far away.
First quatrain. “There is in Russian nature...” - We are talking, first of all, about the nature of the soul of the Russian person, his essence,
First quatrain. “There is in Russian nature...”- We are talking, first of all, about the nature of the Russian soul
man, his essence, leaven. The poet shows it on
example of the tangible nature of plants, where
There live a people with a “mysterious” soul.
What is inherent in a Russian person? Tired
tenderness (sensitivity, openness, frankness,
who was wounded, tortured and tired), Silent
pain of hidden sadness (deeply hidden sadness
due to oppressive suffering, but silent,
patient pain), hopelessness of grief, voicelessness,
vastness (sorrow that never ends,
at the same time, none of the grieving people talk about him, but
vastness of the soul - Christian
patience), Cold heights, receding distances (height
a soul so strong that it lifts you off the ground,
cold and distant).
Second quatrain. An appeal to someone who will understand - a Russian person. Come at dawn to the slope of the slope, - Above the chilly river
Second quatrain. Appeal to someone whowill understand - a Russian person.
Come at dawn to the slope of the slope, -
Coolness smokes over the chilly river,
The bulk of the frozen forest turns black,
And my heart hurts so much, and my heart is not happy.
Arriving at dawn on the slope of the slope, you see
that over the cold river, as if from a fire (which is on
actually burning, hot - a contradictory image,
inherent in the nature of the “mysterious people”),
the coolness is steaming.
Nearby is a mass (the image of an enemy, a powerful enemy
from fairy tales) hidden dark forest. From
seeing a familiar picture makes your heart very
it hurts, my heart is not happy with what I saw.
Third quatrain. The turning point in the body of the verse. In all phrases-bones and phrases-muscles there is a negation of the good,
Third quatrain. The turning point in the body of the verse. In allin phrases-bones and phrases-muscles there is a negation of the good,
impossibility of action (complete inaction - wordlessness):
Motionless reed. The sedge does not tremble.
Deep silence. The wordlessness of peace.
The meadows run far, far away.
There is exhaustion throughout - dull, dumb.
The reeds are motionless, the sedge does not tremble (is it alive???),
if there is silence, then it is not just silence, but deep, super-silence. Verbless peace is inactive, there is no action,
application of force... no physics... just pure metaphysics!
If the meadows are here, then they will definitely run far, far away:
the vastness of the Russian plains, where I once hesitated to go
Napoleon pointlessly forward, not understanding the Russians, where he came across
them, like stumps and weeds, Hitler, stuck as in a swamp, in mysterious
Russian souls who, without sparing their bodies (their belly), are naked
they defeat iron weapons with their hands...
“In everything there is fatigue - deaf, dumb.” This fatigue is all
tired - everyone who lives here and who comes here. Fabulous
a place enchanted, alienated, magical. Deaf, dumb - neither
hear, nor say. Nobody hears, nobody speaks. But that's it
endure.
Fourth quatrain. That was the “dawn”, now the “sunset” begins, no different from the dawn (again
Fourth quatrain. That was the "dawn", now“sunset” begins, no different from
dawn (again a paradox, a mystery).
Enter at sunset, like into fresh waves,
Into the cool wilderness of a village garden, -
The trees are so gloomy, strangely silent,
And the heart is so sad, and the heart is not happy.
You go at sunset (evening) again into the “cool”
wilderness (in the very forest) of a village garden - but as in
fresh waves... swim, friend, swim. Image of trees
“cuts” with the three-word epithet “darkly-strangely silent”: silence in the shadows, in a strange twilight.
Souls are frozen - for some reason they do not speak, dying in
beginning of the night. And again, repeat, as in the second
quatrain: “And the heart is so sad, and the heart is not
glad” - only “pain” has already been replaced with “sadness”. Pain
dawn turns into sunset sadness, feeling
dissolves in the darkness, becomes barely visible,
weakens...
Fifth quatrain. All these mysteries of Russian nature, the Russian soul are “explained” like this: As if the soul was asking for what it wanted, And
Fifth quatrain. All these Russian mysteriesnature, the Russian soul are “explained” like this:
As if the soul was asking for what it wanted,
And they hurt her undeservedly.
And my heart asked, but my heart ached,
And he cries, and cries, and cries involuntarily.
The almost request begins with the fabulous word “how
as if "... the soul asked for what it wanted: oh
the highest purity, beauty, love. However
earthly realities hurt her undeservedly
(“humiliated and insulted”)… soul and
asked from the heart: from the heart,
being the connection between the soul and the earthly world,
but my heart just ached... it also hurts...
“And he cries, and cries, and cries involuntarily” - cries,
because it is in captivity, in the earthly shackles of evil.
You can now think and conclude that the poem sounds absolute hopelessness. But that's not true. Despite the complete
One can now think and conclude that inThe poem sounds absolute hopelessness. But
this is wrong. Despite the full property,
inaction, wordlessness, we now know that
there is a certain dream that is somewhere there, in the heights
complete purity, inaccessible, if you look
from the dawn slope or sunset
village garden (and they only exist in Russia!)
There is a dream, there is, and that means there is a place where
we are not there, but we can be there. Russian
the soul is mysterious precisely because it has a connection
with a metaphysical place, but here on Earth,
languishing in anticipation of the meeting. Here we go
motionless, wordless, patient with enemies,
constantly turns more and more “cheeks” to
provocations of evil. The main thing is that there is a connection, that’s the most
the main thing is enlightenment. Here
She's a mystery solved!
Slide 2
Symbolist poet, translator, essayist, one of the most prominent representatives of Russian poetry of the Silver Age. He published 35 collections of poetry, 20 books of prose, and translated from many languages. Author of autobiographical prose, memoirs, philological treatises, historical and literary studies and critical essays.
Slide 3
Konstantin Balmont was born on June 3 (15), 1867 in the village of Gumnishchi, Shuisky district, Vladimir province, the third of seven sons. Father, Dmitry Konstantinovich Balmont (1835-1907), was the chairman of the Shuya district zemstvo government. Mother, Vera Nikolaevna, appeared in the local press, organized literary evenings and amateur performances; she had a strong influence on the worldview of the future poet, introducing him to the world of music, literature, and history. It was from his mother that Balmont, as he himself wrote, inherited “unbridledness and passion” and his entire “mental structure.”
Slide 4
In 1876, Balmont entered the preparatory class of the Shuya gymnasium. In 1886, Konstantin Balmont entered the law faculty of Moscow University, where he became close to P. F. Nikolaev, a revolutionary of the sixties. But already in 1887, for participating in riots (associated with the introduction of a new university charter, which students considered reactionary), Balmont was expelled, arrested and sent to Butyrka prison for three days, and then exiled to Shuya without trial. In 1889, Balmont returned to the university, but due to severe nervous exhaustion he was unable to study, either there or at the Yaroslavl Demidov Lyceum of Legal Sciences, where he successfully entered. In September 1890, he was expelled from the lyceum and abandoned his attempts to obtain a “government education.”
Slide 5
Balmont became the first representative of symbolism in poetry to gain all-Russian fame. It was noted, however, that his work as a whole was not purely symbolist; The poet was not a “decadent” in the full sense of the word. Balmont's first collections, with all the abundance of decadent-symbolist features in them, were attributed by literary scholars to impressionism, a movement in art that aimed to convey fleeting, unsteady impressions. Basically, these were “purely romantic poems, as if contrasting heaven and earth, calling to the distant, otherworldly.”
Slide 6
The collections “In the Boundless” (1895) and “Silence. Lyrical Poems" (1898) were marked by an active search for "a new space, new freedom" The main ideas for these books were the transience of existence and the variability of the world. The author paid increased attention to the technique of verse, demonstrating a clear passion for sound recording and musicality. Critics already noted the presence of new, “Nietzschean” motifs and heroes in the collection “Silence.” It is believed that “Silence” is the best of Balmont’s first three books.
Slide 7
At the turn of the century, the general tonality of Balmont’s poetry changed dramatically: moods of despondency and hopelessness gave way to bright colors, imagery filled with “frenzied joy, the pressure of violent forces.” Since 1900, Balmont’s “elegiac” hero has turned into his own opposite: an active personality. Fire occupied a special place in Balmont’s hierarchy of images as a manifestation of cosmic forces. Balmont for some time became the leader of the “new poetry”. The collections “Burning Buildings” (1900) and “Let’s Be Like the Sun” (1902), as well as the book “Only Love” (1903) are considered the strongest in Balmont’s literary heritage.
Slide 8
Creativity of 1905-1909
The pre-revolutionary period of Balmont’s work ended with the release of the collection “Liturgy of Beauty. Spontaneous Hymns" (1905), the main motives of which were a challenge and reproach to modernity, a "curse to people" who, according to the poet's conviction, had fallen "from the fundamental principles of Being." During these years, the national theme also appeared in the poet’s work, revealing itself from a unique angle: Balmont revealed to the reader the “epic” Rus', the legends and tales of which he sought to transfer to his own, modern style. The poet’s passion for Slavic antiquity was reflected in the poetry collection “Evil Spells” (1906) and the books “Firebird. Slav's pipe" (1907) and "Green Vertograd. Kissing Words" (1909), as well as the collection "Calls of Antiquity".
Slide 9
Balmont's poetic creativity was spontaneous and subject to the dictates of the moment. In the miniature “How I Write Poetry,” he admitted: “...I don’t think about poetry and, really, I never compose.”
View all slides
You can read and download Biography of Balmont. The presentation contains 7 slides. Presentations for any grade can be downloaded for free. If you liked the material and our presentation site, share it with your friends using social buttons and bookmark it in your browser.
Slides and text of this presentation
Slide 1
Slide description:
Slide 2
Slide description:
Slide 3
Slide description:
Slide 4
Slide description:
Slide 5
Slide description:
Literary activity The beginning of literary activity was associated with a lot of pain and failure. For 4 or 5 years, not a single magazine wanted to publish Balmont. The first collection of his poems, which he himself published in Yaroslavl, did not have any success; his first translated work was burned by the censorship. Close people with their negative attitude significantly increased the severity of the first failures. Further works, translations of Shelley, the collection "Under the Northern Sky", translations of Edgar Allan Poe had significant success. Participated in almost all major magazines.
Slide 6
Slide description:
Facts from ordinary life Balmonta First marriage (21 years old, divorce after 5 years). Second marriage (28 years old). Suicides of several friends during youth. Attempt to kill himself (22 years old) by throwing himself through a window onto stones from a height of the third floor (various fractures, years of lying in bed and then an unprecedented flowering of mental excitement and cheerfulness). Numerous trips to Europe (I was especially struck by England, Spain and Italy)." Pseudonyms: Gridinsky (in Yasinsky's magazine "Monthly Works") and Lionel (in "Northern Flowers").
Slide 7
Slide description:
Loading...