The theme of the Motherland was one of the main in the work of Yesenin. A native of the people, he always worried about the fate of ordinary people and wholeheartedly wished the prosperity of his native village.
"Shagane, you are mine, Shagane
"- longing for the abandoned homeland
This poem, written in 1924, is included in the romantic cycle "Persian motifs." In fact, Yesenin was never in Persia, and a trip to the Caucasus gave food to his imagination. Shagane, to whom the poet devotes soulful lines, is his good friend, a teacher from Baku. Inspired by Yesenin wrote poetry on the third day after meeting a girl, which surprised her very much. Although the poem can be attributed to love lyrics, the leitmotif here are the memories of the Motherland and nostalgia, tormenting the soul. The lyrical hero expresses tender sympathy for the heroine, but he expresses his feelings to her through stories about his native land.
Shagane appeared in several works of Persian Motifs.
"The evening was smoking, the cat dozes on a bar …" - pictures of rural Russia
This small poem, consisting of 5 couplets, draws a picture of the Russian village with bright and precise strokes. All the images described by the poet are portrayed truthfully and convexly. Yesenin reflects the characteristic features of his native village life - a modest landscape, connected ears of wheat, carved platbands of wooden houses. The evening is quiet and calm, and people go to bed with the sunset. An integral part of rural life are prayers and shrines. In this poem Yesenin idealizes rural life and with a bright sense recalls life in his native village.
"Lenin" - the adoption of the revolution
In this poem, Yesenin pays tribute to Lenin, calling him the people's leader and deliverer from imperial oppression. As in many poems of Soviet poets, here the image of Lenin is idealized. Its "powerful word", "simple and sweet" appearance is described. Yesenin is perceived by Yesenin as a deliverer of the peasantry from the yoke of the landlords, a reformer and liberator. However, the death of the leader brought the people turmoil, hostilities began. The poet condemns those who incited hatred and started a revolutionary struggle.
The poem "Lenin" is part of the poem "Walk the Field."
