Heavenly clouds are eternal wanderers in the steppe. Poem “Clouds” by Lermontov – read in full online or download the text
Cloud
Across the sky
Floated
Buckets full
Carried.
The cloud blurted out
Bucket -
I took a ride
In the sky
Thunder.
Over the forest
Over the steep
Met
Cloud
With a cloud.
Sparkled
Evil lightning!
Splashed
The buckets are full!
Cloud
With a cloud
They swear
Buckets across the sky
They're riding!..
In the sky
Rocker -
Rainbow
Hanged.
Sapgir G.
Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers!
The azure steppe, the pearl chain
You rush as if like me, exiles
From the sweet north to the south.
Who is driving you away: is it destiny’s decision?
Is it secret envy? Is it open anger?
Or is crime weighing on you?
Or is slander from friends poisonous?
No, you are tired of barren fields...
Passions are alien to you and suffering is alien to you;
Forever cold, forever free
You have no homeland, you have no exile.
Mikhail Lermontov
White cloud timidly
I drank water from the river,
The cloud has become plump
And curly like a lamb.
The wind rushed across the sky,
Like a boy chasing balls,
I met a gloomy cloud
And he pushed her with his shoulders.
The cloud is crying out of resentment,
She sprinkled the world with tears,
Let him cry, it means
Just like clouds have eyes.
Zelenkina G.
Clouds obscured the sky
The clouds dropped the rain
Not by accident, but on purpose,
To make it impossible
To us under this rainfall
Look through the hole in them!
There is heavenly blue air,
The stars probably breathe with them -
It is cool and spacious.
It's a pity that there is no telescope,
So that everyone follows the stars
Peep at night.
As luck would have it - an unfortunate incident:
Clouds clouded the sky...
I'll take a big broom
I will sweep away the clouds,
And I'll clear the sky quickly
Use a soft, clean cloth!
To see the stars,
We need to WIPE the sky!
Korneeva M.
A black cloud has arrived
Our sun has been covered
I called my girlfriends.
The wind swirls them around the sky.
It carries them to the main cloud,
The branches on the trees are bending,
Howls, flies,
The mood is depressing.
Either day or night
I walked away from the street.
I just ran to the house,
The rain started pouring out of the cloud.
Vasilisa
A cloud is walking in the distance
Holds the rain in your fist,
What is a rain cloud to us?
We are swimming in the river!
Leontyev V.
Cloud, cloud, give me some water
For me and for my sister!
For birch and aspen,
And for a thin mountain ash.
Semenova S.
They do not know strong feelings,
And there is only one destiny - loneliness.
Pity them for a moment.
Khotiy N.
Cloud-cloud-flying,
How big are you growing!
You are a sparkling thunderstorm, cloud,
And a terribly loud noise,
And the rains poured down,
Become flighty soon!
Lilo T.
The sky has become cloudy,
The clouds looked into the river.
And as soon as we looked,
They sighed so quietly:
- Oh, what water there is!
We should wash ourselves gray!
Refresh your sides
We are, essentially, clouds.
And they dived and sank,
It rained frequently,
The grayness was scrubbed away in the river,
They haven’t become like snow yet.
Well, what happened next?
The sun has dried the clouds!
These clouds have dried out,
It's like going to heaven!
And they floated like a river
Feather clouds...
Marshalova T.
The cloud has become and remains.
The yard is covered with a thick roof.
The dog shivered: “It’s time!”
The kennel is empty in the morning.
The nimble cat was alarmed:
“And my attic is waiting for me.”
Duck after them:
- Quack-quack-quack!
You're leaving the yard in vain!
We'd better take a shower together.
It's very boring to live without puddles.
Akselrod E.
Cloud and sunshine again
They started playing hide and seek.
Only the sun will hide
The cloud will burst into tears.
And when the sun is found,
Immediately the rainbow laughs.
Berestov V.
The clouds are flying!
The clouds are crowding!
Clouds - growling, rattling, fighting!
Apparently the clouds have five hundred fists
And the bruises are completely unnoticeable!
Dream Svetlana
The last cloud of the scattered storm!
Alone you rush across the clear azure,
You alone cast a dull shadow,
You alone sadden the jubilant day.
You recently hugged the sky,
And lightning wrapped around you menacingly;
And you made mysterious thunder
And she watered the greedy land with rain.
Enough, hide! The time has passed
The earth was refreshed and the storm passed,
And the wind, caressing the leaves of the trees,
He's driving you out of the calm heavens.
Alexander Pushkin
Thundercloud -
Such a formidable one.
The sky is completely clouded
She lay like a shadow on the ground,
She sniffled, grumbled,
I scared everyone in the area,
Suddenly she sneezed -
Thunder struck!!!
And... burst into tears
rain!
Osmanova G.
Clouds floated across the sky.
Tuchek - four things:
From first to third - people,
The fourth was a camel.
To them, overwhelmed with curiosity,
A fifth one came along the way,
From her in the blue bosom
The elephant ran after the elephant.
And I don’t know if the sixth scared me off,
The clouds took everything and melted.
And after them, chasing and devouring,
The sun chased - a yellow giraffe.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
A cloud flew across the sky -
She kept getting fatter and fatter.
And then to our delight
It burst loudly at the seams.
“Bang-bang-bang!” - THUNDER struck,
And the rain poured down like a bucket.
Oleksyak S.
There is a cloud in the sky,
Sighs and grumbles,
A little cloud
He knocks his hooves.
Through the puddle,
Along the path
Milk mushrooms along the umbrella
Knocking like a fawn
Hooves
Rain!
Belozerov T.
The thundercloud is crying -
It’s impossible for her to do otherwise!
How can a cloud not cry?
We need to water the soil!
So that a flower would bloom,
The forest turned green.
So that the river runs into the distance,
It's just not enough rain!
To water the river,
There must be a heavy downpour!
Yanushkevich M.
- Hello, little cloud!
Isn't it boring up there alone?
Do you want us to play together?
Do you want to read fairy tales?
Or should we kick the ball?
Just be kind, don't cry!
Shemyakina N.
I am going home
Just in case
Hastened
Seeing Cloud.
Thunder struck
Behind the back,
The cloud rushed
Behind me!
Home with her
From the river
We rushed
Race!
I am now
Drying my baseball cap
Sneakers, shorts
And a T-shirt.
Who's faster
Escaped from us
Of course you
I guessed it...
Goette T.
Wow and a black cloud,
The belly is smoked!
It's crawling towards us
Ponytail behind you
Torrential rain
Lucky on the ground.
The belly is cracked
In half!
And from there lightning:
Fuck-ba-bam!
And then,
And then
Grrr-r-rum!
We just don't care -
We have a house
With a window!
We're sitting at home,
We are looking out the window!
Lebedeva G.
The clouds were thundering
IN LOUD speakers:
"Be careful, children.
and parents!
Hide quickly
citizens, from us!
We warn you
last time:
We'll wait another three minutes
And we’ll cover everyone with pouring rain.”
Volkova N.
Near the river, closer to the ford,
Clouds lap up the water.
- Hey, look, clouds,
So that the sides don't burst!
Orlov V.
The wind blows the clouds
Gathers into a cloud.
The cloud looks down on you
The rain scares me.
She took some water
A whole trough
We can expect trouble from her,
While the sun is hidden.
Everything around has gone dark
It's like the night is above us
The cloud suddenly burst into tears,
Bitter tears.
Sidash N.
Olya looks out the window:
“It’s going to rain soon!
I'll blow on a cloud
Let her float away."
Blows, lips stretched out,
Blowing, waving his hand...
Dad shouted from the garden:
“What’s wrong with you, daughter?”
The sweet sun has disappeared...
Crying is heard at the window:
“Oh, I’ve blown a cloud,
She has become bigger!”
Pozharova M.
Gray clouds -
Harmful and evil!
The sun was closed
They brought the rain,
Now they're pouring from a watering can
There are benches in the park,
They rumble terribly
Kids are scared
To stay at home
Near grandmothers and mothers!
Efimova T.
For some reason, for some reason
The dark cloud is swollen.
Someone thundered terribly
Thunder fell on the swamp,
Something sparkled terribly
The first drop fell.
The cloud poured out as rain,
We're going to measure puddles!
Gurina I.
The ridges of the hills were dimmed with frosty frost.
Masses of clouds on the vaults of blue days
They pile up high (ever higher, ever closer)
Clouds of lead, gray wings of pine trees,
Pillars of snow and clusters of wisteria
Hanging down... The heat is duller and duller.
And the horses run across the steppes,
Like the dark flight of the angry Erinnyes.
And anger threw the heavy thunder from his shoulder,
And, the fury of the waters is wasted upon the valleys,
Walks away. Copper-borax plains.
In the seas of dawn the blood of the gods turns black.
And the smoky ones rise between the clouds
Sons of fire and darkness - Assurs.
Maximilian Voloshin
Instead of a hat there is a cloud
The sun has slammed down,
She will get it from her mother for this
Thrashing.
Above the mirror lake
The fashionista is spinning:
“Oh, what a hat -
It warms and glows!”
Lipatova E.
We chatter in the darkness,
Like a parade of planets, -
Clouds, clouds, clouds,
And from the cracks comes light.
Like it's salivating a grove
Someone from above.
It rains for a long time,
Can't sleep for a long time.
Getting wet behind the fence
The streets are a blur.
Rain, fall, fall,
But not to our window.
Borodinsky G.
A cloud is wandering in the clear sky.
Where are you from to visit us?
You were probably rude
Somewhere to the brother clouds?
You're probably offended
Did you turn all black afterwards?
You're probably out of frustration
Did it rain on us?
Shevchuk I.
The gray cloud said gloomily:
- How fat I am... What kind of figure?
I was upset, tears flowed in a stream,
I cried in large puddles all around.
Here in the mirror she looked at a puddle:
- Hooray! I lost weight during the rain!
And what a frilly dress!
Now I'm not a cloud, but a cloud!
Ashto O.
The downpour and hail were bearing down on us,
But I couldn’t get there:
So she flew, she was in a hurry,
What kind of mountain is caught...
And hung over the rock
Show your character:
Throw lightning at stones,
The rain is pouring out like a torrent.
We will say thank you to the rock
With a kind word we respect:
“Grateful to you, cool,
That an evil cloud is stuck.”
Volodya D.
Dark cloud in summer
I was tearing up in the rain
And in winter, huge,
Reappeared.
But it's raining in winter
Somehow it didn’t fit
Because out of that cloud
Crystals are falling!
Shapovalova R.
In lace, in ruffles -
A cloud was walking across the sky.
Got caught on a twig
She tore her collar.
Crying, crying, shedding tears.
That's why it rains...
Menzhinskaya E.
My best friend left.
I walk darker than a cloud.
And in my window you can see
one gray cloud.
And I thought, bye
wrote a poem:
clouds are also clouds.
But in a bad mood.
Maybe by this cloud
your best friend also left?
Suprunyuk M.
It started with the wind
answered her impolitely.
The snake didn't want to play -
he was flying like a businessman.
Plus about her, as it seemed to her,
the willow and the linden whispered
and with the help of a leaf
twisted it at my temple...
A cloud of cheeks swelled,
inflated, inflated,
inflated, inflated...
And then it burst through:
burst into tears in three streams,
Rumbling senselessly.
I decided not to be like a cloud
Don’t accumulate grievances in a heap.
...It will become a little clearer,
And I’ll go to my friends and make peace!
Nelya D.
The clouds gathered in a dark flock.
If only people knew about their pain!
They do not know strong feelings,
And there is only one destiny - loneliness.
Sobs are thunder, hugs are lightning.
Maybe they don't have enough warmth?
The clouds cry only for what is lost,
Pity them for a moment.
You need to smile, don't hide -
Tears of joy will turn into rain.
Clouds need to fly to another land,
For goodness we will be rewarded with a rainbow.
Khotiy N.
The wind was blowing across the sky,
I drove away the gray clouds,
Collected clouds in a basket,
And he collected a big pile.
He put the basket down
And he asked the sun:
"What should I do with this pile?
Large flying clouds?
The sun answers him:
"I'll give you my advice,
You release them into the world
And watch them."
The wind rushed across the sky,
Scattered, played out,
I started blowing as hard as I could,
And he dropped the basket.
A heap just fell out
Immediately turned into a cloud,
It rained in the gardens,
And disappeared without a trace.
Kulakovskaya E.
Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers!
The azure steppe, the pearl chain
You rush as if like me, exiles
From the sweet north to the south.
Who is driving you away: is it destiny’s decision?
Is it secret envy? Is it open anger?
Or is crime weighing on you?
Or is slander from friends poisonous?
No, you are tired of barren fields...
Passions are alien to you and suffering is alien to you;
Forever cold, forever free
You have no homeland, you have no exile.
Analysis of the poem “Clouds” by Lermontov
The poem “Clouds” was written by Lermontov several months before his tragic death. Contemporaries claimed that this happened in April 1840, on the day the poet left for the Caucasus for his second exile.
It is believed that Lermontov had a presentiment of his death. This is confirmed by the special tragedy of his last poems. "Clouds" can be considered an example of this. The hints about one's fate in this work are quite transparent. The poet had nothing to lose or fear in life, especially since he was heading into exile anyway.
“Clouds” are perceived as a natural phenomenon only in the first two expressive lines. In the future, they are only a symbol of the poet’s fate. Expulsion “from the dear north” looks quite strange. The North in poetry is a gloomy and inhospitable abode of cold, and the South is a happy kingdom of warmth and light. “Tuchki” should rejoice in their movement to the south, and not feel like “exiles”. Lermontov's Caucasian exile is clearly visible in this.
In the second stanza, the poet asks the question: what caused his expulsion? The real immediate cause was Lermontov's duel with the Frenchman Barant. The true reason for the duel is still unknown. It is believed that the Frenchman was deliberately set up to challenge Lermontov. Be that as it may, the Frenchman missed, and the poet behaved more than nobly: he fired into the air. Lermontov was still found guilty.
The poet considers himself right, which is why he lists possible reasons: fate, envy, malice, crime, slander. In principle, the main reason lies somewhere in the middle. Lermontov had long been disliked not only by the Tsar, but also by most of high society. He was not loved for his independent lifestyle, for his secrecy and silence, and finally, for his works. Lermontov understood that this irritated many people. Contemporaries recalled that before his last trip, the poet claimed that he was going to the Caucasus in search of death.
Therefore, the final stanza is imbued with enormous pessimism. Lermontov was tired of life, he could not find understanding in anyone and doubted the significance of his work. “... passions and... suffering became alien to him.” Eternal loneliness bored the poet. Being an ardent patriot, he makes a terrible confession: “You have no homeland.” If a poet is expelled from Russia for the second time, to which he wanted to devote his life, then it is difficult for him to remain optimistic. Without a sense of Russia there can be no exile, so Lermontov is overcome by complete indifference to his fate.
It is impossible to read the poem “Clouds” by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov without a feeling of melancholy and hopelessness that fills the work. The poet wrote this work in 1840, while in yet another exile. Then the author felt a lack of mutual understanding both in his relationship with external environment, and in your own inner world. He felt like a stranger. The poet understood that he did not have the opportunity to do as he pleased. He felt the fact that people are not always free to manage their lives as they please. Lermontov was tormented by the thought that sometimes he had to obey someone else’s will and renounce his own rules. It was these reflections that helped these poems come into being.
The text of Lermontov's poem “Clouds” is full of deep tropes. It is with the clouds that the author compares himself. He gives them exclusively human qualities. Poor clouds are forced to move “from the dear north towards the south” contrary to their own desires. Mikhail Yuryevich compares this event with his exile, asking himself whether this is a government decision or the machinations of fate? The poet envies his main characters. They have no home, no boundaries or laws. They just move in an unknown direction, without thinking about anything. For them there are no concepts of time and rules. While the world that surrounded Lermontov brought him only painful sensations. Soon after writing this work, the poet was killed in a duel.
Many find hidden subtext in the work. They believe that one of the key ideas of the poem is the lack of mutual understanding between people and natural phenomena. It is impossible to unite with incredible elements. You can only admire them as an outside spectator. The author accuses the world of not being able to rise, like a cloud, above this routine, saying a confident “no” to all fears, resentments and anger. The work evokes a special mood, full of philosophical reflections. Everyone finds something of their own and personal in it. After all, all people are individuals with their own vices. The poem is recommended to be taught in literature classes in high school. You can read the poem in full or download it online on our website.
Two of the greatest Russian poets - Pushkin and Lermontov - have poems with almost identical titles. And in 1835, Pushkin wrote the poem “Cloud”, and in 1840 Lermontov created his famous “Clouds”.
Pushkin’s poems “Clouds” and Lermontov’s “Clouds” are completely different in mood and ideological content, but in both works the description of clouds is an opportunity to talk about the world of man, his soul, relationships with others.
Lermontov M. Yu. - “Clouds”
Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers!
The azure steppe, the pearl chain
You rush as if like me, exiles
From the sweet north to the south.
Who is driving you away: is it destiny’s decision?
Is it secret envy? Is it open anger?
Or is crime weighing on you?
Or is slander from friends poisonous?
No, you are tired of barren fields...
Passions are alien to you and suffering is alien to you;
Eternally cold, eternally free,
You have no homeland, you have no exile.
Ruben Nikolaevich Simonov (March 20, 1899, Moscow - December 5, 1968, ibid.) - Russian actor and director; People's Artist of the USSR (1946), laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR; one of the brightest talents on the Russian stage.
For thirty years, Ruben Simonov was the main director of the Vakhtangov Theater (1938-1968) - it was to him that the Vakhtangov theater owed all their successes of the 1940-1960s. He has more than fifty productions, many comedic, dramatic and heroic roles; he created a number of theater studios and, as a director and professor at the Higher Theater School. Shchukin trained more than one generation of actors.
What gives grounds to classify the poem “Clouds” as an elegy?
Read the lyric work below and complete tasks B8-B12; SZ-S4.
M. Yu. Lermontov, 1840
Calling clouds “eternal wanderers,” the poet endows natural phenomena with human properties. Indicate the name of the corresponding technique.
Explanation.
This technique is called personification. Let's give a definition.
Personification is the depiction of inanimate objects as animate, in which they are endowed with the properties of living beings: the gift of speech, the ability to think and feel.
Heavenly clouds, eternal wanderers!
In real life, clouds do not stand still, so Lermontov compared them to “eternal wanderers”
Answer: personification.
Answer: personification
The second stanza of the poem contains “unanswerable” questions. What are their names?
Explanation.
Such questions are called rhetorical. Let's give a definition.
A rhetorical question is one in which an answer is not required or expected because it is extremely obvious.
Answer: rhetorical.
Answer: rhetorical|rhetorical|rhetorical question
What stylistic figure is used by the poet in the above lines?
Or is crime weighing on you?
Or is slander from friends poisonous?
Explanation.
The above lines use anaphora. Anaphora - unity of command. Repeating the word "or".
Or is crime weighing on you?
Or is slander from friends poisonous?
Answer: anaphora.
Answer: Anaphora
Arina Zvyagintseva 05.03.2017 17:28
Isn't this epiphora? In the poem itself, these lines appear at the end of the stanza. That is, it's like a single ending.
Tatiana Statsenko
No, we are talking about specific lines in the wording of the task itself.
Indicate a stylistic device based on a combination of identical consonant sounds in a line and enhancing the sound expressiveness of the verse (“From the dear north to the south”).
Explanation.
This technique is called alliteration. Let's give a definition.
Alliteration is the repetition in poetic speech (less often in prose) of the same consonant sounds in order to enhance the expressiveness of artistic speech; one of the types of sound recording.
"From the sweet north to the south"
Repeating the sound "s".
Answer: alliteration.
Answer: Alliteration
Indicate the three-syllable meter in which M. Yu. Lermontov’s poem “Clouds” is written (without indicating the number of feet).
Explanation.
Dactyl is a three-syllable poetic meter, characterized by the alternation of one stressed sound and two unstressed sounds behind it.
CLOUDS are not / INVALID / ETERNAL / WANDERERS
Answer: dactyl.
Answer: Dactyl
What works of Russian poets, reflecting the connection between the inner world of man and nature, are consonant with Lermontov’s “Clouds”?
Explanation.
Inner world lyrical hero Lermontov is connected with the natural world. The clouds are lonely, like the poet himself. Where his soul wants to go, where he will end up, he doesn’t know. The hero is driven by the wind like clouds.
Relationship theme inner world man and nature are revealed in Tyutchev’s poem “The gray shadows mixed together”, in the poem by M. Yu. Lermontov “I go out alone onto the road...”
The central theme of F. Tyutchev’s poem “The gray shadows mixed” and Lermontov’s “I go out alone on the road” is the theme of the unity of man and his divine mind with the natural world. In both poems, the nightly thoughts of the lyrical hero and his inexpressible melancholy are heard. The only way out of painful loneliness for the human soul is an attempt to merge with the surrounding world. In this, the poems of Lermontov and Tyutchev are in tune.
Explanation.
Elegy (ancient Greek ἐλεγεία) is a genre of lyrical literature; in early ancient poetry - a poem written in elegiac distich, regardless of content; later (Callimachus, Ovid) - a poem with the character of thoughtful sadness. Elegies are characterized by stable features: intimacy, motives of disappointment, unhappy love, loneliness, the frailty of earthly existence, which determines rhetoric in the depiction of emotions. Elegy is a classic genre of sentimentalism and romanticism. Lermontov's poem "Clouds" belongs to romantic lyrics. It contains the motives of loneliness, disappointment, and raises the problem of the meaning of life. All this allows us to classify the poem as an elegy.
