The author's position in the poem Vasily Terkin. Student’s research work based on the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin". A guest is not out of place at a party

VVDENI E

A. Tvardovsky

It seems like just yesterday the battle ended.
Gray-haired winners pass by,
Victory remains young.

2015 is an anniversary year for our Motherland, for its defenders. On classroom hours, learning about the Great Patriotic War, its heroes, participating in all events, every day we understand that war is very scary.

But the most interesting thing was ahead of me. Who it Vasily Terkin? I didn't know. And then they advised me to read the book “Vasily Terkin” by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky, which is in our home library. I started reading, I really liked this war hero. This poem is about a fighter who fought against the fascist invaders. The author writes about him that Terkin is an ordinary guy, of average height, but “a hero is a hero.”

After everything I heard, I now began to read the lines of the poem in a new way. While working on it, I was amazed at what wonderful, courageous people lived and live on our big Earth. And from the content of the poem, I realized that war cannot be allowed, war means destruction, death, fear, deprivation... May there always be peace! And this primarily depends on us living today.

fate?

Terkin - who is he?

Let's be honest:

Just a guy himself

He's ordinary.

The image of Terkin is generalized. Terkin is “a great hunter of living until he is ninety years old,” a civilian, peaceful man, “a private from the reserve,” a soldier out of necessity. His ordinary life on the collective farm was interrupted by the war, and the war for him is “work,” a continuation of ordinary life. And the whole poem about the war is permeated with a dream about a peaceful life.

In a word, Terkin, the one who

A dashing soldier at war,

At a party, a guest is not superfluous,

At work - anywhere...

What qualities made Terkin the readers’ favorite hero?

What does the hero's name say?

“According to the regulations, each company

Terkin will be given his own.”

throughout the poem?

But already the platoon's favorite

Terkin did not get involved in jokes.

He smoked, looked casually,

Busy with his thoughts.

Behind him is the road

Many times it was longer...

The bitter year has passed,

Won't go back.

Are you crying?..

Guilty.

Conclusion

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“Student’s research work on the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin" »

Municipal educational institution

“Basic secondary school in the village. Uvalnoye Kirovsky district.

"SUCH A SIMPLE THING"

RESEARCH

(CREATIVE WORK)

POEM by A. T. TVARDOVSKY “VASILY TERKIN”

IX class student:

Dmitrenko Ekaterina.

GOAL OF THE WORK

SHOW THE ROLE OF THE POEM DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR,

FIND OUT WHO VASILY TERKIN IS AND WHAT PLACE HE OCCUPIES IN

HISTORY OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

TASKS

1. Read the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin".

To know

What is he like, Vasily Terkin, what do we know about his appearance, his biography, hisfate?

readers' favorite hero?

What does the hero's name say?

How does Terkin's character develop?throughout the poem?

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

"Let's never forget this, people"

A. Tvardovsky

Great Patriotic War lasted 1418 days, almost 4 years. These were years of hardship, grief, and hard work. Our people achieved victory at a high price.

On May 9, 2015, the Victory salute will go off for the 70th time. And the immeasurable suffering of the war years and the immeasurable courage of the people are still alive in the people’s memory.

And Russia looks at her sons,
It seems like just yesterday the battle ended.
Gray-haired winners pass by,
Victory remains young.

This Victory was hard for our great-grandfathers. The people's memory of the war is eternal. And to always remember is our duty.

For clear skies, for quiet dawns, for sunny days, we are grateful to you, our dear defenders!

Such a simple thing

2015 is an anniversary year for our Motherland and for its defenders. During class hours, learning about the Great Patriotic War, its heroes, participating in all events, every day we understand that war is very scary.

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The most interesting thing was ahead of me. Who is Vasily Terkin? I didn't know. And then they advised me to read the book “Vasily Terkin” by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky, which is in our home library. I started reading, I really liked this war hero. This poem is about a fighter who fought against the fascist invaders. The author writes about him that Terkin is an ordinary guy, of average height, but “a hero is a hero.”

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After everything I had heard, I now began to read the lines of the poem in a new way. While working on it, I was amazed at what wonderful, courageous people lived and live on our big Earth. And from the content of the poem, I realized that war cannot be allowed, war means destruction, death, fear, deprivation... Let there always be peace! And this primarily depends on us living today.

What is he like, Vasily Terkin, what do we know?

about his appearance, his biography, hisfate?

Terkin - who is he?

Let's be honest:

Just a guy himself

He's ordinary.

ABOUT
Terkin's image is generalized. Terkin is “a great hunter of living until he is ninety years old,” a civilian, peaceful man, “a private from the reserve,” a soldier out of necessity. His ordinary life on the collective farm was interrupted by the war, and the war for him is “work,” a continuation of ordinary life. And the whole poem about the war is permeated with a dream about a peaceful life.

Terkin - national type, similar to Russians epic heroes, at the same time a joker and a merry fellow, associated with the image of a resourceful soldier from an old fairy tale, a daring craftsman, a jack of all trades.

Terkin is an infantryman. “It contains the pathos of the infantry, the army closest to the earth, to the cold, to fire and death,” wrote Tvardovsky. This is a generalized image of a Russian soldier who bore the brunt of the war. Already at the beginning of the story, in the chapter “At a Rest,” the fighters define Terkin as follows: “One of their own.” In the chapter “From the author”:

In a word, Terkin, the one who

A dashing soldier at war,

At a party, a guest is not superfluous,

At work - anywhere...

What qualities made Terkin

readers' favorite hero?

Terkin is a bright personality, a cheerful, good-natured Russian nature, a “generous heart”, “a lover of help”, a man with an open soul, combining sincerity and nobility, wit and gaiety, simplicity, sharpness and wisdom with endurance and patience, common sense, vitality, courage, with a sense of military duty, responsibility, modesty. The basis of all these qualities is sincere patriotism.

ABOUT
What does the hero's name say?

“Terkin” means grated by life, seasoned.” There is a saying “grated kalach.” “A man worn down by life,” the author defines him. At the same time, the surname sounds common, short, and bright.

In the chapter “Terkin - Terkin” the hero meets his namesake, Ivan Terkin. Both are heroes, both harmonica players, merry fellows. And the foreman concludes:

“According to the regulations, each company

Terkin will be given his own.”

How does Terkin's character develop?throughout the poem?

In the first chapters, Terkin the joker, looking at him, makes everyone feel better: “It’s good, as there is such a guy / A guy on a hike.” He sneers about “Sabantuys” when the cat himself is scratching his soul. He takes on the mission of a political instructor when it is necessary to support people during the days of retreat: “The soldiers followed us, / Leaving the captive region, / I one political conversation / Repeated: / - Don’t be discouraged!” (chapter “Before the battle”). For the losses suffered during the war, his soul aches with pain, masked by a sad joke: “The fighter lost his pouch, / He fawned over it, no and no... / He lost his native land, / Everything in the world and his pouch.” Terkin gives his to the fighter: “Since the pouch is a military item, / Is it not suitable for mine?” (“About Loss”)

Terkin takes off the mask of a joker and allows himself to shed a tear only when half of the war has passed and it seemed to our soldiers that victory is just around the corner (chapter “On the Dnieper”):

But already the platoon's favorite

Terkin did not get involved in jokes.

He smoked, looked casually,

Busy with his own thoughts.

Behind him is the road

Many times it was longer...

The bitter year has passed,

Won't go back.

What are you doing, brother, Vasily Terkin,

Are you crying?..

Guilty.

In the poem, the Author introduces Terkin as his friend, comrade: “Not joking, Vasily Terkin, / You and I became friends.” It is no coincidence that many thought that Terkin - a real man. Tvardovsky writes about his hero with extraordinary warmth: From Moscow to Stalingrad You are always with me - My pain, my joy, My rest and my feat! The author is an intermediary between the hero and the reader, conducts a conversation with the reader, addresses him respectfully: “friend-reader.” A confidential conversation between the Author and the reader brings the reader closer to the events depicted and to the characters. Tvardovsky made Terkin his fellow countryman, a native of the Smolensk region. For the hero and the Author, the war becomes a battle for their home. The idea of a large, common Motherland is inseparable from the memory of native places.

Conclusion

“Vasily Terkin” was, according to the poet himself, his lyrics and journalism, a song and a lesson, an anecdote and a saying, a heart-to-heart conversation and a remark to the occasion.

We can say that the Author and his hero walked the roads of war side by side. The publication of the first chapters began in 1942 after the difficult summer retreat of our troops to the Volga and the North Caucasus. The poem was operational, reacting to military events. It was published in chapters, which are relatively independent, and at the same time the poem is an integral work. The three parts of the poem correspond to three stages of the situation on the fronts: the initial retreat, the turning point after the victory at Stalingrad, the victorious offensive of 1944-1945 and the complete defeat of the enemy on its territory: one of the last chapters is called “On the Road to Berlin.” Tvardovsky finished his poem with the end of the war.

The conflict in the poem is “transpersonal” in nature - it is raised to the heights of the Great Patriotic War, when all the people of one country unite into a people united in their desire to save their Motherland, and therefore their family, their home from enslavement and humiliation.

The Great Patriotic War is one of those events in the history of the country that remain in the memory of the people for a long time. Such events greatly change people's ideas about life and art. The war caused an unprecedented surge in literature, music, painting, and cinema. But, perhaps, there has not been and will not be a more popular work about the war than the poem “Vasily Terkin” by Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky.
A. T. Tvardovsky wrote about the war firsthand. At the very beginning of the war, he, like many other writers and poets, went to the front. And walking along the roads of war, the poet creates an amazing monument to the Russian soldier and his feat. The hero of “The Book about a Fighter,” as the author himself defined the genre of his work, becomes Vasily Terkin, who is collective image Russian soldier. But there is another hero in the book - the author himself. We cannot even say that it is always Tvardovsky himself. Rather, we are talking about that generalized image of the author-narrator, which is present in “Eugene Onegin”, “Hero of Our Time” and other works that form the basis of Russian literary tradition. Although some facts from the poem coincide with the real biography of A. T. Tvardovsky, the author is clearly endowed with many of Terkin’s traits, they are constantly together (“Terkin - further. The author follows”). This allows us to say that the author in the poem is also a man of the people, a Russian soldier who differs from Terkin, in fact, only in that “he completed his course in the capital.” A. T. Tvardovsky makes Terkin his fellow countryman. And therefore the words

I'm trembling from acute pain,
Bitter and holy malice.
Mother, father, sisters
Behind that line I have -

become the words of both the author and his hero. Amazing lyricism colors those lines of the poem that talk about the “small homeland” that each of the soldiers who took part in the war had. The author loves his hero and admires his actions. They are always unanimous:

And I’ll tell you, I won’t hide it, -
In this book, here and there,
What a hero should say
I speak personally myself.
I am responsible for everything around me,
And notice, if you didn’t notice,
Like Terkin, my hero,
Sometimes it speaks for me.

The author in the poem is an intermediary between the hero and the reader. A confidential conversation is constantly conducted with the reader; the author respects the “friend-reader”, and therefore strives to convey to him the “real truth” about the war. The author feels his responsibility to the readers, he understands how important it was not only to talk about the war, but also to instill in the readers (and we remember that “Vasily Terkin” was published in separate chapters during the war, and the idea dates back to the time of the Finnish War) faith in the indestructible spirit of the Russian soldier, optimism. Sometimes the author seems to invite the reader to check the truth of his judgments and observations. Such direct contact with the reader greatly contributes to the fact that the poem becomes understandable to a large circle of people.
The poem constantly permeates the author's subtle humor. At the very beginning of the poem, the author calls a joke the most necessary thing in a soldier’s life:

You can live without food for a day,
More is possible, but sometimes
In a one-minute war
Can't live without a joke
Jokes of the most unwise.

The text of the poem is filled with jokes, sayings, and sayings, and it is impossible to determine who their author is: the author of the poem, the hero of the poem Terkin, or the people in general.
The author’s observational skills, the vigilance of his gaze and the skill of conveying the details of front-line life are striking. The book becomes a kind of “encyclopedia” of war, written “from nature”, in a field setting. The author is faithful not only to details. He felt the psychology of a person in war, felt the same fear, hunger, cold, was just as happy and sad... And most importantly, “The Book about a Soldier” was not written to order, there is nothing ostentatious or deliberate in it, it was an organic expression of need the author to tell his contemporaries and descendants about that war in which “the battle is holy and just. Mortal combat is not for the sake of glory, for the sake of life on earth.”

Alexander Trifonovich Tvardovsky was born in 1910 on one of the farms in the Smolensk region, into a peasant family. For the formation of the personality of the future poet, the relative erudition of his father and the love of books that he brought up in his children were also important. “Whole winter evenings“,” writes Tvardovsky in his autobiography, “we often indulged in reading a book out loud. My first acquaintance with “Poltava” and “Dubrovsky” by Pushkin, “Taras Bulba” by Gogol, the most popular poems by Lermontov, Nekrasov, A.K. Tolstoy, Nikitin happened in exactly this way.”

In 1938, an important event occurred in Tvardovsky’s life - he joined the ranks of the Communist Party. In the fall of 1939, immediately after graduating from the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature (IFLI), the poet participated in the liberation campaign Soviet army to Western Belarus (as a special correspondent for a military newspaper). The first meeting with the heroic people in a military situation was great importance for the poet. According to Tvardovsky, the impressions he received then preceded those deeper and stronger ones that washed over him during the Second World War. Artists drew interesting pictures depicting the unusual front-line adventures of the experienced soldier Vasya Terkin, and poets composed text for these pictures. Vasya Terkin is a popular character who performed supernatural, dizzying feats: he mined a tongue, pretending to be a snowball, covered his enemies with empty barrels and lit a cigarette while sitting on one of them, “he takes the enemy with a bayonet, like sheaves with a pitchfork.” This Terkin and his namesake - the hero of Tvardovsky's poem of the same name, who gained nationwide fame - are incomparable.
For some slow-witted readers, Tvardovsky will subsequently specifically hint at the deep difference that exists between the real hero and his namesake:
Is it now possible to conclude
What, they say, grief is not a problem,
What guys got up and took
A village without difficulty?
What about constant luck?
Terkin accomplished the feat:
Russian wooden spoon
Killed eight Krauts!

Such popular popular heroics were in the spirit of Vasya Terkin, the hero of the humorous page of the newspaper “On Guard of the Motherland.”
However, captions to the drawings helped Tvardovsky achieve ease of conversational speech. These forms are preserved in the “real” “Vasily Terkin”, having been significantly improved, expressing deep life content.
First plans to create a serious poem about a hero people's war, refer to the period 1939-1940. But these plans changed significantly later under the influence of new, formidable and great events.
Tvardovsky was always interested in the fate of his country at turning points in history. History and people are his main theme. Back in the early 30s, he created a poetic picture of the difficult era of collectivization in the poem “The Country of Ant.” During the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) A..T. Tvardovsky writes the poem “Vasily Terkin” about the Great Patriotic War. The fate of the people was being decided. The poem is dedicated to the life of the people during the war.
Tvardovsky is a poet who deeply understood and appreciated beauty folk character. In “The Country of Ant”, “Vasily Terkin”, large-scale, capacious, collective images are created: the events are enclosed in a very broad plot frame, the poet turns to hyperbole and other means of fairy-tale conventions. In the center of the poem is the image of Terkin, uniting the composition of the work into a single whole. Terkin Vasily Ivanovich - main character poem, an ordinary infantryman from Smolensk peasants.

"Just a guy himself
He's ordinary"

Terkin embodies the best features of the Russian soldier and the people as a whole. A hero named Vasily Terkin first appears in the poetic feuilletons of the Tvardov period of the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940). The words of the hero of the poem:

“I am the second, brother, war
I'll fight forever"

The poem is structured as a chain of episodes from the military life of the protagonist, which do not always have a direct event connection with each other. Terkin humorously tells young soldiers about the everyday life of war; He says that he has been fighting since the very beginning of the war, he was surrounded three times, and was wounded. The fate of an ordinary soldier, one of those who bore the brunt of the war on their shoulders, becomes the personification of national fortitude and the will to live. Terkin swims twice across the icy river to restore contact with the advancing units; Terkin alone occupies a German dugout, but comes under fire from his own artillery; on the way to the front, Terkin finds himself in the house of old peasants, helping them with the housework; Terkin enters hand-to-hand combat with the German and, with difficulty, defeating him, takes him prisoner. Unexpectedly, Terkin shoots down a German attack aircraft with a rifle; Terkin reassures the envious sergeant:
“Don’t worry, the German has this
Not the last plane"

Terkin takes command of the platoon when the commander is killed, and is the first to break into the village; however, the hero is again seriously wounded. Lying wounded in a field, Terkin talks with Death, who persuades him not to cling to life; Eventually he is discovered by the fighters and he tells them:

"Take this woman away
I am a soldier still alive"

The image of Vasily Terkin combines the best moral qualities of the Russian people: patriotism, readiness for heroism, love of work.
The character traits of the hero are interpreted by the poet as traits of a collective image: Terkin is inseparable and integral from the militant people. It is interesting that all fighters - regardless of their age, tastes, military experience - feel good with Vasily; Wherever he appears - in battle, on vacation, on the road - contact, friendliness, and mutual disposition are instantly established between him and the fighters. Literally every scene speaks to this. The soldiers listen to Terkin’s playful bickering with the cook at the hero’s first appearance:
And sitting down under a pine tree,
He eats porridge, hunched over.
"Mine?" - fighters among themselves, -
"Mine!" - they looked at each other.

I don’t need, brothers, orders,
I don't need fame.

Terkin is characterized by the master’s respect and careful attitude towards things as the fruit of labor. It’s not for nothing that he takes away his grandfather’s saw, which he warps, not knowing how to sharpen it. Returning the finished saw to the owner, Vasily says:

Come on, grandfather, take it and look.
It will cut better than a new one,
Don't waste your tool.

Terkin loves work and is not afraid of it (from the hero’s conversation with death):

I'm a worker
I would get into it at home.
-The house is destroyed.
-Me and the carpenter.
-There is no stove.
-And the stove maker...

a hero is usually synonymous with his popularity, the absence of exclusivity in him. But this simplicity also has another meaning in the poem: the transparent symbolism of the hero’s surname, the Terkino “we’ll endure it, we’ll endure it” emphasizes his ability to overcome difficulties simply and easily. This is his behavior even when he swims across an icy river or sleeps under a pine tree, quite content with an uncomfortable bed, etc. This simplicity of the hero, his calmness, and sober outlook on life express important features of the people's character.

In the poem “Vasily Terkin”, A.T. Tvardovsky’s field of vision includes not only the front, but also those who work in the rear for the sake of victory: women and old people. The characters in the poem not only fight - they laugh, love, talk with each other, and most importantly, they dream of a peaceful life. The reality of war unites what is usually incompatible: tragedy and humor, courage and fear, life and death.
The chapter “From the Author” depicts the process of “mythologization” of the main character of the poem. Terkin is called by the author “a holy and sinful Russian miracle man.” The name of Vasily Terkin has become legendary and a household name.
The poem “Vasily Terkin” is distinguished by its peculiar historicism. Conventionally, it can be divided into three parts, coinciding with the beginning, middle and end of the war. Poetic understanding of the stages of the war creates a lyrical chronicle of events from the chronicle. A feeling of bitterness and sorrow fills the first part, faith in victory fills the second, the joy of the liberation of the Fatherland becomes the leitmotif of the third part of the poem. This is explained by the fact that A.T. Tvardovsky created the poem gradually, throughout the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The composition of the poem is also original. Not only individual chapters, but also periods and stanzas within chapters are distinguished by their completeness. This is due to the fact that the poem was printed in parts. And it should be accessible to the reader from “any place.”
The poem has 30 chapters. Twenty-five of them fully and comprehensively reveal the hero, who finds himself in a wide variety of military situations. In the last chapters, Terkin does not appear at all (“About an Orphan Soldier”, “On the Road to Berlin”). The poet has said everything about the hero and does not want to repeat himself or make the image illustrative.
It is no coincidence that Tvardovsky’s work begins and ends lyrical digressions. An open conversation with the reader brings you closer to inner world works, creates an atmosphere of common involvement in events. The poem ends with a dedication to the fallen.
Tvardovsky talks about the reasons that pushed him to construct the poem this way:
“I did not long languish with doubts and fears regarding the uncertainty of the genre, the lack of an initial plan that embraces the entire work in advance, and the weak plot connection of the chapters with each other. Not a poem - well, let it not be a poem, I decided; there is no single plot - let it be, don’t; there is no very beginning of a thing - there is no time to invent it; the climax and completion of the entire narrative is not planned - let it be necessary to write about what burns and does not wait ... "
Of course, a plot is necessary in a work. Tvardovsky knew and knows this very well, but in an effort to convey to the reader the “real truth” of the war, he polemically declared his rejection of plot in the usual sense of the word.

There is no plot in the war...
................
However, the truth is not harmful.

The poet emphasized the truthfulness and reliability of broad pictures of life by calling “Vasily Terkin” not a poem, but “a book about a fighter.” The word “book” in this popular sense sounds somehow specially significant, as an object “serious, reliable, unconditional,” says Tvardovsky.
The poem “Vasily Terkin” is an epic canvas. But the lyrical motifs also sound powerful in it. Tvardovsky could (and did) call the poem “Vasily Terkin” his lyrics, because in this work for the first time the appearance of the poet himself and his personality traits were so vividly, diversely and strongly expressed.

A. T. Tvardovsky wrote about the war firsthand. At the very beginning of the war, he, like many other writers and poets, went to the front. And walking along the roads of war, the poet creates an amazing monument to the Russian soldier and his feat. The hero of “The Book about a Soldier,” as the author himself defined the genre of his work, is Vasily Terkin, who is a collective image of a Russian soldier. But there is another hero in the book - the author himself. We cannot even say that it is always Tvardovsky himself. Rather, we are talking about that generalized image of the author-narrator that is present in “Eugene Onegin”, “Hero of Our Time” and other works that form the basis of the Russian literary tradition. Although some facts from the poem coincide with the real biography of A. T. Tvardovsky, the author is clearly endowed with many of Terkin’s traits, they are constantly together (“Terkin - further. The author follows”). This allows us to say that the author in the poem is also a man of the people, a Russian soldier who differs from Terkin, in fact, only in that “he completed his course in the capital.” A. T. Tvardovsky makes Terkin his fellow countryman. And therefore the words

I'm trembling from acute pain,

Bitter and holy malice.

Mother, father, sisters

Behind that line I have -

And I’ll tell you, I won’t hide it, -

In this book, here and there,

What a hero should say

I speak personally myself.

I am responsible for everything around me,

And notice, if you didn’t notice,

Like Terkin, my hero,

Sometimes it speaks for me.

You can live without food for a day,

More is possible, but sometimes

In a one-minute war

Can't live without a joke

Jokes of the most unwise.

The text of the poem is filled with jokes, sayings, and sayings, and it is impossible to determine who their author is: the author of the poem, the hero of the poem Terkin, or the people in general.

The author’s observational skills, the vigilance of his gaze and the skill of conveying the details of front-line life are striking. The book becomes a kind of “encyclopedia” of war, written “from nature”, in a field setting. The author is faithful not only to details. He felt the psychology of a person in war, felt the same fear, hunger, cold, was just as happy and sad... And most importantly, “The Book about a Soldier” was not written to order, there is nothing ostentatious or deliberate in it, it was an organic expression of need the author to tell his contemporaries and descendants about that war in which “the battle is holy and just. Mortal combat is not for the sake of glory, for the sake of life on earth.”

The image of the author in A. T. Tvardovsky’s poem “Vasily Terkin”

I'm trembling from acute pain,

Bitter and holy malice.

Mother, father, sisters

Behind that line I have -

And I’ll tell you, I won’t hide it, -

In this book, here and there,

What a hero should say

I speak personally myself.

I am responsible for everything around me,

And notice, if you didn’t notice,

Like Terkin, my hero,

Sometimes it speaks for me.

You can live without food for a day,

More is possible, but sometimes

In a one-minute war

Can't live without a joke

Jokes of the most unwise.

The text of the poem is filled with jokes, sayings, and sayings, and it is impossible to determine who their author is: the author of the poem, the hero of the poem Terkin, or the people in general.

Answer from GALINA[guru]

I'm trembling from acute pain,
Bitter and holy malice.
Mother, father, sisters
Behind that line I have -

And I’ll tell you, I won’t hide it, -
In this book, here and there,
What a hero should say
I speak personally myself.
I am responsible for everything around me,
And notice, if you didn’t notice,
Like Terkin, my hero,
Sometimes it speaks for me.

You can live without food for a day,
More is possible, but sometimes
In a one-minute war
Can't live without a joke
Jokes of the most unwise.

Source:

Answer from Artur Gazizov[newbie]
The hero of “The Book about a Soldier,” as the author himself defined the genre of his work, is Vasily Terkin, who is a collective image of a Russian soldier. But there is another hero in the book - the author himself. It is difficult to say that it is always Tvardovsky himself. Rather, we are talking about that generalized image of the author-narrator. Although some facts from the poem coincide with the real biography of A. T. Tvardovsky, the author is clearly endowed with many of Terkin’s traits; they are constantly together
(“Terkin - further. Author-trace”).
This allows us to say that the author in the poem is also a Russian soldier, who differs from Terkin, in fact, only in that “he completed his course in the capital.”
A. T. Tvardovsky makes Terkin his fellow countryman. And therefore the words
I'm trembling from acute pain,
Bitter and holy malice.
Mother, father, sisters
Behind that line I have -
become the words of both the author and his hero.
Amazing lyricism colors those lines of the poem that talk about the “small homeland” that each of the soldiers who took part in the war had. The author loves his hero and admires his actions. They are always unanimous:
And I’ll tell you, I won’t hide it, -
In this book, here and there,
What a hero should say
I speak personally myself.
I am responsible for everything around me,
And notice, if you didn’t notice,
Like Terkin, my hero,
Sometimes it speaks for me.
The author in the poem is an intermediary between the hero and the reader. A confidential conversation is constantly conducted with the reader; the author respects the “friend-reader”, and therefore strives to convey to him the “real truth” about the war. The author feels his responsibility to his readers; he understands how important it was not only to talk about the war, but also to instill in readers faith in the indestructible spirit of the Russian soldier and optimism. Sometimes the author seems to invite the reader to check the truth of his judgments and observations. Such direct contact with the reader greatly contributes to the fact that the poem becomes understandable to a large circle of people.
The poem constantly permeates the author's subtle humor. At the very beginning of the poem, the author calls a joke the most necessary thing in a soldier’s life:
You can live without food for a day,
More is possible, but sometimes
In a one-minute war
Can't live without a joke
Jokes of the most unwise.
The text of the poem is filled with jokes, sayings, sayings, and it is impossible to determine who their author is: the author of the poem, the hero of the poem Terkin, or the people in general.
The author’s observational skills, the vigilance of his gaze and the skill of conveying the details of front-line life are striking. The book becomes a kind of “encyclopedia” of war, written “from nature”, in a field setting.
The author is faithful not only to details. He felt the psychology of a person in war, felt the same fear, hunger, cold, he was just as happy and sad...
And most importantly, “The Book about a Fighter” was not written to order, there is nothing ostentatious or deliberate in it, it was an organic expression of the author’s need to tell his contemporaries and descendants about the war in which “the battle is holy and just. Mortal combat is not for the sake of glory, for the sake of life on earth.”

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The image of the author in A. T. Tvardovsky’s poem “Vasily Terkin”

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