Vasily Zhukovsky
Sea

I stand enchanted over your abyss.
You are alive; you breathe; confused love,
You are filled with anxiety.
Silent sea, azure sea,
Reveal to me your deep secret.
What moves your vast bosom?
How does your tight chest breathe?
Or pulls you out of earthly bondage
Far, bright sky towards you? ..
Mysterious, sweet full of life,
You are pure in the presence of his pure:
You pour its luminous azure,
You burn with evening and morning light,
You caress his golden clouds
And joyfully shine with its stars.
When dark clouds gather
To take away the clear sky from you -
You fight, you howl, you raise waves,
You tear and torment the hostile darkness...
And the darkness disappears, and the clouds go away,
But, full of past anxiety,
You raise frightened waves for a long time,
And the sweet gleam of returned skies
Not at all silence returns you;
Deceiving your immobility look:
You hide confusion in the abyss of the dead,
You, admiring the sky, tremble for him.

The elegy was written in 1822 and was a breath of fresh air for the Russian reading society. Romantic works determined people's attitude to life, so we can say that the elegy had a folk, educational value and that Zhukovsky was the conductor of all the innovations and wonders of romanticism in Russia. His lyrics of 1815-1824 implies the predominance of religious motives (the sea in this work stretches to the sky, that is, to God). Sorrow and suffering are interpreted as integral attributes of earthly existence (“When dark clouds gather…” - the sea resigned itself to this phenomenon and, during trials, strives upwards and trusts in God), and hope for the afterlife retribution is associated with the ideals of sacrifice and self-denial.

In the work of Zhukovsky, the sea is personified and becomes the interlocutor of the lyrical hero. Reflecting on the hardships of the sea, the hero reveals to the reader the veil of the secrets of his own soul. The lyrical hero is concerned about the relationship between the two abysses (sea and heaven), that is, the relationship of people with God. Using the technique of metaphor, Zhukovsky reflects on philosophical topics about the life of the sea, in fact, referring to people and their lives. For the poet, it is indisputable: people are inextricably linked with God, to a large extent dependent on him. The sea languishes in "earthly captivity" and has the opportunity only to strive for it with its soul, according to Zhukovsky, this is the path of every believer - the desire for reunion with God, for the high ideal of the afterlife. In this elegy, the lyrical hero is also the author of the work, so all the feelings and worries of the poet can be transferred to the lyrical hero.

In romanticism, there is and is observed a special relationship to nature, reverent awe of it. This can be seen in the poem "Sea". For Zhukovsky, the natural world is a mystery, and the purpose of the poem is to unravel it. All romantics, including Zhukovsky, agreed that in nature, and only in it, the divine principle dissolves, through communication with it you can come into contact with the afterlife, that is, with your ideal, with the limit of your dreams; penetrating into the bowels of nature, one can know the secret of being. The image of nature, like the image of the sky, is a reflection of God in the earthly world.

The general mood of the whole poem can be called sad, but Zhukovsky does not spare the sea, or people, he tries to convey to them his understanding of life that came to him with experience. The poet, like the lyrical hero, bows, trembles before the power of nature. He penetrated into its bowels, understood the secret of the universe, but it did not give him anything but disappointment, deep and ineradicable.

Even Zhukovsky's contemporaries understood his significance for Russian literature, and V. G. Belinsky wrote about his romantic works and about himself: “From the solemn odes, the public's ears were already blocked, and it became deaf to them. Everyone was waiting for something new. Then Zhukovsky appeared.

An elegy is a poem that comes from deep feelings embracing the poet. It is usually sincere and very personal. His sentimental reflections are sad, if rather not full of deep sorrow. The poem "The Sea" (an elegy by V. A. Zhukovsky) fully meets these requirements.

Masha Protasova

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky was an illegitimate child, which subsequently did not allow him to marry his beloved. Her mother was so opposed to misalliance that she would have preferred her daughter's death to her union with this man. This is how Masha looked in the eyes of Vasily Andreevich - young, tender and beautiful.

She was both intelligent and sensitive and deeply religious. She was so poetic that everything around her turned into poetry. Could Zhukovsky not fall in love? Of course not. Could he not suffer, knowing that happiness is unattainable? Of course not. He twice wooed Masha, but both times he received a categorical refusal. A friend advised me to marry Masha by abduction. But the humility of the mother and religiosity did not allow the girl to agree to such a marriage. They both deeply loved each other and suffered, but the girl went after her sister to Dorpat. Now it is the city of Tartu. With Vasily Andreevich Mashenka vowed to keep friendship all her life, which turned out to be short. And Vasily Andreevich so deeply and strongly loved his beautiful muse, his beautiful guardian angel, that he never married.

He carried his bitter happiness through his whole life. A girl in Dorpat married an unworthy man who only seemed decent in society, continuing to love Vasily Andreevich. The husband, being very jealous, did not allow Mashenka to meet with Zhukovsky. They both resigned themselves to fate. They were separated and In 1822 the elegy "The Sea" was written. The history of the creation of the poem, in fact, is dramatic.

Elegy

Let's start the analysis of the elegy "Sea" as an image of specific human feelings. Conventionally, 28 stanzas of the poem can be divided into seven unequal parts, in which both the lyrical hero himself and the one he constantly thinks about will be present. Reflections on love, conveyed metaphorically through the image of the water element, form the theme of the elegy. In the first quatrain, the poet conveys his own state with a metaphor of confused love and anxious thought, using the image of the sea. In the second six-line, also through the image of the element of water, the lyrical hero, asking the sea, talks to his beloved.

He asks how she is in captivity. Affectionately and gently asks to open up to him. In the third six-verse, spiritualizing the sea, the poet recalls the days of happiness with his beloved, when both in the morning and in the evening everything was radiantly illuminated by her, everything was kind and brought joy. In the next quatrain, he metaphorically speaks of how a person behaves when a dream is taken away from him. How he struggles and fights with all his might.

So the analysis of the poem "The Sea" continues. The elegy, in its penultimate verse, speaks of the deceptive peace that comes after a struggle with adversity. This is also a metaphor. It seems that all worries go away, but this appearance is deceptive. The final two stanzas speak of inner turmoil, hidden deep, but making one tremble. Love with its doubts, and fear, and hope is the theme of Zhukovsky's elegy "The Sea".

Nature as a prototype of Mary

Calm raging, calming, stormy in its depths, in Zhukovsky is completely and completely connected with the image of Mary, so close to him and so far away. The theme and idea of ​​Zhukovsky's elegy "The Sea" are closely intertwined. Fascinated by the water element, he is forever devoted to the charms of Mary, Mashenka. Asking the sea, he asks the young girl to entrust her deep secret to him. He asks her, metaphorically turning himself into the sky, whether she is drawn to him, distant, bright.

The poet reassures his beloved by the fact that his thoughts are high and pure, but let her caress him and sparkle with joy. He believes that if something prevents them from meeting, then Masha will violently, like the element of water, protest and rush about. But now the barriers disappear, as clouds and haze leave the sea, but Masha is agitated for a long time. She cannot come to her senses, and her calm appearance is deceptive. She is still afraid and, admiring the sky, that is, the poet, trembles for him, for their love. Such is the in-depth analysis of the elegy "The Sea", if you know the circumstances of the poet's love.

Part one

The poem seems to be written in one breath, so quickly, so penetratingly, that it did not even need to be divided into stanzas. The poem "The Sea" is an elegy in the full sense of the word, because it is sad and very personal. Everything that I wanted, but could not be expressed otherwise, the poet wrote in metaphors in "The Sea". The elegy is dramatic when viewed as the world of nature animated by the poet. The way Zhukovsky began to relate to nature became the forerunner of romanticism in Russian poetry. The great F. Tyutchev will fully animate her. He will find in it both freedom, and love, and language. But this "Sea" begins. The elegy tells about the poet's observation of the charm of the azure calm sea, which is ready to conduct a dialogue with the distant bright sky. The poet asks him if the sea wants to get closer to the sky, which is just as huge, but, unlike the earth, firmly holding in its arms, light and airy, not burdensome.

Part two

The bright sky fills the sea with azure, makes it burn with light. Golden clouds caress the sea. The elegy tells how joyfully the night stars are reflected in the sea. If the sky is the soul of a person, then the sea is his secret, unknown and invisible world. The soul ascends to heaven to know bliss. But its second part - water - with apparent serenity and peace is always worried.

Part Three

The excitement of the sea can turn into a storm. And then - all beware. Do not take away the storm clouds from the sea of ​​\u200b\u200bclear sky. It will fight furiously, turn into gray-haired and leaden, but it will defend its peace and tranquility, it will put an end to the darkness.

Part Four

The work "Sea" is a two-faced elegy. The poet, after a storm and a storm, analyzes what he saw. He sees how the clouds and haze dissipate, the sky shines azure again, but the sea remembers the bad weather for a long time, everything inside it bubbles and boils.

The waves continue to rise. Even at first glance calmed down, in inner turmoil, the sea is afraid to lose the sky with its sweet brilliance.

Conclusion

The poem was written in 1822, but published much later, seven years later, when Maria Protasova was no longer alive.

She died in childbirth. The sharp pain has passed, and already the personal has disappeared under the waves of the sea. The elegy, written in amphibrach, conveys the swaying of the waves. It does not have the usual rhyme for a poem. This is what gives the work greatness and solemnity. They also emphasize that a person under any circumstances must remain a person. When he is gone, the sky will still shine and the waves of the sea will beat against the shore.

Man has always been attracted by the image of the sea: the element prompted reflection, beckoned with its secrets, called for adventure. It occupies a special place in the art of romanticism, when a rebel hero compares himself with a raging water element. One of the first Russian writers who drew a parallel between the sea and man, and even personified the elements, was V. A. Zhukovsky.

His famous elegy "The Sea" V.A. Zhukovsky created in 1822 - in the mature period of his work. By this time, the poet no longer refers to the motives of sentimentalism, but develops precisely a romantic ideology. The poem "The Sea" occupies a central place in the author's work, it becomes the standard of Russian romanticism.

The poem "Sea" is dedicated to Maria Protasova. Zhukovsky had tender feelings for this girl, but he could not marry her. The fact is that Masha's mother E. A. Protasova was the writer's cousin, she considered the relationship of her daughter and her cousin too close to give permission for marriage. The pain of this disappointment was reflected in the entire work of the poet.

Genre and size

The work is written in a special style characteristic of that time. The genre of Zhukovsky's poem "The Sea" is an elegy. Poets of the Romantic era often addressed her. Literally, "elegy" is translated as "complaint". Interestingly, this genre has retained its features since antiquity. The elegy has a philosophical character, it expresses melancholy, lyrical reflection. All this is typical for the poem "Sea".

In addition to content, this genre also implies technical features. The authors often choose the average volume of the work, which makes it possible to create a detailed statement, a three-syllable meter, giving melodiousness. Zhukovsky's instrumentation is curious. He writes his elegy in blank verse, that is, while maintaining the size and rhythm, there is no rhyme. The size of the poem "Sea" is a four-foot amphibrach. All these characteristic properties make the work sensual, deeply imbued with poetic sadness.

Direction

It is impossible to overestimate the role of elegy for romanticism. As in no other genre, in this genre the romantic poet could fully express his emotions, talk about his suffering, about mental pain. Developing in his work the tendencies of romanticism V.A. Zhukovsky did not bypass this genre. His first elegy "Rural Cemetery" was written back in 1802, this is a translation of Gray's poem. This arrangement allowed sentimentalists to consider Zhukovsky their successor, but already in it the motives of appeal and resistance belonging to romanticism are visible.

A completely different author appears to the reader in the elegy of 1822. Having created his own special interpretation of the image of the sea, Zhukovsky becomes the founder of a new tradition in Russian literature. Since then, poets often turn to the motive of this element: Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev. The very idea of ​​the closeness of man and nature is very close to the era of romanticism. It is known that A.S. Pushkin highly appreciated "The Sea", and two years later he wrote a poem with the same name.

Composition

The elegy "The Sea" can be divided into three parts.

1. First, the dialogue of the lyrical hero with the sea takes place, the author contemplates the “silent” sea, is fascinated by it, but feels that this apparent peace keeps some secret.
2. The second part describes the storm, to which the lyrical hero gives a very curious explanation. It is caused by the fact that "dark clouds" violate the idyll of the sea and sky.
3. The final part - the author again returns to the description of the calm element that loops the poem. However, now he already knows what secret is kept in the abyss of waters.

Interestingly, the sea itself remains calm throughout the work, the storm is imagined by the author. But it is precisely this way of reasoning that allows the poet to make the composition three-part, which gives dynamism to the work and persuasiveness to the author's conclusion.

Heroes and their characteristics

The main character of the elegy is the sea. Consider the ways in which the poet draws the image of the sea. It is not enough to say that the element is personified, it is anthropomorphic. The sea is alive, it breathes, but most importantly, it has all the psychological qualities of a person. It is in love with the clear sky, when it is reflected in its waters - the sea is happy and serene. But sometimes this idyll is broken by clouds that hide the sky from admiring waters. The water surface reacts sharply to separation from the sky: it resists, tries to resist the "hostile darkness" in order to regain its happiness.

After imagining this picture, the lyrical hero of the poem guessed what secret the sea hides. Now he feels his kinship with him - he understood the sea, and the sea - him. Perhaps he is experiencing the same tragedy, and therefore stands above the abyss ... All this brings the characters closer: both are prone to contemplation, they feel the same pain for two.

Themes

• The main theme of the elegy "Sea" is the impossibility of love. And this reveals the autobiographical nature of most of the poet's lyrics. He could not marry his beloved - M.A. Protasova. Young people did not dare to get married without the blessing of their mother and remained good friends. Thus, the allegory in the elegy is more optimistic than the fate of the writer himself, because the separating force only for a while invades the union of heaven and the abyss of water, but he is not given a marriage union with his beloved. Perhaps the image of the sea turned out to be so psychological because the author transferred his own experiences to it.
• From the above theme follows the motive of the struggle. The confrontation between the sea and the clouds is the climax of the poem. But, even having won, it will never be calm: the sea is doomed to always be afraid that the darkness at any moment may again try to take away its happiness.
• In addition, the theme of loneliness sounds in the work. It is not just that the lyrical hero turns to the sea - he is lonely, he rejoices that the elements are happy in admiring the sky, but at the same time he feels the anxiety of the elements. The abyss of water worries about its bright blue, is afraid to lose it again and be left alone, maybe forever.

Idea

Zhukovsky's poem reflects the main idea of ​​romanticism - the relationship between man and nature. The poet calls to learn from her both contemplation and resistance, and the meaning of the poem "The Sea" is that you need to fight for your happiness. As an example, a person is given an element that triumphs over darkness. Unfortunately, the sea will never be as serene as it used to be, but on the other hand, it is again together with the sky! Perhaps the author of the poem himself would also like to boldly and firmly overcome all the obstacles that stand in the way of the desired marriage.

Artistic media

The paths of the poem "Sea" work to create unique author's images. The elegy is rich in various artistic means.

The role of epithets in the work is significant. With the help of them, the author in the first part Zhukovsky conveys the calmness of the elements: “silent”, “azure”. This is followed by personifications endowing the sea with a feeling soul: “you breathe”, “your strained chest breathes”. In the climactic and final parts, the state of the sea will be conveyed by verbs that convey movement or a state of mind, which endows the image with psychologism: “pour”, “splash”, “howl”, “beat”, “uplift”, “admiring, trembling”. This state is also characterized by the epithet "scared", referring to the waves.

The opposing force has characteristic epithets: "dark" (clouds), "hostile" (mist).

Epithets also convey the joy of the meeting of the sky and the sea, it is no coincidence that “the brilliance of the returned heavens” is precisely “sweet”.

There are poems and figures of speech in the text. To begin with, I would like to note that the elegy contains speech turns that are characteristic of romanticism: “tense chest”, “sweet life”.

Antitheses are not dispensed with in the text of the bases: the opposing forces have the corresponding epithets (clear sky - dark clouds).

In the first part, such a figure of speech as a rhetorical question is repeatedly encountered: “What moves your immense bosom?”

The ellipsis at the end of the climactic part allows the author, as it were, to cut off the story on the most dramatic note and return to the dialogue with the mysteriously calm sea.

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Vasily Zhukovsky
Sea

I stand enchanted over your abyss.
You are alive; you breathe; confused love,
You are filled with anxiety.
Silent sea, azure sea,
Reveal to me your deep secret.
What moves your vast bosom?
How does your tight chest breathe?
Or pulls you out of earthly bondage
Far, bright sky towards you? ..
Mysterious, sweet full of life,
You are pure in the presence of his pure:
You pour its luminous azure,
You burn with evening and morning light,
You caress his golden clouds
And joyfully shine with its stars.
When dark clouds gather
To take away the clear sky from you -
You fight, you howl, you raise waves,
You tear and torment the hostile darkness...
And the darkness disappears, and the clouds go away,
But, full of past anxiety,
You raise frightened waves for a long time,
And the sweet gleam of returned skies
Not at all silence returns you;
Deceiving your immobility look:
You hide confusion in the abyss of the dead,
You, admiring the sky, tremble for him.

The elegy was written in 1822 and was a breath of fresh air for the Russian reading society. Romantic works determined people's attitude to life, so we can say that the elegy had a folk, educational value and that Zhukovsky was the conductor of all the innovations and wonders of romanticism in Russia. His lyrics of 1815-1824 implies the predominance of religious motives (the sea in this work stretches to the sky, that is, to God). Sorrow and suffering are interpreted as integral attributes of earthly existence (“When dark clouds gather…” - the sea resigned itself to this phenomenon and, during trials, strives upwards and trusts in God), and hope for the afterlife retribution is associated with the ideals of sacrifice and self-denial.

In the work of Zhukovsky, the sea is personified and becomes the interlocutor of the lyrical hero. Reflecting on the hardships of the sea, the hero reveals to the reader the veil of the secrets of his own soul. The lyrical hero is concerned about the relationship between the two abysses (sea and heaven), that is, the relationship of people with God. Using the technique of metaphor, Zhukovsky reflects on philosophical topics about the life of the sea, in fact, referring to people and their lives. For the poet, it is indisputable: people are inextricably linked with God, to a large extent dependent on him. The sea languishes in "earthly captivity" and has the opportunity only to strive for it with its soul, according to Zhukovsky, this is the path of every believer - the desire for reunion with God, for the high ideal of the afterlife. In this elegy, the lyrical hero is also the author of the work, so all the feelings and worries of the poet can be transferred to the lyrical hero.

In romanticism, there is and is observed a special relationship to nature, reverent awe of it. This can be seen in the poem "Sea". For Zhukovsky, the natural world is a mystery, and the purpose of the poem is to unravel it. All romantics, including Zhukovsky, agreed that in nature, and only in it, the divine principle dissolves, through communication with it you can come into contact with the afterlife, that is, with your ideal, with the limit of your dreams; penetrating into the bowels of nature, one can know the secret of being. The image of nature, like the image of the sky, is a reflection of God in the earthly world.

The general mood of the whole poem can be called sad, but Zhukovsky does not spare the sea, or people, he tries to convey to them his understanding of life that came to him with experience. The poet, like the lyrical hero, bows, trembles before the power of nature. He penetrated into its bowels, understood the secret of the universe, but it did not give him anything but disappointment, deep and ineradicable.

Even Zhukovsky's contemporaries understood his significance for Russian literature, and V. G. Belinsky wrote about his romantic works and about himself: “From the solemn odes, the public's ears were already blocked, and it became deaf to them. Everyone was waiting for something new. Then Zhukovsky appeared.

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In the genre of elegy, there is a special system of values. The eternity of boundless being presupposes a pantheistic mystery, against which life acquires personal integrity due to its ultimate concentration in time and space. Elegiac beauty is the “farewell beauty” of an irretrievable moment, and elegiac experience is a feeling of living sadness about the disappeared.
The elegy "The Sea" was written by V. A. Zhukovsky in 1822. This poem expresses the sad reflections of the lyrical hero over the mysterious and surprisingly picturesque element of water. "Deep secret" is kept in the abyss of the azure sea. It is she who attracts the lyrical hero both with her dramatic tension, and with her serenity, immobility. The poet is concerned about the relationship between two abysses - the sea and the sky. The sea at Zhukovsky is not free, in contrast to the absolutely free sky. The sea is languishing in "earthly captivity", it can only enjoy the view of the "distant", "bright" sky. It seems as if two beings, feeling their kinship, spiritually gravitate towards each other. Love for the sky is a lofty ideal that fills the life of the sea with deep meaning. At the same time, the sea, sky and storm are symbolic images. For Zhukovsky, the sky is a symbol of serenity, peace, and beauty. When the sea conquers hostile clouds, the "sweet brilliance of the returned heavens" triumphs, silence, immobility. But the sky also symbolizes the soul flying up - the desire for unearthly perfection. In turn, the sea is also a symbol of the changeable human soul.
In the poem, only the image of the sea changes and develops. Through the eyes of a lyrical hero, we observe his movement from a height. Zhukovsky surprisingly accurately chose the style of the poem: the elegy is a poetic appeal of the lyrical hero to the sea element. Perhaps she reminds him of his own state of mind:
I stand enchanted over your abyss.
You are alive; you breathe; confused love,
You are filled with anxiety...
The movement of the sea is similar to the irreversibility of human life. Therefore, through the prism of the central image of the elegy, the lyrical hero speaks about his own experiences and feelings.
An important feature of the poem is the combination of statics and dynamics. The colorful descriptions that Zhukovsky draws are combined in an elegy with narrative elements: the lyrical subject talks about the sea as a living creature that loves, thinks, fights dark clouds for the sky:
When dark clouds gather
To take away the clear sky from you -
You fight, you howl, you raise waves,
You tear and torment the hostile darkness...
It is important to note that the conflict between the sea and the forces opposing it is resolved by the end of the poem. However, the image of the sea does not achieve complete internal harmony and external serenity:
And the darkness disappears, and the clouds go away;
But, full of past anxiety,
You raise frightened waves for a long time,
And the sweet gleam of returned skies
It doesn't give you silence at all...
The lyrical hero feels the deceptiveness of the still sea. It is no coincidence that the last lines of the poem reveal the main idea of ​​the elegy:
You hide confusion in the abyss of the dead,
You, admiring the sky, tremble for him.
True life consists in perpetual motion, in eternal struggle. It seems that the lyrical hero sees happiness and joy in the battle for love. You can't be complacent, you can't be complacent. Victory over the "dark clouds" of life can only be won in a tense struggle. The apparent silence and inner drama of the sea reflect the state of mind of the lyrical hero.
This poem reveals the romantic theme of the eternal longing for the ideal, the restless pursuit of a distant dream:
Silent sea, azure sea,
Reveal to me your deep secret:
What drives your immense bosom?
How does your tight chest breathe?
Or pulls you out of earthly bondage
Far, bright sky towards you? ..
In order to show the constant movement of the sea as vividly as possible, Zhukovsky uses many verbs. In almost every line of the poem, the lyrical hero describes the changes in the sea: the sea breathes, is filled with "swept away love" and "anxious thought". From the very beginning of the elegy, Zhukovsky makes us understand that the sea has a soul. Spirit, according to Zhukovsky, is the basis of life. The dynamics of the development of the image of the sea occurs in opposition to the static sky. The lyrical hero describes the brilliance of heaven in warm and light colors. The abundance of epithets helps the poet to enhance the contrast of light and darkness. In revealing the relationship between the two elements, antithesis is used. The nouns "love", "life", "light", "silence" are opposed to others: "mystery", "bondage", "clouds", "anxiety", "confusion".
In a romantic context, Slavicisms and archaisms sound in a special way, giving the elegy a coloring of a high poetic style. Repetitions enhance the melody and musicality of the piece.
The elegy "Sea" can be divided into two semantic parts. The first part (the beginning of the elegy) is a lyrical appeal to the sea element. We learn that the “silent sea” is filled with an anxious thought. In the second part, the poet reveals to the reader a "deep secret". It is important to note that, despite the large volume, the poem is harmonious and proportionate. Rhyme and rhythm give these qualities to verse. The elegy is written in four-foot amphibrach. The neutrality of this meter is combined with undeniable melodiousness, so the lack of rhyming is not noticed. In terms of sound, the elegy resembles the movement and sound of a wave, the ebb and flow of the sea is felt. If at the beginning it is silent and calm, then the “free element” is more and more worried. When clouds cover the sky, the sea, fearing separation from it, "torments the hostile darkness." The poet uses such a syntactic technique as gradation: “You fight, you howl, you raise waves, // You tear and torment the hostile darkness ...” This is the culmination of the elegy. Then the sea calms down, but the lyrical hero says that this serenity is deceptive.
The elegy "The Sea" is rightfully considered the manifesto of Zhukovsky the romantic. The main thing in it is the image of a person’s feelings, his emotions and experiences. An appeal to landscape lyrics, more precisely to the sea element, is necessary for the poet in order to understand the changes in the human soul deeper and more vividly. The sea is personified in the poem. At the same time, it is a symbol of longing and lack of freedom. The sea element is associated with the abyss of the human "I".