"A word about Igor's Host" was created by a man,poetically brilliantly gifted and well-known and songs of Boyan, and folk poetry of his time. It is full of vivid epithets, comparisons, metaphors, organically creating the fabric of the work.
To conduct a literary analysis thatwill open in such a work as "The Lay of Igor's Host", epithets, metaphors, comparisons, we will briefly recall the content. So, it begins with a metaphorical beginning about the singer Boyana, who, leading the story, "spread his thoughts, let ten falcons into a herd of swans", that is, he laid his fingers on the strings.
The Kiev prince Sviatoslav is portrayed as a formidable ruler, capable of uniting the Russian lands.
Love to the Motherland and the desire that princes,stop quarreling, finally united, almost every phrase of a scribe-writer is imbued. The artistic and ideological aspects are inseparable from each other. Let us demonstrate some comparisons in The Lay of Igor's Host. Examples: the battlefield on Kayal is like a plowland, where the land is sown with bones, or a feast with bloody wine, when the battle ended with the victory of the Polovtsians, and on the Nemiga - the harvest with sheaves of heads. Peaceful work is opposed to war, destruction is creation.
They, gentle and affectionate, always in thought aboutaffairs of family and home. The sadness and care of women are inseparably linked with the grief of the state, as the comparison in the "Lay of Igor's Host" says. Examples: the young wife of the prince is compared with a cuckoo.
Before the listener or the reader there is an immensea country. The wide geographical expanses are involved in action. The Polovtsian steppe ("the land is unknown"), the blue boundless sea, many rivers and cities. Before the author spreads all of Rus, from the edge to the edge.
Filled with "The Lay of Igor's Host" epithets,metaphors, comparisons. Typically, folklore epithets overwhelm him: if wolves, then gray, if swords, then sharp, if arrows, then red-hot, if horses, then greyhounds, if the raven, then black. Virgo is red, the sun is bright, the dawns are bloody, the tear is pearl, the string is alive ...
Nature does not remain indifferent to the joys andthe sorrows of the people. Igor, escaped from captivity, a river with silver banks gives a green bed. The shelter of Igor is a warm fog, guarded by gogol and wild ducks. The author covers events for a millennium and a half, "fusing the glory of both halves of this time" (metaphor), constantly connecting the past and the present. He unites in the "Lay of the Regiment ..." and nature, and people, and history. The artistic form of the work helps to identify one idea - the idea of the necessary unity of Russia. This is the work of all the poetic paths that fill the "The Lay of Igor's Host" - comparisons, epithets.
Sukhovat, but detailed and extensive "Ipatievskayachronicle ". "A word about the shelf of Igor" (a comparison if you hold), first, is shorter, and secondly, of course, a poetic phenomenon. From the annals you can set the date of the march and the date of the eclipse, how many days Igor was waiting for his brother and how unexpectedly Igor heard the news that the Polovtsians were ready for battle. The chronicle reflects the construction of troops, both Russian and Polovtsian, and also goes the story that after the first victory of the Russian Polovtsi began to suddenly come, like a dense forest. From there we learn that a total of fifteen people remained from the entire Russian army.
"The word about the regiment ..." is an important work for our country. It can be analyzed not only from the literary, but also from the historical point of view.