The wonderful poet I. Bunin in the poem "Evening" reflected on happiness in August 1909. The day was declining, his hero averted his eyes from the books he was reading, looked at the edge of a white cloud, heard the thunder of a thresher on the threshing floor and suddenly disappeared into happiness, although he suggested that a person does not see enough and knows how to be happy.
What was the poet thinking about?
About the eternal, which is understood through the simple, not simplified, but the most natural. Silence and serene peace simply enter the soul of the lyrical hero through visual and sound sensations. Perhaps, indeed, happiness loves silence. The meaning of the phrase is to carefully look at the familiar, try to consider the beauty in the ordinary.
The conclusion that is being drawn is: happiness is the fusion of a beautiful and perfect outer world and a rich inner world. To feel it, it is enough just to stop the run of everyday life, look around and look into yourself.
Another side
Why is a man born? Hero V.G. Korolenko believed that "a man was born for happiness, like a bird for flight, " that is, for action or freedom.
So, if happiness loves silence, the meaning of the phrase contradicts Korolenko’s statement. There it is, happiness - in actively influencing the situation! But the active action is not available to the hero of his essay Paradox. A miserable disabled person without arms could only speculate and bitterly dream of happiness that was not created for him. And yet, in spite of everything, the cripple is the author of a life-affirming aphorism.
What did A. Pushkin think? A. Block? S. Yesenin?
A. Pushkin did not find happiness in the world. For him, there was only "will" and "peace." Most likely, it was they who were associated with him with happiness, which in itself is, according to the poet, an unattainable ideal.
This is echoed by A. Block. The lyrical hero of his poems was sure that happiness is a shaky childhood dream. He talks about it, full of gentle sadness.
S. Yesenin said: "Here it is, stupid happiness." He wrote his nostalgic poem in 1918 in the bustling Moscow, where he recalled his village. There, in silence, a girl in white with pink cheeks sings a tender song. So, then, according to Yesenin, happiness loves silence. The meaning of the phrase is in a quiet sunset behind a pond, in the chill, stretching from the evening field, in blooming viburnum. This is a return to youth, which is forever gone and which can only be remembered. But after all, the poet himself in Moscow, as naturally as in childhood, could not live. And apparently he was not happy.
What is the person thinking?
Perhaps not about happiness, about him, as I. Bunin said, we only remember. It is either there or not, according to subjective sensations. It’s just that a person always needs something, and he sets off after the tangible material. But for life, without any special undertakings, without loud pathetic phrases, the saying “happiness loves silence” is quite suitable. After all, the more sincere we say, the quieter our words. We do not prove anything in the heat of the argument, we simply offer our point of view. And it is best to peer at your loved ones in silence, then you see their true beauty.
