The problem of life and death in Yesenin’s works

The article highlights and analyses the themes of life and death in Yesenin’s verses “I Do Not Regret, And I Do Not Shed Tears”, “The Golden Birch-Tree Grove Has Fallen Silent”, “We’ll Depart This World For Ever, Surely”, “Now My Grief Won’t Be Split By The Ringing”, “I Am The Last Poet Of The Village”, “Forty Days Prayers For The Dead”. The lyrical hero of the most of Yesenin’s poems is a person who loves life and but is always aware of the death, and this sadness penetrates all his poems. The main compositional method used by Yesenin is antithesis. The author of the article shows that the poet’s favorite poetic method is a metaphor which he uses skillfully.