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Afanasy Fet made a significant contribution to literature. During Fet's student days, the first collection of works, The Lyrical Pantheon, was released.

In the first works, Fet tried to get away from reality, described the beauty of Russian nature, wrote about feelings, about love. In his works, the poet touches on important and eternal topics, but speaks not directly, but in hints. Fet skillfully conveyed the whole gamut of emotions and moods, while evoking pure and bright feelings in readers.

Creativity changed its direction after the death of his beloved Fet. The poet dedicated the poem "Talisman" to Maria Lazic. Probably all subsequent works about love were also dedicated to this woman. The second collection of works aroused keen interest and a positive reaction from literary critics. This happened in 1850, at the same time Fet became one of the best contemporary poets that time.

Afanasy Fet was a poet of "pure art", in his works he did not touch social issues and politics. Throughout his life, he adhered to conservative views and was a monarchist. The next collection was published in 1856, it included poems in which Fet admired the beauty of nature. The poet believed that this is precisely the purpose of his work.

Fet hardly endured the blows of fate, as a result, relations with friends were interrupted and the poet began to write less. After two volumes of collection of poems in 1863, he completely ceased to engage in creativity. This break lasted 20 years. Muse returned to Fet after he was returned to the privileges of a nobleman and the name of his stepfather. Later, the poet's work touched on philosophical themes, in his works Fet wrote about the unity of man and the Universe. Fet published four volumes of the collection of poems "Evening Lights", the last one was published after the death of the poet.

I came to you with greetings

Tell that the sun is up

That it is hot light
The sheets fluttered ...

Introduction

The works of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet rightfully belong to the masterpieces of Russian classical poetry. Fet's poetry has stood the test of time, and today he is one of the most widely read classic poets. Personally, I liked that great poet.

When I read his lyric play "Whisper, timid breath ..." for the first time, I felt a special mood, a rush vitality.

Whisper, timid breath,

Nightingale trills,

Silver and wobble

Sleepy brook ...

In my opinion - marvelous! It was this poem that became a kind of poetic "self-portrait". The poem is built on some nominative sentences. Not a single verb. Only objects and phenomena that follow one another without any action.

The essence of poetry

Love, nature and art are the main motives of Fet's poetry. Intricately intertwining with each other, complementing a friend of a friend, they create the unique poetry of A. A. Fet. In his lyrics, the fusion of the inner and outer world is clearly felt.

As I noticed, with all the concreteness of the description of nature, Fet's poems are built in a special way: initially, a landscape is given - a visible picture of nature, drawn bright colors and imbued with a certain mood, and at the end the lyrical feeling of the hero is expressed, his inner world is revealed.

In the smoky clouds, purple roses,

Reflection of amber,

And kissing and tears

And dawn! Dawn! ...

The poetry of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet is also melodic and musical. All this is helped by the vivid epithets inherent in the poetry of our poet. Reading Fet's poems, it is as if you are immersed in some extraordinary world, the world of wonderful sounds, magical colors, fabulous pictures.

Night flowers sleep all day

But only the sun will go down behind the grove,

Quietly the sheets unfold

And I can hear the heart bloom.

He saw beauty in the mundane and mundane, saw the ideal and the eternal in the everyday and transient. Fet was an impressionist: the vague incipient movements of the soul, which cannot be precisely named, the poet knew how to inspire the reader's soul. The source of creativity can be an ordinary walk, a seen landscape or, moreover, a fleeting mood.

Fet's world can be called the world of "the unity of opposites", their harmonious fusion. This opposition of images can be clearly seen in the phrases from the lines of his poems: "purple clouds", "bright night" ... The poet has a peculiar color scheme.

Love in lyrics

In the lyrics of A. A. Fet, the theme of love plays an important role. The creation of beautiful poems about love is explained not only by the great gift and special talent of the poet. In the case of Fet, it has a real reflection in life.

The poet was inspired by his love for the daughter of the landowner Maria Lazic. As far as their love was high and huge, so tragic. Maria knew that Fet would never marry her, her death was dark and mysterious, moreover, one can assume that it was suicide. Feelings of guilt constantly pursued Fet throughout his life. And, maybe, all the same, the worries about the loss of their beloved were reflected in the other world of Fet - the world of lyric experiences, moods, feelings embodied in poems. Fet felt himself in another life, the world of poetry, where he was not alone, but next to a loved one. They are together again, and no one can separate them.

And even though life is without you

I was destined to drag out

But we are together with you

We cannot be separated.

Perhaps the death of a beloved girl revealed the talent of a magnificent poet, who wrote such wonderful poems of love, full of sadness and longing and at the same time filled with joy, happiness and a thirst for life.

In memory of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (1820-1892)

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet - a famous Russian poet with German roots,lyricist,translator, author of memoirs. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg

In the Oryol province, near the town of Mtsensk, in the 19th century, the Novosyolki estate was located, where on December 5, 1820, in the house of a wealthy landowner Shenshin, a young woman Charlotte-Elizabeth Becker Fet gave birth to a boy named Afanasy.

Charlotte-Elizabeth was a Lutheran, lived in Germany and was married to Johann-Peter-Karl-Wilhelm Feth, assessor of the Darmstadt city court. They married in 1818, and a girl named Caroline-Charlotte-Dahlia-Ernestina was born in the family. And in 1820, Charlotte-Elizabeth Becker Fet left her little daughter and husband and left for Russia with Afanasy Neofitovich Shenshin, being seven months pregnant.

On the pastures of the dumb I love the crackling frost
In the light of the sun I am the sun prickly shine,
Forests under the caps or in gray hoarfrost
Yes, a ringing river under the dark blue ice.
How they love to find pensive looks
Wind-blown ditches, mountain-inspired
Sleepy epics among naked fields,
Where the hill is quaint, like some kind of mausoleum,
Sculpted by midnight, - or clouds of distant vortices
On white shores and mirrored openings.

Afanasy Neofitovich was a retired captain. During a trip abroad, he fell in love with a Lutheran Charlotte Elizabeth and married her. But since the Orthodox wedding ceremony was not performed, this marriage was considered legal only in Germany, and in Russia it was recognized as invalid. In 1822, the woman converted to Orthodoxy, becoming known as Elizaveta Petrovna Fet, and soon they married the landowner Shenshin.

When the boy was 14 years old, the Oryol provincial authorities discovered that Afanasy was written down in the surname Shenshin earlier than his mother.
I was married to my stepfather. In this regard, the guy was stripped of his surname and title of nobility. This hurt the teenager so deeply, because in an instant he turned from a wealthy heir into a nameless person, then he suffered all his life because of his dual position.

From that time on, he bore the surname Fet, as the son of a foreigner unknown to him. Athanasius took it as a shame, and he had an obsession,which became decisive in his life path, - to return the lost surname.

Afanasy received an excellent education. Studying was easy for a talented boy. In 1837 he graduated from a private German boarding school in Verro, Estonia. Even then, Fet began to write poetry, showed interest in literature and classical philology. After school, in order to prepare for entering the university, he studied at the boarding house of Professor Pogodin, a writer, historian and journalist. In 1838, Afanasy Fet entered the law department, and then - the philosophy faculty of Moscow University, where he studied at the historical-philological (verbal) department.

Wonderful picture
How dear you are to me:
White plain
Full moon,

The light of the high heavens,
And shiny snow
And the sledges distant
Lonely run.

At the university, Afanasy became close to student Apollo Grigoriev, who was also fond of poetry. Together they began to attend a circle of students who were intensively engaged in philosophy and literature. With the participation of Grigoriev, Fet released his first collection of poems "Lyrical Pantheon". The work of the young student was approved by Belinsky. And Gogol spoke of him as "an undoubted talent." This became a kind of "blessing" and inspired Afanasy Fet for further creativity. In 1842 his poems were published in many publications, including the popular magazines Otechestvennye zapiski and Moskvityanin. In 1844, Fet graduated from the university.

The spruce covered my path with its sleeve.
Wind. Alone in the forest
Noisy, and creepy, and sad, and fun, -
I do not understand anything.

Wind. Everything around is buzzing and swaying,
Leaves swirl at your feet.
Chu, there is suddenly heard in the distance
A subtly invoking horn.

Sweet is the call of the herald of copper!
Dead leaves for me!
It seems from afar a poor wanderer
You greet me affectionately.

After graduating from university, Fet entered the army, he needed this in order to regain his title of nobility. He ended up in one of the southern regiments, from there he was sent to the Uhlan guards regiment. And in 1854 he was transferred to the Baltic regiment (this period of service he later described in his memoirs "My memoirs").

In 1858, Fet finished his service as a captain and settled in Moscow.

In 1850, the second book with poetry was publishedFeta, which was already criticized positively in the Sovremennik magazine, some even admired his work. After this collection, the author was accepted into the environment of famous Russian writers, which included Druzhinin, Nekrasov, Botkin, Turgenev. Literary earnings improved Fet's financial situation, and he went to travel abroad.

In the poems of Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet, three main lines were clearly traced - love, art, nature. The next collections of his poems were published in 1856 (edited by I. S. Turgenev) and in 1863 (two-volume collected works at once).

Despite the fact that Fet was a sophisticated lyricist, he managed to perfectly manage economic affairs, buy and sell estates, making a fortune.

In 1860, Afanasy Fet bought the Stepanovka farm, began to manage, lived there without a break, only appearing in Moscow for a short time in winter.

In 1877, Fet bought the Vorobyovka estate in the Kursk province. T 18
8 1 he bought a house in Moscow, he came to Vorobyovka only to the dacha summer period... He again took up creativity, wrote memoirs, translated, released another lyric collection of poems "Evening Lights".

Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet left a significant mark on Russian literature. In the first poems, Fet glorified the beauty of nature, wrote a lot about love. Even then, in his work, it was manifested feature- Fet spoke about important and eternal concepts in hints, knew how to convey the finest shades moods, awakening pure and bright emotions in readers.

After the tragic deathsweetheartFet dedicated the poem "Talisman" to Maria Lazic. It is believed that all of Fet's subsequent verses about love are dedicated to her. In 1850 the second collection of his poems was published. It sparked the interest of critics, who were generous with positive reviews. At the same time, Fet was recognized as one of the best modern poets.

The night was shining. The garden was full of the moon. Lay
Beams at our feet in a living room without lights.
The grand piano was open and the strings were trembling
As well as our hearts for your song.
You sang until dawn, exhausted in tears,
That you are the only one - love, that there is no other love,
And so I wanted to live so that, without dropping a sound,
Love you, hug and cry over you.
And many years have passed, weary and boring,
And in the stillness of the night I hear your voice again,
And blows, as then, in these sonorous sighs,
That you are one - all life, that you are one - love.
That there are no grievances of fate and a heart of burning torment,
And life has no end, and there is no other goal,
Once you believe in the sounds of crying
Love you, hug and cry over you!

Afanasy Fet remained a staunch conservative and monarchist until the end of his life. In 1856 he published his third collection of poems. Fet praised beauty, considering it the only goal of creativity.

In 1863the poet released a two-volume collection of poems, and then there was a twenty-year break in his work.

Only after the poet's stepfather's surname and the privileges of a hereditary nobleman were returned to the poet, he took up creativity with renewed vigor.

Towards the end of his life, the poems of Afanasy Fet became more philosophical. The poet wrote about the unity of man and the Universe, about the highest reality, about eternity. In the period from 1883 to 1891 Fet wrote more than three hundred poems, they were included in the collection "Evening Lights". The poet published four editions of the collection, and the fifth came out after his death. With a wistful smile on his brow.

In his work A. A. Fet (1820-1892) proceeded from the recognition of the high and enduring significance of poetry, sharply opposing it to reality, which seemed to him "the world of boredom and labor." “Sorrow could never inspire us,” he wrote at the end of his life. Fet was convinced that literature is designed to reflect only the highest values, to respond to eternal, universal human needs, completely leaving aside topical issues social and political life.

Fet's poetry differs sharply from the democratic ("Nekrasov") line in Russian literature. The very tone of his poems is different from that of the "muse of revenge and sorrow": light, cheerful, optimistic. He is characterized by a state of admiration for beauty, nature, love, art. But in that relatively narrow sphere of creativity that Fet chose for himself, he achieved great perfection and skill.

The most valuable part Feta heritage - small in size lyric works... His poems about nature are among the wonderful examples of landscape poetry. He reproduces nature not in statics, but in motion, in those imperceptible changes that allow one to feel its poetic flavor. The poet knows how to see the beauty of a typically Russian "soft" nature. Fet's connection between man and nature is not given directly, but His landscape is internally humanized. Nature and man form a single, indissoluble world ("Forest", " Spring rain"," Since the lake fell asleep ", etc.).

For creating a complete picture of nature in a small lyric poem Fet makes extensive use of vivid details presented by “ close-up», specific examples this or that time of year or time of day, giving impetus to the reader's imagination, causing certain associations. Similar techniques for developing a lyrical landscape will be used in Russian prose (for example, y and).

Unlike landscape lyrics, Fet's poems about love are devoid of concreteness. The images of the hero and heroine are almost not individualized. These poems attract attention primarily by the depth of the transmission of human feelings, the ability to describe subtle, almost imperceptible emotional movements that cannot even be precisely defined or named. The poet is mainly interested in fleeting phenomena mental life in their relationship with nature ("The night was shining ...", "Only in the world is there ...", "At dawn, you don't wake her up ...", "I came to you with greetings ...", etc.).

Poetic system Feta is based not on the exact, logically verified meaning of the word, but on associative connections, musicality. The ambiguity, the fragility of the meaning of the word, the lack of a clear boundary between the direct and figurative meaning, metaphoricity associated with the traditions of Zhukovsky. In turn, Fet becomes one of the predecessors of the Symbolists. A. believed that Fet's poems were a "guiding star" for him. Fet's creative experience also did not pass without a trace for the development of Russian prose. The combination of concreteness and emotional coloring in landscapes, for example, can be compared with poems about the nature of Fet. His love lyrics influenced the formation of psychological prose. This applies to an even greater extent to Tyutchev's poems.

On November 23, 1820, in the village of Novoselki, located near Mtsensk, the great Russian poet Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet was born into the family of Karolina Charlotte Fet and Afanasy Neofitovich Shenshin. His parents got married without an Orthodox ceremony abroad (the poet's mother was a Lutheran), which is why the marriage, legalized in Germany, was invalidated in Russia.

Deprivation of a title of nobility

Later, when the wedding was performed Orthodox rite Afanasy Afanasyevich already lived under his mother's surname - Fet, being considered her illegitimate child. The boy was deprived, except for his father's surname, and the title of nobility, Russian citizenship and inheritance rights. For a young man for many years, the most important life purpose began to regain the surname Shenshin and all the rights associated with it. Only in his old age was he able to achieve this, regaining hereditary nobility.

Education

The future poet in 1838 entered the boarding school of Professor Pogodin in Moscow, and in August of the same year he was enrolled in the verbal department at Moscow University. In the family of his classmate and friend, he lived his student years. The friendship of young people contributed to the formation of their common ideals and views on art.

First pen attempts

Afanasy Afanasyevich begins to compose poetry, and in 1840 a collection of poetry published at his own expense, entitled "The Lyric Pantheon", was published. In these poems one could clearly hear the echoes of the poetry of Yevgeny Baratynsky, and since 1842 Afanasy Afanasyevich has been constantly published in the journal Otechestvennye zapiski. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky already in 1843 writes that of all the poets living in Moscow, Fet is "more gifted", and puts the poems of this author on a par with the works of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov.

The need for a military career

Fet strove for literary activity with all his soul, but the instability of the material and social situation forced the poet to change his fate. Afanasy Afanasyevich in 1845 entered a non-commissioned officer in one of the regiments located in the Kherson province in order to be able to receive hereditary nobility (the right to which was given by the senior officer rank). Torn away from the literary environment and life in the capital, he almost ceases to be published, also because, due to the fall in demand for poetry, magazines do not show interest in his poems.

A tragic event in Fet's personal life

In the Kherson years, a tragic event that predetermined the poet's personal life happened: his beloved Maria Lazich, a girl without dowry, died in a fire, whom he did not dare to marry because of his poverty. After Fet's refusal, a strange incident happened to her: a dress on Maria caught fire from a candle, she ran into the garden, but could not cope with extinguishing the clothes and suffocated in the smoke. In this one could suspect the girl's attempt to commit suicide, and the echoes of this tragedy will sound in Fet's poems for a long time (for example, the poem "When you read the painful lines ...", 1887).

Admission to L Life Guards Ulansky Regiment

In 1853 occurs sharp turn in the fate of the poet: he managed to enter the guard, in the Ulan regiment of the Life Guards stationed near St. Petersburg. Now Afanasy Afanasyevich gets the opportunity to visit the capital, resumes his literary activity, begins to regularly publish poems in Sovremennik, Russkiy Vestnik, Otechestvennye zapiski, Library for Reading. He becomes close to Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Nekrasov, Vasily Botkin, Alexander Druzhinin - editors of Sovremennik. Fet's name, already half-forgotten by that time, reappears in reviews, articles, and the journal's chronicle, and since 1854 his poems have also been published. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev became the poet's mentor and even prepared a new edition of his works in 1856.

The fate of the poet in 1856-1877

Fet was unlucky in the service: each time the rules for obtaining hereditary nobility were tightened. In 1856, he left his military career, never having achieved his main goal... In Paris in 1857 Afanasy Afanasyevich married the daughter of a wealthy merchant, Maria Petrovna Botkina, and acquired an estate in the Mtsensk district. At that time, he wrote almost no poetry. Being a supporter of conservative views, Fet sharply negatively perceived the abolition of serfdom in Russia and, starting in 1862, began to regularly publish essays in the Russian Bulletin, denouncing the post-reform order from the position of a landowner-landowner. In the years 1867-1877, he served as a magistrate. In 1873, Afanasy Afanasyevich finally received hereditary nobility.

Fet's fate in the 1880s

The poet returned to literature only in the 1880s, having moved to Moscow and became rich. In 1881, his old dream came true - he published a translation of his favorite philosopher, "The World as Will and Representation". In 1883, a translation of all the works of the poet Horace, begun by Fet as a student, was published. The period from 1883 to 1991 saw the publication of four issues of the poetry collection "Evening Lights".

Fet's lyrics: general characteristics

The poetry of Afanasy Afanasyevich, romantic in its origins, is, as it were, connecting link between the works of Vasily Zhukovsky and Alexander Blok. The poet's later poems gravitated towards the Tyutchev tradition. Fet's main lyrics are love and landscape.

In the 1950s-1960s, during the formation of Afanasy Afanasyevich as a poet, Nekrasov and his supporters, apologists of poetry glorifying public, civic ideals, almost completely dominated the literary environment. Therefore, Afanasy Afanasyevich with his work, one might say, spoke somewhat out of time. The features of Fet's lyrics did not allow him to join Nekrasov and his group. Indeed, according to representatives of civic poetry, poetry must necessarily be topical, fulfilling a propaganda and ideological task.

Philosophical motives

Feta permeates all of his work, reflected in both landscape and love poetry. Although Afanasy Afanasyevich was even friends with many poets of the Nekrasov circle, he argued that art should not be interested in anything other than beauty. Only in love, nature and art proper (painting, music, sculpture) did he find enduring harmony. Fet's philosophical lyrics sought to get away from reality as far as possible, contemplating beauty that was not involved in the bustle and bitterness of everyday life. This led to the adoption of romantic philosophy by Afanasy Afanasyevich in the 1940s, and the so-called theory of pure art in the 1960s.

The predominant mood in his works is delight with nature, beauty, art, memories, delight. These are the features of Fet's lyrics. Often the poet has a motive of flying away from the earth, following the moonlight or enchanting music.

Metaphors and epithets

Everything that belongs to the category of the sublime and beautiful is endowed with wings, above all love feeling and a song. Fet's lyrics often use such metaphors as "winged dream", "winged song", "winged hour", "winged words sound", "inspired with delight", etc.

Epithets in his works usually describe not the object itself, but the impression of the lyrical hero from what he saw. Therefore, they can be inexplicable logically and unexpected. For example, a violin can be defined as "melting". Typical epithets for Fet are "dead dreams", "fragrant speeches", " silver dreams"," herbs in sobbing "," widowed azure ", etc.

Often a picture is drawn using visual associations. The poem "Singer" is a vivid example of this. It shows the desire to embody the sensations created by the melody of the song into specific images and sensations that make up Fet's lyrics.

These verses are very unusual. So, "the distance rings", and the smile of love "meekly shines", "the voice burns" and freezes in the distance, like "the dawn beyond the sea", in order to splash out pearls again "with a loud tide". Russian poetry did not know such complex and bold images at that time. They were established much later, only with the advent of the Symbolists.

Speaking about the creative manner of Fet, Impressionism is also mentioned, which is based on the direct fixation of impressions of reality.

Nature in the work of the poet

Landscape lyrics Feta is the source of divine beauty in eternal renewal and diversity. Many critics have mentioned that nature is described by this author as if from a window manor house or from the perspective of a park, as if specifically to arouse admiration. Fet's landscape lyrics are a universal expression of the beauty of the world untouched by man.

For Afanasy Afanasyevich, nature is a part of his own "I", a background for his experiences and feelings, a source of inspiration. Fet's lyrics seem to blur the line between external and inner peace... Therefore, human properties in his poems can be attributed to darkness, air, even color.

Very often, nature in Fet's lyrics is a night landscape, since it is at night, when the day's bustle calms down, that it is easiest to enjoy the all-embracing, indestructible beauty. At this time of day, the poet has no glimpses of the chaos that fascinated and frightened Tyutchev. The majestic harmony hidden during the day reigns. Not the wind and darkness, but the stars and the moon come out on top. Fet reads the "book of fire" of eternity by the stars (the poem "Among the Stars").

The themes of Fet's lyrics are not limited to the description of nature. A special section of his work is poetry dedicated to love.

Fet's love lyrics

Love for a poet is a whole sea of ​​feelings: both timid longing, and the enjoyment of spiritual closeness, and the apotheosis of passion, and the happiness of two souls. The poetic memory of this author knew no bounds, which allowed him to write poems dedicated to first love, even in his declining years, as if he was still under the impression of such a desired recent date.

Most often, the poet described the inception of feeling, the most enlightened, romantic and quivering moments of it: the first touch of hands, long looks, the first evening walk in the garden, the contemplation of the beauty of nature that engenders spiritual closeness. Lyrical hero says that he values ​​the steps to it no less than happiness itself.

Fet's landscape and love lyrics form an inseparable unity. Heightened perception of nature is often caused by love experiences. A striking example of this is the miniature "Whisper, timid breath ..." (1850). The fact that there are no verbs in the poem is not only original reception, but also a whole philosophy. There is no action because the description is actually only one moment or whole line moments, motionless and self-sufficient. The image of the beloved, described by detailing, seems to dissolve in the general gamut of the poet's feelings. There is no complete portrait of the heroine - it should be supplemented and recreated by the reader's imagination.

Love in Fet's lyrics is often complemented by other motives. So, in the poem "The night was shining. The garden was full of the moon ..." three feelings are united in a single impulse: admiration for music, a delightful night and inspired singing, which grows into love for the singer. The whole soul of the poet dissolves in music and at the same time in the soul of the singing heroine, who is the living embodiment of this feeling.

This poem is difficult to classify unequivocally as love lyrics or poetry about art. It would be more correct to define it as a hymn to beauty, combining the liveliness of experience, its charm with deep philosophical overtones. This worldview is called aestheticism.

Afanasy Afanasyevich, carried away on the wings of inspiration beyond the bounds of earthly existence, feels himself a sovereign, equal to the gods, overcoming the limited possibilities of man by the power of his poetic genius.

Conclusion

The whole life and work of this poet is a search for beauty in love, nature, even death. Was he able to find her? This question can only be answered by someone who really understood the creative heritage of this author: he heard the music of his works, saw landscape paintings, felt the beauty of poetic lines and learned to find harmony in the world around him.

We examined the main motives of Fet's lyrics, characteristics creativity of this great writer. So, for example, like any poet, Afanasy Afanasyevich writes about the eternal theme of life and death. He is not equally afraid of death or life ("Poems about Death"). The poet feels only cold indifference to his physical death, and Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet justifies his earthly existence only by creative fire, commensurate in his view with the "whole universe". Antique motifs (for example, "Diana") and Christian ("Ave Maria", "Madonna") sound in verses.

More detailed information about Fet's work you can find in school textbooks on Russian literature, in which the lyrics of Afanasy Afanasyevich are considered in some detail.