This article is a portrait of lev tolstoy. The author not only shows us Tolstoy's unique appearance characteristics, but also reveals Tolstoy's profound spiritual world. The full text consists of two parts in structure.

The first part (1 ~ 5) describes Tolstoy's appearance characteristics.

1 paragraph mainly talks about the characteristics of Tolstoy's beard and hair. "He is born with a hairy face, with more vegetation than open space, and a thick moustache makes it difficult to see his inner world clearly." The article has no background rendering, such as sketch directly into portrait description. This sentence outlines Tolstoy's face and highlights his overall characteristics-furry and bushy beard. These two characteristics are described as follows: a long beard covers the cheeks and covers the face; Eyebrows are about one finger wide and erect; Gray curly hair piled up on my forehead like foam. After describing them separately, I ended with one sentence: "No matter from any angle, you can see the thick hair and beard like a tropical forest." After summing up, the characteristics are highlighted again: Tolstoy's beard is "like rolling white waves." This passage caught Tolstoy's facial features with thick hair and beard and described it repeatedly, but it didn't give people the feeling of repetition. On the contrary, it made readers have a deep and unusual impression on Tuoweng's five senses at once. This is the artistic effect produced by the author's colorful description, which comes from exaggeration and metaphor: there is hair on his face, which is described as "more vegetation than clearing"; The dark face is "wrinkled like bark"; Eyebrows are about a finger wide, "like tangled roots"; Gray curly hair, piled on the forehead like foam; Full of hair and beard, as dense as a tropical forest; Beards are like rolling white waves. There are not only metaphors in these sentences, but also exaggerations in metaphors. The combination of metaphor and exaggeration not only makes the "picture" vivid, but also makes people have beautiful reverie.

The second paragraph mainly describes Tolstoy's facial contour and structure. At the beginning, the author begins with "People try to remove the hair that covers their faces with their own imagination, trim their beards crazily, and take Tolstoy's portrait of shaving off his beard when he was young as a reference, hoping to conjure up a smooth face by magic", as if to lift Tuoweng's beard and let readers further stare at his facial "modeling". Like the last paragraph, the author of this paragraph still uses many metaphors to describe Tuoweng's five senses: the whole face is like a shoddy hut made by a rural carpenter; The forehead above the small eyes is a tree wood that has been randomly split with a knife; The skin is as rough as the outer wall of a hut made of branches, and so on. In a word, Tuo Weng's face "gives people an unbalanced, rough, mediocre and even vulgar feeling".

In the third paragraph, Tolstoy's five senses are further described, with emphasis on his facial expressions. The author wrote: "This pair of workers' melancholy faces are shrouded in melancholy, dull and depressed." "His face has no luster at all." "It is not a temple to spread wisdom, but a prison to imprison ideas. "The author grasps Tuoweng's five senses and depicts them carefully, showing Tuoweng's ugly face.

In the fourth paragraph, Tolstoy is plain-looking and a member of the Russian general public. The author writes the commonness of Tolstoy's appearance from various angles. From the aspect of wearing, "there is nothing inappropriate for him to wear this coat, that coat, this hat or that hat." From a professional point of view, it is possible to preside over the ministerial meeting on the stage, or it is possible to fool around with a group of drunkards; Maybe a baker or an archbishop. Actually, Tolstoy is no different from ordinary people in real life. The author further wrote: when he was a student, he belonged to a mixture of his peers; When he became an officer, he was no different from his comrades; Living in the country is also similar to the role of a squire; Sitting in a carriage, who is the coachman will make people guess wrong; Talking to farmers is like being a farmer. The author shows Tolstoy's ordinary side from many angles, aiming to show that Tolstoy belongs to the Russian general public and "he shares the same fate with all Russian people". Revealing this means revealing Tolstoy's life pursuit and mental journey (see Resources for details).

The fifth paragraph mainly writes that Tolstoy's appearance will disappoint visitors. The author vividly describes the great contrast between Tolstoy in the eyes of visitors and Tolstoy in his own eyes. At the same time, through the description of the interview scene, the author once again gave us a comprehensive understanding of Tolstoy's physical characteristics, words and deeds, and hospitality, thus deepening our understanding of Tolstoy's image. This paragraph is also a transitional period, naturally transitioning to Tolstoy's description.

The second part (paragraphs 6-9) describes Tolstoy's unusual eyes.

Paragraph 6, write Tolstoy's sharp eyes. In this passage, the author once again wrote Tolstoy's profound and accurate insight with magical exaggeration and Julian's wonderful metaphor. "Under the bushy eyebrows, a pair of gray eyes are shining like panthers." "This one looks like a shiny steel knife, steady and accurate, and hits the key." "It penetrates camouflage armor like a bullet and cuts a piece of glass like a diamond knife."

In the seventh paragraph, Tolstoy's eyes contain rich feelings. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows of the soul, and Tolstoy's rich inner world is fully expressed through the eyes. "Changes in mood have caused changes in eyes." "Although the mouth is closed and there is no change, those eyes are full of smiles." In this passage, the author not only uses a lot of metaphors, but sometimes exaggerates them. He also uses two sets of parallelism sentences to describe what Tolstoy said: "The most emotional eyes on a person's face can best express all kinds of feelings": "Anger makes it cold, unhappiness makes it frozen, friendship makes it gentle, and passion makes it blazing." "Under the influence of beautiful and moving music, they can cry like village women. When they are spiritually satisfied, they can shine ","They can become cold and sharp, and they can uncover hidden secrets like scalpels and X-rays ". Finally, Gorky's words are quoted as the conclusion, which is concise and powerful, implicit and meaningful, and intriguing, which well shows Tolstoy's observation, sharpness and richness.

Paragraph 8: Write about the power of Tolstoy's eyes. "Fortunately, with such a pair of eyes, Tolstoy's face showed a glimmer of brilliance. ..... The other parts of Tolstoy's face-beard, eyebrows and hair-are just used to package and protect the shells of this pair of shiny jewels. "At this point, we suddenly put down Tolstoy's vulgar appearance, which turned out to be used to protect exquisite jewelry-this is the artistic effect of wanting to promote first and restrain later. The author goes on to write: "This is the magic and magnetism of jewelry, which can suck in the material in the world, and then radiate radio waves with accurate frequency to our times ..." Here, the author's description of Tolstoy's eyes is no longer limited to portrait description, but implicitly reveals that Tolstoy, as a great realistic artist, gave an accurate, in-depth and comprehensive description of his time and became the spokesman of the times. "Even the smallest thing can be seen clearly with the help of this pair of lenses, just like a falcon falling from the sky and pouncing on a timid mouse, even the most trivial details. ..... When this pair of cold light daggers turned to aim at its owner, it was terrible, because the sharp blade mercilessly hit the key and hit its heart. " This passage is about the breadth and depth of Tolstoy's observation of society, life and times, as well as the depth and breadth of his criticism.

Tolstoy is a master of literature. He has created first-class works in world literature. He galloped in the Russian literary world for nearly 60 years and created a large number of literary works with a wide range of themes and diverse genres. The complete works compiled behind him amount to 90 volumes. In this vast literature, there are three novels, War and Peace, anna karenine and Resurrection, which represent his artistic peak and mark his practice of "the most vivid realism". When we read his related works, we can understand why the author made such an evaluation of Tolstoy's vision.

The ninth paragraph praises Tolstoy's sharp eyes and reveals the misfortunes in his life.

From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Tolstoy completed the transformation of his world outlook. In the late 1970s, the class struggle in Russian society became increasingly fierce. 186 1 year after the reform, farmers who were on the verge of bankruptcy suffered a series of plunder, and now they have failed in crops for years, and thousands of people died of famine and plague. Natural and man-made disasters forced farmers to stand up and struggle, once again forming a revolutionary situation, which attracted Tolstoy's attention. So he stepped up social activities, visited churches and monasteries, and talked with bishops and priests; Appear on the jury; Visit prisons and shelters for new recruits; Investigate slums and so on. All this deepened his understanding of the tyranny and evil of the exploiting classes, promoted the drastic change of his world outlook and had a far-reaching impact on his creation. He once said in Confessions: "The period of 188 1 was the most intense and fiery period when I changed my whole outlook on life from my heart" and "I abandoned the life of that class". He wrote in Confessions (1879 ~ 1880) what is my belief? "(1882 ~ 1884)" So what should we do? " (1886) and other papers elaborated their own transformation and views after the transformation. Lenin pointed out the characteristics of this change: "Tolstoy belongs to the upper-class landlords and nobles in Russia in origin and education, but he abandoned all the traditional views of this class and turned to the patriarchal peasants' views." "Lenin also said that there are obvious contradictions in Tolstoy's transformed views. On the one hand, he exposed and criticized the hypocrisy of aristocratic bourgeois society, the exploitation of capitalism, the tyranny of government organs and the hypocrisy of government-run churches, on the other hand, he preached a set of Tolstoy-style sermons such as "moral cultivation", "not confronting evil with violence" and Christian forgiveness and fraternity. These contradictions reflect the resistance and weakness of Russian patriarchal peasants. Therefore, it can be said: "As a prophet who invented new technology to save the world, Tolstoy is ridiculous. Tolstoy is great as the expression of the thoughts and feelings of millions of Russian peasants when the Russian bourgeois revolution is coming. Tolstoy is original, because all his viewpoints, on the whole, only show the characteristics of China Revolution as a peasant bourgeois revolution. From this perspective, the contradictions in Tolstoy's eyes are indeed a mirror reflecting various contradictions in the historical activities of farmers during the Russian Revolution. " (Lenin: lev tolstoy is the Mirror of Russian Revolution, Selected Works of Lenin, Vol.2, p.369).

Tolstoy devoted himself to "common people" in his later years: he was a vegetarian, engaged in manual labor, cultivated land, watered vegetables and made shoes; And hoped to give up private property and aristocratic privileges, so there was a conflict with his wife and family relations became tense. Finally, he ran away from home in secret, caught a cold on the way, and died at Astabovo Railway Station on1911.20 (11.7). According to his will, the body was buried in the forest of Paulia in Jasna. There is no tombstone or cross erected on the grave, which Zweig called "the most beautiful grave in the world".