Leo Tolstoy was a famous Russian author known for his realistic style of writing. He used events and ordinary characters to examine complex topics like war, religion, and feminism. Tolstoy's writing was characterized by an uncomplicated style, careful construction, and deep insights into human nature. He often concluded his works with a moral lesson. Some of Tolstoy's most famous works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

1. T’was a summer days
Ye reminiscing those moments
Thou can’t wait together again
It’s been a long time, never seen

2. Leo Tolstoy
His writing and styles

3. Who is he?
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“Lyova-Ryova”
Kind and generous
Vegetarian
Unmarked grave

4. Tolstoy as a poet
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease
your work, look around you.
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for
themselves but by the love in other people.

5. He used ordinary events and characters to
examine war, religion, feminism and other
topics,
His chapter are short and he paid much
attention in details to the everyday life.
All of his word is characterized by uncomplicated
style, careful construction, and deep insight into
human nature.

6. Writing styles
Tolstoy’s fiction grew originally out of his diaries.
Clear and concise
Often conclude with a moral lesson
All of his work is characterized by uncomplicated style,
careful construction, and deep insight into human
nature.

7. Writings styles
sentences are often elliptical
E.g. Martin's soul grew very very glad.
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed
not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its
citizens … Henceforth, I shall never serve any
government anywhere.

8. Tolstoy uses imagery to depict each man’s physical
state of health, describing the youngest as being
“old and bent, ashy pale and “toothless”, and the
eldest as “his eye was clear, his hearing good, and
he spoke distinctly”, contrasting both in a way that
creates an ironic way, presenting the eldest one as
the healthiest, when it is expected to be the other
way around.

9. The diction and syntax are used with the ultimate goal
of emphasizing the final resolution.
He says “Because men have ceased to live by their
own labour, and have taken to depending on the
labour of others”.
The message here, although not stated directly, is one
of humility and content with one’s life, an attempt by
the author to make people realize how greed can
overcome a person, affecting not only mental health,
but physical health as well.

10. Although Tolstoy’s writing in this story can be taken
literally, much of it is connotative, since many of the
figures in the story carry a suggested meaning, and
the objects in it are symbolic.
 "A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg“
Tolstoy wanted to use it as a means of transforming
his own beliefs into a parable that could be as easily
communicated as old tales were by mouth.

11. Uses parallel sentence structures to establish
patterns which add to the suspension that he
creates in the story.
“The more is given the less the people will work for
themselves, and the less they work the more their
poverty will increase.”

12. The pattern of his sentences is also periodic, using a
certain number of sentences in a certain order that
is followed by one or two in a pattern, where the
questions will be one line, beginning with “Tell me,
grandfather”, followed by a one line response of the
man’s reaction, such as “The old man smiled”, then
followed by his two or three line responses. This
pattern, builds on the anticipation that Tolstoy
creates to push his readers into the message at the
end.

13. Tolstoy critics
Very effective in making his fiction appear to be
very realistic and lifelike.
“We’re all looking for freedom from our obligations
to our fellow man, but that is precisely what us
human beings, that sense of our obligations, and if
it weren’t for that, we would live like animals”.