Pushkin was called “the sun of Russian poetry,” and Vladimir Mayakovsky compared poetry itself to the sun and wrote a poem “An extraordinary adventure that happened with Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha”, the analysis of which will be discussed below.
Already the first lines of this poem help the reader to immerse himself in atmosphere of a fun fairy tale, a fun adventure. Before his gaze appears, on the one hand, a completely specific area (Pushkino, Akulova Gora, Rumyantsev’s dacha), on the other hand, there is a feeling of something unusual, which is found only in fairy tales: something like "in some kingdom, in some state". The name itself sets up the perception of some kind of adventure that will happen to a hero who bears the same name as the author. A similar abstraction from one’s own name will be developed in the prose of the twentieth century by Venedikt Erofeev.
A familiar, at first glance, picture of a sunset suddenly turns into a fantastic picture: “The sunset glowed with a hundred suns”(characteristic of Mayakovsky's style hyperbola). A slightly slow, thorough beginning filled with light humor gradually intensifies, as if “warming up” interest in the story, making you look forward to the event that was promised in the title.
The extraordinary event itself is presented very emotionally:
What have I done! I'm dead!
Such conversational intonations give the poem the confidence characteristic of all Mayakovsky’s poetry. It is no coincidence that he has so many “Letters” and “Conversations”. In addition, the use of literally erased metaphors: for the poet, the sun really sets and sets, as if it were some kind of creature. Not without humor, he depicts his extraordinary meeting with the sun; he only conceals the fantasy, surrounding it with simple signs of everyday life, accompanying it with spare but very colorful details: “stumbled in, caught his breath, and spoke in a deep voice...”, “confused, I sat down on the corner of the bench...”, “And soon, without concealing friendship, I hit him on the shoulder.”.
The conversation between the poet and the luminary proceeds slowly and naturally. The poet, in a playfully mischievous tone, teases the sun, and then, in turn, provokes: “Go and try it!”. In the dialogue and in the author's remarks there are many colloquial vocabulary: “Well, sit down, luminary!”; “Get off! Enough of hanging around in hell!”; "Damot!"; “... and I retreat backwards”.
Mayakovsky also skillfully handles and homonyms:
What's the point of walking around doing nothing?
Would you like to come to my place for tea?
I am driving back the lights for the first time since creation.
Did you call me? Drive the teas,
drive away, poet, jam!
Of course, the heroes of the poem are very peculiar: a strong, but at the same time gentle and hardworking sun and a poet, a little tired, at first even slightly irritated, but immensely loving life, knowing the value of himself and his creativity. This is probably why he allows himself to talk so easily with the heavenly body “itself.”
The work surprises with the boldness of the plot and the beauty of thought: the poet and the sun are two comrades: “You and I, there are two of us, comrade!”. But behind the everyday plan, another one clearly emerges - serious, even pathetic. Mayakovsky actually asserts the creative role of poetry, which not only transforms everything around. Like the sun, the poet’s living word warms people, illuminating the darkest corners of their lives, destroys prejudices, dispels doubts, like the darkness that has surrounded many throughout their lives. That is why these two luminaries agree, which allows us to say:
Always shine, shine everywhere,
until the last days of the Donetsk,
shine - and no nails!
This is my slogan and the sun!
The uniqueness of the work is created by a whole cascade rhymes: from exact: "ROSTA - simple" to something that doesn't sound the same at all: “not melting – you and me”. The traditional division of a line into small segments-steps allows you to maintain pauses and place logical emphasis on the most significant words. Large quantity neologisms: "golden forehead", "pampered", "let's sing"- gives the poem a unique style. Some of them require explanation. For example, "we look" can mean “let us rise above the earth to illuminate it.”
Thus, the poet reflects not only on poetic creativity, but also defends the enduring significance of any, even the most modest, unnoticed work, if it is dedicated to a high goal.
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The poem “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha” was written in 1920. Its theme is the role of the poet in public life, the educational value of poetry. The lyrical hero is a working poet who works a lot and gets very tired. He is annoyed by the seemingly idle life of the sun, and he invites the luminary for a conversation, for tea. The plot of the poem is a fantastic event, a meeting and conversation between the poet and the sun. The poet and the sun quickly find a common language and come to the conclusion that both will do their job well:
I will pour my sunshine,
And you are yours,
in poetry.
Like the captain, who is the soul and heart of the ship, so the poet, in Mayakovsky’s understanding, performs a great and responsible task: he controls the hearts and minds of people on one big ship called a country: “Hearts are the same engines. The soul is the same cunning engine,” the poet asserted. This is how the theme of two suns arises in the poem “An Extraordinary Adventure...” - the sun of light and the sun of poetry, which gradually develops and finds a very precise and apt embodiment in the poetic image of a “double-barreled gun of suns”, from one trunk of which sheaves of light burst out, and from the other - the light of poetry. Before the power of this weapon, the “wall of shadows, the prison of nights” falls prostrate. The poet and the sun act together, replacing each other. The poet reports that when the Sun “gets tired” and wants to “lie down”, then “it will dawn at full strength - and the day will ring again.”
The sun in the poem is a metaphorical image of the poet (“There are two of us, comrade”). The poet calls to “Shine always, shine everywhere...”, seeing this as the main purpose of the poet. Mayakovsky widely uses the technique of personification and grotesque (“the sun walks in the field”, “wants to lie down at night”, “stupid dreamer”).
During the lesson, students will get acquainted with the biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky, the originality of his poetry using the example of the poem “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha.” Analysis of the poem will help to understand the author and his civic and creative position.
After the death of his father, the family moved to Moscow. The future poet was engaged in revolutionary activities, worked as a propagandist, and was arrested three times. In 1910, Mayakovsky was released from Butyrka prison, where he spent eleven months. It is here that he writes his poetry. It can be said that Mayakovsky's release from prison was a symbolic entrance into art.
In 1911 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture. The social situation in Russia presented Mayakovsky with a choice - old life and old art or new life and new art. “I want to make new socialist art,” this is how the poet defined the goal of his life. Within the walls of the school, the future poet had a largely fateful acquaintance with the organizer of the Gileya group, D.D. Burliuk, who became one of the founders of futurism. It is in the almanac of this group - "A slap in the face to public taste"— Mayakovsky’s literary debut took place in December 1912.
In 1913, the poet published his first collection of poems entitled “I”, wrote the tragedy “Vladimir Mayakovsky” (he himself acted as the director of the production and the leading actor). As part of a group of futurists Mayakovsky travels around the cities and towns of Russia. Public speaking became the reason for his expulsion from the school.
The October Revolution of 1917 was greeted by Mayakovsky with joy and enthusiasm. The poet supports the young state with the artistic means available to him.
Since 1919, he has worked for three years at Windows of ROSTA, producing propaganda and satirical posters with poetic lines. In total, during this period he was the author of about 1,100 such “windows” (Fig. 2).
Rice. 2. Poster created by Mayakovsky in 1920 ()
Mayakovsky called ROSTA Windows a fantastic thing. Posters by “Windows...” artists were displayed in the windows of central stores in Moscow, on Kuznetsky Most, and some were even sent to other cities.
In the summer of 1920, Mayakovsky lived at a dacha in Pushkino (near Moscow), worked at ROSTA and traveled into the city every day. That's when it was written poem “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha.”
Everything about this poem is unusual: a plot that combines reality and fantasy, a special rhythm, a combination of simple and even colloquial words with the author’s neologisms.
Title of the poem
The poet deliberately chooses a long, cumbersome title for his poem: “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha.” Moreover, he adds a subtitle: “Pushkino, Akulova Gora, Rumyantsev’s dacha, 27 versts along the Yaroslavl railway. dor." Thus, the title and subtitle contrast with each other: the unusual with the ordinary, the fantastic with the real.
Poem composition
- Exposition. "Everyday work of a poet"
- Commencement and development of action. “The poet’s quarrel with the sun. Invitation to "tea"
- Climax. "Procession of the sun. Conversation between the poet and the luminary"
- Denouement. "The poet's poetic credo"
Theme, idea, problems of the poem
The poem, according to the famous actor Vladimir Yakhontov, stuns “with the audacity of the plot and the beauty of thought: the poet and the sun are two friends. One shines, the other sings.” All of it is illuminated with a joyful, sincere smile. A cascade of varied, sometimes unexpected rhymes, and a subtle rhythmic pattern enhance the impression of liveliness, fabulousness, and entertainingness of the narrative.
Exhausted by the summer heat and exhausting work, the poet-artist envied the sun because it did not shine at night, that is, it did not work, but rested (Fig. 3).
Rice. 3. Illustration ()
And so one day I got angry,
that everything faded in fear,
I shouted point blank to the sun:
Enough of hanging around in hell!”
I shouted to the sun:
“Damot!
you are covered in the clouds,
and here - you don’t know either winters or years,
sit down and draw posters!
The sun comes to visit the poet and in their conversation it turns out that both have a lot in common. The task of the sun, like the poet, is to illuminate this gray world, to fill it with colors, life, and meaning. Both realize the importance of their work. And despite the complexity of the task, the author proclaims them the general slogan that became the main idea of the poem:
Always shine
shine everywhere
until the last days of the Donetsk,
shine -
and no nails!
This is my slogan -
and sun!
Thus, Mayakovsky expressed his attitude towards poetic work in the poem, choosing an unusual, metaphorical manner to tell the reader what real poetry should be.
Means of artistic expression and stylistic techniques
Metaphor- one of the main artistic tropes used by the poet. His metaphors are unusual and original.
For example:
1. Pushkino hill humped
Shark Mountain,
and the bottom of the mountain -
was a village
the roof was crooked with bark .
2. Having spread out the ray-steps,
the sun walks in the field.
Such metaphors are called extended. Unlike a simple metaphor, such a metaphor contains a figurative similarity to a certain life phenomenon and is revealed throughout the segment or the entire poem .
Hyperbola(artistic exaggeration). Its use helps the author to endow the hero of the poem with the temperament and emotionality of a creative personality. For example, unbearable heat is conveyed in the following hyperbole: “the sunset burned with a hundred thousand suns.” The character of the hero of the poem, the tendency to exaggerate everything, to perceive and experience things more acutely than ordinary people, is heard in the remark: “What have I done! I'm dead!
Pun(play on words)
For example:
idle come in,
for tea it's gone would!
(Come in - hide, hide, fall into a hole; would go - invitation to visit).
Stylistic vocabulary
In the dialogues between the hero and the sun, the author deliberately uses colloquial, colloquial vocabulary. This makes the conversation relaxed and very natural. At the beginning, when the hero is angry, his speech is rude and harsh. The poet calls the sun parasite, claims that it hanging around idle. The sun is also not inferior: “- Drive tea, drive, poet, jam! The hero exclaims in annoyance in response: “- The devil pulled my audacity to yell at him" And soon the conversation turns into a friendly conversation:
don't worry
simple things!
And to me, do you think
- Go try it!
In addition to colloquial vocabulary, Mayakovsky, as a representative of futurism, experiments with words, creating his own neologisms.
For example:
"Hill of Pushkino" hunched over» ( hunched over- derived from hunched over).
“Wait! listen, golden forehead» ( golden forehead formed by analogy with golden-haired).
"But the strange one from the sun being flowed" ( being- i.e. light derived from clear)
"Let's go, poet, let's look, let's sing"(derived from look, sing)
“And wants to lie down at night, stupid dream book» ( dream book- derived from insomnia).
Poetic form
While reading the poem, you probably noticed that it consists of lines of unequal numbers of syllables. This technique is called ladder. It was invented by Mayakovsky. The poet breaks the line and continues writing with a new one.
Compare:
Mayakovsky named the main reasons for using the new poetic form in his book “How to Make Poems” (1926) (Fig. 4). First of all, this is a clearer design of the rhythm of the verse, since, according to Mayakovsky, traditional punctuation marks are not sufficiently adapted for this.
The article was written by Mayakovsky in 1926. In it he expresses his view of art.
For poetic work you need:
1. The presence of a task in society (social order)
2. Target setting
3. Material. Words. Constant replenishment of storage facilities, the sheds of your skull, with necessary, expressive, rare, invented, updated, produced and all sorts of other words.
Mayakovsky gives an example of how he replenishes his repositories with new words and images. The poet has a notebook with him in which he writes down interesting words. He recalls one incident: “In the year thirteen, returning from Saratov to Moscow, in order to prove to some carriage companion my complete loyalty, I told her that I was “not a man, but cloud in pants" Having said this, I immediately realized that this could be useful for a poem, but what if it gets circulated by word of mouth and is wasted in vain? Terribly worried, I interrogated the girl with leading questions for half an hour and calmed down only after making sure that my words had already flown out of her next ear. Two years later "cloud in pants" I needed it for the title of a whole poem.”
Another important point in the process of creating a poem, Mayakovsky called the skills and techniques of word processing: rhymes, meters, alliteration, images, style reduction, pathos, ending, title, outline, etc. In the article, the poet shares how he worked with the word in the process of creating the poem “Sergei Yesenin”:
“Without any comments, I will give a gradual processing of words in one line:
1. our days are poorly equipped for fun;
2. our days are joyfully poorly equipped;
3. our days are poorly equipped for happiness;
4. our life is poorly equipped for fun;
5. our life for joy is poorly equipped;
6. our life is poorly equipped for happiness;
7. Our planet is poorly equipped for fun;
8. Our planet is poorly equipped for fun;
9. Our planet is not particularly equipped for fun;
10. Our planet is not particularly equipped for fun;
11. Our little planet is not very equipped for pleasure;
and finally the last, 12th -
12. Our planet is poorly equipped for fun.
I could make a whole defensive speech in favor of the last of the lines, but for now I will be content with simply copying these lines from the draft to demonstrate how much work it takes to produce a few words.
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Expanded metaphor;
Hyperboles;
Colloquial, colloquial vocabulary;
Neologisms.
- What is the uniqueness and originality of Mayakovsky's poetry?
V.V. Mayakovsky immediately accepted the accomplished revolution, which at that time became the basis for writing many works. Vladimir Vladimirovich blurred the lines between poetry and politics, creating a unique and recognizable style. Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure", the analysis of which is presented below, is a clear confirmation of this.
Subject
In the analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure" one should talk about the main idea of his creation. The action takes place between a working poet and the sun, which, according to the hero, does nothing special. The plot of the poem may be fabulous, but its main theme is rather prosaic.
Mayakovsky was always concerned about the position of the poet-social activist and what place poetry occupies in the life of society. Here the author finds the answer to his question. Poetry can light a fire in the hearts of people, motivate them to make this world a better place for society. Poems, like the sun, illuminate people's path and give them hope and light.
Lyrical images
In the analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure" one of the points is the identification of the main characters. This sun appears as a real worker who writes poetry day and night, hoping that it will change people's lives.
The sun irritates him, because he believes that it does nothing. And in order to illuminate the world around you, you don’t need a lot of work. Therefore, the poet invites him to his place for tea in order to talk. The sun is shown here as a living creature for which illuminating the world is work.
At first, the reader may think that it is lazy (due to the poet’s angry statements). The Sun accepts the invitation and tells the owner of the house that illuminating the Earth is hard work. But it does it and doesn’t complain, because it understands that this is its calling and it benefits people.
In the analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure" it should be noted that the images of the heroes emphasize the main idea of the poem: it is important to do what will be useful for society. But it is also important to do what you love, because only then will a person be able to do it truly well.
Literary means of expression
In the analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure" it is also necessary to note the means of expression used. The poet used hyperbole and exaggeration of the importance of the individual, characteristic of futurists. Hyperbole allows you to show how huge the sun is compared to ordinary people.
Metaphor played a big role in creating the fairy tale plot; thanks to it, the sun became a living being. And the use of heroes during the dialogue made it possible to convey a relaxed atmosphere. In the analysis of V.V. Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure" it should be noted that the use of homonyms was an original solution.
It should also be noted that the spare details, not distinguished by poetic sublimity, emphasize the simplicity of the situation in which the sun and the poet met, they make this meeting less fantastic. All of the listed artistic means represent this work even more expressively.
Features of the work
In the analysis of the poem “An Extraordinary Adventure,” it should be emphasized that this poet’s creation is distinguished by its bold plot and original approach to covering a social topic. After all, Mayakovsky stood at the origins of political creativity. For him, any topic became the subject of lyrics, and thanks to this he gained fame as a social poet.
In the analysis of the poem “An Extraordinary Adventure” by V. Mayakovsky, it should be noted that in this work the frequent use of exclamatory sentences gives emotionality to the syllable. Neologisms emphasize the originality of the poet's style. This work is distinguished by the fact that the fabulousness of the plot is combined with everyday little things, which makes it possible to touch on topics important to Mayakovsky.
The main motto of the poem is to do what you like. And if you are confident that something is beneficial, then despite all the difficulties, you need to continue to do it. And poetry helps people see all the colors and touches on topics that are important to society, on which a person can reflect and make the lives of those around him better.
Poem by V.V. Mayakovsky “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha” was written in 1920. The victory of the revolution raised millions of people to active historical life. The fate of the fatherland formed the basis of the works of Russian poets of that time. Vladimir Vladimirovich immediately accepted the revolution and with his work opened a new era - revolutionary world poetry. The pre-revolutionary Mayakovsky, like other futurists, had an exaggeration of the poet's personality and a lot of bravado; his poems sounded tragic notes. In the poet's post-revolutionary poems one can feel a fighting, conscript, major element. It is expressed with particular force in the poem “An Unusual Adventure...”. Mayakovsky was always concerned about the role of the poet in public life and the educational value of poetry. This is the theme of this poem. The main lyricist is a working poet who works a lot and gets tired. He is annoyed by the seemingly idle life of the sun and he invites the luminary for a conversation, for tea. The plot of the poem is a fantastic event, a meeting and conversation between the poet and the sun. Both workers quickly find a common language and come to the conclusion that both will do their job well: the luminary will shed sunlight, and the poet will shed his light in poetry.
Mayakovsky introduced free multi-stressed tonic verse and complex rhyme into use, liberated the syntax of the canons of “correct” speech, and gave it a nervous, muscular rhythm. The poem contains many exclamations, which gives it an emotional character. Metaphors are used in the poem: summer rolled, the heat floated, the bark of roofs, the rays-steps, the double-barreled shotgun of the suns; epithet: alo; hyperbole: at one hundred and forty suns the sunset glowed; personification: the sun in the form of a man; figurative expressions: no nails, taking a breath, days down; words created by the poet: we look, we sing, the sun.
Mayakovsky is considered the founder of political lyrics, who destroyed the wall of convention between poetry and life. Any topic on which his gaze rested turned into the poet’s lyrical theme. The final lines of the poem “An Extraordinary Adventure...” can be an epigraph to the entire work of V.V. Mayakovsky.
I consider this poem special because of its fantastic plot, emotionality and attitude: “shine - and no nails!”
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Analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "An Extraordinary Adventure..."
A lot of poems Vladimir Mayakovsky are famous for their amazing metaphorical nature. It was thanks to this simple technique that the author was able to create very imaginative works that can be compared with Russian folk tales. For example, in the folk epic with the work “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha.” which was written by the poet in the summer of 1920, has a lot in common. The main character of this work is the sun, which the poet made into an animate being. This is exactly how the heavenly body is depicted in fairy tales and legends, which gives life and warmth to the inhabitants of the earth. However, the author considered that the sun, which travels the same route across the sky every day, is a slacker and a parasite who simply has nothing to occupy itself with.
In the final part of the poem "An Extraordinary Adventure" Mayakovsky encourages every person not only to follow his calling, but also to carry out any task with maximum dedication. Otherwise, the meaning of existence is simply lost. After all, people come into this world with a specific mission, which is to “always shine, shine everywhere until the last days.” Therefore, there is no point in complaining about fatigue and complaining that someone has been destined for an easier path in life. Taking an example from his guest, Mayakovsky declares: “Shine - and no nails! This is my slogan – and the sun!” And with this simple phrase he emphasizes how important the work of each of us is, be it a poet or an ordinary village worker.
“An extraordinary adventure that happened with Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha” V. Mayakovsky
“An extraordinary adventure that Vladimir Mayakovsky had in the summer at the dacha” Vladimir Mayakovsky
(Pushkino. Shark Mountain, Rumyantsev’s dacha,
27 versts along the Yaroslavl railway. dor.)
The sunset glowed with a hundred and forty suns,
Summer was rolling into July,
it was hot
the heat was floating -
it was at the dacha.
The hillock of Pushkino humped
Shark Mountain,
and the bottom of the mountain -
was a village
the roof was crooked with bark.
And beyond the village -
hole,
and probably into that hole
the sun went down every time
slow and steady.
And tomorrow
again
flood the world
The sun rose brightly.
And day after day
terribly angry
me
this is it
became.
And so one day I got angry,
that everything faded in fear,
I shouted point blank to the sun:
“Get off!
Enough of hanging around in hell!”
I shouted to the sun:
“Damot!
you are covered in the clouds,
and here - you don’t know either winters or years,
sit down and draw posters!”
I shouted to the sun:
“Wait!
listen, golden forehead,
than so,
go in idle
to me
It would be great for tea!”
What have I done!
I'm dead!
To me
of my own free will,
itself,
spreading out his ray-steps,
the sun walks in the field.
I don’t want to show my fear -
and retreat backwards.
His eyes are already in the garden.
It's already passing through the garden.
In the windows,
at the door,
entering the gap,
a mass of sun fell,
fell in;
taking a breath,
spoke in a deep voice:
“I’m driving back the lights
for the first time since creation.
Did you call me?
Drive the teas,
drive away, poet, jam!”
Tears from my eyes -
the heat was driving me crazy
but I told him
for the samovar:
“Well then,
sit down, luminary!
The devil took away my insolence
yell at him -
confused,
I sat down on the corner of the bench,
I'm afraid it couldn't have turned out worse!
But the strange one from the sun is emerging
flowed -
and sedateness
having forgotten
I'm sitting talking
with the luminary
gradually.
About that
I'm talking about this
something got stuck with Rosta,
and the sun:
"OK,
don't worry
look at things simply!
And to me, do you think
shine
easily.
- Go try it! —
And here you go -
started to go
you walk and keep your lights on!”
They chatted like that until dark -
until the previous night, that is.
How dark is it here?
On "you"
We are completely at home with him.
And soon,
no friendship,
I hit him on the shoulder.
And the sun too:
"You and me,
There are two of us, comrade!
Let's go, poet,
we look,
let's sing
the world is in gray trash.
I will pour my sunshine,
and you are yours,
poems."
Wall of shadows
nights in prison
fell under the sun with a double-barreled shotgun.
A mess of poetry and light
shine on anything!
It will get tired
and wants the night
lie down,
stupid dreamer.
Suddenly - I
with all the light I can -
and again the day rings.
Always shine
shine everywhere
until the last days of the Donetsk,
shine -
and no nails!
This is my slogan
and sun!
Analysis of Mayakovsky’s poem “An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha”
Many of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poems are famous for their amazing metaphorical nature. It was thanks to this simple technique that the author was able to create very imaginative works that can be compared with Russian folk tales. For example, the folk epic has a lot in common with the work “An extraordinary adventure that happened with Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha,” which was written by the poet in the summer of 1920. The main character of this work is the sun, which the poet made into an animate creature. This is exactly how the heavenly body is depicted in fairy tales and legends, which gives life and warmth to the inhabitants of the earth. However, the author considered that the sun, which travels the same route across the sky every day, is a slacker and a parasite who simply has nothing to occupy itself with.
One day, watching how it “slowly and surely” descended beyond the village, Mayakovsky turned to the heavenly body with an angry speech, declaring that “wouldn’t it come to me for tea instead of coming in like this, doing nothing?” And - he himself turned out to be not happy with such an offer, since the sun really came to visit Mayakovsky, scorching him with its heat: “Did you call me? Drive the tea, drive it, poet, jam!” As a result, the heavenly and poetic luminaries spent the whole night at the same table, complaining to each other about how difficult their lives were. And Mayakovsky realized that he could at any moment abandon his poems and change his pen, for example, to an ordinary plane. However, the sun is deprived of this opportunity, and every day it needs to rise and illuminate the earth. Against the backdrop of the revelations of the heavenly guest, the author felt very uncomfortable and realized that only such selfless work could truly change this world, make it brighter and cleaner.
In the final part of the poem “An Unusual Adventure,” Mayakovsky calls on every person not only to follow his calling, but also to carry out any task with maximum dedication. Otherwise, the meaning of existence is simply lost. After all, people come into this world with a specific mission, which is to “always shine, shine everywhere until the last days.” Therefore, there is no point in complaining about fatigue and complaining that someone has been destined for an easier path in life. Taking an example from his guest, Mayakovsky declares: “Shine - and no nails! This is my slogan – and the sun!” And with this simple phrase he emphasizes how important the work of each of us is, be it a poet or an ordinary village worker.
“An extraordinary adventure that happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha”, analysis
Pushkin was called “the sun of Russian poetry,” and Vladimir Mayakovsky compared poetry itself to the sun and wrote a poem “An extraordinary adventure that happened with Vladimir Mayakovsky in the summer at the dacha”. the analysis of which will be discussed below.
Already the first lines of this poem help the reader to immerse himself in atmosphere of a fun fairy tale. have a fun adventure. Before his gaze appears, on the one hand, a completely specific area (Pushkino, Akulova Gora, Rumyantsev’s dacha), on the other hand, there is a feeling of something unusual, which is found only in fairy tales: something like "in some kingdom, in some state". The name itself sets up the perception of some kind of adventure that will happen to a hero who bears the same name as the author. A similar abstraction from one’s own name will be developed in the prose of the twentieth century by Venedikt Erofeev.
A familiar, at first glance, picture of a sunset suddenly turns into a fantastic picture: “The sunset glowed with a hundred suns”(characteristic of Mayakovsky's style hyperbola). A slightly slow, thorough beginning filled with light humor gradually intensifies, as if “warming up” interest in the story, making you look forward to the event that was promised in the title.
The extraordinary event itself is presented very emotionally:
What have I done! I'm dead!
Such conversational intonations give the poem the confidence characteristic of all Mayakovsky’s poetry. It is no coincidence that he has so many “Letters” and “Conversations”. In addition, the use of literally erased metaphors. for the poet, the sun really sets and sets, as if it were some kind of creature. Not without humor, he depicts his extraordinary meeting with the sun; he only conceals the fantasy, surrounding it with simple signs of everyday life, accompanying it with spare but very colorful details: “stumbled in, caught his breath, and spoke in a deep voice...”. “confused, I sat down on the corner of the bench...”. “And soon, without concealing friendship, I hit him on the shoulder.” .
The conversation between the poet and the luminary proceeds slowly and naturally. The poet, in a playfully mischievous tone, teases the sun, and then, in turn, provokes: “Go and try it!”. In the dialogue and in the author's remarks there are many colloquial vocabulary. “Well, sit down, luminary!” ; “Get off! Enough of hanging around in hell!” ; "Damot!" ; “... and I retreat backwards” .
Mayakovsky also skillfully handles and homonyms :
Why don't you just go in with nothing to do?
Would you like to come to my place for tea?
I am driving back the lights for the first time since creation.
Did you call me? Bring on the tea.
drive. poet, jam!
Of course, the heroes of the poem are very peculiar: a strong, but at the same time gentle and hardworking sun and a poet, a little tired, at first even slightly irritated, but immensely loving life, knowing the value of himself and his creativity. This is probably why he allows himself to talk so easily with the heavenly body “itself.”
The work surprises with the boldness of the plot and the beauty of thought: the poet and the sun are two comrades: “You and I, there are two of us, comrade!”. But behind the everyday plan, another one clearly emerges - serious, even pathetic. Mayakovsky actually asserts the creative role of poetry, which not only transforms everything around. Like the sun, the poet’s living word warms people, illuminating the darkest corners of their lives, destroys prejudices, dispels doubts, like the darkness that has surrounded many throughout their lives. That is why these two luminaries agree, which allows us to say:
Always shine, shine everywhere,
until the last days of the Donetsk,
shine - and no nails!
This is my slogan and the sun!
The uniqueness of the work is created by a whole cascade rhymes. from exact: "ROSTA - simple" to something that doesn't sound the same at all: “not melting – you and me”. The traditional division of a line into small segments-steps allows you to maintain pauses and place logical emphasis on the most significant words. Large quantity neologisms. "golden forehead". "pampered". "let's sing"- gives the poem a unique style. Some of them require explanation. For example, "we look" can mean “let us rise above the earth to illuminate it.”
Thus, the poet reflects not only on poetic creativity, but also defends the enduring significance of any, even the most modest, unnoticed work, if it is dedicated to a high goal.
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