Among the representatives of Russian art there were many masters who realized themselves in various fields of creativity. Not only a wonderful poet, but also a talented musician and mathematician was the diplomat A. S. Griboedov. Beautiful paintings were painted by M. Yu. Lermontov. Painting, music and literature almost equally attracted L. Pasternak. Mayakovsky did not stand aside in this list of brilliant personalities. He left the brightest mark not only in Russian Soviet poetry, but also in many other areas of our culture.
Verge of talent
Who Mayakovsky was is not an idle question. From the pages of school textbooks, a serious man with large, expressive facial features looks at us somewhat sullenly, strictly and exactingly. Eyes are piercing piercingly, as if they want to ask: “What have you done for the revolution and the new, Soviet power? What did he donate for the good of the country? ”Who was Mayakovsky and what right did he have to judge his contemporaries and descendants? The answer is simple. First of all, a poet who put his huge talent at the service of revolutionary Russia. A person who determined the development of domestic art for many years to come. An innovator in the field of versification,
theory of literature. The great experimenter of rhymes, rhythms, images. But this is far from all of the list of professions who Mayakovsky was! A cartoonist whose posters in ROSTA for three years not only reported on foreign and domestic politics, the situation on the fronts, but also served as an excellent propaganda tool. Editor of a revolutionary literary magazine. A film actor, director and screenwriter, playwright, publicist - this is who Mayakovsky was for his short, but extremely bright and rich creative life. Like a comet, he rushed through the horizon of Russian art, leaving behind a shining light.
Mayakovsky satirist
It is satire - that
literary genre in which the poet was realized to a greater degree.
Mayakovsky’s work can be divided into several periods. But both his early works and the verses of his mature age are united by one thing: complete rejection and caustic ridicule of philistinism, vulgarity, rudeness and lack of spirituality of life in all its manifestations. “A slap in the face of public taste”, deliberately shocking images, generalized to grotesque characters, are rich in his poems - from the first ones printed in collections of the literary society Gilei (“To You,” “Night”), to the best examples of the Soviet period: the magnificent “Wicked” "," About rubbish "and many others. And the playwright and poet Mayakovsky also composed his plays in bright satirical tones. “Bedbug” and “Bathhouse” are not just literary pictures from the society of that time. They are relevant now, because opportunists and moral monsters, alas, have not yet outlived themselves.
Mayakovsky-lyricist
The loud-hailing poet-herald, Vladimir Mayakovsky, considered his main task to improve, ennoble life, promote general happiness, fan the very “world fire” that would destroy physical enslavement and spiritual slavery in its flame, will become the source of the birth of a new psychology of a new person - free, independent, working for the benefit of himself and his people. But few people know that Mayakovsky is a subtle, piercing lyricist who created poems that are amazing in their touching and tragic intensity. It was not for nothing that he compared the poet’s heart with a fragile, defenseless, beautiful butterfly. It is enough to recall his famous “Lilichka!”, So that a completely different lyrical hero appeared before us: gentle, vulnerable, loving devotedly and selflessly. “Tatyana Yakovleva,” “About This,” “A Letter to Comrade Kostrov ...” and many other works on a love theme are a vivid example of how versatile his talent is. What is interesting: in many lyric texts we clearly trace notes of Nekrasov’s civil poetry. Vladimir Vladimirovich also believed that the intimate, the sacred should be closely intertwined with the civil, the public. By the way, as with Nekrasov, Mayakovsky’s personal life was dramatic. He was not among the minions of fate, the favorites of women. Each of his novels was more likely a tragedy than a confluence of happy moments. And he left this world, being captured by the contradictions of love, creativity, ideology.
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Creativity rating
Mayakovsky’s artistic system consists of many elements that often contradict each other, but in his work constitute a unique organic alloy. Everything is here: fantastic extravaganza and ancient tragedy, epic drama and mystery "buff", comedy is intertwined with intense lyricism, and satire is adjacent to heroic pathos. Poems and poems about the Soviet people, about the difficulties that he overcomes, are full of optimism and a firm faith in the victory of the new system. Satire helps fight the remnants of the past and the ugly grimaces of the present. And only the lyrics expose the poet’s soul, stretched like a string and piercingly ringing with every touch of it.