Poem by V.V. Mayakovsky “Good attitude towards horses. Vladimir Mayakovsky

In 1918, the poet wrote the poem " Good attitude to horses", in which he compared himself with a driven nag, which became the subject of universal ridicule. According to eyewitnesses, Mayakovsky really became an eyewitness to an unusual incident on the Kuznetsk bridge, when an old red mare slipped on an icy pavement and “crashed on her croup.” Dozens of onlookers immediately came running, who poked a finger at the unfortunate animal and laughed, as its pain and helplessness gave them obvious pleasure. Only Mayakovsky, passing by, did not join the joyful and hooting crowd, but looked into the horse's eyes, from which "behind the droplet, the droplet rolls down the muzzle, hiding in the wool." The author is struck not by the fact that the horse is crying just like a man, but by a certain “animal longing” in her eyes. Therefore, the poet mentally turned to the animal, trying to cheer him up and console him. “Baby, we are all a little horses, each of us is a horse in his own way,” the author began to persuade his unusual companion.

The red mare seemed to feel the participation and support from the man, "rushed, got to her feet, neighed and went." Simple human participation gave her the strength to cope with difficult situation, and after such unexpected support, "everything seemed to her - she was a foal, and it was worth living, and it was worth working." The poet himself dreamed of such an attitude on the part of people, believing that even the usual attention to his person, not fanned by a halo of poetic glory, would give him the strength to live and move forward. But, unfortunately, those around him saw in Mayakovsky, first of all, a well-known writer, and no one was interested in him. inner world, fragile and contradictory. This depressed the poet so much that for the sake of understanding, friendly participation and sympathy, he was ready to gladly change places with a red horse. Because among the huge crowd of people there was at least one person who showed compassion for her, which Mayakovsky could only dream of.

beaten hooves,
They sang like:
- Mushroom.
Rob.
Coffin.
Rough-
Experienced by the wind
shod with ice
the street slipped.
Horse on croup
crashed,
and immediately
for onlookers onlookers,
trousers that came to Kuznetsk to flare,
huddled together
laughter rang out and tinkled:
The horse has fallen!
The horse has fallen! —
Kuznetsky laughed.
Only one me
his voice did not interfere with his howl.
Came up
and see
horse eyes...

The street turned over
flowing on its own...

Came up and I see -
Behind the chapel of the chapel
rolls in the face,
hiding in fur...

And some general
animal longing
splash poured out of me
and melted into a flurry.
"Horse, don't.
Horse, listen
what do you think you're bad at?
Baby,
we are all a bit horses,
each of us is a horse in his own way.
May be,
- old -
and did not need a nanny,
maybe my thought seemed to go to her,
only
horse
rushed
stood up,
neighed
and went.
She wagged her tail.
Red child.
Cheerful came
stood in a stall.
And everything seemed to her -
she is a foal
and worth living
and it was worth the work.

"Good attitude towards horses" Vladimir Mayakovsky

beaten hooves,
They sang like:
- Mushroom.
Rob.
Coffin.
Rough-
Experienced by the wind
shod with ice
the street slipped.
Horse on croup
crashed,
and immediately
for onlookers onlookers,
trousers that came to Kuznetsk to flare,
huddled together
laughter rang out and tinkled:
The horse has fallen!
The horse has fallen! —
Kuznetsky laughed.
Only one me
his voice did not interfere with his howl.
Came up
and see
horse eyes...

The street turned over
flowing on its own...

Came up and I see -
Behind the chapel of the chapel
rolls in the face,
hiding in fur...

And some general
animal longing
splash poured out of me
and melted into a flurry.
"Horse, don't.
Horse, listen
what do you think you're bad at?
Baby,
we are all a bit horses,
each of us is a horse in his own way.
May be,
- old -
and did not need a nanny,
maybe my thought seemed to go to her,
only
horse
rushed
stood up,
neighed
and went.
She wagged her tail.
Red child.
Cheerful came
stood in a stall.
And everything seemed to her -
she is a foal
and worth living
and it was worth the work.

Analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "Good attitude towards horses"

Despite being widely known, Vladimir Mayakovsky felt like a kind of social outcast all his life. The poet made his first attempts to comprehend this phenomenon in his youth, when he earned his living by publicly reading poetry. He was considered a fashionable futurist writer, but few could have imagined that behind the rude and defiant phrases that the author threw into the crowd, there was a very sensitive and vulnerable soul. However, Mayakovsky knew how to perfectly disguise his emotions and very rarely succumbed to the provocations of the crowd, which sometimes disgusted him. And only in verse could he allow himself to be himself, splashing out on paper what hurt and boiled in his heart.

The poet accepted the revolution of 1917 with enthusiasm, believing that now his life would change for the better. Mayakovsky was convinced that he was witnessing the birth of a new world, more just, pure and open. However, very soon he realized that the state system had changed, but the essence of people remained the same. And no matter what social class they belonged to, since cruelty, stupidity, treachery and ruthlessness were inherent in most of the representatives of his generation.

In a new country, trying to live by the laws of equality and fraternity, Mayakovsky felt quite happy. But at the same time, the people who surrounded him often became the subject of ridicule and caustic jokes of the poet. It was a kind of defensive reaction of Mayakovsky to the pain and insults that were caused to him not only by friends and relatives, but also by passers-by or visitors to restaurants.

In 1918, the poet wrote a poem "A good attitude towards horses", in which he compared himself with a driven nag, which became the subject of universal ridicule. According to eyewitnesses, Mayakovsky really became an eyewitness to an unusual incident on the Kuznetsk bridge, when an old red mare slipped on an icy pavement and “crashed on her croup.” Dozens of onlookers immediately came running, who poked a finger at the unfortunate animal and laughed, as its pain and helplessness gave them obvious pleasure. Only Mayakovsky, passing by, did not join the joyful and hooting crowd, but looked into the horse's eyes, from which "behind the droplet, the droplet rolls down the muzzle, hiding in the wool." The author is struck not by the fact that the horse is crying just like a man, but by a certain “animal longing” in her eyes. Therefore, the poet mentally turned to the animal, trying to cheer him up and console him. “Baby, we are all a little horses, each of us is a horse in his own way,” the author began to persuade his unusual companion.

The red mare seemed to feel the participation and support from the man, "rushed, got to her feet, neighed and went." Simple human participation gave her the strength to cope with a difficult situation, and after such unexpected support, “everything seemed to her - she was a foal, and it was worth living, and it was worth working.” The poet himself dreamed of such an attitude on the part of people, believing that even the usual attention to his person, not fanned by a halo of poetic glory, would give him the strength to live and move forward. But, unfortunately, those around him saw in Mayakovsky, first of all, a famous writer, and no one was interested in his inner world, fragile and contradictory. This depressed the poet so much that for the sake of understanding, friendly participation and sympathy, he was ready to gladly change places with a red horse. Because among the huge crowd of people there was at least one person who showed compassion for her, which Mayakovsky could only dream of.

Topic: From the literature of the XX century

Lesson: Poem by V.V. Mayakovsky "Good attitude towards horses"

Tall, broad-shouldered, with courageous and sharp features, Mayakovsky was actually a very kind, gentle and vulnerable person. He was very fond of animals (Fig. 1).

It is known that he could not pass by a stray cat or dog, picked them up, attached them to friends. Once, 6 dogs and 3 cats lived in his room at the same time, one of which soon gave birth to kittens. The landlady ordered this menagerie to be closed immediately, and Mayakovsky hastily began to look for new owners for the pets.

Rice. 1. Photo. Mayakovsky with a dog ()

One of the most heartfelt declarations of love for “our smaller brothers” - perhaps in all world literature - we will find in Mayakovsky:

I love the beast.

You see a dog

here at the bakery one -

complete baldness -

and then ready to get the liver.

I'm not sorry dear

From the biography of V. Mayakovsky, we know that he studied in Moscow at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, at the same time he was fond of a new direction in art, called FUTURISM, and socialist ideas.

Futurism(from lat. futurum - future) - common name artistic avant-garde movements of the 1910s - early 1920s. XX century., First of all, in Italy and Russia. The manifesto of the Russian futurists was called "A slap in the face of public taste" (1912)

Futurists believed that literature should look for new themes and forms. According to them, a modern poet must defend his rights. Here is their list:

1. To increase the vocabulary in its volume with arbitrary and derivative words (word-innovation)

2. To an irresistible hatred for the language that existed before them

3. With horror, remove from your proud forehead from bath brooms the Wreath of penny glory you made

4. Standing on a block of the word "we" in the midst of a sea of whistling and indignation

Futurists experimented with the word, creating author's neologisms. So, for example, the futurist Khlebnikov came up with the name of the Russian futurists - Budtlyane (people of the future).

For participation in revolutionary circles, Mayakovsky was arrested three times, last time Spent 11 months in jail. It was during this period that Mayakovsky decides to seriously engage in literature. In Aseev's poem "Mayakovsky Begins" (Fig. 2), this period of the poet's life is described in the following words:

Rice. 2. Illustration for Aseev's poem "Mayakovsky Begins" ()

And here it comes out:

big, long-legged,

spattered

glacial rain,

under wide-brimmed

drooping hat,

under a cloak lined with misery.

Nobody around.

Just a prison behind.

Lantern to lantern.

For the soul - not a penny ...

Only smells of Moscow

hot rolls,

let the horse fall

breathing sideways.

The mention of a horse in this passage is not accidental. One of best poems early Mayakovsky became poem "Good attitude to horses"(Fig. 3).

Rice. 3. Illustration for Mayakovsky's poem "Good attitude towards horses" ()

Plot it was prompted by life itself.

Once V.V. Mayakovsky witnessed a street incident, not uncommon in starving Moscow in 1918: an exhausted horse fell onto an icy pavement.

June 9, 1918 in the Moscow edition of the newspaper " New life» No. 8, a poem by V.V. Mayakovsky "Good attitude towards horses".

The poem is unusual in form and content. Firstly, the stanza is unusual when a poetic line is broken and the continuation is written from a new line. This technique was called "Mayakovsky's ladder" and was explained by him in the article " How to make poetry?". The poet believed that such a recording gives the poem the right rhythm.

Images in Mayakovsky's poem "Good attitude towards horses".

Horse

Street (crowd)

Lyrical hero

1. Horse on croup

crashed,

2. Behind the chapel of the chapel

rolls in the face,

hiding in fur...

rushed

stood up,

3. Red child.

Cheerful came

stood in a stall.

And everything seemed to her -

she is a foal

and worth living

and it was worth the work.

1. Experienced by the wind,

shod with ice

the street slipped

2. For onlookers, onlookers,

trousers that came to Kuznetsk to flare,

huddled together

laughter rang and tinkled

3. The street turned over

flowing on its own...

1. Kuznetsky laughed.

2. And some general

animal longing

splash poured out of me

and melted into a flurry.

"Horse, don't.

Horse, listen -

why do you think you are worse than them?

we are all a bit horses,

each of us is a horse in his own way."

The horse is a symbol of a lonely living soul who needs support, sympathy. It is also a symbol of a persistent character, the horse has found the strength to rise and live on.

The street is a hostile, indifferent, cold and cruel world.

Conclusion: in the poem, Mayakovsky raises the moral problem of the cruelty and indifference of the world in relation to the living soul. However, despite this, the idea of the poem is optimistic. If the horse found the strength to get up and stand in the stall, then the poet draws a conclusion for himself: in spite of everything, it is worth living and working.

Means of artistic expression

Expanded metaphor. Unlike a simple metaphor, an extended metaphor contains a figurative similarity of a certain life phenomenon and is revealed throughout a segment or the entire poem.

For example:

1. Experienced by the wind,

shod with ice

the street slipped.

2. And some general

animal longing

splash poured out of me

and melted into a flurry.

Stylistic devices: assonance and alliteration. These are phonetic techniques that allow you to draw or convey an event with sounds.

Assonance:

The horse fell!

With the help of vowels, the poet conveys the cry of the crowd, or perhaps the neighing of a horse, its cry. Or the cry of a lyrical hero? In these lines, pain, groaning, anxiety sound.

Alliteration:

huddled together

laughter rang and tinkled

With the help of consonants, the poet conveys the unpleasant laughter of the crowd. The sounds are annoying, like the creak of a rusty wheel.

Onomatopoeia- one of the types of sound writing: the use of phonetic combinations that can convey the sound of the described phenomena

For example:

Beaten hooves.

They sang like:

Using disyllabic and monosyllabic words with repetitive sounds, the poet creates the sound effect of a galloping horse.

Rhyme Features

V. Mayakovsky was in many ways a pioneer, a reformer, an experimenter. His poem "A good attitude towards horses" surprises with its richness, variety and originality of rhyme.

For example:

Truncated, inaccurate: worse - a horse, onlookers - tinkled

Not equally complex: in the wool - in the rustle, the stall - it was worth

Composite: howl to him - in his own way

Homonymous: went - a short adjective and went - a verb.

Thus, the author uses various literary techniques to create a vivid, emotional picture that will not leave anyone indifferent. This feature is inherent in all of Mayakovsky's work. Mayakovsky saw his mission, first of all, in influencing readers. That is why M. Tsvetaeva called him "the world's first poet of the masses", and Platonov - "the master of universal great life."

Bibliography

Korovina V.Ya. Didactic materials on literature. 7th grade. — 2008.
Tishchenko O.A. Homework in literature for the 7th grade (to the textbook by V.Ya. Korovina). — 2012.
Kuteynikova N.E. Literature lessons in grade 7. — 2009.

Homework

Expressively read the poem by V. Mayakovsky "Good attitude towards horses." What is the rhythm of this poem? Was it easy for you to read it? Why?
Find the author's words in the poem. How are they educated?
Find in the poem examples of extended metaphor, hyperbole, pun, assonance, alliteration.
Find the lines that express the idea of the poem.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

beaten hooves,
They sang like:
- Mushroom.
Rob.
Coffin.
Rough-

Experienced by the wind
shod with ice
the street slipped.
Horse on croup
crashed,
and immediately
for onlookers onlookers,
trousers that came to Kuznetsk to flare,
huddled together
laughter rang out and tinkled:
The horse has fallen!
The horse has fallen! —
Kuznetsky laughed.
Only one me
his voice did not interfere with his howl.
Came up
and see
horse eyes...

The street turned over
flowing on its own...

Came up and I see -
Behind the chapel of the chapel
rolls in the face,
hiding in fur...

In 1918, the poet wrote a poem "A good attitude towards horses", in which he compared himself with a driven nag, which became the subject of universal ridicule. According to eyewitnesses, Mayakovsky really became an eyewitness to an unusual incident on the Kuznetsk bridge, when an old red mare slipped on an icy pavement and "crashed on her croup." Dozens of onlookers immediately came running, who poked a finger at the unfortunate animal and laughed, as its pain and helplessness gave them obvious pleasure. Only Mayakovsky, passing by, did not join the joyful and hooting crowd, but looked into the horse's eyes, from which "behind the droplet, the droplet rolls down the muzzle, hiding in the wool." The author is struck not by the fact that the horse is crying just like a man, but by a certain “animal longing” in her eyes. Therefore, the poet mentally turned to the animal, trying to cheer him up and console him. “Baby, we are all a little horses, each of us is a horse in his own way,” the author began to persuade his unusual companion.

You can read the verse “Good attitude towards horses” by Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich on the website. The work was written in 1918 and is based on real case. Once Mayakovsky witnessed how a red horse slipped on the Kuznetsk bridge and fell on the croup. The gathered crowd saw a reason for merry laughter, and only the poet showed concern and compassion for the animal.

The very personality of Vladimir Mayakovsky is very extraordinary. Tall, with energetic features, with a straightforward character and mercilessness to stupidity, meanness and lies, he seemed to most of his contemporaries not only bold and daring in poetic innovations, but also somewhat brutal and demonstrative in character. However, few knew that Mayakovsky had a subtle, sensitive, vulnerable soul. The incident with the fallen animal, which was laughed at by the approaching onlookers, touched the poet. The nagging pain in the horse's eyes, the "drops of tears" rolling down the muzzle, responded with pain in his heart, and the "animal longing" spilled down the street and mingled with human longing. Longing for goodness, sympathy for someone else's pain, empathy. Mayakovsky compares people with horses - after all, animals, like humans, are able to feel pain, need understanding and support, a kind word, even if they themselves are not able to speak. Often faced with misunderstanding, envy, human malice, cold indifference, sometimes experiencing fatigue from life and “hackneyedness”, the poet was able to feel the pain of the animal. His complicity and simple friendly words helped the mare "rush, stand on its feet", shake off old age, feel like a young and frisky foal - strong, healthy, thirsty for life.

The text of Mayakovsky's poem "A good attitude towards horses" can be fully downloaded or read online in a literature lesson in the classroom.

beaten hooves,
They sang like:
- Mushroom.
Rob.
Coffin.
Rough-
Experienced by the wind
shod with ice
the street slipped.
Horse on croup
crashed,
and immediately
for onlookers onlookers,
trousers that came to Kuznetsk to flare,
huddled together
laughter rang out and tinkled:
The horse has fallen!
The horse has fallen! -
Kuznetsky laughed.
Only one me
his voice did not interfere with his howl.
Came up
and see
horse eyes...

The street turned over
flowing on its own...

Came up and I see -
Behind the chapel of the chapel
rolls in the face,
hiding in fur...

And some general
animal longing
splash poured out of me
and melted into a flurry.
"Horse, don't.
Horse, listen
what do you think you're bad at?
Baby,
we are all a bit horses,
each of us is a horse in his own way.”
May be,
– old –
and did not need a nanny,
maybe my thought seemed to go to her,
only
horse
rushed
stood up,
neighed
and went.
She wagged her tail.
Red child.
Cheerful came
stood in a stall.
And everything seemed to her -
she is a foal
and worth living
and it was worth the work.