The analysis is Mayakovsky at the top of his voice. The theme of the poet and poetry in the introduction to the poem by V.V. Mayakovsky “At the top of my voice. VII. Teacher's final words

/> On the throat
Your own song.
Mayakovsky felt like an “agitator”, a “bawler-leader” and believed that his verse
.will get there
Through the ridges of centuries and over the heads of poets and governments.
The poet was ready to sacrifice his poetry to the revolution:
Let
Behind the geniuses
An inconsolable widow
Glory weaves
In the funeral march -
Die, my verse,
Die like a private
Like nameless
Our people died during the assaults!
He, unlike his predecessors, starting with Horace, refused the individual poetic monument:
I do not care
Lots of bronze,
I do not care
On marble slime.
Let us be considered glory -
After all, we are our own people,
Let us
The common monument will be
Socialism built in battle.
Mayakovsky compared his poems to “over-the-teeth armed troops” and gave them, “down to the very last leaf,” to the proletarians of the entire planet. He stated:
worker
Enemy class hulks –
He is my enemy too
Notorious and old.
They told us
Go
Under the red flag
Years of labor
And days of malnutrition.
Mayakovsky convinced readers: the main purpose of the poet today is to serve the cause of the socialist revolution. But his poetry must be not only revolutionary in content, but also highly perfect in form, in order to survive for centuries, to convey to posterity the greatness of the era of revolution and the construction of socialism. Also, in his last public speech at an evening dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of his creative activity, Mayakovsky complained that “every minute we have to prove that the activity of a poet and the work of a poet is necessary work in our Soviet Union.”
He himself did not doubt for a second that his poems were no less important for the benefit of the revolution and socialism than ore mining, steel smelting, the armed suppression of counter-revolution, or the work of the party in organizing socialist construction. Because they strengthen the faith in the souls of people in the correctness of the Bolshevik revolution, in the imminent attainability of a bright communist future. It was with this faith that Mayakovsky died.

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Mayakovsky's poem "At the top of his voice" was written by the author in poetic form. With great regret, the poem was not published, so readers were not given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with it. The poem was written back in the 30s, which was exhibited as an exhibit at an exhibition of Mayakovsky’s twenty years of creativity. According to Mayakovsky, the first lines of the poem were written as a reflection of the essence of the poet’s work, which became the start of the author’s creative work. The idea behind writing “At the Top of My Voice” was to look at myself from the future: “Dear comrades and descendants! Studying the darkness of our days.”

From these lines it is immediately clear that the poet writes them for the future generation, and also talks about himself. But Mayakovsky also writes lines, simply indulging in poetry, but joking a little at the woman who planted the garden: “I planted a nice garden, daughter, dacha, water and smooth, I’ll water it myself.”

With his poems, the poet seriously fought for the communist cause, neither fearing the government nor secret organizations. With lines from his poems, he simply pierced the soul of the Soviet people: “The troops unfolded in parade on my pages. The poems stand leaden-heavy.”

During the revolution, everything changed very quickly. This meant that Mayakovsky must enter this pace, join the people, and together with them rebuild the world in a new, socialist direction. With his poetry he moved forward, and at the same time he set this movement for others. Recognizing this poetry meant making your intentions real, striving step by step towards a bright, wonderful future.

With these lines the poet ended his poem “At the top of his voice”: “I will raise, like a Bolshevik party card, all one hundred volumes of my party books.” His poems made me think about many things. They awakened the people to act, which, according to his plan, the poet strove for.

V. Mayakovsky only managed to write the introduction to the poem “At the top of his voice.” In the center of the introduction is the personality of the poet himself, addressing his descendants, introducing himself to them - a creator, “a sewer man and a water carrier,” “mobilized and called up by the revolution,” “an agitator, a loudmouth leader.” The poet rejects chamber creativity, created by various “curly-haired Mithreikas” and “wise-wise Curly-haired women” who “mandolin from under the walls: / “tara-tina, tara-tina, / t-en-n...”. He affirms the significance of the poetry of work, of the laborer, which is the result of exhausting, but noble, labor that overcomes and conquers time.

V. Mayakovsky equates poetry not only with menial hard work, but also with “an old but formidable weapon”; he believes that it should not caress “the ear with words”, please the ears of girls, but serve, like a warrior, “the planet to the proletarian.” To confirm this main thesis, the work uses an extensive metaphorical comparison of artistic creativity with a military review - a parade in which poems, poems, witticisms, and rhymes take part.

The work affirms the importance of poetry serving the working class, draped in a red flag, born in battles and battles (“When / under bullets / the bourgeoisie ran from us, / as we / once / ran from them”).

The second idea of the introduction is about the unselfishness of artistic creativity, which sounds especially active in the final part of the work. V. Mayakovsky expresses himself laconically, emotionally, his words sound like an oath of allegiance to the people and descendants.

And one more idea runs through the work - a polemical, critical attitude towards “poetic grabbers and scorchers”, towards supporters of lightweight poetry, not programmed for “unskilled labor”.

In terms of genre, the poem was conceived as lyrical and journalistic, but the introduction to it takes the form of a monologue, written in the best traditions of eloquence and oratory. Hence the numerous appeals (“Dear comrades, descendants!”, “Listen, comrades, descendants”), repetitions (“We discovered...”, “We taught dialectics...”), inversions (“I’m not used to caressing my ear with words.” ). However, in general, the introduction maintains direct word order.

As in his previous works, V. Mayakovsky successfully uses expressive tropes - epithets (“an old but formidable weapon”, “the poems stand leaden-heavy”, “yawning titles”), metaphors (“a swarm of questions”, “tuberculosis spits”, “the throat of our own song”, “line front”), comparisons (“poetry is a capricious woman”, “We opened / Marx / each volume / as in our own house / we open the shutters”).

In the style of V. Mayakovsky in the introduction to the poem - the use of the author's original, root, compound rhymes: “descendants - darkness”, “questions swarm - raw”, “water carrier - gardening”, “descendants - volumes”, “provityaz - governments”, “hunt - it comes”, etc. Many of the poet’s rhymes are innovative, consonant, in which the consonance of consonant sounds is observed. V. Mayakovsky often rhymes different parts of speech. The great master word-maker cannot do without neologisms (“burn out” - people who burn life, “consumptive spitting”, “don’t get excited” (from the word “scarlet”), “worked”, “mandolin”).

Mayakovsky is convinced that the main purpose of the poet and poetry in the revolutionary era is to serve the cause of the triumph of a new, truly just social system. He is ready to do any menial work in the name of people's happiness:
I, the sewer man
And a water carrier,
Revolution
Mobilized and called,
Went to the front
From lordly gardening
Poetry -
Women are capricious.
The poet admits:
And me
Agitprop
It's stuck in my teeth,
And I would
Scribble on you -
It's more profitable
And prettier.
But I
Myself
Humbled
Becoming
To the throat
Your own song.
Mayakovsky felt like an “agitator”, a “bawler-leader” and believed that his verse
...it will come
Through the ridges of centuries and over the heads of poets and governments.
Let
Behind the geniuses
An inconsolable widow
Glory weaves
In the funeral march -
Die, my verse,
Die like a private
Like nameless
Our people died during the assaults!
I do not care
Lots of bronze,
I do not care
On marble slime.
Let us be considered glory -
After all, we are our own people,
Let us
The common monument will be
Socialism built in battle.
Mayakovsky compared his poems to “over-the-teeth armed troops” and gave them, “down to the very last leaf,” to the proletarians of the entire planet. He stated:
worker
Enemy class hulks –
He is my enemy too
Notorious and old.
They told us
Go
Under the red flag
Years of labor
And days of malnutrition.
Mayakovsky convinced readers: the main purpose of the poet today is to serve the cause of the socialist revolution. But his poetry must be not only revolutionary in content, but also highly perfect in form, in order to survive for centuries, to convey to posterity the greatness of the era of revolution and the construction of socialism. Also, in his last public speech at an evening dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of his creative activity, Mayakovsky complained that “every minute we have to prove that the activity of a poet and the work of a poet is necessary work in our Soviet Union.”

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Analysis of the introduction of the poem “At the top of my voice”

I, the sewer man
and a water carrier,
revolution
mobilized and called up,
went to the front
from lordly gardening
poetry -
women are capricious.
The poet admits:
And me
agitprop
stuck in my teeth,
and I would
scribble on you -
it's more profitable
and prettier.
But I
myself
humbled
becoming
on the throat
own song.

Mayakovsky felt like an “agitator”, a “bawler-leader” and believed that his verse
...it will come
across the ridges of centuries and over the heads of poets and governments.
The poet was ready to sacrifice his poetry to the revolution:
Let
for geniuses
inconsolable widow
glory trudges along
in the funeral march -
die, my verse,
die like a private
like nameless
Our people died during the assaults!

He, unlike his predecessors, starting with Horace, refused the individual poetic monument:
I do not care
a lot of work on bronze,
I do not care
on marble slime.
Let us be considered glory -
after all, we are our own people, -
let us
will be a common monument
battle-built socialism.

Mayakovsky compared his poems to “over-the-teeth armed troops” and gave them, “down to the very last leaf,” to the proletarians of the entire planet. He stated:
worker
enemy class communities -
he is my enemy and
notorious and long-standing.
They told us
go
under the red flag
years of labor
and days of malnutrition.

Mayakovsky convinced readers: the main purpose of the poet today is to serve the cause of the socialist revolution. But his poetry must be not only revolutionary in content, but also highly perfect in form, in order to survive for centuries, to convey to posterity the greatness of the era of revolution and the construction of socialism. Also, in his last public speech at an evening dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of his creative activity, Mayakovsky complained that “every minute we have to prove that the activity of a poet and the work of a poet is necessary work in our Soviet Union.”

He himself did not doubt for a second that his poems were no less important for the benefit of the revolution and socialism than ore mining, steel smelting, the armed suppression of counter-revolution, or the work of the party in organizing socialist construction. Because they strengthen the faith in the souls of people in the correctness of the Bolshevik revolution, in the imminent attainability of a bright communist future. It was with this faith that Mayakovsky died.

Mayakovsky’s poem “At the top of his voice,” strictly speaking, is not such a thing: the poet wrote only an introduction, but both critics and literary scholars consider it a full-fledged work. A brief analysis of “At the Top of Your Voice” according to plan will help 11th grade students understand why literary scholars think so, as well as better appreciate the artistic perfection of the work. In a literature lesson, this analysis can be used both as main and additional material.

Brief Analysis

History of creation- the introduction to the poem was written by Vladimir Vladimirovich in the winter of 1929-1930. Thus, the poet embodied his desire to address the modern reader and descendants without intermediaries.

Theme of the poem– the author’s creative credo and the results of twenty years of poetic work.

Composition- one-part, throughout the entire poem the poet develops the same idea.

Genre- lyrical and journalistic poem.

Poetic size– tonic verse.

Epithets – “an old but formidable weapon”, “poems stand leaden-heavy”, “yawning titles”.

Metaphors – “a swarm of questions”, “tuberculosis spitting out”, “the throat of one’s own song”, “a line front”.

Comparisons – “poetry is a capricious woman”, “we opened Marx every volume, like we open the shutters in our own house”.

History of creation

The work was written shortly before the suicide of its author. This was the period when Mayakovsky was preparing for a special exhibition dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of his work. But this seemingly joyful time, in fact, turned out to be gloomy for him - there was a lot of criticism, many colleagues and critics made harsh statements against him.

Apparently, this gave rise to Vladimir Vladimirovich’s desire to talk directly with his reader. He conceived a grandiose work - the poem “At the top of his voice”, but only wrote its introduction. He was unable or did not want to work further on the work: the poem with the subtitle “First Introduction to the Poem” was completed in January 1930, and already in April a tragic suicide occurred.

The work is called a poem only by tradition, but this is quite significant.

Subject

At the end of his life (although it is unknown whether the poet was already planning his suicide then), Mayakovsky once again turned to the important topic of creativity for himself - more precisely, its purpose and its place in the creative process. He chooses a difficult path - to tell only the truth about himself and the time in which he lives. And he speaks - harshly and without excessive politeness.

Composition

In his work, Vladimir Vladimirovich acts both as an author and as a lyrical hero. He promotes a rejection of art as an aesthetic approach, talks about the social component of poetry, and even calls himself a “sewage man-water carrier,” that is, on the one hand, he gives people what they need, on the other, he often deals with the most unsightly side of reality .

The main idea of the poem is to accurately express Mayakovsky’s creative credo: poetry is work, it should motivate people, there is no place for prettiness, it is part of life, everyday life.

The poet says that there is poetry that is closed in its philistinism, like flowers in a master’s garden. It is created simply for the sake of beautiful words and has neither a social burden nor the right to tell people how to live and what to do. But his poetry is not like that, it is a weapon. And the poet is her servant-commander, who brings out the words at the solemn military parade.

At the same time, he does not seek rewards or recognition; his army may even die completely. The main thing is victory, namely, a harmonious, healthy and fair society.

Genre

Although “At the Top of Your Voice” belongs somewhat conventionally to the genre of poem, the work still turned out to be quite epic. In this case, the main thing is the scale of the thought, which, although embodied in a small poem in comparison with the poem, does not lose its strength and grandeur.

Using the tonic system of versification, Mayakovsky, as usual, emphasizes rhythm and verbal stress. He singles out those words that, in his opinion, best express the thought and allow him to express the rebellious moods and vivid emotions that overwhelm the poet.

Means of expression

In addition to the neologisms characteristic of his poetic word, Vladimir Vladimirovich also uses familiar artistic tropes, making them bright and harsh. So, the work uses:

Epithets- “an old but formidable weapon”, “the poems stand leaden-heavy”, “yawning titles”.
Metaphors– “a swarm of questions”, “tuberculosis spits out”, “the throat of one’s own song”, “a line front”.
Comparisons- “poetry is a capricious woman”, “we opened Marx every volume, like we open the shutters in our own house.”

Thanks to them, the poem seems to be carved into eternal granite, preserving the memory of Mayakovsky the poet.

Brief Analysis

Theme of the poem– the author’s creative credo and the results of twenty years of poetic work.

Composition- one-part, throughout the entire poem the poet develops the same idea.

Genre- lyrical and journalistic poem.

Poetic size– tonic verse.

Epithets – “an old but formidable weapon”, “poems stand leaden-heavy”, “yawning titles”.

Metaphors – “a swarm of questions”, “tuberculosis spitting out”, “the throat of one’s own song”, “a line front”.

Comparisons – “poetry is a capricious woman”, “we opened Marx every volume, like we open the shutters in our own house”.

History of creation

The work is called a poem only by tradition, but this is quite significant.

Subject

Composition

The main idea of the poem is to accurately express Mayakovsky’s creative credo: poetry is work, it should motivate people, there is no place for prettiness, it is part of life, everyday life.

At the same time, he does not seek rewards or recognition; his army may even die completely. The main thing is victory, namely, a harmonious, healthy and fair society.

Genre

Means of expression

In addition to the neologisms characteristic of his poetic word, Vladimir Vladimirovich also uses familiar artistic tropes, making them bright and harsh. So, the work uses:

Epithets- “an old but formidable weapon”, “the poems stand leaden-heavy”, “yawning titles”.
Metaphors– “a swarm of questions”, “tuberculosis spits out”, “the throat of one’s own song”, “a line front”.
Comparisons- “poetry is a capricious woman”, “we opened Marx every volume, like we open the shutters in our own house.”

Thanks to them, the poem seems to be carved into eternal granite, preserving the memory of Mayakovsky the poet.

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An interesting paradox is that this poem was never written by Mayakovsky. Literally before his death, he wrote only an introduction to it, which he dedicated to the first Soviet five-year plan in late 1929 - early 1930.

Getting to the topic “Analysis: “At the top of my voice” by Mayakovsky,” it should be noted that the poet timed this verse to coincide with the anniversary exhibition - the 25th anniversary of his creative path. He himself, speaking to the assembled public, said that this work fully and completely reflected everything that he had worked on all these many years, and presented it as a report on the creative work done. So, without suspecting it, he continued with this the classic theme of the “monument”, begun by Derzhavin and Pushkin.

“At the top of my voice”, Mayakovsky: analysis

In this introduction, the famous poet contrasts himself with pure art, which does not recognize any politics. It is in this role that one gets the general impression of his attitude to creativity in general and to its individual representatives in particular.

In a way, it became a kind of message to future descendants. The poet seems to evaluate himself with a view from the future, looking into the present, where he immediately amazes with the lines: “I, a sewer man and a water carrier, mobilized by the revolution...”.

With these words, he creates a certain image of poetry without meaning and purpose, which he sarcastically and sharply ridicules, calling it a “capricious woman.”

Poems as a weapon

His poems are not just lines on paper, he uses them as a serious weapon in the fight for the communist cause.

The poet-agitator hints that he is not afraid of the government, or “lyric volumes,” or “ridges of centuries.” Mayakovsky openly declares this loudly. The analysis of the work boils down to the fact that his weapon does not injure or kill a person, but it can very strongly hit the soul and heart of a person. He writes prophetic lines in which he hints that his poems stand like lead and are ready for death.

Inspiration

Mayakovsky wrote all his most desired things in the poem “At the top of his voice.” Its analysis suggests that everything that the poet did was not created for aesthetic pleasure, because it builds, inspires and fights meaninglessness, moves forward and leads the masses. He thought that his calling was to realize socialist dreams and move towards a bright future with the broad masses.
The writer calls: “Die my verse like a private.” He believes that for social well-being, a poet must work hard, forgetting about himself and not thinking about reward, sacrificing his creativity.

He writes in his poem that he doesn’t need anything other than a freshly washed shirt, and that the poet and society are inseparable.

Fate and Motherland

In continuation of the topic “Mayakovsky “At the top of his voice”: analysis of the poem,” it should be noted that the active creator calls the descendants dexterous and healthy, and, in his opinion, they should remember how much labor everything was paid for; he compared it with licking “consumptive spitting."

It’s a little surprising, but Vladimr Vladimirovich describes the future that the “communist far away” has already arrived, into which he invested maximum effort, because every day of his work he invested in the future.

The poet considers it his civic duty to build a worthy future, and this desire literally weakened his soul.

Cry from the heart

Mayakovsky shouts about this in his poem “At the top of his voice.” Analysis of the introduction suggests that the poet inspires the people to build a bright future, and that everyone should remember those who were involved in the battle for socialism and communism, and not forget their desperate work. Their soul lives in every line of it and will certainly pass through the centuries.

The great ideological leader addresses them as those who truly believe in communism, and expresses himself as a descendant of these people who can no longer imagine what it was possible to believe in so sincerely and deeply, and whether there will be as many forces as there were in the forefathers of the October Revolution.

Conclusion

From the introduction to the poem “At the Top of My Voice” it became clear that it is in some form a will, written almost three months before his tragic death. This question is even more interesting, since it remains unclear whether the poet was killed or it was suicide. Many historians and forensic experts, examining all the facts, documents and evidence, came to the conclusion that he was killed after all. And they killed him because he began to delve into the affairs of Stalin’s government, which deviated from the Leninist course that millions of people dreamed of. This is a dark matter, the same as with Yesenin.

However, the most interesting thing remains that his faith nevertheless began to waver at the end of his life, and he had his own reasons for this. Even such a notorious communist would eventually burst out of his soul on the evening of April 13, 1930, “Oh, Lord!” At this moment, his beloved woman, Polonskaya, will be next to him, who will be very surprised by this exclamation and will ask him again whether he is a believer. And Vladimir will answer her that he himself no longer understands what he believes in...

V. Mayakovsky only managed to write the introduction to the poem “At the top of his voice.” In the center of the introduction is the personality of the poet himself, addressing his descendants, introducing himself to them - a creator, “a sewer man and a water carrier,” “mobilized and called up by the revolution,” “an agitator, a loud-mouthed leader.” The poet rejects chamber creativity, created by various “curly-haired Mithreikas” and “wise-wise Curly-haired women” who “mandolin from under the walls: / “tara-tina, tara-tina, / t-en-n...”. He affirms the significance of the poetry of work, of the laborer, which is the result of exhausting, but noble, labor that overcomes and conquers time.

And one more idea runs through the work - a polemical, critical attitude towards “poetic grabbers and burners”, towards supporters of lightweight poetry, not programmed for “menial labor”.

In the style of V. Mayakovsky, in the introduction to the poem - the use of the author’s original, root, compound rhymes: “descendants - darkness”, “questions swarm - damp”, “water carrier - gardening”, “descendants - volumes”, “provityaz - governments”, “hunt comes”, etc. Many of the poet’s rhymes are innovative, consonant, in which the consonance of consonant sounds is observed. V. Mayakovsky often rhymes different parts of speech. The great master word-maker cannot do without neologisms (“vyzhigi” - burners of life, “consumptive spitting”, “don’t get excited” (from the word “scarlet”), “worked”, “mandolin”).