In most cases, the reader associates it with the revolution, Lenin and October. However, no one has the right to deny this person the right to lyrical feelings. His fanatical desire to rebuild the world, to step “into the communist far,” to remain in the annals of history still did not contradict deep feelings and experiences.
Mayakovsky, obeying, as he thought, a sense of duty, sought to deny the theme of love the right to exist: “Now is not the time for love affairs.” But he couldn’t and didn’t want to free himself from love’s captivity: he was only trying to introduce a different meaning into his feeling, perhaps dictated by reality itself. The ideal of high love, which the poet asserted with all his work, could be embodied in a bright future, and the task of poetry was to speed up the path to the future, overcoming “everyday nonsense.”
Thus, poems with deeply “personal motives” became poems about universal happiness - after all, Mayakovsky did not count on a smaller scale. But no one can be in another time. However, all the most ordinary things in life are not “nonsense”, but the basis of life, a kind of “everyday mare”, which, despite all the urgings, does not move as quickly as we would like.
After meeting Lilya Brik in 1915, Mayakovsky dedicated almost all of his works to her. She became his real Muse. And he dedicated a very bright work to her - poem "I love", on which he worked from November 1921 to February 1922. The title itself – “I Love” – sounds life-affirming. Unlike the poem “Lilichka!” , there is no place for gloomy moods in the poem, it is full of love and love of life.
The poem has eleven chapters, the first of which, according to the tradition of Russian literature, are devoted to the childhood, adolescence and youth of the poet himself. In the chapter “As a Boy” it already appears hero image whose heart is capable of loving the whole world:
Where in this
in an arshin place -
both me and the river,
and hundred-faced rocks?!
In the chapter of “Young People,” the hero admits that while others were learning to fall in love, he had to go through a “school of life” in prison:
I'm here to love
We studied in Butyrki.
And there you could only fall in love “103 cameras through the peephole”. Therefore, the hero experiences, perhaps, a strange feeling for a young man - the desire to see a sunny bunny:
And I'm for the wall one
for the yellow hare
Then I would give everything in the world.
In the chapter "Adults" one can see the result of this training: considering the relationships between people, especially men and women, he ridicules those who seek to impress through clothes or wealth. And the poet not only condemns those who are accustomed to buying love with money: he hates them:
I'm fat
I've been used to hating since childhood...
In an effort to please the ladies, they try to look smarter than they really are, but nothing works - “minds jingle with copper foreheads”. The hero of the poem learned love, "spoke to some houses", A “water pumps were interlocutors”, this allowed him to learn to appreciate true love. That's why the hero caught "capitals heartbeat wild", eventually learning to experience the feeling of love only on this scale:
Solid heart -
buzzing everywhere.
Probably, in this understanding we need to look for the root cause of his condition - the state when “The heart lump has grown enormous”, which will henceforth be called "hulk of love".
Chapter, dedicated to the meeting with your beloved, it is called very simply and impartially - “You”. So, the heroine came for manifestations of a brutal, as they call it now, man, and “I just saw a boy”. But I wasn’t confused, but “I took it, took my heart and just went to play - like a girl with a ball”.
The final part of the poem is written in the manner characteristic of Mayakovsky: from a specific case he goes to expansion on a global scale. Therefore, as fleets flock to the harbor, as trains flock to the station, so does the hero "beckons and entices" to the heroine, because he truly loves:
Love in you -
I hid it, I'm walking
and I rejoice in Croesus.
And this love is so strong that the hero is ready to tell the whole world about it. He cannot be far from her, he reaches out steadily,
barely parted
We barely saw each other.
Perhaps the most curious thing about the hero is that he is well aware: the feeling of love may be unrequited, but the very thought that somewhere there is a person to whom you can address your declaration of love gives rise to happiness in the soul and hope for reciprocity. Therefore, he makes a kind of oath: “I swear, I love you unfailingly and faithfully!”. Perhaps such words sound too pretentious, but this is “Conclusion”, in which the poet proclaims: “Neither quarrels nor miles can wash away love”.
Thus, the poem gives all lovers a chance to experience not just a mutual feeling, but a feeling that has been suffered and tested not only by time, but also by distance.
- “Lilichka!”, analysis of Mayakovsky’s poem
“Now is not the time for love affairs,” said the loud-voiced innovative poet. Vladimir Mayakovsky was not distinguished by sentimentality, did not rush out loud words about eternal love, but with what uncontrollable force he felt and loved! Liliya Brik recalled: “Mayakovsky experienced everything with hyperbolic force - love, jealousy, friendship. He didn’t like to talk”... He didn’t like to talk about feelings, he “splashed” them onto paper, as if “shouting out” the unspeakable with a pen. That is why there is such a storm of emotions in the author’s poems, and the poem “I Love” is proof of this.
Who is “I Love” dedicated to? Lilya Brik - the woman who became the cause of the young poet’s joy, misfortune and mental suffering, as a result of which masterpieces were created.
It’s good for Volodya to suffer, he will suffer and write good poetry,” said the culprit of his torment.
She was Mayakovsky's main muse, and, despite the strangeness of their relationship (the lady was married and lived with two men at the same time, without hiding it), this love was strong, bright, uncontrollable. Only in such love could Mayakovsky’s hyper-emotional poems be born.
The work “I Love” was written in November 1921; during this period, love and understanding reigned between the poet and his muse, hence the joyful and life-affirming mood. The poem was completed in February 1922 during their joint trip to Riga.
In parallel with “I Love,” Vladimir Vladimirovich wrote his autobiography “I Myself,” and it is no coincidence, because the poem is also autobiographical in nature: the author describes how love arose in his heart from childhood, and what was happening in him at the time of writing.
Genre, size, direction
As you know, Mayakovsky was an innovator, and his innovation was expressed in everything: in versification, in expanding the poetic vocabulary, in the use of new techniques and in his easily recognizable writing style.
Mayakovsky argued that poetry should be read aloud for the people, which is why he often used rhyming “for the ear” and not “for the eye.” Likewise, in the poem “I Love” there are often inaccurate rhymes based on the coincidence of not all, but individual sounds, however, this inaccuracy is compensated for when reading aloud. At the same time, the form of versification with changing types of rhyme, that is, the lines rhyme in different orders. For example, in the chapter “The same with me” there is no pattern in the alternation of rhymes, and some lines do not rhyme at all (“harbour-deep”, “knight-rummage”). The work was written within the framework of Mayakovsky’s favorite system of versification, that is, tonic.
“I Love” is one of the few poems by the poet that is imbued with lyricism that is not inherent in his work. It is written in the genre love lyrics, and this kind of creation can rarely be found in the poet’s poetic heritage. Vladimir Mayakovsky belonged to the futurists, showed himself as a rebel, an “agitator”, a “bawl-leader”, and wrote rather “screaming” poems filled with protest. However, this poem, despite the fact that it relates to futurism, as indicated by free metrics, occasionalisms, and compound rhymes, reveals the deep experiences of the author, turning his soul inside out in front of everyone.
Composition
The poem “I Love” is quite voluminous, so it is often called a poem. The work consists of 11 chapters, each of which has its own title. From the titles of the chapters one can understand that the work is a kind of short biography Mayakovsky’s feelings, his life, described in stages, thoughts that arose as he grew up and the birth of his “community-love”.
- The lyrical narrative begins with a description of the poet’s childhood, adolescence and youth; we, the readers, are given the opportunity to learn first-hand about Mayakovsky’s past.
- The subsequent chapters describe the author’s “present,” what was happening in his life at the time of writing the poem.
- The work ends with a kind of oath promise to “unchangeably and faithfully” love.
Images and symbols
Vladimir Vladimirovich is a futurist poet, and, as you know, futurism was born in polemics with symbolism. However, in Mayakovsky’s work one can find the most pronounced contradiction, caused by the unity of futurist principles and symbolist traditions rejected by futurists. In other words, despite the fact that the “Budetlyans” declared the uselessness of the “intermediary symbol,” the author creates and uses his own images, symbols, and the poem “I Love” is rich in them.
The poet writes that he is in love with the peephole of the 103rd camera, and would give everything for the yellow wall hare. These images can only be understood by knowing the events that happened to Mayakovsky during this period. In 1909, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement number 103, where he tried to see the “yellow hare”, that is, a ray of sun, through a peephole. In general, the very image of the sun in the works of Vladimir Vladimirovich appears as a kind of victim, a destroyed “all-seeing eye”, which is endowed with human qualities.
He turned the sun’s back, then his belly, until the pit of his stomach ached,” the poet wrote in the chapter “As a Boy.
In the same part, an image of a hero appears who can love the whole world:
Where is there room in this arshin for me, and the river, and the hundred-height rocks?!” the sun wonders, looking at the lyrical hero.
Topics and issues
The theme of the poem “I Love” is obvious - the title speaks for itself. Love. Gigantic, verified love, buzzing in the heart in Mayakov style. However, in parallel with “hulk - love” there is a completely opposite and clearly expressed feeling: “hulk - hatred”. With the immeasurable force with which the poet loves, with the same force he hates. “I have been accustomed to hating fat people since childhood,” Mayakovsky writes with contempt about people who are accustomed to relying on their well-being by buying love with money. Both feelings were born in him since childhood, the lyrical hero lives by emotions, there is no indifference in him, there is love and there is hatred, two extremes.
In addition to the poet’s personal experiences, the poem touches on social and moral issues. Mayakovsky repeatedly mentions the “intelligentsia”, who live on income, position in society, pseudo-feelings, and the desire to please others with their flattery. "Be in love? Please! “For a hundred rubles,” - this is how he describes the whole essence of the people he hates. The lyrical hero himself is presented in contrast to the hardened upper class: his pockets are empty, but his heart is wide open.
Idea
The main idea of the poem, what Mayakovsky wanted to convey, is, first of all, his love for Lilia Brik, because this work was dedicated to her as a recognition. The poem itself is a propaganda of love, and it doesn’t matter whether it is unrequited, complex, or confused; the feeling itself, like air, is necessary for life. This is love for everything that surrounds: the river and the ray, and the puddle, and the rocks, and the people. The poet is sure: the ability of all-consuming love is given to everyone, only many hide it, bury it deep within themselves. According to Mayakovsky, the heart is not located in the body, but the body is located on our heart, which means that a person is not a body, not an appearance, a person is what is deeper - the heart, and this poem is a reminder of that. This is his main life conclusion.
Love is life, this is the main thing. Love is the heart of everything. If it stops working, everything else dies away, becomes imaginary, unnecessary, as Mayakovsky wrote in a letter to Liliya Brik.
This phrase contains the meaning of the poem; this is exactly what Vladimir Mayakovsky wanted to convey and convey.
Means of artistic expression
Main means artistic expression in the poem “I Love” is an antithesis. The lyrical hero is contrasted with a callous society that is stingy with manifestations of sincere feelings. This is expressed by the frequent use of the pronouns “I” (lyrical hero) and “they” (society):
They will take the land by cutting it off, stripping it, they teach./ And I taught geography from the sides.
Mayakovsky also created new images for comparisons and metaphors: wanting to show his joy, the lyrical hero calls himself a “wedding Indian” or, speaking about society, the author calls them “human chicks.” All Mayakovsky’s feelings and emotions are exaggerated: “A solid heart - buzzing everywhere.” To love genuinely, to be one big heart, to give love without demanding “surrender” - this is what Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem “I Love” teaches us.
The author's innovative features are expressed in the frequent use of neologisms. For example, he replaces the word “dana” with “dadena”; instead of “hardens” he says “hardens”. People miraculously turn into “people”. Mayakovsky’s lyrics are “bologna-like.” The world is reduced to a “mirik”. Public transport communicates with a person in “tram” language.
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The topic that the poet wants to talk about has been covered many times. He himself circled in it like a poetic squirrel and wants to circle again. This topic can even push a cripple to paper, and his song will ripple in the sun in lines. There is truth and beauty hidden in this theme. This topic is preparing to jump into the recesses of instincts. Appearing to the poet, this topic scatters people and affairs like a thunderstorm. This theme, whose name is love, comes like a knife to the throat!
The poet talks about himself and his beloved in a ballad, and the mood of the ballads becomes younger, because the poet’s words hurt. “She” lives in her house on Vodopyanny Lane, “he” sits in his house by the telephone. The inability to meet becomes a prison for him. He calls his beloved, and his call flies like a bullet along the wires, causing an earthquake on Myasnitskaya, near the post office. The calm second-cook picks up the phone and slowly goes to call the poet’s beloved. The whole world is pushed aside somewhere, only the unknown is aiming at it with a pipe. Between him and his beloved, separated by Myasnitskaya, lies the universe, through which a cable stretches like a thin thread. The poet feels not like a respected employee of Izvestia, who will go to Paris in the summer, but like a bear on his pillow of ice. And if bears cry, it’s exactly like him.
The poet remembers himself as he was seven years ago, when the poem “Man” was written. Since then, he has not been destined to crawl like a cock into everyday life, into family happiness: with the ropes of his own lines, he is tied to a bridge over the river and is waiting for help. He runs through Moscow at night - through Petrovsky Park, Khodynka, Tverskaya, Sadovaya, Presnya. On Presnya, in the family hole, his relatives are waiting for him. They are glad to see him for Christmas, but are surprised when the poet calls them somewhere 600 miles away, where they must save someone standing on a bridge over the river. They don’t want to save anyone, and the poet understands that his family replaces love with tea and darning socks. He doesn't need their chicken love.
The poet walks through the Presnensky mirages with gifts under his arms. He finds himself in the bourgeois house of Fekla Davidovna. Here the angels turn pink from the gloss of the icon, Jesus bows kindly, raising a thorny wreath, and even Marx, harnessed to a scarlet frame, drags the strap of the philistines. The poet is trying to explain to ordinary people that he writes for them, and not because of personal whim. They, smiling, listen to the famous buffoon and eat, rattling their jaws against their jaws. They also don’t care about some person tied to a bridge over the river and waiting for help. The poet's words pass through the inhabitants.
Moscow is reminiscent of Böcklin’s painting “Island of the Dead.” Finding himself in his friends’ apartment, the poet listens to them laughingly chatting about him while still dancing the two-step. Standing against the wall, he thinks about one thing: just not to hear the voice of his beloved here. He did not betray her in any of his poems; he bypasses her in the curses with which he smashes the horror of everyday life. It seems to him that only his beloved can save him - the man standing on the bridge. But then the poet understands: for seven years he has been standing on the bridge as the redeemer of earthly love in order to pay for everyone and cry for everyone, and if necessary, he must stand for two hundred years without waiting for salvation.
He sees himself standing over Mount Mashuk. Below is a crowd of ordinary people, for whom the poet is not poetry and soul, but a hundred-year-old enemy. They are shooting at him from all rifles, from all batteries, from every Mauser and Browning. On the Kremlin, the poet's shreds shine like a red flag.
He hates everything that has been hammered into people by departed slaves, that has settled and settled by everyday life even in the red flag system. But he believes with all his heart in life, in this world. He sees the future workshop of human resurrections and believes that it is him, who did not live and did not love his own, that the people of the future will want to resurrect. Maybe his beloved will also be resurrected, and they will make up for their lack of love with the stardom of countless nights. He asks for resurrection, at least for the fact that he was a poet and waited for his beloved, throwing away everyday nonsense. He wants to live out his life in a life where love is not the servant of marriage, lust and bread, where love goes to the whole universe. He wants to live in a life where at least the world will be his father, and at least the earth will be his mother.
Neither quarrels nor miles can wash away love.
Thought out, verified, tested.
Raising solemnly the line-fingered verse,
I swear - I love you unfailingly and faithfully!
V. Mayakovsky.
In 1926, Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote a poem called “I Love,” which he dedicated to his beloved Lila Yuryevna Brik. The poem consists of eleven chapters, each of which contains a short discussion about love. The first chapters talk about the poet's attitude to love in different time his life (“As a boy”, “Young man”, “My university”, “Adult”). In the very first part, entitled “Usually like this,” V. Mayakovsky argues that “love is given to anyone born,” but not everyone manages it correctly, they don’t notice their work and ranks, they don’t take it into account, and in old age “love will bloom , will bloom and shrivel.”
In the chapter “What Happened,” the poet admits that his love is “a lump of heart has grown enormous: the bulk of love, the bulk of hatred...” V. Mayakovsky considered love to be a true manifestation human relations. He was ready to completely surrender to this feeling, to devote himself completely to the woman he loved. But the relationship with Brik gradually faded away, coldness in the relationship was present more and more often, and the poet understood that Lilya no longer had ardent feelings for him. He writes about this in the chapters “Calling” (“I can’t carry it, and I’m carrying my burden. I want to throw it away, and I know I won’t give it up!”), “You” (“I took it, took away my heart and just went to play, like a girl with a ball.” ..."). These words are addressed specifically to Lila Yuryevna.
Love for V. Mayakovsky was not a “sigh from the views of the sea”, not a slight pretense, but simple human happiness, which exists only for two, and everything around has no meaning. External pretense, beauty of the body, clothes - all this is the tinsel of life, which has nothing to do with true love. In the chapter “Impossible,” he writes: “I can’t do it alone...”, realizing that he is attached to Brik: “I am drawn to you steadily, we barely parted, we barely saw each other...” (chapter “It’s the same with me”). The poet is able to wait, the unrequited feeling burns him, but he tries to believe that his beloved will accept him poetic soul and will again return him peace and joy of life.
In the chapter “Conclusion”, V. Mayakovsky declares that love is capable of surviving everything and enduring any adversity, while he utters an oath: “... I love unfailingly and faithfully!” Lilya Yuryevna Brik was not the only beloved of the poet, but it was she who he loved sincerely and passionately until the end of his days. She was his constant muse and meaning of life.
poem "I Love" Mayakovsky analysis
- In 1922, the poet wrote the poem I Love - his brightest work about love. Mayakovsky was then experiencing the peak of his feelings for L. Brik, and therefore was sure:
Love won't wash away
no quarrel
not a mile.
Thought out
verified
verified.
Raised the line-fingered verse solemnly,
I swear -
I love
unchanged and true!Here the poet reflects on the essence of love and its place in human life. Mayakovsky contrasted salesy love with true, passionate, faithful love.
Mayakovsky was a lyricist by nature. His heart was too vulnerable. He himself spoke about this in the poem I Love:
I know the hearts of others
Everyone knows it in the chest!
Anatomy has gone crazy on me.
A solid heart is buzzing everywhere...
More than possible
more than necessary
as if
loomed like poetic delirium in a dream
the lump of the heart has grown enormous:
bulk love,
huge hatred...These lines were written in 1916, but even ten twelve years later, until the very last days of his life, he thirsted for love.
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