There are poets who seem to be open to love, andall their creativity is literally permeated with this wonderful feeling. They are Pushkin, Akhmatova, Blok, Tsvetaeva and many others. And there are those who are hard to imagine in love. And first of all Vladimir Mayakovsky comes to mind. Poems about love in his work, at first glance, seem completely out of place, as he is usually perceived as a singer of the revolution. Whether this is so, let's try to find out, looking more attentively at the poet.
Mayakovsky - the beginning of the creative path
The native land of the poet is Georgia.Parents came from a noble family, although his father served as a simple forester. Sudden death of the breadwinner forces the family to move to Moscow. There, Mayakovsky entered the gymnasium, but two years later he was expelled for non-payment of training, and engaged in revolutionary activity. Several times he was arrested and spent almost a year in the Butyrka prison cell. This happened in 1909. Then for the first time he began to try to write poetry, absolutely terrible, in his words. However, it was this year that Mayakovsky, the love poetry, poems and famous poems of which were yet to come, considered the beginning of his poetic career.
The poet of revolution
It can not be said that Vladimir's workMayakovsky was completely devoted to the revolution. All is far from so unambiguous. The poet unconditionally accepted it, was an active participant in those events, and many of his works were really dedicated to the October Revolution. He practically deified her, believed in the ideals that she was carrying, and defended. Undoubtedly, he was the mouthpiece of the revolution, and his poems were a kind of agitation.
Love in the Life of Mayakovsky
Deep emotionality is inherent in all creativenatures. Vladimir Mayakovsky was no exception. The theme of love goes through all of his work. Outwardly rude, in fact the poet was a very vulnerable person, a hero of a rather lyrical character. And love in the life and work of Mayakovsky was far from the last place. He, a broad soul, knew how to fall in love instantly, and not for a short time, but for a long time. But the poet was not lucky in love. All relations ended tragically, and the last love in his life led to suicide.
Addresses of Mayakovsky's love lyrics
In the life of the poet there were four women, whom he loved unconditionally. The love poetry of Mayakovsky is primarily connected with them. Who are they, the poet's muse, to whom he devoted his poems?
Maria Denisova - the first with whom love is connectedLyrics Mayakovsky. He fell in love with her in Odessa, in 1914, and dedicated a poem to the girl called “Cloud in Pants”. It was unrequited love and the first strong feeling of the poet. Therefore, the poem turned out so smartly honest. This is a real cry of a lover who is waiting for his beloved girl for a few painful hours, and she comes only to tell him that she is marrying a better-off person.
Tatyana Alekseevna Yakovleva.With her poet met in October 1928 in Paris. The meeting ended with instant love for each other. The young immigrant and tall, under two meters tall, Mayakovsky, was a beautiful couple. He dedicated two of his poems to her - “A Letter to Comrade Kostrov ...” and “A Letter to Tatiana Yakovleva”.
In December, the poet leaves for Moscow, but in February1929 returns to France. His feelings for Yakovleva were so strong and serious that he made her an offer, but received no refusal or consent.
Relations with Tatyana ended tragically.Planning to come again in the fall, Mayakovsky could not do it because of the problems with the visa. In addition, he suddenly finds out that his love is getting married in Paris. The poet was so shocked by this news that he said that if he no longer saw Tatyana, he would shoot himself.
And then again began the search for the only devotional love. The poet began to seek solace from other women.
The last love of Mayakovsky
Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya - theater actress.Mayakovsky met her in 1929 through Osip Brik. This was done by chance, in the hope that the charming girl would interest the poet and distract from the tragic events associated with Yakovleva. The calculation was correct. Mayakovsky seriously became interested in Polonskaya, so much so that he began to demand that she break up with her husband. And she, loving the poet, could not start a conversation with her husband, knowing what a blow it would be for him. And Polonsky's husband to the end believed in the faithfulness of his wife.
It was a painful love for both.Mayakovsky was becoming more and more nervous every day, and she was still putting off the explanation with her husband. On April 14, 1930, they met for the last time. Polonskaya claims that there was no talk of a break, the poet once again asked her to leave her husband and leave the theater. A minute after her departure, already on the stairs, Polonskaya heard a shot. Returning to the poet's apartment, she found him dying. So the last love and life of Vladimir Mayakovsky ended in tragedy.
Difficult relationships: Lilya Brik
Without exaggeration, this woman occupied the main place in the poet's heart. She is his strongest and “sickest” love. Almost all the love lyrics of Mayakovsky after 1915 is dedicated to her.
A meeting with her occurred a year after the break.relationship with Denisova. Mayakovsky was initially fascinated by his younger sister Lily, and at the first meeting she was accepted as a governess by his beloved. Later, an official acquaintance of Lily and Osip Brik with the poet took place. They were amazed at his poems, and he instantly fell in love with this extraordinary woman.
Their relationship was strange and incomprehensible tosurrounding Lily's husband had an outside connection, and did not have a physical attraction to his wife, but in his own way he loved her very much. Lily adored her husband, and when she was once asked who she would choose, whether it was Mayakovsky or Brik, she replied without hesitation that she was a husband. But the poet was extremely dear to her. These strange relationships lasted 15 years, until the death of Mayakovsky.
Features of the love lyrics of Mayakovsky
For the poet, love is one of the most important feelings.in the world. He believed that this is the basis, the heart of everything. If it stops, the body will die. Even without love, a person cannot truly feel alive. Mayakovsky's love lyrics are special because the poet refused to believe in the fragility of this feeling. He himself loves loyally and wants to tell the whole world about it, to share his thoughts and reservations. Yes, only the townsfolk are not interested.
The features of the poet's lyrics are most vividly seen in his love poem, dedicated to Leela Brik.
Love for Mayakovsky is deep personalexperiences, and not a well-established opinion about it. Every person has this feeling from birth, but ordinary people, who value comfort and wealth more in life, quickly lose love. She has them, according to the poet, "shrinking."
A feature of the poet's love lyrics is histhe conviction that if a person loves someone, he must fully follow the elect, always and in all support, even if the loved one is wrong. According to Mayakovsky, love is unselfish, it is not afraid of quarrels and distance.
The poet is a maximalist in everything, therefore his love is notknows halftones. She does not know peace, and the author writes about this in her last poem “Unfinished”: “... I hope I believe forever will not come to me shameful prudence”.
Poems about love
Mayakovsky's love lyrics are presenteda small number of poems. Each of them is a small piece of the poet’s life with its sorrows and joys, despair and pain. “I love”, “Cloud in pants”, “Unfinished”, “About it”, “Letter to Tatiana Yakovleva”, “Letter to Comrade Kostrov ...”, “Spine Flute”, “Lilichka!” love
