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Introduction

Voznesensky Andrei Andreevich (1933-2010) - Soviet and Russian poet, architect, artist and publicist. One of the most famous poets of the “sixties” of the Soviet Union, for his work he was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1978 and the Government Prize in 2010 Russian Federation(posthumously). In 1996, during the Triumph Festival in Paris, Voznesensky was recognized by the French newspaper Nouvel Observater as "the greatest poet of our time."

Parents and childhood

Andrei was born in Moscow on May 12, 1933. His father, Voznesensky Andrei Nikolaevich, born in 1903, was a hydraulic engineer by profession, worked as a director of a leading Russian organization, which was engaged in the design of water management and hydraulic structures (Gidroproekt). Andrei Nikolaevich also had the title of professor and doctor technical sciences, worked at the Institute water problems Academy of Sciences of the USSR, was directly involved in the construction of the Inguri and Bratsk hydroelectric power stations. He had the title of Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Uzbek SSR.

On the paternal side, Andrei Voznesensky had a great-grandfather - archimandrite, rector of the Murom Annunciation Cathedral in Posada, Andrei Polisadov. By nationality, my great-grandfather was Georgian, he was taken hostage by the Russians during the conquest of the Caucasus and taken with them to the city of Murom, where he was assigned to a monastery. Great-grandfather then graduated from the seminary, married a Russian woman and received a church surname - Voznesensky.

Mom, Voznesenskaya Antonina Sergeevna (maiden name Pastushikhina), born in 1905, she was from the Vladimir region.

Andrei also had an older sister, Natasha.

Not far from Vladimir, on the Kirzhach River, there is a town of the same name. Here, in my mother's homeland, the childhood of the future poet passed. When the war began, Andryusha and his mother were evacuated beyond the Urals to the city of Kurgan, where they were sheltered by the driver's family. In 1941-1942, Andrey studied in Kurgan at school number 30. Many years later he recalled this city: “The evacuation threw us into a terrible hole, but what a good hole this was!”

From the evacuation, Andryusha and his mother returned to Moscow, where he went to one of the oldest schools in the city (now it is educational institution No. 1060). The famous director Andrei Tarkovsky graduated from this school in his time.

Youth

From early childhood, the boy showed a great love for writing and drawing. Andrei never talked about his children's poems, but he dared to show the works of his youth to his beloved poet Boris Pasternak. The boy sent a notebook with his writings to the great writer, and he invited the young man to visit directly to his home. Voznesensky was very amazed when the genius of poetry met him in the corridor of a communal apartment in a sweater with a holey sleeve.

Then a correspondence began between them. Boris Leonidovich answered the fourteen-year-old boy that, despite his youth, he burst into literature rapidly and violently. And these, at first glance, insignificant letters, connected two poets - one beginner, very young, and the second experienced, one might say, a master. Their friendship continued until Pasternak's death.

Once Boris Pasternak told Andrei that he always liked his manner of expressing his thoughts, thinking and seeing the world, but the master of literature did not expect Voznesenskaya to be heard and recognized by society so soon. Pasternak was glad that he managed to live up to this time - the period of recognition of Voznesensky as a poet.

It can be said that Pasternak thus blessed the young Voznesensky for a great literary future. Nevertheless, he himself dissuaded the guy from entering the literary institute. It seemed to Pasternak that a young talent could be spoiled there, and in general it is better for a man to have a more serious profession in life than a poet. So in 1952, after graduating from school, Andrei entered the Moscow Architectural Institute. He studied, as expected, for five years and in 1957 received a diploma in architecture.

Creation

According to the received specialty, Voznesensky did not have a chance to work, his life already completely belonged to art. From that time and forever, Andrei became a man of two professions. However, many critics subsequently noted that it was the architectural higher education influenced the work of Voznesensky. He was called an inventor in poetry, and in poetry one could always catch the game, constructions, architectural thinking. It is unlikely that there will be lovers of poetry who do not know his famous "rococo toilets" and "cowsheds in cupids".

In 1958, his first poems were published, which were distinguished by their peculiar style. Voznesensky's lyrics were extravagant, sound effects and rhythmic system became more complicated in them. The bright poems of the young poet, which were published in periodicals, did not go unnoticed.

And already in 1959, after his poem "Masters" was published, the name of the poet Andrei Voznesensky became popularly known. The recognition of millions of readers has been received. Voznesensky became a prominent representative of a new generation of poets. The era of the “sixties” began, who created and thought freely.

In Moscow, on New Square in the Polytechnic Museum, they began to organize literary evenings. Voznesensky, Okudzhava, Rozhdestvensky, Yevtushenko, Akhmadullina read their poems there. The halls were full. They could not accommodate everyone who wanted to listen to the poetry of the new generation. Poets began to perform at stadiums, where thousands of people gathered.

The year 1960 was marked by the release of two collections of poetry by Voznesensky "Mosaic" and "Parabola" at once. This became a very bright event in the cultural life of the USSR. His poems did not fit into Soviet official literature, critics did nothing but smash Voznesensky's poetry to smithereens.

In 1963, his famous scandal broke out with N. S. Khrushchev. A creative meeting was held in the Kremlin, and Voznesensky was supposed to speak. He began his speech by declaring that he was not a member of the Communist Party, like his favorite poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. To which Khrushchev invited Andrei Voznesensky to get out, and if necessary, he would give instructions for him to sign a foreign passport.

Perhaps in another time and for another poet, it would be the collapse of everything creative way. But not for Voznesensky, the people needed his poems. The poet's books were sold in huge editions.

Also, his work was greatly loved abroad. He traveled a lot and often with performances to Poland, Bulgaria, USA, Austria, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, France. Among admirers of Voznesensky's poetry are Robert Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Allen Ginsberg, Martin Heidegger, Arthur Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marilyn Monroe, Pierre Cardin, Jacqueline Kennedy, Marc Chagall, Ronald Reagan.

About two dozen poetry collections came from the pen of Voznesensky. In 1993, his dimensionless prayer sonnet "Russia is Risen", which was published in the magazine "Friendship of Peoples", made a splash.

His most famous work, which was staged on the stage, was the world-favorite rock opera Juno and Avos. This setting- business card troupe of the Moscow theater "Lenkom". Voznesensky's great merit is in the world fame of this opera. And not only that they, together with the composer Alexei Rybnikov, wrote amazing poetry and music. Voznesensky was a good friend of the famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin, who helped organize productions of Juno and Avos in Paris, New York and other major cities around the world.

In the Taganka Theater, in the form of songs and poems, his poetic cycle "Antimirs" was staged, the music for which was written by Boris Khmelnitsky, Vladimir Vysotsky. It was something like a creative evening of Voznesensky, where in the first part his poems were read by theater actors, and in the second he himself.

A lot of popular pop songs were written on Voznesensky's poems, which were performed by eminent Soviet singers. The most famous of them:

“Song for an encore”, “Million Red roses"(Alla Pugacheva);

«Waltz by Candlelight» (Sergey Nikitin);

· “Give me back the music”, “A special friend”, “Start over” (Sofia Rotaru);

· "Eclipse of the heart" (Valery Leontiev);

· "Ode to gossips" (Vladimir Vysotsky);

· "Do not return to former lovers" (Galina Besedina and Sergey Taranenko);

· “A girl is crying in a machine gun” (Evgeny Osin).

poet publicist Voznesensky cycle

· Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (May 5, 2008) - for outstanding services in the development of domestic literature and many years of creative activity.

In 1978, in New York, Voznesensky A. A. was awarded the prize of the International Forum of Poets for outstanding achievements in poetry

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree(January 15, 2004) -- for huge contribution in the development of domestic literature

Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1983)

· State Prize of the USSR (1978) - for the collection "Stained Glass Master" (1976).

He is an honorary member of ten world academies, including Russian Academy education (1993), the American Academy of Letters and Art, the Bavarian Academy of Arts, the Paris Academy of the Goncourt brothers, the European Academy of Poetry and others.

Golden badge of honor "Public recognition" (2003)

Personal life

Voznesensky had a short relationship with the poetess Bella Akhmadullina after she left her first husband Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

In 1964 Andrey married Zoya Boguslavskaya. Until the end of her life, she was his Muse and Oza (as he called Zoya). It was extraordinary love. Boguslavskaya was four years older than Voznesensky, at the time of their acquaintance she took place as a playwright, writer and literary critic. Moreover, Zoya was married and raised her son.

But Voznesensky chose her as his salvation, as if he felt with every cell of his body that this was his destiny. She resisted and did not want to change anything in her prosperous life. happy life. But Andrei was persistent, and Zoya gave up. She left her former family, and for 46 years she walked side by side with Voznesensky in joy and in sorrow.

Disease and death

In fact, death seemed to be constantly pursuing him and silently receding. In the 70s by Soviet Union a rumor swept that the poet Andrei Voznesensky had an accident and crashed. Indeed, there was an accident, the car was crushed, as they say, soft-boiled, but everyone who was in it remained alive. The famous writer and poet of the Kazakh SSR Olzhas Suleimenov was driving. In the car was also the actress Tatyana Lavrova, who was for Voznesensky his eternal and bright love.

The second accident happened in the life of the poet when he was driving a taxi to his home in Peredelkino. The car was again crumpled into the trash, and the poet remained alive thanks to his favorite fox shaggy hat. Death again bypassed him, and later he wrote poems, where he thanked the unknown beast, from which they sewed a saving cap.

The poet was lucky for the third time when he was supposed to fly from Novosibirsk to Moscow and was late for his plane, which crashed during this flight.

In 1995, doctors diagnosed Andrei Voznesensky with the first signs of Parkinson's disease. His throat and limb muscles began to weaken.

In 2006, the poet had his first stroke. The consequences after it were severe: almost complete paralysis of the left arm and problems with the legs, Andrey Andreevich began to move very hard.

In 2010, he suffered a second stroke and lost his voice. In May of the same year, Voznesensky and his wife Zoya Boguslavskaya left for one of the best German clinics in the city of Munich. Doctors performed an operation on him, during which atherosclerotic damage to the arteries was eliminated, which prevented the possibility of subsequent strokes. But the prompt actions of surgeons from Germany could not prolong the life of the poet for a long time.

On June 1, 2010, Voznesensky suffered a third stroke. At 13:10, his heart stopped. Before that, the wife called an ambulance, but when the doctors arrived, the poet was already dead. When Voznesensky's body was taken to the morgue, red carnations were already lying at the gate of the house.

Andrei Andreevich lived in Peredelkino, near the dacha-museum of his teacher Boris Pasternak. The disciple outlived his mentor by fifty years and two days.

During this time, Voznesensky every year on Pasternak's birthday (February 6) and on the day of his death (May 30) came to his teacher's dacha. After Pasternak's death, a notebook signed "Andryushina's Poems" was found in his work desk, in several places there were some notes with a simple pencil. Voznesensky turned out to be a very grateful student. For half a century, he did not come to Pasternak's dacha-museum only once, on May 30, 2010. He simply could not do it physically, and perhaps he felt that in two days he would meet with his mentor forever ...

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Let's turn to the work of Andrei Voznesensky, and specifically - to one of his most striking poems - "Live not in space, but in time ...". Voznesensky is an "urban" poet, but he also sometimes got tired of "being" and turned to "eternal themes", emotional experiences.

In fact, in this poem, the author departs from everyday topics that are so characteristic of his poems. Merging together in a person's life two dimensions - temporal and spatial, he does not draw conclusions and does not impose a single solution for everyone. Voznesensky leaves the choice to man, although he himself, of course, chooses a “temporary” life, which is measured not only by earthly life, but also by eternal life.

The work of Andrei Voznesensky developed in a complex way. The outstanding talent of the poet, his search for new possibilities of the poetic word immediately attracted the attention of readers and critics. In his the best works The 50s, such as the poem "Masters" (1959), the poems "From the Siberian Notebook", "Report from the opening of the hydroelectric power station", conveyed the joy of work, the optimistic life-sense of the human creator. Lyrical hero Voznesensky is full of thirst to act, to create:

I'm from the student's bench

I dream that buildings

rocket stage

Soared into the universe!

However, sometimes at that time he lacked civic maturity, poetic simplicity. In the poems of the collections Parabola and Mosaic (1960), energetic intonations and rhythms, unexpected figurativeness and sound writing sometimes turned into a passion for the formal side of the verse.

The poems of his first two books are full of youthful expression. The author seeks to convey in them the furious pressure of the surrounding world. But already in the collection Anti-Worlds (1964), Voznesensky's poetic manner becomes more refined and rationalistic. Romantic expression, as it were, "freezes" into metaphors. Now the poet does not so much participate in the events he talks about as he watches them from the side, choosing unexpected and sharp comparisons for them. .

For the first time, Andrei Voznesensky's poems were published in the Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the 70s, collections of poems were published: "Shadow of Sound", "Look", "Release the Bird", "Temptation", "Selected Lyrics".

The poet Sergei Narovchatov, analyzing the book by Andrey Voznesensky "The Stained Glass Master", traced the connection between its poetics and the art of stained glass. As you know, the relationship between literature and fine arts old, but in our days this "commonwealth of muses" has become even stronger.

In A. Voznesensky's poems "Grove", "Beaver Lament", "Evening Song" the idea is sharpened to the limit that, destroying surrounding nature, people destroy and kill the best in themselves, putting their future on Earth in mortal danger.

In the work of Voznesensky, moral and ethical quests are noticeably intensified. The poet himself feels the urgent need to update, above all, the spiritual content of poetry. And the conclusion from these reflections is the following lines about the vital purpose of art:

There is a higher goal of the poet -

Beat the ice on the porch,

To go warm from the cold

And confession to drink.

These impulses and aspirations were voiced in the books "Cello Oak Leaf" (1975) and "Stained Glass Master" (1976), "I yearn for sweet foundations." They also led to the emergence of other motifs, figurative strokes and details, for example, in the perception of nature. Hence - "Lovely groves of a shy homeland (the color of a tear or a harsh thread) ..."; "A pear that has died out, alone in the thicket, I will not break your beauty"; "Pine trees are blooming - candles of fire hiding in the palms of future cones ..."; "Fresh bird-cherries hang shavings ...". The poet, with some surprise, admits to himself: "I see, as if for the first time, the lake of beauty of the Russian periphery."

“Explaining why he does not spare the years devoted to architecture, Voznesensky wrote in the preface to The Cello Oak Leaf: “Any serious architect begins the examination of the project with a plan and a constructive section. Facade - for the uninitiated, for onlookers. The plan is the constructive and emotional knot of a thing, though it is its nerve.

Voznesensky works on works of great poetic form, he wrote the poems Longjumeau, Oz, Led69, Andrei Palisadov, and others. His poems naturally grow out of his poems and rise among them like trees among bushes. These poems are impetuous, the images do not get stuck in everyday life and scrupulous descriptiveness, they do not want to slip. Space is given in flight: "television centers fly past Moore like a night cigarette." Focus on Time (s capital letter), epic Time:

I enter the poem

How to enter a new era.

Thus begins the poem Longjumeau.

The poet's reaction to the modern, vital is instantaneous, urgent, the ambulance and fire brigade of his words are around the clock and trouble-free. Painful, humane, piercing decisively and distinctly characterizes the work of the poet.

All progress is reactionary

If a person collapses.

Andrei Voznesensky also wrote articles on the problems of literature and art, did a lot of painting, some of his paintings are in museums.

In 1978 in New York he was awarded the International Forum of Poets for outstanding achievements in poetry, in the same year Andrei Voznesensky was awarded the State Prize of the USSR for the book "Stained Glass Master".

According to Voznesensky, a person is the builder of the time in which he lives:

… minute trees are entrusted to you,

own not forests, but hours.

And here the poet says that time is above all. And it is precisely this that protects humanity, its life from oblivion and destruction: "live under minute houses." The idea is paradoxical, but very accurate, I think.

Thus, we can say that the author clothes everything material, spatial, in a temporal fabric. Even his House is equated with time. These are two parallel lines that eventually intersect. Even Voznesensky proposes to replace clothes with time, because it is more expensive than the most valuable furs:

and shoulders instead of sable to someone

wrap up in a priceless minute...

Indeed, time is the best gift for any person, but, unfortunately, giving it is only in the power higher powers, God.

It is worth noting that rhyme is generally not characteristic of Voznesensky's poems. In this poem, he rhymed only the first and second stanzas - those that are devoted to the material side of human existence. The other two stanzas not only do not rhyme, but are also constructed asymmetrically (five and two verses each). They are the same as time itself, which is what the poet says in the first verse of the third stanza: “What an asymmetrical Time!”

The pathos of the poem "Live not in space, but in time ..." is based on the opposition - time and space. And although the poet puts them at different poles of human life, one is impossible without the other. However, people cannot exist without them.

Interestingly, there is no concretization in the poem - there is neither a lyrical hero, nor an appeal to someone personally. Everything is generalized, and at the same time with regards to everyone.

Voznesensky proves that his life is not the same as that of the reader, but one that the reader must certainly strive for. And although this is not directly indicated in the poem, it is felt. To become an artist, a person, you need to live "in time". That is, emphasizing the distance, Andrei Voznesensky at the same time called for it to be overcome.

And this real, alluring achievability of joining the world of art fascinates and seduces. After all, it is people like the poet who live in time for a long time, even after their bodily life.

Strange comparisons, very accurate and frightening, are given by the author in the penultimate stanza. It makes me shudder to realize that it's true that:

The last minutes - in short,

The last parting is longer...

And you can't write anything here - it's true. The forcing in the stanza of an atmosphere of hopelessness, but the possibility of changing everything, of choice, emphasizes the repetition of the word “last”.

Dying - in space,

Live - in time.

And here the choice is up to everyone - where he wants to live, what memory of himself to leave. This is probably one of the eternal, but so strangely expressed in a poem by a modern poet, a question.

Artistic searches in the early poetry of Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky

Introduction

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrey Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bulat Okudzhava... They began their literary journey from the atmosphere of Khrushchev's "thaw".

A. Voznesensky - a poet of the 60s. Born in Moscow. The son of a Moscow hydroengineer. From the same yard with Andrei Tarkovsky. In 1957 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture and marked this ending with the following verses: "Farewell, architecture! Burn wide, cowsheds in cupids, toilets in rococo!"

From that moment on, his life was completely owned literary creativity. In 1958 his poems appear in periodicals, and starting with the poem "Masters" (1959), Voznesensky's poetry quickly burst into the poetic space of our time, having received the recognition of millions of readers. “Your entry into literature is swift, stormy, I am glad that I lived to see it,” Pasternak wrote from the hospital.

His first poems were published in 1958 in Literaturnaya Gazeta and in the collection The Day of Russian Poetry. Already the first publications drew the attention of critics to a talented poet, with a fresh voice, energetic intonations and rhythm, unexpected imagery and sound writing.

In 1960, the books Parabola and Mosaic were published in parallel in Moscow and Vladimir. They were ambiguously perceived by poets and critics. Thus, one of the key poems for this period, “Goya” (1957), was reproached for formalism. The through permeation with consonances, internal rhymes is clearly felt in the program for the poet "Parabolic Ballad" (1958): "Fate, like a rocket, flies along a parabola / usually - in darkness and less often - along a rainbow"; "They go to their truths, bravely in different ways, / a worm - through a gap, a man - along a parabola."

Already in these relatively early poems, the originality of Voznesensky's poetic manner was manifested - the sharpness of seeing the world in its complexity and tragic contradictions, in rapid movement, "in figurative clots" (E. A. Yevtushenko), the power of lyrical feeling, the expressive-romantic nature of images, metaphors , associations, as well as the conciseness and dynamism of the language, lexical and intonational breadth, freedom and variety of rhythms, rich instrumentation of the verse. In his work, the influence of the poetics of B. L. Pasternak and V. V. Mayakovsky, V. V. Khlebnikov and M. I. Tsvetaeva, and other poets is noticeable Silver Age, a number of artists and architects of the 20th century.

He put the metaphor at the forefront, calling it the "motor of form." Kataev called Voznesensky's poetry a "depot of metaphors".

His early metaphors were stunning: “eyes rush over the linden like a skidding motorcycle”, “my cat, like a radio receiver, catches the world with a green eye”, “and quiet tongues shine from dogs, like from lighters”, but sometimes shocked: “a seagull - swimming trunks of god". After Mayakovsky, there was no such metaphorical Niagara in Russian poetry.

Voznesensky had many opponents from his early youth, but no one could take away the fact that he created his own style, his own rhythm. He especially succeeded in an unexpectedly shortened rhyming line, then stretching the rhythm, then truncating it.

Voznesensky was one of the first poets of that generation who "opened a window to Europe" and America by giving poetry readings. From enthusiastic youthful notes: “Down with Raphael, long live Rubens!”, From playing with alliterations and rhymes, he moved on to more sorrowful moods: “we, like appendicitis, have been removed from shame”, “all progress is reactionary if a person collapses.” There were biographical reasons for all this.

In 1963, at a meeting with the intelligentsia in the Kremlin, Khrushchev subjected Voznesensky to all sorts of insults, shouting at him: "Take your passport and get out, Mr. Voznesensky!" However, despite temporary disgrace, Voznesensky's poems continued to be published, and the circulation of his books grew to 200,000. According to his poems, the performances "Antimira" in 1964 by the Taganka Theater and "Avos" at the Lenin Komsomol Theater were staged. Voznesensky was the first writer from the 60s to receive the State Prize (1978). Peru Voznesensky owns many essays, where he talks about his meetings with Henry Moore, Picasso, Sartre and other major artists of the XX century. Voznesensky is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts.

The relevance of the study of course work is justified by the fact that in the 50s of the XX century a new generation of poets entered literature, whose childhood coincided with the war, and youth fell on post-war years.

A. Voznesensky and many others in their themes and genres, images and intonations, referring to different artistic traditions, sought to embody the features of the spiritual image of modern man, his craving for intense reflection, creative search, active action.

The purpose of the course work is to determine the vector of artistic search for the early poetry of A. Voznesensky

Give general characteristics poetry of the "thaw" period of the 60s

Determine the place of Voznesensky's work in the 60s

To identify the main themes and problems of the early poetry of A. Voznesensky.

1. General characteristics of the poetry of the "thaw" period of the 60s

Voznesensky artistic poet

The work of A. Voznesensky coincides in time with the period of the Khrushchev thaw. The Khrushchev thaw is an unofficial designation of the period in the history of the USSR after the death of I.V. Stalin (mid-1950s - mid-1960s). In the internal political life of the USSR, it was characterized by the liberalization of the regime, the weakening of totalitarian power, the emergence of some freedom of speech, the relative democratization of the political and public life, openness to the Western world, greater freedom of creative activity. The name is associated with the tenure of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU N. Khrushchev (1953-1964).

For all the conventionality of dividing history (including literary history) into decades, it appears quite clearly in reality itself, although, of course, the chronological boundaries of a single stage singled out in this way do not coincide with the boundaries of calendar decades. So in the 20th century, the 60s in life and literature did not begin on January 1, 1961, and not in last days 1970 is over. This period is marked, on the one hand, by such events as the death of I.V. Stalin (March 1953) and the XX Congress of the CPSU (February 1956), and on the other hand, the removal of N.S. Khrushchev in October 1964, with the trial of the writers Y. Daniel and A. Sinyavkin (January 1966).

These years also have not a digital, but a figurative definition, repeating the title of the same year, 1954, of the novel by I. Ehrenburg, the thaw. As the mentioned events of the second half of the 1960s confirmed, it turned out to be accurate, although it was difficult for optimists to accept it at the time of its entry into circulation, since it did not exclude doubts about the irreversibility of the changes emerging in the country.

The middle of the 1950s was a new starting point for the Khrushchev thaw. The famous report of N.S. Khrushchev at the “closed” meeting of the XX Party Congress on February 25, 1956 marked the beginning of the liberation of the consciousness of the many millions of people from the hypnosis of Stalin’s personality cult. The era was called the “Khrushchev thaw”, which gave birth to the generation of the “sixties”, its contradictory ideology and dramatic fate. Unfortunately, to a genuine rethinking Soviet history, political terror, the role of the generation of the 20s in it, the essence of Stalinism, neither the authorities nor the "sixties" fit. But in literature there were processes of renewal, reassessment of values and creative searches, the first few years of the “thaw” became a real “poetic boom”.

Poetry began to realize the experience of literary movements and schools of the early twentieth century. This was facilitated by a moral atmosphere that engendered courage (say what you want), honesty (say what you think). The poets tried to connect to the interrupted historical experience. In this regard, the words "love", "friendship", "partnership" and others have regained their ideological value. Poets are trying to fight against the universalities embedded in literature: the abuse of slogan words, bureaucracy, praise and other attributes of a totalitarian system built on lies and fear.

Passion for poetry has become the banner of the times. People were ill with poetry then, neither before nor later in poetry and in general in literature were not particularly interested. Poetry readings for the first time in national history began to gather crowds of young people.

A youth environment was created, the password of which was knowledge of the poems of Pasternak, Mandelstam, Gumilyov. In 1958, a monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky was solemnly opened in Moscow. After the official opening ceremony, at which the planned poets performed, poetry began to be read by those who wished from the public, mostly young people. The participants of that memorable meeting began to gather at the monument regularly. Meetings at the monument to Mayakovsky during 1958-1961. increasingly political overtones. The last of these took place in the autumn of 1961, when several of the most active participants in the meetings were arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.

But the tradition of oral poetry did not end there. It was continued by evenings at the Polytechnic Museum, and later at Luzhniki. Young poets - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky and Bella Akhmadulina - became real idols of the "thaw", speaking from the poetic "stage".

They were a group of actors with different roles, perfectly complementing each other. Yevtushenko was a poet-tribune, aimed at a dialogue with each of those sitting in the hall. Voznesensky gave a broad vision of the world, making each listener involved in global problems. Akhmadulina brought in a note of mysterious intimacy. Considering creativity as a sacrament, she, as it were, communed her readers and admirers to this sacrament.

The authorities allowed Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Akhmadulina, Rozhdestvensky to speak in public, believing that such a phenomenon was necessary so that the people could “let off steam”. These poets were needed by the authorities, although she did not trust them in everything. These poets were called in criticism. That was the title of an article by S. Rassadin, dedicated to those who were part of literature in those years. They entered boldly and noisily, testifying with their pages that poetry, prose, criticism, dramaturgy are being released from the lethargic state in which they were during the years of Stalinist totalitarianism.

From the present day it is clear that the spiritual renewal of society, begun at that time, was in many respects half-hearted and compromise. According to the self-critical confession of one of them, critic V. Ognev, the "Sixties" strove to "be as honest as possible." They, defending positions that a little later will be called "socialism with a human face", hoped to restore the seemingly lofty ideals of the revolution, to cleanse them of distortions and dogmas associated with the "cult of personality", in a word - to test socialism - humanism. In the light of the events of the most recent years these romantic efforts may seem Sisyphean, if not naive at all.

Dementiev wrote (Granite of verse) - “The Sixties actively supported the “return to Leninist norms”, hence the apologetics of V. Lenin (poems by A. Voznesensky and E. Yevtushenko, plays by M. Shatrov, prose by E. Yakovlev) as an opponent of Stalin and romanticization civil war(B. Okudzhava, Yu. Trifonov, A. Mitta).

The Sixties are staunch internationalists and supporters of a world without borders. It is no coincidence that revolutionaries in politics and art were cult figures for the sixties - V. Mayakovsky, Vs. Meyerhold, B. Brecht, E. Che Guevara, F. Castro, as well as writers E. Hemingway and E. M. Remarque.

On the other hand, an important role among the "sixties" began to play modernist poetry. For the first time in Russian history, poetry readings began to gather crowds of young people.

One of the symbols of the generation of the “thaw” era was Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky. He entered, or rather, burst into literature brightly, swiftly. Like Yevtushenko, Voznesensky became the leader of the poetic avant-garde of the new time. The collections of poems Parabola, Mosaic, Terangular Pear, Antiworlds, published in the early 60s, made it possible to say that an original poet appeared, with his own world , its system of images, a new vision of problems. Voznesensky's works immediately drew attention to themselves with the freshness of sound, energy of rhythm, special metaphorically rich language, unexpected associations, richness of poetic means, genre diversity (elegy, ballad, lyrical monologue, dramatic poem, love confession, dialogue, landscape painting, satirical portrait, reportage).

In the work of the young poet, there was a peculiar synthesis of lyrics and philosophical principles, the emancipation of feelings, thoughts of the verse. Voznesensky is one of the leaders of the "pop" poetry of the 1960s, imbued with the spirit of innovation and the emancipation of man from the power of obsolete dogmas. Voznesensky identified the main themes of his poetry in the Parabolic Ballad:

Sweeping canons, forecasts, paragraphs,

Rushing art, love and history -

On a parabolic trajectory!

Voznesensky addresses mainly intellectuals, "physicists and lyricists", people of creative work, and attaches paramount importance not to social and moral and psychological problems, but to artistic means and forms of its comprehension and embodiment. From the very beginning, his favorite poetic means is hyperbolic metaphor, akin to the metaphors of Mayakovsky and Pasternak, and the main genres are lyrical monologue, ballad and dramatic poem, from which he builds books of poems and poems.

Already at the time of early creativity, the poet had a serious stock of knowledge. Architecture and music, mathematics and sopromat, the history of painting and the history of poetry. This is important to know: architecture influenced the poems, especially the Vladimir school, among the images of which the poet spent his childhood. Later, Andrei Voznesensky was fond of Italian baroque.

Voznesensky introduces the living outlines of this year, month, day, moment into his poetics, each time rethought anew.

Voznesensky's poetics is characterized by a special rhythmic pattern, characterized by "relief", "bulge": at the climax, the poet does not amplify the sound, but, on the contrary, muffles it. At the same time, the few remaining emotional outbursts stand out and turn into shock points. His poems are always compositionally built, "architectural". .

Reality gives him events, facts, names, dates. the poet, open to the impression of being, absorbs everything into himself, and his verse, like a seismograph, sensitively reacts to shocks in the public consciousness of compatriots and contemporaries. Not everyone likes the frankly experimental poems of Andrei Voznesensky. His "isopes" were met with hostility by some, the verses, excessively overloaded with inversions, were hardly perceived.

Important feature his poetics - numerous internal rhymes, sound repetitions. First, a rhyme consonance arises, then it is picked up by numerous echoes within subsequent lines, multiplying endlessly and echoing other consonances.

In the books of Andrei Voznesensky, the sound energy of the verse sparkles and splashes. Sounds flow easily, naturally. This is not a thoughtless play on words, as some critics seem to think, but a constant young breakthrough to meaning, to essence. The sharpness of sound in the poetry of Andrei Voznesensky over the years more and more acquires the sharpness of meaning. The language of his poetry is the language of modern man. In modern speech, the poet is looking for the perfect grain. But for successful selection, you need to winnow the chaff in tons, discard the husk.

All were successful with the general public. The poet's humanism, citizenship, democracy, confession, temperament, emotionality, fusion of various social and speech styles, complete dedication expanded the audience of his admirers, attracted all general attention.

Andrei Voznesensky is a gifted, original poet. He has a keen sense of modernity, intense lyricism, an inherent craving for the ambiguity of images, for associations compressed like a steel spring, for unexpected, often grotesque, metaphors. He is unlike anyone else and sometimes even fervently flaunts his originality. But he works seriously and a lot. Predominant attention to the form of verse does not exclude the presence of a fairly stable theme in Voznesensky. Most of his poems are narrative. Among the themes developed by the artist are the problems of culture and civilization, matter and spirit (“world” and “anti-world”). .

2. The main themes and problems of the early poetry of A. Voznesensky

The work of Andrei Voznesensky developed in a complex way. The outstanding talent of the poet, his search for new possibilities of the poetic word immediately attracted the attention of readers and critics. In his best works of the 50s, such as the poem "Masters" (1959), the poems "From the Siberian Notebook", "Report from the opening of the hydroelectric power station", the joy of work, the optimistic life-sense of the human creator are conveyed. The lyrical hero of Voznesensky is full of thirst to act, to create:

I'm from the student's bench

I dream that buildings

rocket stage

Soared into the universe!

The poet Sergei Narovchatov, analyzing the book by Andrey Voznesensky "The Stained Glass Master", traced the connection between its poetics and the art of stained glass. As you know, the relationship between literature and the visual arts is long-standing, but today this "commonwealth of muses" has become even stronger.

In A. Voznesensky's poems "Grove", "Beaver Lament", "Evening Song" the idea is sharpened to the limit that by destroying the surrounding nature, people destroy and kill the best in themselves, exposing their future on Earth to mortal danger.

There is a higher goal of the poet -

Beat the ice on the porch,

To go warm from the cold

And confession to drink.

“Explaining why he does not spare the years devoted to architecture, Voznesensky wrote in the preface to The Cello Oak Leaf: “Any serious architect begins the examination of the project with a plan and a constructive section. The facade is for the uninitiated, for onlookers. The plan is a constructive and emotional knot of a thing, however, its nerve.

I enter the poem

How to enter a new era.

Thus begins the poem Longjumeau.

The poet's reaction to the modern, vital - instantaneous, urgent, ambulance and fire brigade of his words - around the clock and trouble-free. Painful, humane, piercing decisively and distinctly characterizes the work of the poet.

All progress is reactionary

If a person collapses.

Andrei Voznesensky also wrote articles on the problems of literature and art, did a lot of painting, some of his paintings are in museums.

According to Voznesensky, a person is the builder of the time in which he lives:

… minute trees are entrusted to you,

own not forests, but hours.

and shoulders instead of sable to someone

wrap up in a priceless minute...

Indeed, time is the best gift for any person, but, unfortunately, giving it is in the power of only higher powers, God.

Interestingly, there is no concretization in the poem - there is neither a lyrical hero, nor an appeal to someone personally. Everything is generalized, and at the same time with regards to everyone.

And this real, alluring achievability of joining the world of art fascinates and seduces. After all, it is people like the poet who live in time for a long time, even after their bodily life.

Strange comparisons, very accurate and frightening, are given by the author in the penultimate stanza. It makes me shudder to realize that it's true that:

The last minutes - in short,

The last parting is longer...

Dying - in space,

Live - in time.

Analysis of early poetry collections. features of poetics. The role of metaphor, paradox, irony in Voznesensky's work.

One of the early poetry collections of Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky was called Achilles heart (1966). On its inside cover was a cardiogram. It is difficult to imagine a better image to understand the poet. Achillesian, i.e. unprotected, vulnerable, easily vulnerable, the heart reacts sharply to cruelty and injustice, insults and insults, responds to all sorrows and pains.

Voznesensky is a poet of the second half of the 20th century. This is clear from his poetry. Moscow and California, the airport in New York and the stars over Mikhailovsky, I'm in Shushenskoye And When he wrote to Vyazemsky - such freedom of movement in time and space is typical for our contemporary.

Time stress and passion - both in his language and in his verse. First of all, Voznesensky is a poet of sharp and intense thought. At the same time, his professional knowledge of architecture and painting contributed to his interest in poetic form. Hence - the harmonious architectonics of his poems, the accuracy of epithets, the musicality of sound writing:

* Glorious Shadow!

* What is screaming annoyingly

* record - like a target,

* broken into the top ten ?

Reading Voznesensky is an art. Simply unraveling the poet's metaphors will not give the desired result. We must accept as our own his pain for a man, his hatred of meanness, philistinism, vulgarity, his angry warning about the possibility of a spiritual Hiroshima. But Voznesensky not only resents and hates - he proclaims and affirms: All progress is reactionary if a person collapses.

* What else is extraordinarily important to him?

* Russia, beloved,

*This is not a joke.

* All your pains - they pierced me with pain.

* I am your capillary

* vessel,

* It hurts when -

* it hurts you, Russia.

A feeling of deep compassion, a desire to help inspired the poet to create a poem From a Tashkent report , written as a response to the famous earthquake of 1966. The unusual images with which he recreates this tragedy no longer seem either strange or paradoxical. Voznesensky stands up for high spiritual values, for a noble, selfless, whole person.

He is the author of poetry collections triangular pear (1962), Antiworlds (1964), Shadow of sound (1970), Oak leaf cello (1975), Stained glass master (1976), moat (1987), Axiom of self-searching (1990) and others. Voznesensky is the creator of the video genre, which arose at the intersection of poetry and painting.

The theme is the fate of the masters in the poem "Masters".

One of the central themes of Voznesensky's poetry is the fate of the masters. This topic was started in the poem "Masters", in which speech and children are about the builders of the "Seditious Temple".

Poem "Masters"

Your hammer is not a column and

tesal statues -

knocked crowns off their foreheads

and shook the thrones.

A. Voznesensky

Andrei Voznesensky literally burst into poetry in the sixties. He was characterized by youthful enthusiasm, surprise and admiration for this wonderful world in which he was destined to live and create.

Poem Masters immediately put forward Voznesensky in the category of popular and extraordinary authors. There was so much youthful passion and poetic energy in the work, its rhythm was so impetuous, and the painting of the throw was unexpected, that they immediately started talking about the poet and arguing.

Bells, horns...

Ringing, ringing...

Artists

All times!..

Your hammer is not a column

And he tesal statues -

Knocked down from the foreheads of the crown

And shook the thrones.

This poem is imbued with the idea of the immortality of true art. Nothing has power over him, not even ruthless time.

original artist -

Always a tribune.

It has the spirit of revolution

And forever - rebellion.

You were walled up.

They burned at the stake.

Monks by ants

They danced on fires.

Art was resurrected

From executions and from torture

And it beat like a chair,

O stones of the Moabites.

For the plot, Voznesensky takes a dramatic legend about the masters who built the miraculous temple - the Intercession Cathedral, popularly known as St. Basil's Cathedral, and about the blinding of the masters so that they would not create an even better temple anywhere else.

They were brave - seven,

They were strong - seven,

Probably from the blue sea

Or from up north

Where is Ladoga, meadows,

Where the rainbow is the arc.

They laid masonry

Along the white shores

To soar, like a rainbow.

Seven different cities.

The poem is written in a sonorous, bright language. The rhythm changes from chapter to chapter. iron rattle and clarity in the first chapter to a reckless buffoon song in the second and third.

Curls - shavings,

Hands - on planes.

Furious, Russians,

Red shirts...

The cold, the laughter, the clatter of horses and the sonorous barking of dogs.

We, like devils, worked, and today - drink, walk?

The poet, as it were, combined two times. With youthful enthusiasm, fearlessly, he describes the distant past, does not try to stylize his language as Old Russian speech, but speaks in a language familiar to him and his readers.

And the temple burned in half the sky,

Like a slogan for rebellion

Like a flame of anger

Scuttling Temple!

The authorities always see a threat and sedition in creativity, trying to strangle the creator. But it is impossible to kill art, it will exist as long as people live.

Not to be, not to be, not to be cities!

Patterned towers do not swim in the fog.

Neither the sun, nor arable land, nor pines - not to be!

Neither white nor blue - not to be, not to be.

And the rapist will come out to destroy - to kill ...

There will be cities!

Over the expanse of the universe

In the forests of gold

Voznesensky,

I will raise them up!

Thus, the connection of times was realized. The poet feels himself the heir of his fathers and grandfathers, the successor of their ideas:

I am the same artel

That the seven masters.

Rage in artels,

Twenty centuries!

I am a thousand-armed

by your hands,

I am thousand-eyed

with your eyes.

I exercise

in glass and metal

didn't dream...

The theme of creativity and skill is always relevant, at all times. In addition, the poem raises the question of power and the creator. They are always at odds with each other. Voznesensky's poems are full of sound energy. Sounds flow easily, naturally and - most importantly - meaningfully. This is not a thoughtless game of words, but a constant young breakthrough to meaning, to essence ...

Conclusion

Voznesensky's poems are filled with sound energy. Sounds flow freely, uninhibited and - most importantly - consciously. This is not a blind play on words, but a steady young breakthrough towards meaning, towards essence...

In this work, the vector of artistic searches of A. Voznesensky's early poetry was determined, the main themes and problems of A. Voznesensky's early lyrics were identified.

In the work of Voznesensky, moral and ethical quests are noticeably intensified. The poet himself feels the urgent need to update, above all, the spiritual content of poetry.

IN term paper the method of analysis revealed and analyzed the main directions of creativity of poets of the sixties, and in particular A. Voznesensky. This is the theme of creativity and skill, as well as philosophical themes: life and death, justice and injustice, power and burden, morality and immorality, and other topics relevant to modern man. That is why Voznesensky's poetry will be relevant at all times. V. Sokolov and R. Rozhdestvensky, E. Yevtushenko and A. Voznesensky and many others in their own themes and genres, images and intonations, addressing all kinds of artistic customs, tried to personify the qualities of the spiritual image of today's man, his tendency to intense reflection, creative search, proactive action.

perspective this study lies in the fact that creativity and especially deep meaning, embedded in the poems not only by A. Voznesensky, but also by many other poets of the sixties, is not fully studied, therefore, the study of the work of poets of this period will also be relevant at all times.

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The work of Andrei Voznesensky modern poetry occupies the niche of the "socially oriented" avant-garde, coming from Russian futurism with its pathos of life-building, topicality, experimentation in the field of artistic forms, and the search for verbal means of expression. The lyrics of Andrei Voznesensky require close, perhaps repeated reading, because the poet addresses complex issues, he avoids ready-made conclusions and solutions. In addition to the complex associative thinking characteristic of Voznesensky's creative practice, he is prone to a sharp change in mood, intonation, metaphor and lexical levels.

In the best works of Andrei Voznesensky of the 50s, such as the poem "Masters", the poems "Motherland", "From the Siberian Notebook", "Report from the opening of the hydroelectric power station", an optimistic world-sense of man is conveyed. The poem "Masters" glorifies the "daring work" of craftsmen, from whom the poet inherited the "insatiable hunger for work and discoveries":

From my student's bench, I dream that buildings, like a Hundred-Stage Rocket, Soared Into the Universe!

In the 60s, new collections appeared, Anti-Worlds (1964) and Achilles' Heart (1966), in which the notes of love of life and humanity became even deeper and more piercing. And in the poem "Oza" (1967), speaking about the poet's mission to save the world from "robotics", "pseudo-progress", Voznesensky refers to the historical destinies of the Motherland, to the eternal, constant beauty of nature and the human soul:

Only one thing on earth is constant, Like the light of a star that has gone, - A continuing radiance, They called it the soul.

But in an effort to immerse himself "in the inscrutable course of nature" ("I want silence, silence!"), the poet soon becomes convinced that the silence of nature is deceptive and not serene at all. This is evidenced by the poem “The Call of the Lake”, dedicated to the “Memory of the victims of fascism”. The tragic turn of the theme of creativity, of limitless human possibilities, killed by people in themselves, is found in Lament for Two Unborn Poems (1965). The poem sounds like a lament over the water of everything unfulfilled, unborn, lost, unmanifested:

Amen. I killed the poem. Killed without giving birth. To the Charons! We bury. We bury poems. Entrance to all outsiders. We bury.

Which of the "outsiders" does Voznesensky propose to honor the memory of the unborn poems? He offers to "stand up" not only to the heroes endowed with proper names in the poem (these are Servantes, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Dante Alighieri, Rasul Gamzatov, Nikolai Copernicus, Boris Levanov, Mark Aleksandrovich Landau), not only to those whose deeds similar to the deeds of many (“heroic boys”, “girl in a jazz band”, minister, grandmother), but also to silent witnesses of the “conception” of poems - ponds in Ostankino, lindens at night, roads. Voznesensky ends his poem with a mournful cry, in which pain sounds about the failed, irretrievably lost:

Everlasting memory… Eternal memory, Green plans, stand up like a flame, Eternal memory, Dream and hope, you went to the porch! Everlasting memory!..

Diverse and original are the comparisons used in this poem (“lindens at night, like paws in the branches of palmistry”, “coffins, like folding knives of a giant”), metaphors (“roads heartbroken”, “we bury poems”, “two poems lie like white theatrical binoculars”).

The opposition of the past and the present, the affirmation of the non-returnability of the past and the feeling of the present as an imperfect future sounds in the poem "Nostalgia for the Present" (1976). The very title of the poem shows that Voznesensky is alien to the poetic tradition of addressing the themes of memory, the past, and nostalgia. The paradoxical nature of the title and the refrain of the poem used by the author carry a deep meaning:

I don’t know about the rest, But I feel the most severe nostalgia Not for the past - Nostalgia for the present ...

Loneliness will not atone for In the garden, an open carpentry. I'm not longing for art, I'm suffocating for real ...

“For real” and “for real” is a difference in the hyphen, but the difference is semantic. In the first case, the "present", which is comprehended as opposed to the "past"; in the second, as opposed to "artificial, counterfeit, false." Playing on the combination of two meanings of the word "real" - "modern", "authentic" - leads to understanding historical process as a constant “improvement” of life and morals, if not really, then at least desirable for the poet (“What has passed, has passed. // For the better ...”), to the opposition of art and life, to the announcement of shortcomings as remnants of the past.

In this poem, Andrei Voznesensky develops the traditions of futurism in the sphere of artistic form, actively using irregular and rare rhymes, poetic neologisms, introducing colloquial and sometimes rough vocabulary into poetry, preferring tonic verse close to the rhythms of colloquial speech.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the humane feeling in Voznesensky's poetry became sharper, more mature, and more active. The poet reveals the ability and inner need to endure other people's sorrows and troubles with all his heart, immediately respond, come to the aid of people. He reacts acutely to difficulty and pain modern world, although it does not always bring clarity and certainty to the flow of its sensations. But the naturalness of feeling and the simplicity of form also win with him, less and less often giving way to rationality and complicated constructions. The poet expresses his "I" in different guises. For example, he is unusually sensitive to women's suffering, to women's pain, to the humiliation of the feeling of human dignity in a woman. This is generally one of the best traditions of Russian classical literature from Nekrasov to Blok and Mayakovsky. Voznesensky is a worthy successor to this tradition.

Critic L. Ozerov noted: “I am where the pain is, everywhere” - the life and creative principle of Mayakovsky becomes the leading one for Voznesensky too ... The pain threshold of this poet is low, his nerves are bare “... you feel it with your palm - it hurts!” This "hurts" rolls throughout the poetry of Andrei Voznesensky. They beat the dog - it hurts. They beat a woman - it hurts. Destroy people - pain. They bring atomic death to mankind - pain.

The poet wants to save everyone from pain. Moreover, he mourns for the unfulfilled, unborn, lost, unmanifested… All this is pain. And his heart is filled with this pain.

His "Monologue of Marilyn Monroe" with the repeated "unbearable, unbearable", his "frontal ballad", "They beat a woman", and from the earlier ones - "The Last Electric Train", "Motor Racing on a Vertical Wall", "Sketch of a Poem" show us a poet, who, through female pain and female suffering, perceives the pain and suffering of an anti-humanistic world alien to us. In the poem “They beat a woman,” Voznesensky talks about how a woman is inhumanly beaten in a car, and then, when she is thrown out of the car on the highway, they continue torturing her:

And the brakes screeched. Tormos ran up to her. And they dragged and beat their Face through the snow and nettles.

A specific indication of the scene of action (“at the turn to Kupavna”) gives the described scene credibility, and at the same time timeless capacity:

They beat a woman. They beat for centuries, They beat youth, solemnly beats the tocsin of the wedding buzz, They beat a woman ...

Pain and resentment for a woman, even a stranger and unfamiliar, is born in the poet from a feeling of love for a living person and hatred for everything that humiliates a person, enslaves her:

... She lay like a lake Eyes stood like water And did not belong to him Like a clearing or a star And the stars knocked across the sky Like rain on black glass And, rolling down, cooled Her hot brow.

A large place in the lyrics of Voznesensky is occupied by the theme of unrequited female love. On the contrasts written "Confession". A flashing everyday turn of “well, what else do you need from me?” becomes the epicenter of the "fatal duel" - love - hate:

The payment is exhausted until the day of death. The last one burns under your snowfall, Was the music of a miracle, became the music of poison, Well, what else do you want from me?

However, before the tragic power of love, the winner turns out to be defeated, victory turns into defeat, the cry of pain - a whisper of prayer:

And the folds shuddered like window sashes. And she came out tired and without clothes. Said, "I love you. No more sweetness. What else do you want from me?"

A piercing declaration of love sounds the poem "Don't Disappear". The lyrical hero feels an invisible connection with his beloved, who is dozing on his shoulder in the plane. Love above all, stronger than death:

Do not disappear, purity is in us, Do not disappear, even if the edge approaches. It's all the same, even if I disappear myself, I won't let you disappear. Do not disappear!

In many poems by Andrei Voznesensky, the theme of Russia, the Motherland sounds, sometimes receiving an unusual sound embodiment. In the 1980s, the poet approached the new genre of "video", where the image is inseparable from the sound. The first videoma "Poetarch" was created for the Paris exhibition and represented the Golden ball on a blue sky background, from which golden threads with the letters of the alphabet stretched upwards. This videoma was intended for the poem "When the people are the primary source": material from the site

When the people-primary source Changes the truth and faith, The fate of the loners is sad, Who is true to his own vector. Among the wagging smiles And the fashion that everyone shoveled, My path is straight and unmistakable, Like a sword swallower's esophagus.

In 1993, the newspaper "Izvestia" published the poem "Russia is Risen", consisting of many sonnets. In these verses, the poet's faith in the future salvation of Russia sounded:

Russia is being buried. Press obituaries. But I repeat - Russia is risen. Let's pray together for those who are away, Let's pray together for those near and far, For those who suffer and who are in a Mercedes, For the homeless who does not sleep in Villa Borghese, May Russia be resurrected with the help of God!

The work of Andrei Voznesensky is of great interest literary criticism. According to A.A. Mikhailova, “Andrei Voznesensky is a poet more difficult to hear than Yevtushenko or Rozhdestvensky, and yet his pop performances are successful in a variety of audiences.

How can this be explained? Along with the complication of poetics, Voznesensky widely introduced into poetry what Mayakovsky called "the clumsy dialect of millions" - the language of the street, the rough phraseology of everyday life, opening up new sources of expressiveness in them. Does this achieve an aesthetic effect? You can easily find some "excesses" in the use of vulgarisms by Voznesensky, but on the other hand, you can give many examples when coarse phraseology is organic as a characteristic feature, as a style.

According to S. Chuprinin, Voznesensky's poetic mechanism is based on a technique: it is not a thought or feeling that gives rise to a metaphor, but a paradoxical metaphor, bringing together the most unexpected things and concepts, often with the help of sound, graphic or other formal similarity of words, gives rise to a feeling and thought. In this, Voznesensky also continues the traditions of the Russian poetic avant-garde - the experiments of imaginist poets. Another favorite technique of Voznesensky is an oxymoron, a combination of words with the opposite meaning (“Look Ahead”, “Optimistic Requiem”). Setting on a creative experiment and striving for democracy and accessibility to a wide reader make the work of Andrei Voznesensky deeply modern and consonant with our time.

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