Andrei Voznesensky was one of the most famous sixties poets of the 20th century, for his merits in the field of literature he received a lot prestigious awards and prizes.
His name is widely known in culture, it is often mentioned in the works of V. Aksenov and S. Dovlatov, documentaries, etc.
Ascension wrote not only poems, but also poems, as well as prose. Many people know his works, laid on the music. Some know that the author of the words popular in the 80s. the song "A Million Scarlet Roses" is also he.
In our article you can find out about the best verses of Ascensionwhich later became the most famous.
10. Who are we - chips or great?
This poem was written by a poet in 1959. Fans who carefully read the author’s work will be able to understand that the verse “Who are we - chips or great?” turned to the era of the 1950s. Andrei Voznesensky at that time was a budding poet, but even then he had something to say to the people.
The fate of the writers was then unenviable, at that time they could not be taken seriously with their work, giving preference to exact sciences.
Even the work of such famous writers as Zabolotsky and Zoshchenko faded into the background. From now on, the world, according to the author of the poem, was divided into "midgets" or "poets."
9. Do not return to your former lovers
The poem was written by the author in 1974.
Interesting fact: his words were put to the music of Mikhail Tariverdiev, the song was performed by the Russian pop group Nepara.
“Do not return to your former lovers” can be called a kind of advice, urging not to renew the old love relationship.
If you philosophize, then you can come to the conclusion that the past is destroying the present and the future, you won’t be able to repeat the love story, especially if the gap was painful and cruel.
Living in the past is not worth it, you should not seek consolation in your previous feelings and relationships, you can not stand still, you need to move forward.
8. Beat a woman
The poem was written in 1960.
For reference: In Russian poetry, considerable attention was also paid to the brutal feminine part, especially N.A. Nekrasov.
Many years later, Andrei Voznesensky returned to this topic, he showed that, despite the change of power, environment, progress, etc. women's fate, as it was, remains difficult.
At the beginning of the poem, an unpleasant picture of the beating of a woman opens before the eyes of the reader. Her image is the embodiment of all Russian women.
Each episode of the poem reveals the side of women's life, the author shows how her youth withers after the wedding, how her life is depressed.
Further, the poet compares the face of a woman with nature, notes her harmony with her, and is amazed at how the female soul, despite all the hardships, can remain pure, courageous and divine.
7. Lake (Who are you - the unknown God ...)
The year the poem was written is unknown. The work is filled with images and symbols.
The author mentions the actress in him, conducts a monologue, emphasizing the inconsistency of the world order. She was born in a house located between the cathedral and the bar, fate rewarded her with talent, but the roles go to her mediocre.
Perhaps, speaking of the actress, the author of the poem does not mean a specific person, most likely, this is a collective image of a person who in life is not occupied with what he could.
6. In the human body
The poem was written in 1996. The attentive reader will be able to find in him a kind of declaration of love, which is emphasized using mathematical data (90 percent of water, love, kindness, music, you).
The remaining 10 percent is given by the author to possible contingencies, variability. The poem is permeated with notes of positive, the poet finds positive aspects even in negative actions. Emphasizes his faith in love, which is everywhere, and water, in music, and in kindness.
Also in the poem, the author indicates his imperfection, while exalting the subject of his love.
5. Crowns and roots
The author wrote this poem in 1960. It was a difficult time for the Russian people. In the country it was called perestroika.
Some people spoke of progress, human rights, freedom, turned to Western culture, etc. Others advocated the idealization of the past. The poet discusses about these things in his poem.
The phrases of the work are built on the antonyms. Despite the fact that the world is undergoing major changes, the poet nevertheless expresses the hope that not everything is so bad, the last lines of the work testify to this:
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“Forests drop their crowns.
But powerfully above the ground
Tossing and turning
Clumsy five. "
4. Nostalgia for the present
The work was created in 1975. Researchers of the poet's work mentioned in his works that he had a special relationship with Time.
In this poem, the author mentions his longing for the present, not the past. This opinion turned out to be very controversial for the poet’s contemporaries, as many were accustomed to listening to the opinion of M. Bakhtin, who claimed: “A work cannot live in future centuries if it has not absorbed somehow past centuries.
If it was born all today (that is, in its present), would not continue the past and would not be substantially connected with it, it could not live in the future.
Everything that belongs only to the present dies with it. ”
But the author of the poem speaks of sadness precisely for the present, the work is riddled with sadness, the poet recalls that there is no present in the world:
“Everything from plastic, even rags, is tired of living outlined. You and I will not be in the future, but the church ... ”
Interesting fact: The words of the poem were close to some musicians and were laid on the music. His most famous performer was Stas Namin and the Flowers Group.
3. Waltz by candlelight
This work by Andrei Voznesensky can be called one of the most life-affirming. In it, the author does not complain about the imperfection and inconsistency of the world order.
In his poem, the poet advises people to love each other wholeheartedly, completely surrendering to their feelings.
He reminds lovers that kings, palaces and other things that are usually considered important and unshakable disappear with time, and love is a feeling that can overcome many obstacles and stay, no need to refuse it.
Interesting fact: The poem was put on music, the song was performed by bard Sergey Nikitin.
2. I am Goya
The poem was written in 1959. Andrei Voznesensky met the name of the Spanish artist and engraver in his youth, he saw a book with his reproductions from his father, who returned from the front.
The future poet was struck by the images of shot, hanged partisans, whom the artist wrote, being impressed by the war of 1808-1814, when the French invaders arrived in Spain.
The horrors of wartime were known to young Andrei. Therefore, the paintings of Goya seemed especially close to him. As a young man of 26 years, Voznesensky wrote the poem “I am Goya,” and the artist’s name, the events of the terrible era, and the poet’s fear of losing his father in war merged together.
1. The commandment
The work was written in 1972. The poem can be regarded as a kind of a confession in which the author expresses gratitude, perhaps to a higher power or fate, for each newly lived day.
Moreover, the work is permeated with the premise that you need to be able to find beauty in simple and familiar at first glance things.