There are probably no people who don’t like poetry. Reading the poems of poets, we see their mood, we read their thoughts, which tell us about the past and present, about sadness and joy, delight, love, experiences, dreams. The poetic word conveys the deep meaning and emotional coloring of the works as best as possible. Thanks to poems, we can lose ourselves in the writer’s experiences, enjoying the plot of the poem, supporting the hero and the created images. Poems make it possible to find out the personality of the poet and his mood. So in the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky “ Good attitude to horses,” the author reflects on the vices of people, on their shortcomings, and at the same time, with the help of the lyrical hero, he shows how we should be, teaches us empathy, compassion, compassion.
Mayakovsky's poem has a good attitude towards horses
In Mayakovsky’s poem “A Good Treatment for Horses,” the writer told the story of a horse that “crashed,” describing the crowd’s reaction to what happened.
Mayakovsky is a wonderful writer who can give us in a few words Full description phenomena that occur in people's lives, using onomatopoeia, repetition, sound writing, assonance, alliteration. It is thanks to the ability to use various poetic means in the work “A Good Treatment for Horses,” including metaphors, that the writer helps us, as readers, not only see the picture, but also hear everything that is happening, the same clatter of hooves, the same laughter, etc. similar. He can give us the complete picture in a few words. So, just a few words about the street, but what a complete picture appears before us.
Only “it was blown by the wind”, “shod with ice”, “the street slid”, and our imagination allows us to see the street on a frosty windy day, which is completely covered with ice. And along this icy road gallops a horse that stumbled and fell. At this moment, in theory, everyone should come to their senses and come to the rescue. Oh, no. Passers-by “huddled”, and not only gathered in a crowd of onlookers, but also began to laugh. Their laughter rang and tinkled. And the author treats such onlookers with disdain, telling us that their laughter “rings,” their voices sound like a howl. And only one hero of the poem ran up to the fallen horse. He ran up and saw “horse eyes” from which tears were falling, no, “drops” that were rolling “down his face.” The hero did not remain indifferent, he found comforting words: “Baby, we are all a little bit of a horse.” Seeing the support and understanding, the animal perked up, believed in itself and “rushed, stood up, neighed and walked”, “came cheerful” and realized “it was worth living and working.”
Further, working on Mayakovsky’s essay “A Good Treatment for Horses” and analyzing it, I would like to say that this is not a meaningless work. The work entitled “Good attitude towards horses” by Mayakovsky carries a deep meaning and here it is worth understanding a good attitude towards people, towards neighbors. The author encourages us to learn empathy for our neighbors, support, experience, and understanding. Anything can happen in life and only the support of others, kind word, words of consolation work wonders, they force you to move forward, “not to hang your nose.”
The young futurist poet created Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem “Good Treatment of Horses” after the revolution, in 1918. Feeling like an outcast in the society around him, Mayakovsky accepted the revolution with great enthusiasm, hoping for significant changes, both in his life and in the life of ordinary people, however, he soon became disillusioned with her ideals, concluding for himself that although the political system had undergone changes, the majority of people remained the same. Stupidity, cruelty, treachery and mercilessness remained the priority of the majority of representatives of almost all social classes, and it was impossible to do anything about it. The new state, promoting the primacy of equality and justice, was to Mayakovsky’s liking, but the people around him, who caused him suffering and pain, often received in response his evil ridicule and caustic jokes, which acted as a defensive reaction of the young poet to the insults of the crowd.
Problems of the work
The poem was created by Mayakovsky after he himself witnessed how on the icy pavement Kuznetsky Bridge“The horse fell on its croup.” In his characteristic straightforward manner, he shows the reader how this happened and describes how the crowd who came running reacted to this, for which this incident seemed very comical and funny: “the laughter rang and tinkled: - The horse fell! The horse has fallen! “Kuznetsky laughed.”
And only one author, who happened to be passing nearby, did not want to become part of the crowd hooting and making fun of the poor creature. He was struck by the “animal melancholy” that lurked in the depths of the horse’s eyes, and he wanted to somehow support and cheer up the poor animal. Mentally, he asked her to stop crying and consoled her with the words: “Baby, we are all a little bit of a horse, each of us is a horse in our own way.”
And the red mare, as if feeling and understanding his kindness and warm participation in her fate, rises to her feet and moves on. The words of support that she received from a random passer-by give her the strength to overcome her problems, she again feels young and energetic, ready to continue the difficult, sometimes backbreaking hard labor: “And everything seemed to her - she was a foal, and it was worth living, and it was worth working "
Composition and artistic techniques
To convey the atmosphere of tragic loneliness, the author uses various artistic techniques: sound writing (transmitting a description of an object through the sounds it makes) - the sound of horse hooves “mushroom, rake, coffin, rough”, alliteration - repetition of consonant sounds [l], [g], [r], [b] to create a sound for readers pictures of a horse clopping along the city pavement, assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds [u], [i], [a] helps to convey the sounds of the crowd “The horse has fallen! The horse has fallen!”, horse cries of pain and screams of onlookers.
The use of neologisms (kleshit, kaplishche, opita, ploshe) as well as vivid metaphors (the street overturned, melancholy poured out, laughter rang out) gives special sensuality and originality to Mayakovsky’s work. The poem is rich in various rhymes:
- Truncated inaccurate(bad - horse, onlooker - tinkling), according to Mayakovsky, it led to unexpected associations, the appearance of atypical images and ideas, which he really liked;
- Unequally complex(wool - rustling, stall - standing);
- Composite(howl to him - in my own way, I alone - the horses);
- Homonemic(went - adjective, went - verb).
Mayakovsky compared himself to this driven, old horse, whose problems are laughed at and mocked by everyone who is too lazy. Like this red working mare, he needed simple human participation and understanding, dreamed of the most ordinary attention to his personality, which would help him live, give him strength, energy and inspiration to move forward along his difficult and sometimes very thorny creative path.
It's a shame, but inner world the poet, distinguished by his depth, fragility and inconsistency, was not particularly interested in anyone, not even his friends, which later led to the tragic death of the poet. But in order to get at least a little friendly participation, to earn simple human understanding and warmth, Mayakovsky was not even against changing places with an ordinary horse.
In difficult times for Russia, during a period of political turning point, in difficult social and living conditions, Russian poets turn to genuine spiritual values in their works, write about morality, morality, mercy and compassion.
V.V. Mayakovsky, in the poem “A Good Treatment of Horses,” reflects on vices modern society, shortcomings of people. Like many of the poet’s works, this poem has a plot: people, having seen a fallen horse, continue to go about their business, and compassion and a merciful attitude towards a defenseless creature have disappeared. And only the lyrical hero felt “some kind of general animal melancholy”:
Horse, don't.
Horse, listen -
Why do you think that you are worse than them?..
The famous phrase from a poetic work: “...we are all a little bit of a horse” has become a phraseological unit. There comes a time in every person’s life when he needs sympathy, compassion, and support. The poem teaches kindness, mercy, humanity. The atmosphere of tragic loneliness is created by various poetic techniques. The most common among them is the technique of sound recording (the description of an object is conveyed through its sound). In this poem, the selected combination of sounds conveys the voices of the street: “huddled together, laughter rang and tinkled,” the sound of horse hooves:
Hooves struck.
It was as if they sang:
The poet uses an unconventional combination of words to convey the depicted conflict: “the street overturned,” “Kuznetsky laughed,” “the street slid.” Special rhyme poetic poem also helps to escalate the painful atmosphere of loneliness of a living creature - a horse in a crowd of onlookers:
Horse on croup
Crashed
Behind the onlooker there is an onlooker,
The pants that Kuznetsky came to flare
Huddled together
Laughter rang and tinkled:
- The horse fell!
The horse has fallen!
V.V. Mayakovsky uses various artistic and expressive means in the poem, which create a special atmosphere and make the poetic picture depicted more vivid and expressive.
For example, the metaphor “shod with ice” conveys the perception of a horse: it is the street that glides, not the horse. The inversion of “the pants that Kuznetsky came to have bell-bottoms” reveals the place and time of the poem: the shopping arcades of the Kuznetsky Bridge, it was especially fashionable at that time to wear bell-bottomed trousers.
The incident described later leaves a painful impression on the reader, but the ending of the poem is optimistic, since in the image of the lyrical hero the horse found an empathetic person:
May be
– old –
And didn't need a nanny
Maybe my thought seemed to suit her,
I rushed
Got to my feet
The ending of the poem is symbolic: the horse remembers childhood - the most carefree time of life, when everyone dreams of a happy future and hopes for a better life:
And everything seemed to her -
She's a foal
And it was worth living
And it was worth the work.
(Option 2)
The basis of the work real fact, to which the author was an eyewitness.
The poem begins with the trampling of a horse’s hooves (“They beat their hooves, // They sang as if: //- Mushroom. // Rob. // Coffin. // Rude”). The song of the hooves is quite sad: it is about robberies, coffins and rudeness. If “mushroom” could be replaced with “flu”, that is, with hunger, devastation, epidemics, then the picture of that time would be even more complete. The street, that is, the people of this city, is fed by air (“wind of opita”), poorly dressed (“shod with ice”). But there is another street, other people, those who came “to flare Kuznetsky’s pants,” onlookers. A uniform stomp is replaced by ringing, clanging, howling, screaming after a street incident, the culprit of which was a horse that slipped on the ice and fell. The voice of the street has changed: there is no trace left of the usual monotony.
- The horse fell!
- The horse fell!
Many people laugh at someone who has fallen, slipped or stumbled. Moreover, the more seriously the person who fell was hurt, the funnier it was. It's the low laugh that sitcoms are based on. Try to imagine yourself in the place of the one who fell - you will not be laughing, but the fact of the matter is that it was not you who fell, you avoided this trouble and are laughing at the loser. And only the hero of the work did not laugh, but peered into the horse’s eyes, filled with tears. These completely meaningful eyes of the horse, full of pain and humiliation, forced the man to turn to her as a person, to try to calm her down and cheer her up.
Baby,
We are all a little bit of a horse
Each of us is a horse in our own way.
The hero of the poem was able to put himself in the place of this fallen horse, sympathize with it and condemn those laughing. The word of sympathy did a miracle: it gave strength to the horse, which said something in its own way, rushed and was able to get to its feet. The red horse again felt for a while like a foal, a child who heard a kind word, felt the joy of life, the desire to act, to do good. Not only the unfortunate incident, but also the long-boring way of life was forgotten: “it was worth living, // and it was worth working.”
In difficult times for Russia, during a period of political turning point, in difficult social and living conditions, Russian poets turn to genuine spiritual values in their works, write about morality, morality, mercy and compassion.
V.V. Mayakovsky, in his poem “A Good Treatment for Horses,” reflects on the vices of modern society and the shortcomings of people. Like many of the poet’s works, this poem has a plot: people, having seen a fallen horse, continue to go about their business, and compassion and a merciful attitude towards a defenseless creature have disappeared. And only the lyrical hero felt “some kind of general animal melancholy”:
Horse, don't.
Horse, listen -
Why do you think that you are worse than them?..
The famous phrase from a poetic work: “...we are all a little bit of a horse” has become a phraseological unit. There comes a time in every person’s life when he needs sympathy, compassion, and support. The poem teaches kindness, mercy, humanity. The atmosphere of tragic loneliness is created by various poetic techniques. The most common among them is the technique of sound recording (the description of an object is conveyed through its sound). In this poem, the selected combination of sounds conveys the voices of the street: “huddled together, laughter rang and tinkled,” the sound of horse hooves:
Hooves struck.
It was as if they sang:
The poet uses an unconventional combination of words to convey the depicted conflict: “the street overturned,” “Kuznetsky laughed,” “the street slid.” The special rhyme of the poetic poem also helps to escalate the painful atmosphere of loneliness of a living creature - a horse in a crowd of onlookers:
Horse on croup
Crashed
Behind the onlooker there is an onlooker,
The pants that Kuznetsky came to flare
Huddled together
Laughter rang and tinkled:
- The horse fell!
The horse has fallen!
V.V. Mayakovsky uses various artistic and expressive means in the poem, which create a special atmosphere and make the poetic picture depicted more vivid and expressive.
For example, the metaphor “shod with ice” conveys the perception of a horse: it is the street that glides, not the horse. The inversion of “the pants that Kuznetsky came to have bell-bottoms” reveals the place and time of the poem: the shopping arcades of the Kuznetsky Bridge, it was especially fashionable at that time to wear bell-bottomed trousers.
The incident described later leaves a painful impression on the reader, but the ending of the poem is optimistic, since in the image of the lyrical hero the horse found an empathetic person:
May be
– old –
And didn't need a nanny
Maybe my thought seemed to suit her,
I rushed
Got to my feet
The ending of the poem is symbolic: the horse remembers childhood - the most carefree time of life, when everyone dreams of a happy future and hopes for a better life:
And everything seemed to her -
She's a foal
And it was worth living
And it was worth the work.
(Option 2)
The work is based on a real fact to which the author was an eyewitness.
The poem begins with the trampling of a horse’s hooves (“They beat their hooves, // They sang as if: //- Mushroom. // Rob. // Coffin. // Rude”). The song of the hooves is quite sad: it is about robberies, coffins and rudeness. If “mushroom” could be replaced with “flu”, that is, with hunger, devastation, epidemics, then the picture of that time would be even more complete. The street, that is, the people of this city, is fed by air (“wind of opita”), poorly dressed (“shod with ice”). But there is another street, other people, those who came “to flare Kuznetsky’s pants,” onlookers. A uniform stomp is replaced by ringing, clanging, howling, screaming after a street incident, the culprit of which was a horse that slipped on the ice and fell. The voice of the street has changed: there is no trace left of the usual monotony.
- The horse fell!
- The horse fell!
Many people laugh at someone who has fallen, slipped or stumbled. Moreover, the more seriously the person who fell was hurt, the funnier it was. It's the low laugh that sitcoms are based on. Try to imagine yourself in the place of the one who fell - you will not be laughing, but the fact of the matter is that it was not you who fell, you avoided this trouble and are laughing at the loser. And only the hero of the work did not laugh, but peered into the horse’s eyes, filled with tears. These completely meaningful eyes of the horse, full of pain and humiliation, forced the man to turn to her as a person, to try to calm her down and cheer her up.
Baby,
We are all a little bit of a horse
Each of us is a horse in our own way.
The hero of the poem was able to put himself in the place of this fallen horse, sympathize with it and condemn those laughing. The word of sympathy did a miracle: it gave strength to the horse, which said something in its own way, rushed and was able to get to its feet. The red horse again felt for a while like a foal, a child who heard a kind word, felt the joy of life, the desire to act, to do good. Not only the unfortunate incident, but also the long-boring way of life was forgotten: “it was worth living, // and it was worth working.”
Composition
It seems to me that there are not and cannot be people who are indifferent to poetry. When we read poems in which the authors share their thoughts and feelings with us, talk about joy and sadness, delight and sorrow, we suffer, worry, dream and rejoice with them. I think that such a strong response feeling awakens in people when reading poems because it is the poetic word that embodies the deepest meaning, the greatest capacity, maximum expressiveness and extraordinary emotional coloring.
Even V. G. Belinsky noted that lyrical work can neither be retold nor explained. Reading poetry, we can only dissolve in the feelings and experiences of the author, enjoy the beauty of the things he creates. poetic images and listen with rapture to the unique musicality of beautiful poetic lines.
Thanks to the lyrics, we can understand, feel and recognize the personality of the poet himself, his spiritual mood, his worldview.
Here, for example, is Mayakovsky’s poem “Good Treatment of Horses,” written in 1918. The works of this period are rebellious in nature: mocking and disdainful intonations are heard in them, the poet’s desire to be a “stranger” in a world alien to him is felt, but it seems to me that behind all this lies the vulnerable and lonely soul of a romantic and maximalist.
Passionate aspiration for the future, the dream of transforming the world is the main motive of all Mayakovsky's poetry. Having first appeared in his early poems, changing and developing, it passes through all of his work. The poet is desperately trying to draw the attention of all people living on Earth to the problems that concern him, to awaken ordinary people who do not have high spiritual ideals. He calls on people to have compassion, empathy, and sympathy for those who are nearby. It is indifference that the poet exposes in the poem “A Good Treatment for Horses.” In my opinion, no one can describe as expressively as Mayakovsky in just a few words common occurrences life. Here, for example, is a street. The poet uses only six words, but what an expressive picture they paint!
* Experienced by the wind,
* shod with ice,
* the street was slipping.
Reading these lines, in reality I see a winter, windswept street, an icy road along which a horse gallops, confidently clattering its hooves. Everything moves, everything lives, nothing is at rest.
And suddenly the horse fell. It seems to me that everyone who is next to her should freeze for a moment, and then immediately rush to help. I want to shout: “People! Stop, because someone next to you is unhappy!” But no, the indifferent street continues to move, and only
* behind the onlooker there is an onlooker,
* pants that Kuznetsky came to flare,
* huddled together
* laughter rang and tinkled:
* The horse fell!
* The horse fell!..
I, along with the poet, am ashamed of these people who are indifferent to the grief of others; I understand his disdainful attitude towards them, which he expresses with his main weapon - the word: their laughter “rings” unpleasantly, and the hum of their voices is like a “howl”. Mayakovsky opposes himself to this indifferent crowd; he does not want to be part of it:
* Kuznetsky laughed.
*Only one me
* did not interfere with his voice in howling to him.
* Came up
* and I see
* horse eyes.
Even if the poet ended his poem with this last line, he, in my opinion, would have already said a lot. His words are so expressive and weighty that anyone would see bewilderment, pain and fear in the “horse eyes”. I would have seen and helped, because it is impossible to pass by when a horse has
* behind the chapels of the chapels
* rolls across the face,
* hides in fur. Mayakovsky addresses the horse, consoling it as he would console a friend:
* “Horse, don’t.
* Horse, listen -
* why do you think that you are worse than them?..”
* The poet affectionately calls her “baby” and says piercingly beautiful words filled with philosophical meaning:
* ...we are all a little bit of a horse,
* each of us is a horse in our own way.
* And the animal, encouraged and believing in its own strength, gains a second wind:
* ...the horse rushed,
* stood on the irgi,
*neighed and walked away.
At the end of the poem, Mayakovsky no longer denounces indifference and selfishness, he ends it life-affirmingly. The poet seems to be saying: “Don’t give in to difficulties, learn to overcome them, believe in your strength, and everything will be fine!” And it seems to me that the horse hears him.
* Wagged her tail. Red-haired child.
* The cheerful one came and stood in the stall.
* And everything seemed to her - she was a foal,
* it was worth living and it was worth working.
I was very moved by this poem. It seems to me that it cannot leave anyone indifferent! I think that everyone should read it thoughtfully, because if they do this, then there will be much fewer selfish, evil people on Earth who are indifferent to the misfortune of others!
