Come and praise humbly
you, dear bribe,
everything is here, from the junior janitor
to the one who is woven into gold.

All who are behind our right hand
laugh with a reproachful eye news,
we are like they never dream of,
punish the scoundrels for envy.

So that the blasphemy no longer dares to rise,
put on uniforms and medals
and, putting forward a persuasive fist,
we ask: “Did you see this?”

If you look from above, you open your mouth.
And every muscle will jump with joy.
Russia - from above - right in the garden,
everything is pouring, blooming and puffing.

Have you ever seen a goat standing
and the goat is too lazy to climb into the garden? ..
If there was time, I would prove
which are the goat and the greens.

And there is nothing to prove - go and take it.
After all, the newspaper scum will be silent.
Like sheep, they must be sheared and shaved.
Why be ashamed in your own country?

Hymn to bribery.

A brief analysis of Mayakovsky's poem Hymn to a Bribe.

In Soviet times, he was included in all multi-volume collected works of the poet (in the first volume).

For example, "Hymn to the Bribery" is present in the Complete 12-volume collected works of 1939-1949 in the first volume on pages 96-97.

In the poem Hymn to Bribery, Mayakovsky says that there is an element of bribery in the state. And what is impossible to issue or buy directly or requires standing in long lines, you can get it quickly by paying some additional amount (bribe) to an official or seller. In some cases, a controversial issue can be resolved at the expense of a bribe. But those who are used to receiving bribes in addition to the basic salary get used to them and need them again and again in order to maintain and improve their level of well-being.

Satire occupies a large place in the multifaceted poetic work of Mayakovsky. Satire is a kind of comic, most mercilessly ridiculing the imperfection of the world, human vices. And the task of this type of art, according to the great Russian satirist M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, is “to see off everything that is dying out into the realm of shadows.”

In the years preceding the revolution, Mayakovsky rejected the bourgeois world. “Down with your love”, “down with your art”, “down with your religion”, “down with your system! "- such is the pathos of his poem" A Cloud in Pants ". His famous “Hymns” became satirical poems of the pre-revolutionary period: “Hymn to the Judge”, “Hymn to the Bribe”, “Hymn to Dinner” ... There is a comic discrepancy in the very names of many hymns, because a hymn is a solemn song, dedicating which in honor of a dinner or a bribe is simply ridiculous. In "Hymn to the Judge" Mayakovsky caustically ridicules the social system of Russia, although the distant country of Peru is named as the scene of action. This country is ruled by dull judges, hostile to all living things.

Hymn to Dinner Vladimir Mayakovsky

Glory to you, millions going to dine!
And already managed to eat thousands!
Invented cereals, steaks, broths
and thousands of dishes of all kinds of food.

If the core blows
thousands of Reims could be defeated -
the poulard will still have legs,
and the roast beef will still breathe!

Panama stomach! Will they infect you
majesty of death for a new era?!
You can't hurt your stomach
except for appendicitis and cholera!

Let the pupils completely drown in fat -
all the same, your father made them in vain;
at least put on glasses on the caecum,
the gut wouldn't see anything anyway.

You are no worse! Vice versa,
if only one mouth, without eyes, without the back of the head -
could immediately fit in the mouth
whole stuffed pumpkin.

Lie still, eyeless, earless,
with a piece of cake in hand
and your children are on your belly
will play croquet.

Sleep without worrying about the picture of blood
and the fact that the world is surrounded by fire, -
cow's strength is rich in milk,
and the immense wealth of bovine meat.

If the last bull's neck is cut
and the last cereal from the gray stone,
you, faithful servant of your custom,
you can make canned food out of the stars.

And if you die from cutlets and broths,
we will order to carve on the monument:
“From so many and so many cutlets of millions -
your four hundred thousand.

Analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "Hymn to Dinner"

Every person, even the most stupid and worthless, Vladimir Mayakovsky used to perceive as a whole universe. The poet was convinced that under the folds of clothes and a touch of secular gloss, even in a notorious dude, one can find a soul, at the bottom of which there are remnants of nobility. However, such a reverent attitude towards people did not prevent Mayakovsky from openly ridiculing their vices, one of which he considered an irrepressible passion for food. The cycle of poems dedicated to exposing the pernicious habits and vices of society was supplemented in 1915 with the work “Hymn to Dinner”, in which the poet focuses on gluttony as one of the most serious human sins. And the point is not that such a point of view corresponds to the biblical commandments, to which Mayakovsky treats with a certain degree of skepticism. However, the author understands that modern gluttons for a fresh steak or roast beef are ready not only to give up their ideals, but also to close their eyes to what is happening around.

According to the poet, even war is not able to stop the conveyor for the production of delicious dishes, for which there will always be hunters, even if at that time "it would be possible to break the core of a thousand Reims with blows." Mayakovsky refers to a modern person who has turned food into a kind of cult only as a “stomach in Panama”, which is concerned only with questions of its own food. Indeed, such behavior was characteristic of all strata of society on the eve of the revolution. Food was a burning issue for both peasants and workers, and for the nobles, who were accustomed to luxurious food, dinner parties and dinners. And if the meal consisted of less than 10-12 dishes, then it was believed that the owners of the hospitable house were on the verge of poverty. It is for this reason that Mayakovsky accuses people of social and political myopia, arguing that "even if you put glasses on the blind gut, the gut would still not see anything."

Most of all, the poet is annoyed by the fact that society still needs only bread and circuses.. Moreover, on an empty stomach, people are drawn to philosophize, but after a hearty meal they forget what was discussed at all. Addressing his contemporaries, Mayakovsky contemptuously throws: "Sleep without worrying about the picture of blood and the fact that the world is girded with fire." The author understands that such people are not interested in anything other than food, and if a hungry time comes, then enterprising gluttons, even from the stars, will be able to fabricate canned food. Therefore, on their tombstones, the poet suggests writing not epitaphs, but indicating the number of shrunken cutlets, because such people do not deserve anything else.

"Hymn to Health" Vladimir Mayakovsky

Among thin-legged, liquid blood,
with difficulty turning a bull's neck,
for a well-fed holiday obese health
I loudly call people from meat!

To dance around the earth with a frantic dance,
boring like a can of canned food,
let's catch spring butterflies
network of unnecessary nerves!

And over stones as sharp as the eyes of orators,
handsome fathers of hefty volumes,
drag the muzzles of smart psychiatrists
and throw behind the bars of madhouses!

And themselves through the city, withered like Onania,
with a crowd of yellow-faced lanterns, like eunuchs,
Let's feed desires to hungry females,
handsome males overgrown with wool!

Analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "Hymn to Health"

The artistic text of 1915 belongs to a series of satirical works designated by the author as hymns. Such a definition does not reflect genre features, but is an expression of sarcasm. Praising intonations here give way to denunciation of the vices of society, an established way of life. “Two-legged impotence”, “stomach in Panama” or “caecum” - the poet does not stand on ceremony with the addressees of his satire, putting a caustic, caustic meaning into metaphors and comparisons. Bizarre, absurd images, created according to the laws of the grotesque, are designed to evoke feelings of rejection and contempt in the reader.

In the analyzed poem, the harsh intonations characteristic of other works-hymns of Mayakovsky are reduced. The main goal of the hero is to call on a part of his compatriots who are not yet completely mired in the bourgeois routine, to reject social conventions.

The lyrical subject divides contemporaries into two groups on the basis of weakness and strength: to the first he ranks "thin-legged" and "liquid with blood", to the second - strong "people of meat". He also refers his own person to the latter category, as evidenced by the details of the portrait - the poorly moving "bull's neck" and the loud voice.

What does the lyrical "I" of the tribesmen blooming with health call for? A tempting offer is clothed in a flowery and vague formula of a holiday endowed with the epithets "full" and "fat". However, this is not about gastronomic, but about carnal pleasures, which, according to the author, will bring joyful satisfaction and freedom.

A vivid comparison of the planet with a can of food, referring to the "Hymn to dinner", completes a number of culinary associations. The hero switches to the shocking theme of bodily liberation: it promises the transformation of boring reality.

The lyrical subject has proposals addressed to his brothers in good health. They are opened by an ornate line about catching butterflies with a "network of unnecessary nerves." The original metaphorical construction indicates that the release of the body can heal the psyche, relieve mental constraint. The structure of the image allows you to see the sexual overtones hidden in the enigmatic statement.

Further calls are more specific. The crackdown on overly "smart psychiatrists" completes the theme of mental health. The final episode contains a climactic scene in which the "beautiful males", who managed to acquire primitive hair, finally meet with the "hungry females".

A passionate, outrageous call to return to natural instincts is also heard in "Love", written two years before the "Hymn".

The artistic text of 1915 belongs to a series of satirical works designated by the author as hymns. Such a definition does not reflect genre features, but is an expression of sarcasm. Praising intonations here give way to denunciation of the vices of society, an established way of life. “Two-legged impotence”, “stomach in Panama” or “caecum” - the poet does not stand on ceremony with the addressees of his satire, putting a caustic, caustic meaning into metaphors and comparisons. Bizarre, absurd images, created according to the laws of the grotesque, are designed to evoke feelings of rejection and contempt in the reader.

In the analyzed poem, the harsh intonations characteristic of other works-hymns of Mayakovsky are reduced. The main goal of the hero is to call on a part of his compatriots who are not yet completely mired in the bourgeois routine, to reject social conventions.

The lyrical subject divides his contemporaries into two groups on the basis of weakness and strength: he ranks the “thin-legged” and “liquid with blood” in the first group, and the strong “meat people” in the second. In the latter category, he

and his own person, as evidenced by the details of the portrait - a poorly moving "bull's neck" and a loud voice.

What does the lyrical “I” of fellow tribesmen blooming with health call for? A tempting offer is clothed in a flowery and vague formula of a holiday endowed with the epithets “full” and “fat”. However, this is not about gastronomic, but about carnal pleasures, which, according to the author, will bring joyful satisfaction and freedom.

A vivid comparison of the planet with a can of food, referring to the “Hymn to dinner”, completes a number of culinary associations. The hero switches to the shocking theme of bodily liberation: it promises the transformation of boring reality.

The lyrical subject has proposals addressed to his brothers in good health. They are opened by an ornate line about catching butterflies with a "network of unnecessary nerves." The original metaphorical construction indicates that the release of the body can heal the psyche, relieve mental constraint. The structure of the image allows you to see the sexual overtones hidden in the enigmatic statement.

Further calls are more specific. The crackdown on overly "smart psychiatrists" completes the theme of mental health. The final episode contains a climactic scene in which the “beautiful males”, who managed to acquire primitive hair, finally meet with the “hungry females”.

A passionate, outrageous call to return to natural instincts is also heard in “Love”, written two years before the “Hymn”.

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Mayakovsky's poem "Hymn to the Scientist" is part of a series of grotesque satirical "hymns" created by the poet before the 1917 revolution. In them, the artist draws the shortcomings of contemporary life in various fields, expresses his attitude towards them.

So, in the "Hymn to the Scientist" (1915), Mayakovsky describes "a man from science", who, according to the poet, is a typical "bookworm". The scientist is completely cut off from life, although he is “loaded” with a large amount of knowledge. This makes the "great scientist" completely unviable, miserable and miserable.

The poem begins with an introduction, which describes the unprecedented excitement caused by the appearance of a scientist. Everyone, from the sun to the centipede, "hang on the window with desperate curiosity", wanting to see "the figure of the famous scientist." However, the audience is in for a huge disappointment:

They look: and not a single human quality.

Not a man, but two-legged impotence,

with a head bitten clean

Treatise On Warts in Brazil.

All the intellectual efforts of this man were spent on studying a miserable, detached from life, not of great value problem (something like "About warts in Brazil"). And now this person "rushes" with his topic, "sucking" the last out of it, but it looks miserable and pathetic. To the author, such a scientist resembles an endangered ichthyosaur.

And indeed, externally and, what is more terrible, internally, the famous scientist looks like a fossil - a bent spine, an extinct look, a dead soul:

The sun will seep into a tiny crack,

like a small festering wound,

and hide on a dusty shelf,

where piled on the bank of the bank.

Nothing around makes him happy, nothing can make him live fully.

Mayakovsky finds accurate and figurative comparisons for his hero. It looks like "a girl's heart evaporated in iodine", "a petrified fragment of the summer before last".

A person who studies life and the world around him hates all this. Closing himself in his dark room, he sits all day, and everything that happens outside only angers and annoys him. Perhaps such a person could be pitied, because he is really unhappy. It would be possible if he were not a scientist who is obliged to investigate the phenomena of life and, thereby, improve this life, make it easier, joyful and happy.

However, we see that the "famous scientist" is completely incapable of this. Moreover, he has nothing to do with real life, with its real worries and problems, because he is hopelessly behind the times, he is completely indifferent to everything except “warts in Brazil”:

Pass red-eared, but he is not boring,

that a man is growing stupid and submissive;

after all, but he can every second

take the square root.

A satirical portrait of a pseudo-scientific poet is helped to create original artistic means. These are, first of all, vivid metaphors (“not a man, but a two-legged impotence”; “with a head bitten off cleanly by the treatise “On Warts in Brazil”; A Girl’s Heart Evaporated in Iodine”; “A Petrified Fragment of the Summer Before Last”, etc. ) and comparisons (“So, the endangered ichthyosaur must have chewed a violet that accidentally fell into the jaws”; “The spine was bent, like a shaft struck”; “like a small festering wound”, etc.)

In his poem, Mayakovsky “unfolds” the definition of “letter-eater” into a satirical metaphor: “Eating eyes have bitten into the letter, oh, what a pity for the letter!” Mayakovsky’s striking technique is the so-called tautology, which in this poem enhances the meaning of words and makes the depicted picture brighter and clearer: “people, birds, centipedes, bristling their bristles, holding out their feathers, hang on the window with desperate curiosity.”

In the "Hymn to the Scientist" inversion "dominates", which brings the poem closer to the spoken language - the language of the street. In addition, inversion allows you to highlight intonation significant words in a work, to pay additional reader attention to them:

And the sun is interested, and April is still,

even interested in the black chimney sweep

amazing, extraordinary spectacle -

figure of a famous scientist.

Alliteration plays a big role in this poem - the combination of consonant sounds helps Mayakovsky create a more visible and vivid figurative picture: “The sun will seep into a tiny chink, like a small festering wound, and hide on a dusty shelf, where it is piled up on a can of a bank.”

Thus, "Hymn to the Scientist" is Mayakovsky's satire directed at the world of "bookish people" cut off from life, afraid and hating everything except their "literal" work.