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Leonid Yu. Bolshukhin
Leonid Yu. Bolshukhin, Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Bolshaya Pecherskaya St., 25/12, 603155 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9214-376X
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Oksana V. Zamyatina
Oksana V. Zamyatina, Senior Lecturer, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Bolshaya Pecherskaya St., 25/12, 603155 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4683-8728
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Abstract:
V. Mayakovsky’s treatise “How to make poetry?” (“Kak delat’ stihi?”) is a complex multidimensional statement that requires various types of comments: historical-literary, factual, everyday, etc. The purpose of the commentary is to show that Mayakovsky’s text is much broader than a real polemic with his direct addressee, professor G. Shengeli, or with the stereotyped ideas about poetry that developed in the literature of 1920. This article presents three fragments of commentary research related to Mayakovsky’s understanding of the semantics of amphibrachium tetrameter, as well as a factual commentary reconstructing the specifics of the everyday reality of Mayakovsky’s Moscow life, which he uses as a material for creating the text.
