Elena Vladimirovna Kazantseva - poet and songwriter. The subjects of her works are diverse - thoughts about the Motherland, a simple philosophy of life, caring for children, difficult love, numerous trips. Her poems touch the hearts of readers and listeners.
Biography
Kazantseva Elena Vladimirovna was born in Minsk in 1956. By profession, an electrical engineer. She worked at a factory, at a design institute. Music education is an incomplete secondary education. Played the piano and guitar.
Creative activity
E. Kazantseva began to write poems, performed them with a guitar. Gradually, her career as a poet and performer of her songs developed. After the debut album "For a Long, Long Memory" other albums followed in her work.
She was a laureate of a song in Tallinn. She took part in the festival of art song, which was held in Israel. In 1996 became the laureate of the Grushinsky festival. She is the guest of many concerts, radio and television programs.
Selection made
The main idea of the poem "Will I really leave for America
"laid in the first two lines. A woman asks whether she will be able to leave her homeland, and she herself answers that she can’t deceive herself. She understands with her mind that she does not like life in her homeland. And she, like a dog on a chain, suffers He tolerates because he loves his country.
Lullabies
The song poem "Lullaby" is the comfort of a son who is crying. There are various maternal persuasions - to eat sweet semolina, an offer to go to a fantastic country where bananas and oranges grow. An image of a mother who wants to feel the best has been created. In another “Lullaby”, the lyrical heroine wants to become a little girl again, she wants her mother to sing a lullaby. To this “home-made” song, she, already an adult, would begin to grieve that her life had not developed as her mother would have liked. And the time will come when they will cry together over their unfortunate fate.
God help the children!
Among the bard songs, there remains a traditional theme of sons, whom mothers want to protect from death. The lyrical heroine of the prayer poem "Boys" is a mother who, if she could, would love all sons. She wishes those young people who are at war to wake up in a quiet, peaceful place. Mother asks God to give her more hope for the return of “all to one” sons. And she asks God for quite a bit - so that they wake up.
The soul no longer rings
In the poem "When I Sang for You
."a woman sang for her beloved. Her soul" rang "because she sang as for God. There was a misfortune: the man died in battle. The woman was left alone. And until her death she will be with this misfortune. The poem ends on such a bitter note.
Stay in the heart of a man
The lyrical heroine of the poem "For a Long Memory" is an aged woman who once loved and presented her beloved person a photograph. She wants her memory to remain kind. She wants the memory to be “by heart”. The daughters of a loved one will not recognize this lady. This is not their relative. A woman wants to stay forever in the heart of this man. She is waiting for a meeting with him. Only when will this happen?
From Minsk - to Moscow from Moscow - to Minsk
The lyrical heroine of the poem "According to Tver, according to Yamskaya, according to any
."will come to Moscow. She knows all the streets of Moscow. She will walk along some with a loved one or alone. The woman will come again, but for now she will leave for a long time. In the poem" Moscow from the Belorussky railway station
“These trips are connected with a person who was once important to her. The Belarusian land, where the relatives of the lyrical heroine lives, and she herself is so similar to each other.
