A person who calls himself cultural is, of course, familiar with poetic literature. Children know, love and learn a lot of verses by heart, but as they get older, most get cold for this kind of creativity. Many are frightened by the complex form of presentation; to some, poetry seems frivolous. It is believed that only people of a romantic nature can love poetry. But perhaps, contemporaries simply read little poetry, and therefore the attitude to poetry is superficial.
Instruction manual
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More recently, poetry was part of society. The names of the great Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, a whole galaxy of poets of the Silver Age are familiar to every enlightened contemporary. Poets, their work, have always been at the very center of public life. Each of their poems became an event, it corresponded and passed from mouth to mouth.
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This attitude to poetry continued after the October Revolution of 1917. The word of the revolutionary poet D. Poor, Mayakovsky, Blok was really "equated with a bayonet." Their poems were consonant both in content and in rhyme for this difficult time, they called into battle, romanticized what was happening and heroized it. Poets were forbidden, they stopped printing, they died from a bullet in the temple and in the Stalinist camps.
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The unprecedented flowering of poetry was also observed during the Khrushchev thaw, when the crowded Polytechnical Museum listened as a revelation to Yevtushenko, Rozhdestvensky, Galich, Akhmadullina and Okudzhava. These were the idols of youth and the real "rulers of thoughts." Then Yevtushenko’s words that “a poet in Russia is more than a poet” seemed to be an undeniable truth.
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Time has passed and volumes of poetry collections can be seen in apartments less and less, there is not a single new name that could be said to be a major modern poet. At school, the literature program is decreasing every year, and less and less names of poets can be remembered by today's young people. Even famous artists will not be able to collect a full house with a program dedicated to reading poetry by a famous poet.
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Perhaps this is because we do not have time in the modern whirlwind to just sit in silence and open a volume of poems of our beloved poet. Poetry is a tremulous thing, even if it speaks to us with the "rough poster language", like Mayakovsky’s. In order to hear the poet, you just need to listen to him, and most, unfortunately, have almost forgotten how to do it - to listen to each other.
