"Tamara and I go as a couple" - a teaser from Agnia Barto's poems

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Agniya Barto, a talented poetess, wrote poems for children. This genre is undeservedly considered lightweight. As a rule, children's vocabulary is small, they simply do not have time to type it, and rhyming works written in simple language, but containing new concepts, are extremely necessary. But this is not enough - poems should be well remembered. And finally, they just have to be interesting. Without a plot, albeit a simple one, children (and adults usually) cannot do without. The works of Agnia Lvovna fully correspond to all these requirements. Each of them has its own story, short, but meaningful. And the imprint of time lies on almost every poetic text that Agniya Barto wrote.

Tamara and I are girlfriends and orderlies

Here is a story about two girlfriends, Tanya and Tamara. If we take into account the situation in the Land of Soviets as of 1933, then it becomes clear their desire to join the medical profession, and not to simple, but to traumatology. Throughout the USSR, Civil Defense exercises are regularly held, people are taught how to handle gas masks, apply bandages, splints and provide first aid.“Tamara and I go as a couple,” but not just because we are friends, but for a more serious reason. In the wake of the general atmosphere of maintaining readiness to repel the attack of capitalist predators.

Can everyone be orderlies

So, why girls want to become orderlies is understandable. At the same time, they have a he althy Soviet collectivism as opposed to decadent bourgeois individualism. All girlfriends want to do things together, and they seem to have one problem, but a serious one. There is no object for the manifestation of high aspirations, namely bruises, scratches, cuts and other injuries, perhaps even more serious. It turns out that Tamara and I go as a couple, but all in vain. The fact that any business needs to be learned, and especially such a difficult and responsible one as medicine, little girls do not yet think about. It seems to them that one has only to pick up everything they need (brilliant green, cotton wool, bandage and iodine), as the problem will be solved by itself. And besides, abilities, it turns out, in addition to professional knowledge, are also needed. Here Tamara was able to provide simple first aid, and Tanya, judging by her self-critical remark at the end of the verse, only roars.

Common aphorism

You will not find an adult or elderly person in our country who would not read Agniya Barto as a child. The popularity of some quotes from her poems, which have become aphorisms, is enormous. “Tamara and I go as a couple” - this is what they say about inseparable friends (and even friends) who are always together for anycircumstances. Sometimes this phrase is pronounced with a fair amount of malice (something like "Sherochka with Masherochka", having a common root "cheri", in French meaning "dear" or "dear"). But, in general, if there is such a friendship between two people, expressed in the need for constant communication, then, most likely, the teaser “Tamara and I go as a couple” is the fruit of envy. Something like “tili-tili dough”…