Soviet poets of different eras

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

Soviet poets who worked at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as those who wrote in the 60s of the last century, can rightfully be called revolutionaries of Russian literature. The Silver Age gave us such names as Balmont, Blok, Gumilyov, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Sologub, Bryusov, etc. At the same time, we learned about Yesenin, Tsvetaeva, Mayakovsky, Voloshin, Severyanin.

The symbolists and romantics of the late nineteenth century brought a new word to poetry. Some sang of earthly existence, others, on the contrary, saw a transformation in religion. The Futurists strove to keep pace with the creators of Europe, they were expressive in their desire for rebellion and outrageousness, they brought new energy to the literature of that time.

Poems by Soviet poets reflect the spirit of the time, the political situation of the country, the mood of the peoples. Literature, like the country, after the revolution of 1917 became multinational, combining different characters and styles of creators. In the poems of the poets of that period, we can see the vehemently Leninist ideology, the mood of the proletariat, and the suffering of the bourgeoisie.

Soviet poets of the Silver Age

Mostsignificant creators of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. we can name acmeists Akhmatova, Zenkevich, Gumilyov, Mandelstam. Their motive for rapprochement was opposition to symbolism, the desire to get rid of its utopian theories. They valued pictorial images, detailed compositions, the aesthetics of fragile things. They were united before the start of World War I, later Soviet poets each went their own way.

Futurists also made a great contribution to literature. Khlebnikov, Burliuk, Kamensky worked in this style. Poets considered art as a problem and changed people's attitude to the intelligibility and incomprehensibility of creativity. They start from passive perception to worldview, forcing readers to think not literally, but artistically, fantasy.

As for the writers whose work is familiar to us since school: Tsvetaeva, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, their fate cannot be called simple. These Soviet poets survived all the consequences of revolutions and political repressions, faced misunderstanding between peoples and authorities, but fought to the end for their cause and earned worldwide fame.

Soviet poet of the "thaw" times

After Stalin's death, when Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev came to power, a period of "thaw" began. It was at this time that poets got the opportunity to speak openly, not embarrassed by condemnation and censorship. Many figures who worked even before the war published their works only in the 60s. So, for example, Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Okudzhava became a real political sensation of that time. They assembled halls inseveral tens of thousands of people, but few understood them. Of course, many of the literary creators of the second half of the 20th century touched upon politics in their works, but this was not a provocation or condemnation of Stalinism. So the poets expressed their opinion in a sarcastic poetic form. Their views were shared by many intellectuals and educated people, and the workers also accepted them. The poets of the 60s managed to conquer the entire population without exception.