Mayakovskiy - do you know him?

[Revolution Hero]

Mayakovskiy was the great russian communist poet, who wrote his poems before and after the great october revolution of 1917.
Have anybody of you read any of his poems?

(Edited by Revolution Hero at 9:08 pm on June 27, 2002)

[Red Anarchy]

I've read some of his poetry long ago. It's good. He is deeply against the basics of the capitalist society, like their art, love, religion, order...

[Revolution Hero]

Have you read his poems in English?
I have read them in original. I wasn't sure that his poems were actually translated into english.

[Red Anarchy]

No, I read them in Serbian.
I don't know Russian good enough.

[Maaja]

I love Mayakovsky. Almost every evening I read some poems by him. In Estonian. I don't know how much he has written but I think that at least all his best poems have been translated into Estonian and I do have them all!

Do you know why mayakovsky killed himself? I read from a Soviet book that he did it 'because of the Trotskyst slander'. I don't know how to take it?!

But unfortunately it's almost impossible to find Pasternak's poems here....

[Revolution Hero]

Maaja, I am glad to hear that you read Mayakovsky.

I heard, that Mayakovsky killed himself because he felt that people of the USSR didn't not understand his poems. To say the truth, there was a lot of misunderstanding. Also, Soviet people have treated him bad. Usually , Mayakovsky have returned from his poetic evenings ( after he read his poems for public) being beaten up. He saw that Soviet government can't protect him.
It is surprisingly, but the great Mayakovsky , was just a weak man. Only weak person can kill himself, rather than be independent of any life circumstances.