A person who calls himself cultured is, of course, familiar with poetic literature. Children know, love and learn by heart a lot of poems, but as they get older, most of them lose interest in this type of creativity. Many are scared off by the complex form of presentation, some poetry seems frivolous. It is believed that only people of a romantic nature can love poetry. But maybe contemporaries simply read little poetry, so the attitude to poetry is superficial.
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Step 1
More recently, poetry was part of the life of society. The names of the great Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, a whole galaxy of poets of the Silver Age are dear and 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 was rewritten and passed from mouth to mouth.
Step 2
This attitude towards poetry persisted after the October Revolution of 1917. The word of the revolutionary poet D. Bedny, Mayakovsky, Blok was really "equated with a bayonet." Their poems were consonant both in content and in rhyme of this difficult time, they called to battle, romanticized what was happening and heroized it. Poets were forbidden, they ceased to be published, they died from a bullet in the temple and in Stalin's camps.
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An unprecedented flowering of poetry was also observed during the Khrushchev thaw, when the overcrowded Polytechnic Museum listened as a revelation to Yevtushenko, Rozhdestvensky, Galich, Akhmadullina and Okudzhava. These were the idols of the youth and the real "masters of thoughts". Then the words of Yevtushenko that "a poet in Russia is more than a poet" seemed an indisputable truth.
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Time has passed and less and less volumes of poetry collections can be seen in apartments; there is not a single new name about which one could say that this is a major contemporary poet. Every year the school curriculum on literature is reduced, and fewer and fewer names of poets can be recalled by today's young people. Even famous artists will not be able to gather a full house with a program dedicated to the reading of poetry by a famous poet.
Step 5
Probably, this is because we do not have time in the modern whirlwind just to sit in silence and open a volume of poetry by our favorite poet. Poetry is a quivering thing, even if it speaks to us in the “rough language of a poster,” like Mayakovsky's. In order to hear a poet, you just need to listen to him, and the majority, unfortunately, have almost forgotten how to do this - to listen to each other.
