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Video: 5 tragic fates of children's poets, whose poems seem to be frivolous
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Children's poets seem to be something like their poems: simple, bright people with an easy, measured, maybe bright and cheerful fate. And only as adults, readers understand that there is little frivolous in the lives of the poets of their childhood. Many fates can be called tragic.
Korney Chukovsky
At school, you can learn from a caring teacher that Korney Chukovsky loved to mess with children, and in the courtyard of his house in the summer there was always children's hubbub and laughter. Is it surprising that the poet wrote poetry all his life for the delight of children? But no: Chukovsky died in 1969, and all his original poems fit in the period from 1912 to 1946, moreover, after 1929, new ones appear very rarely.
It is easy to assume that Chukovsky faced ideological persecution. And so it was. Full of absurdities and oddities, the poet's poetic tales were now and then started to be branded as vulgar and distracting from reality. But the main reason why Korney Ivanovich lost his creative fervor is the terrible death of his youngest daughter Mura.
Mura suffered from bone tuberculosis for several years. Chukovsky looked after his daughter, took her to the doctors, knocked out a place for her in an experimental sanatorium. At the end of her life, she had her eye removed, and other amputations were performed, but the disease did not recede, and the girl suffered from terrible pain. When she died, she was only eleven years old. Until the last days, the father was close to the baby and tried to console and distract her, talking for hours or reciting funny poems. The family's grief after Mura's death was enormous, and it had a very strong effect on Chukovsky.
Agniya Barto
Among Chukovsky's critics was Barto, another famous children's writer. Her own poems have always been dedicated to the reality around the child, and this position was ideological. By a cruel irony of fate, Agniya Lvovna experienced the same grief as Chukovsky: she lost her son. True, his death was quick. The young man rode his bike out into the street. There he was hit by a truck.
Agniya Lvovna experienced a mystical horror when she learned about the tragedy. At about that moment, she was interviewing a mother who had lost her son from a shell hit, and was thinking about how to write down this story in more detail, keeping on paper the feelings of the orphaned mother … Now she could convey them as accurately as possible. But she didn't want to anymore.
Daniil Kharms
The poet did not like children, and began to write children's poems solely because it made it possible to live in the hungry post-revolutionary years. Children's poems were accepted in the magazines "Hedgehog", "Chizh", "Sverchok" and "Oktyabryata". In addition, publishing houses published poems in separate books.
For the first time, Kharms was arrested in 1931, and it was for children's poems - they say, he deliberately corrupts Soviet children, confusing them. Several children's poets were held at once as an organization of anti-Soviet writers. The reason was the greed of the investigators. For the disclosure of any anti-Sovietism they gave a good bonus … Kharms was sentenced to three years in labor camps, but in the end the sentence was changed to exile. A few months later, the exiled poet returned to his native Leningrad and, alas, in vain.
Now they were printing Kharms reluctantly, he lived from hand to mouth, looked at him with suspicion. In 1941 he was arrested on a denunciation. The denunciation stated that Kharms allegedly promised, if he was mobilized, to shoot at the Soviets, not at the Germans, and that he said that the Soviet Union had already lost. To avoid being shot, during the trial, Daniil Ivanovich feigned insanity. He was transferred to a psychiatric clinic, and during the blockade he died of hunger there. However, there is a version that his death was faster and more merciful and he was actually shot, saying that he was sent to be treated.
Elena Blaginina
In terms of popularity, this poetess argued with Barto: "Mom is asleep, she is tired, Well, I didn't play …" She wrote her own poems and translated strangers a lot. I lived on this. And for this she had to collect parcels for her husband, the poet Georgy Obolduev. He was arrested in 1933 for "anti-Soviet propaganda." In 1934, his fate was finally decided, and for three years he lived in exile in Karelia.
Elena Aleksandrovna also wrote adult lyrics, but no one wanted to publish it. It's not about her husband, not about censorship, and not even about the quality of poetry (she knew how to write poetry). "You are used to seeing a child poetess," she was told directly. In general, no one was ready to help her leave the official role.
Samuel Marshak
It is easy to imagine that the poet of Jewish ethnicity had a hard time during the years of “the struggle against cosmopolitanism,” that is, with the outflow of Jewish minds after the war to Israel. This struggle eventually resulted in anti-Jewish measures in many areas related to employment and employment. Even children's writers, who, it would seem, could take away only fairy tales and rhymes in their heads in case of anything, were under suspicion: are they not promoting Zionism to kids in disguise?
But Samuil Marshak was hardly touched by the state struggle against probable Zionism. Indeed, by that time he was already a venerable children's poet - and after the war, this was already reckoned with. In addition, he never showed any hint of disloyalty to the authorities. Maybe that's why he was bypassed by the purge of children's poets in 1937. Moreover, Marshak could defend individual people - like Chukovsky and Brodsky.
Marshak's tragedy was akin to that experienced by Chukovsky and Barto. He had three children - two boys and a girl. One and a half year old daughter Nathanael managed to overturn a samovar with boiling water over herself and did not survive terrible burns. The sons grew up to the delight of their father, but one of them, Yakov, fell ill with tuberculosis and also died at twenty-one. Despite his grief, Marshak, unlike Chukovsky, found the strength to keep working, and many children could say that Marshak's poems and translations became an important part of their happy childhood.
The life of the famous foreign children's writer was also not sweet. Freemason and British Prime Minister's Cousin: 7 Facts About Rudyard Kipling.
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