Video: Fatal 37 years: did most famous poets really die at this age?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
They say that 37 years - a fatal age for poets … As Vysotsky wrote, "Pushkin guessed a duel to this figure, and Mayakovsky lay down on the muzzle with his temple." Byron, Burns, Khlebnikov, Kharms, Rimbaud, Odoevsky and many others could not cross this line either. Can this be considered an accidental coincidence, or does there still exist a certain pattern?
For mere coincidence, the number of poets who died at this age is too large. Therefore, this fact attracted the attention of many creative people who started talking about fatal numbers. Let us recall, for a start, those about whom Vladimir Vysotsky wrote: With the number 37, the hop flies off me at the moment, - And now - how cold it blew: Under this figure, Pushkin guessed a duel for himself And Mayakovsky lay down on the muzzle with his temple. Let's hold on to the number 37! God is insidious -Rebrom posed the question: either - or! At this border both Byron and Rimbaud fell, -And the current ones somehow slipped through.
Many famous poets actually died at the age of 37 or at the 37th year of life. Among them are Robert Burns (died of chronic diseases), George Gordon Byron (died of fever), Alexander Odoevsky (died of fever), Alexander Pushkin (killed in a duel), Velimir Khlebnikov (died of exhaustion), Arthur Rimbaud (drank alcohol and drugs, suffered several serious illnesses, died of cancer), Vladimir Mayakovsky (shot himself), Daniil Kharms (died in a psychiatric hospital).
This list can be continued with the names of Soviet poets, less known to the general public, but no less talented: Vasily Alexandrovsky, Gennady Shpalikov, Leonid Gubanov, Leonid Lavrov, playwright Alexander Afinogenov. Among those who died at the age of 37 were not only poets. The great artists Raphael, Vincent Van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec also died at this age.
Regardless of the creative professions, psychologists talk about a midlife crisis that is overtaking many people. But the fact is that creative people experience such milestone, turning points in life much more acutely. And for many poets who are very sensitive to crisis situations, such a moment can be fatal.
However, the chain of deaths of 37-year-old poets can hardly be explained only by the inability to cope with depressive states of middle age. After all, many of them did not die of their own free will, died from illness or a violent death.
But if you set yourself a goal and count all the untimely dead poets, writers, musicians, artists and other representatives of creative professions, it will probably turn out that many died at a different age, and the number 42 or 54 becomes no less fatal for those who did not cross this frontier. It is hardly worth looking for any regularity here - unfortunately, many creative people are in too much of a hurry to live, or simply do not know how to live half-heartedly, are wasted too much and burn out ahead of time. Many leave young of their own free will, some cannot cope with bad habits - however, just like ordinary mortals.
It should also be noted that many poets in the XIX-XX centuries. died from epidemics that swept half the world, or died during wars or fights that they themselves arranged: the most famous Russian duels claimed the lives of many talented people.
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