Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A STORY OF KUZNETSKSTROI AND ITS BUILDERS, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds go roving Last Line: As these before my eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich | ||||||||
1,000,000 wagons of building material will be delivered here. A giant steel mill, colossal collieries and a city for hundreds of thousands will be set up in five years' time . . . (Conversation) The clouds are roving through the sky. The drizzle grips the heart. In cramping damp the workers lie beneath an ancient cart. Though all is soaked both near and far they whisper, anyhow, "There'll be a garden-city here in just four years from now." Rope-thick the rain lays on like whips. The leaden-night's like ink. With mud the workers' clothing drips. The splinter-torches blink. Their lips turn blue as plums with chill, but whispers every voice: "That garden-city will be -- will! No doubt about it, boys!" The sodden ground steams like hot stew; poor comfort in the wet. In semi-dark the workers chew the bread-like stuff they get. Yet still their whisper one can hear though loud the raindrops fall -- "There'll be a garden-city here with lights, and flowers, and all. The burst and boom of dynamite will shoo away the bear, with monster-mines in quest of coal the bowels of earth will tear. Pitch high the walls of factories! Let whistles wheeze with steam! With hundred-sun-power furnaces Siberia will gleam. We'll live in handsome houses all, unrationed bread we'll eat and far beyond the old Baikal the sacred taiga'll retreat." The workers' whisper grew and grew above the rain-cloud herds, and GARDEN-CITY were the two most clear and frequent words. That garden shall be blooming, that city must arise when Soviet Russia has much men as these before my eyes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEATH OF LENIN by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: STATE'S ATTORNEY FALLAS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS CELSUS AT HADRIAN'S VILLA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL HESTER PRYNNE? by KAREN SWENSON UNDER THE VIOLETS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE IDEA by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON BISHOP HATTO [AND THE RATS] by ROBERT SOUTHEY THE PATRIOTIC MERCHANT PRINCE by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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