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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baptized by smoke and fire Last Line: His whooping archangel wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna | |||
Baptized by smoke and fire, Taller than tower or steeple, Greetings, immortal Vladimir, Archangel of the people. He the horse and the driver, He the fact and the story, A shout, a spray of saliva: "Make way for my dray-horse glory!" He sits down where the mews is, Squaring his whopping shoulders. No diamonds for him! He chooses Cobbles -- the biggest! Boulders! Greetings, thunder of streets! He yawns, he yells, he swings His bludgeon again, and beats His whooping Archangel wings. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES ON LEAVING THE BEDFORD STR. SCHOOL HOUSE by GEORGE SANTAYANA SONG OF NATURE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING by ROBERT FROST THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS by FRANCIS HOPKINSON MY LITTLE GARDEN by GWENDOLEN ALLEN THE YOUNG RABBI by E. C. L. BROWNE THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH; LAST POEM, ROME, MAY, 1861 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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