"The Cloud in Pants": An Outstanding Example of Russian Futurist Poetry

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Department of Russian Language & Literature. University of Tehran

Abstract

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) is one of the well known
poets of the 20th century and Russian futurism. Similar to Italy and other
European countries, futurism in Russia was the messenger of modernism and
revolution in the arts, society and politics. The futurist poets were trying to
give their message to the addressee. Mayakovski as a futurist poet was not
excluded from this rule. Among his works, the poem "The Cloud in
Pants," is known as one of the important futuristic works which conveys
the ideology of  Mayakovsky and is studied
by famous literary reviewers. In this article the evolution of Mayakovsky's
point of view, during writing the poem "The Cloud in Pants" is
studied by surveying all four chapters of this poem. Furthermore, important
problems such as Love, social structure, art, religion and the necessity for change
and revolution in society which are of the main concerns of the poets in the
mentioned poem, is investigated. The aim of this article is to describe these
concerns, their origin and the reason for their representation in the "The
Cloud in Pants".

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