Miroslav Nemirov. All about poetry 92

All about poetry 92


Miroslav Nemirov

Publication date: February 12, 2002

Dactyl

"(From the Greek dactylos - finger) - a three-syllable meter, where stress falls mainly on 1, 4, 7, 10, etc. syllables. Scheme D.:

( ! _ _ ) ( ! _ _ ) ( ! _ _ ) ( !_ _ ) ( ! _ _ ) - after the last stress, however, there may not be two, but only one unstressed syllable - or none at all.

In the 18th century it is found in Sumarokov , G. Derzhavin , A. Radishchev , N. Karamzin . The poets of Sumarokov's time preferred amphibrachs to him, but later A. Maikov , L. Mei , N. Nekrasov , A. Fet , N. Shcherbina restored his popularity. The most productive was the two-foot form:

Golden bee!
What are you buzzing about?

(G. Derzhavin, "Bee").

Then it was replaced by tetrameter, as well as a form of mixed tetrameter and trimeter D.:

Mirror to mirror, with trembling babble,
I brought it by candlelight;
In two rows of light - and a mysterious thrill
The mirrors glow wonderfully.

(A. Fet)"

“A brief dictionary of literary terms”, “intended for high school students.”

In the book. Literature: Reference. materials: Book. for students / S.V.Turaev, L.I.Timofeev, K.D.Vishnevsky and others - M.: Education, 1988. Under the general. Edited by S. Turaev.

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Here is a poem about dactyl, written by a man named Dmitry Polishchuk:

Sit on my thighs, naked and insolent, -
You and I will talk about poetry,
You and I will talk poetically
Today, not in iambic, but in thoughtful dactyl.

And for some reason let us remember Nekrasov,
Dear Vanya, the railway,
It's like we're flying on a slow train
The past century. Joints with knocks.

Russian bones... However, let’s remember
Homer's lyre of light antiquity,
Anger - oh goddess! - the anger of the son of Peleev,
Thousands of cool Terminator Trojans!

Let us remember all the rhythmic hecatombs,
Waltzes over the hills - one-two-three, one-two-three,
Heavenly clouds of the twentieth century.
Our skeletons in the piercing dawn

The skilful sun of a thousand worlds -
One-two-three - will the bones fall off tomorrow?
To the glory of the coming Homers, Nekrasovs
Sit on my thighs until the light of death.

Dactylic rhymes

Such when the stress falls on the third syllable from the end.

Or, better said, when the last stressed syllable in a line is followed by two more unstressed ones :

In the evenings above the restaurants
The hot air is wild and deaf.
And rules with drunken shouts
Spring and pernicious spirit.

Here "restaurants" - "drunk" - this is just a dactylic rhyme.

Dulles, Allen

Founder of the CIA and its director in the 1940s and 1950s.

In the current former USSR, the theory is quite popular that all the failures and setbacks of the USSR, which led to its collapse and the current collapse, are the result of the CIA’s activities in implementing the “Dulles Plan”, drawn up in the early 1950s and now stolen by Soviet intelligence officers and published :

“We will find helpers in Russia itself. Episode after episode, the grandiose tragedy of the death of the most rebellious people on earth will play out. We will create chaos and confusion in government management; quietly, but actively we will contribute to the tyranny of bribe-taking officials. Honesty and decency will be ridiculed “Nobody will need them, rudeness and arrogance, lies and deceit, drunkenness and drug addiction, animal fear and enmity of peoples - we will cleverly and quietly cultivate all this.”

Yes, that's how it works.

The Communist Party, having the resources of half the world, from Indonesia and China to Cuba and Angola, straining these resources with all its might, sparing nothing, and first of all its own population, tried to overthrow the West - nothing happened. (And also the Communist Parties in the same West! And voluntary spies, for free, for the sake of an idea, they carried secrets of either British counterintelligence or the American atomic project to the Communists!) And the CIA, in the person of Dulles, drew up a plan - and calmly carried it out to the fullest extent and even more percent without a hitch, and at the same time “without reducing the living standards of the population”! It’s simply the CIA that is of the greatest magnitude unparalleled in the history of people!

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And here.

In Izvestia on August 23, 2000, there was an article about where this quote, which wanders from hand to hand, came from (Yandex shows 217 pages on which it appears). Researcher L. Rickenglaz found where it first appeared. In A. Ivanov's novel "Eternal Call", that's where! There these words are spoken by a certain SS Standarterführer. And Metropolitan John Snychev attributed them to Allen Dulles in his essay “Overcoming Troubles”; and from there they began to multiply according to the “patriotic” press.

It would be nice to provide a link to the specified article number, but on the Izvestia website the archive is available only starting from 2001.

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However, the fact that this quotation is a fake is obvious even without any historical research, from its text itself. Can, for example, a modern Russian general say about, for example, the current pacification of Chechnya - “a tragedy of the death of the most rebellious people on earth, grandiose in scale”? Could Dulles say this about the Russians - who were for him about the same as the Chechens for us - rabid savages, armed to the teeth?

For greater persuasiveness, the authors of this “plan” needed to put self-determination into Dulles’s mouth: “And this tragedy will be committed by us, the Americans, a bunch of scoundrels, scoundrels, enemies of the human race and shit-eaters.” To finally dot all the i’s.

Twenty-seventh Congress of the CPSU

Took place somewhere in the late winter or early spring of 1986. And I personally benefited from it! Namely, I then worked as a teacher of the Russian language in the fourth grades "d", "e" and "g" of secondary school number 43. During recess, children crowded around my table and shouted:

- Miroslav Maratovich, let's cancel the last lesson!

- Stupid children! - I thought. - They think the lesson can be canceled , but the stupid teacher doesn’t want to! If only they knew that the teacher would cancel not only the last lesson, but also everyone else, he would want them even more!

And so one day I took it, spat, and skipped classes.

And when I came to school the next day and was greeted, naturally, by the indignant director, who was interested in where I was yesterday, I answered:

- I watched the opening of the congress on TV!

- Oh, well, yes, then, of course... - that’s all that remains to answer to the director. There was nothing to cover up for this.