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Part of the book: Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladimir Maiakovskii

Robin Aizlewood

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 26

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  Fleita-pozvonochnik (1915) is devoted to the great love of Maiakovskii's life, Lily Brik. It is a poem of constant, but apparently unrequited, love, love as a personal hell, and it stays within this personal world without exploring the human condition more generally.

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