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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.  In Chelovek Maiakovskii places the heart at the centre of the human condition, but, although the poet hero's heart can potentially transform the world and his love could lead to liberation, the human condition as he experiences it in the poem is not one of freedom but of chains.

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