Children's literature is full of a variety of poems and works for any age of the child. Parents from early childhood read and tell children nursery rhymes and petals, sing lullabies, read bedtime stories, and learn short but capacious poems. The main goal and task of children's literature is to formulate in the child the basic concepts of nature, family, values, rules of behavior and what is good, what is bad. Mayakovsky gives an answer to this question.
Artworks for children
Children's literature contributes to teaching a child good qualities, skills, explains some things from the point of view of children. A huge number of the most diverse works and fairy tales have been created that have a favorable educational effect on the child. In this article we will analyze the verse what is good, what is bad in which its author Vladimir Mayakovsky explained very clearly.
Contrast in the literature
There is a peculiar contrast when one concept can be perceived by a person only if compared with another concept. The main examples of this contrast are black and white, good and evil. You can endlessly give examples, but we think that the point is clear. Many works and poems are often built on the same contrast in literature. "What is good and what is bad?" - one of such works. It clearly contrasts the concept of “good” and the concept of “bad”, this allows the child to quickly understand and realize the writer's thoughts that he wants to convey to him.
Everyone knows that a child should receive knowledge from literature. Vladimir Mayakovsky, despite the fact that he was not a children's writer, wrote several excellent works for children. The most famous of them - "Who to be?" and “What is good and what is bad?”
Poem Analysis
The author leads the story on behalf of his father, to whom his baby son came and asked a question, in fact, what is good and what is bad? Thus, the narrative begins on behalf of the dad of the boy, who explains to his child the contrast between good and bad. Just like Lermontov in Borodino's work entrusts the story to a soldier, Mayakovsky allows his father to answer a children's question.
The poem consists of quatrains, in each of them the word “good” and the word “bad” are used so that the young reader can understand the meaning. Oddly enough, but this does not cause a feeling of constant repetition. In fables one can often see morality, but sometimes it is difficult for an adult to understand it, and even more so for a child. Therefore, the author reveals morality through ordinary life situations. First in a poem, Mayakovsky shows what is good and what is bad, using the example of weather conditions. In the following quatrains, the author talks about the boys and defines them as “good” or “bad”. Mayakovsky also explains to children the importance of personal hygiene - if the child’s dirt is on his face, he will grow out of a son as a pig, if his son is a pig.
The author shows that the child should be hardworking, dare, this is clearly seen in the quatrains about the crow and the peanut, about the little book and the ball.
Features of Mayakovsky
In all the verses of Vladimir Mayakovsky, one can trace some features of the Soviet era, for example, the Oktyabr, who say "a bad boy." In our time, it will be difficult for a child to talk about who the October people are, because the Soviet era is already in the past. But this does not affect the popularity of the poem. With it, parents can easily explain to the children about the good and the bad. At the end of the poem, the baby made the right choice - he will do well, it will not be bad. The author of the work was counting on such a choice.