Agnia Barto, a talented poetess, wrote poetry for children. This genre is undeservedly considered lightweight. The children’s vocabulary, as a rule, is small, they simply do not have time to type it, and rhymed works written in simple language, but containing new concepts, are urgently needed. But this is not enough - verses should be well remembered. And finally, they simply have to be interesting. Without a plot, albeit uncomplicated, children (and adults usually) can not do. All these requirements are fully consistent with the writings of Agnii Lvovna. Each of them has its own story, a short, but substantial. And the imprint of time lies on almost every poetic text that Agnia Barto wrote.
Tamara and I - girlfriends and orderlies
Here is a story about two girlfriends, Tanya and Tamara. If we take into account the situation in the Country of Soviets as of 1933, then it becomes clear their desire to join the medical profession, and not simple, but traumatology. Civil defense exercises are regularly held throughout the USSR, people are taught how to use gas masks, apply bandages, tires and provide first aid. “Tamara and I walk as a couple”, but not just because of my girlfriends, but because of a more serious one. In the wake of the general atmosphere of maintaining readiness to repel the attack of capitalist predators.
Can all be orderlies
So, why girls want to become orderlies, of course. At the same time, they have healthy Soviet collectivism as the opposite of decadent bourgeois individualism. All friends want to do together, and they apparently have one problem, but a serious one. There is no object for the manifestation of high aspirations, namely bruises, scratches, cuts and other injuries, possibly even more serious. It turns out that Tamara and I are walking in pairs, but all in vain. Little girls still do not think about the fact that any business needs to be studied, and especially to such a difficult and responsible one, like medicine. It seems to them that if you just pick up everything you need (green, cotton, bandage and iodine), the problem will be solved by itself. And besides, abilities, it turns out, in addition to professional knowledge, are also needed. Here Tamara was able to provide a simple first aid, and Tanya, judging by her self-critical remark at the end of the verse, only roars.
Common aphorism
Not to find in our country an adult or an elderly person who would not read Agnia Barto in childhood. The popularity of some quotes from her poems, which became aphorisms, is enormous. “Tamara and I walk as a couple” - this is what they say about inseparable friends (and even friends) who are always together under any circumstances. Sometimes this phrase is pronounced with a fair amount of malice (something like "Sherochka with Masherochka", having a common root "sheri", in French meaning "dear" or "dear"). But, in fact, if there is such a friendship between two people, expressed in the need for constant communication, then most likely the teaser "Tamara and I walk a couple" is the fruit of envy. Something like "tili-tili dough" ...