A brilliant poetess and just a beautiful and wonderful woman Marina Tsvetaeva ... Everyone knows her, primarily from poems from a romance that the main character of the beloved film “Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath” sings - “I like that you are not sick me".
A little bit about the poet
She is a poet of the XX century, entered the list of authors of the Silver Age. The poems of Marina Tsvetaeva are not written in simple language, they need to be thought over and passed through. She was born in a family where art was in the first place: mother is a musician, father is a philologist. Parents from childhood accustomed the child to music, to literature, to foreign languages, which affected the poet's life. She became a poet, translator, excellent critic. She was fluent in German and French, and not only spoke, but also wrote her works. Marina Tsvetaeva received a worthy education not only in Russia, but also abroad.
In Moscow, she met with the local Symbolists and herself joined their circle. She was a witness to the Civil War, she was sadly worried over these years, and after she left Russia for the Czech Republic, where her husband fled after the war. Until 1937, Tsvetaeva was in exile, then returned to her homeland, having experienced hunger, illness, many deprivations, and the death of children. The husband was sentenced to death, he was accused of betraying the motherland, his daughter, as a child of an enemy of the people, was arrested. Unable to withstand all these blows of fate, left alone, Marina Tsvetaeva herself stopped her life. It happened in 1942.
Do not judge the poet by his life
She wrote the poem “Under the caress of a plush blanket” in October 1914. Many, discovering some facts from the life of poets, cease to appreciate their work. "Under the caress of a plush blanket" by Marina Tsvetaeva is included in the cycle of poems "Girlfriend". This cycle is dedicated to a woman who was not just a friend of the poetess, it is known that they had a love affair. But we have no right to judge these people. Our task is to read their poems and enjoy them, to take something new for ourselves, but not to judge the actions of poets.
The verse “Under the caress of a plush blanket” is very gentle, timid, but at the same time strong in the force of feelings that is expressed in it, so you need to read it without thinking about who he was dedicated to.
A piercing and gentle poem
The verse of Marina Tsvetaeva "Under the caress of a plush blanket" can be read and understood literally. However, it will be more correct to analyze it, looking for and digging out hidden meanings. The lyrical heroine “Under the caress of the plush blanket of“ Marina Tsvetaeva ”evokes yesterday’s dream,” she tries to understand what happened. She remembers everything again and again, repeats every word, analyzes every movement in order to understand what it was, whether it was love. She wants to understand who loved whom, who was the “hunter”, and who was “prey”, between whom there was a duel, and who became the winner in it.
Maybe the lyrical heroine, whose thoughts we read in the poem “Under the caress of a plush blanket” by Marina Tsvetaeva, really lies in bed, wrapped in a blanket, and recalls yesterday’s dream. But it would be more correct to say that this dream is her life, which quietly passed. In life, she had love, or maybe it seemed to her that it was love. And this love passed like a dream, it disappeared. The heroine can not understand why this happened, she remembers everything to the smallest detail.
The rhetorical question in the finale of the poem "I don’t know: Was she victorious? Is she defeated?" shows that she cannot give an answer to this question, and this torments her.
"Cruel romance"
The poem "Under the caress of a plush blanket" by Marina Tsvetaeva is known as a romance from the film "Cruel Romance" by Eldar Ryazanov. The director did not accidentally choose this particular poem. The main character of the film loves, but does not meet reciprocal, real and sincere love. Her life is also like a dream. And she may ask herself the question: "Has she won? Is she defeated?"