P5+Vladimir+Mayakovsky



Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, critic, and propaganda creator. In his youth he became aware of politics and the deception behind them. He became frustrated with this and set about trying to do something about that. He wrote his poems as a way to educate people about the politics that were going on around them and how they could make a difference. The last line of his poem //Call to Account!// says “Why are we fighting?”(Marxists 1). In this poem he is addressing the people and asking them why they are supporting war and what purpose it serves. In his poems he focused mainly on the middle-aged middle class, as these were the most common citizens at the time. At the time these was leadership that deceived its people and was power hungry. This is the hunger that created the need ignorance of the people and therefore the need to reveal the truth to them. He wrote his poems with the thought that if he could tell people the truth than they could make a difference. His poems did not have this affect though, or if they did it was very small and seemingly invisible. Although they had the potential to make history, they did not but they are still applicable today.

Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems