A typical Soviet yard on the outskirts of the same typical city. Four high-rise buildings, composed in the form of a rectangle. The playground, garages, the foundation of the gazebo, the sandbox, the benches at the entrances - everything repeated the shape of the yard, as if a child unconsciously copying the habits of his parents. Sometimes it seemed that people had the same rectilinear outlines. Simple life and uncomplicated life made them look alike.

The playground was fenced with a net - a mandatory hole in the net. Children were constantly fiddling with a rubber ball on the playground. They were followed by a dog whose name could be guessed three times - Sharik, Belchik (as an option - Chernysh) or Pirate. Of the attractions - a bread shop, a shoemaker's booth and a forest belt behind one of the five-story buildings. There - the same ascetic bedlam. Mulberry and cherry plum, which was eaten by local punks before they had time to ripen, an abandoned well, several fallen trees. They cleared a place for one of them, hastily built a table and made a horizontal bar.

In the mornings, sometimes athletes in Dynamo T-shirts and tights with outstretched knees flashed there, and in the evenings they drank and walked. A little later, this place got a name - Skirda, which quite accurately reflected the essence of everything that happened there.

Zone hierarchy; playing cards - just like that and for money; port wine; land littered with "peakless caps" and fragments from bottles; girls; guitar. In the mid-80s, the six-string “slut” was replaced by a tape recorder - a clumsy cassette player with the meaningful name “Romantic”. Yes, it was the romanticism of the late stagnation era. Vysotsky, Rosenbaum, a little later - "Cinema", "Nautilus", sometimes - "Tender May". To this music they lost their innocence and after that they no longer stood on ceremony with their bodies. They said about such people: they got into or got into a bad company. God grant memory - Vinogradova, Ukráinskaya, Bogovenko ... Nurses - that's what they were called behind their backs, it seems. How many new recruits of love passed through their caring... (one would like to say - hands). Who among us will now remember his fighting girlfriends? And where are they now? A long time ago they got married and became devoted and caring wives for their faithful, or disappeared somewhere in the confusion of the nineties. And we? .. Sometimes it seems that we are not there, that we also dissolved, left through the fingers of the time when Tsoi was still alive singing his last song.

To make words tight

A poet with a soulful look approaches the microphone stand, background music sounds from the speakers, and there is a slight twilight on the stage. In the minds of the listeners, the twilight is not so light, but it doesn't matter anymore. A strand of hair is thrown back in a highly artistic way, and the sacrament begins ... Do poems need all this? Why not - someone will say - you can’t spoil porridge with butter. Only poetry is not porridge at all, and music is not butter either. And now the disputes begin: they remember the bards, Ryazanov's "Irony of Fate" and, in the end, the conversation rests on Vysotsky and Okudzhava. All this is so. But in fairness, it should be noted that they mainly wrote their poems as songs, initially leaving a place in the text for music that linked words, like mortar binds bricks in masonry. But do the verses as such need all this?

Answering this question with an unequivocal “no”, Nekrasov’s message comes to mind - “So that words are cramped / Thoughts are spacious.” That is what real poetry is.

"Not a single empty place, as they say - the apple has nowhere to fall."

And words are crowded, and thoughts are spacious. There is no place in them for play, music and other things, because they themselves already have play, music, life, death, whatever, and there is nothing to add to it. Acting and directing, even the most ingenious, can only deform them, and therefore spoil them. The monotony of the voice with which the poets read their creations only confirms this. In this manner, they seem to remove all obstacles in the path of the poem from the author to the listener: only a bare text, and nothing more. Many authors, of course, are flattered and flattered that music is written to their texts, and readers howl declaim them from the stage. But there are many other examples as well. Brodsky did not like it when songs were made from his poems. Chukhontsev treated the Moscow Art School of poetry reading with hostility, from Kachalov to Smoktunovsky. Smekhov's experience is interesting in this sense. In one of the television poetry projects, he imitated the manner of reading and the voice of the author, explaining this by the fact that he wants to be as close as possible to the original. And to some extent he succeeded.

But time does not stand still, and the poet who tries to keep pace with it does not stand still either. Poems, music, photos, videos, the Internet - everything is completely mixed up. Eclecticism as an end in itself. The listener (aka the reader) is completely disoriented. All these artistic means they take him very far away from the original source and throw him halfway under the cultural fence without salty slurping. The theater closed, and the feeling of hunger only intensified ...

Once Eckerman boasted to Goethe that one of his friends was going to remake Byron’s drama The Two Foscari for the stage, to which he replied: “... If in reading some thing makes a big impression on us, we imagine that from the stage it will produce no less and that this can be achieved without much difficulty. But we fatal way wrong. A work that the author created not for the stage will not fit on them, and no matter how much you fight over it, there will still be something alien in it, something that resists the stage ... ".

Goethe singled out the word "fatal" especially.

Already in time immemorial among the inhabitants ancient greece above all, brevity and clarity were valued in conversation. The very word conciseness(brevity, conciseness of speech) comes from the name of the region of ancient Greece - laconic, whose inhabitants, the Spartans, were distinguished by severe morals, as well as brevity and accuracy of speech. We know a legend about how one Spartan woman, escorting her son into battle, said to him: "With a shield or on a shield." This meant: return with a victory or not return alive at all (the winner always came with a shield, since losing it was considered the highest shame, and the body of a warrior who died in battle was brought on the shield).

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To keep the words tight...

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F. M. Aizyatova, teacher of the Russian language and literature, Starokakerlinskaya secondary school, Drozhzhanovsky district.

Already in ancient times, brevity and clarity were valued above all among the inhabitants of ancient Greece in conversation. The very word conciseness (brevity, conciseness of speech) comes from the name of the region of ancient Greece - laconic, whose inhabitants, the Spartans, were distinguished by severe morals, as well as brevity and accuracy of speech. We know a legend about how one Spartan woman, escorting her son into battle, said to him: "With a shield or on a shield." This meant: return with a victory or not return alive at all (the winner always came with a shield, since losing it was considered the highest shame, and the body of a warrior who died in battle was brought on the shield).

Ancient Roman (Latin) proverbs and aphorisms strike us with extreme laconism, for example: ex ungue leonem (ex ungve leonem - they recognize a lion by their claws, i.e. you can recognize a person by one sign); per aspera ad astra (per aspera hell astra - through thorns to the stars, i.e. overcoming all hardships, to the cherished goal); sapienti sat (sapienti sat- for a smart person it is enough, i.e. a smart person will understand without a word); alea jacta est (alea yakta est- the die is cast, i.e. an irrevocable decision has been made).

We are familiar with amazing conciseness, expressiveness and accuracy folk proverbs, saying. By the way, many of them sharply ridicule verbosity, talkativeness:I ring a lot, but little sense; Boneless tongue; My tongue is my enemy; It is better to stumble with your foot than with your tongue.

The brevity of speech was highly valued by all outstanding Russian writers. The remarkable stylist A.P. Chekhov said: “Brevity is the sister of talent.” Attaching great importance to the stylistic work on each word, A.P. Chekhov wrote: the phrase “must be done, this is art. We must throw away everything superfluous ... We must take care of her musicality.

Mastering the art of speaking briefly and expressively so that, as N.A. Nekrasov wrote, “words were cramped, thoughts were spacious” is not an easy task, but if desired, it is quite feasible. First of all, we must learn to avoid the elementary mistakes of verbosity. For example: in a sentenceIcebergs appeared on the horizon word icy completely superfluous: after all, icebergs are floating ice mountains.

One word game.

Verbosity is often explained by the inability to quickly find a short definition of a concept. For example, a student writes:I really missed it because there was no one and I was alone.But there is a very precise and expressive wordLoneliness: I really missed being alone.In turn, instead of very bored, you can say languished (for bookstore, writing) orcouldn't find a place(for colloquial).

The ambiguity of the statement is often explained by the inability to quickly find the right word that accurately characterizes the subject. The proposed game will help in developing the skill of selecting accurate and clear words.

The facilitator reads the definitions below and, turning to the participants in the game in turn, suggests expressing each of them in one word that exactly corresponds to this concept. In the event of a delay, the leader turns to the next. The one with the most correct answers wins.

Who?

1. One who is devoted to his people, homeland (patriot).
2. An active member of some collective, society (activist).
3. One who denies the existence of God (atheist, atheist).
4. A person who starts something important (initiator, initiator).
5. The one who carries the banner (standard-bearer).
6. A person who fights for something (a wrestler).
7. One who talks to someone (interlocutor).
8. Someone who works with someone (employee).
9. The person who directs the orchestra, choir (conductor).
10. One who rides (horseman).
11. A person walking along the same path with someone (fellow traveler, companion).
12. Follower of any views, adherent of some doctrine, movement (supporter).
13. A person who has the same way of thinking with someone (like-minded person).
14. An old, experienced warrior; honored worker of some field (veteran).
15. Boy or girl in transitional age from childhood to adolescence (adolescent).

Which?

1. Made from solid good material(good-natured).
2. Well-arranged, equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable life, work (comfortable).
3. Transmitted exactly, word for word (literal, literal).
4. Living in abundance, abundance (prosperous).
5. Beginning to grow old, middle-aged (elderly).
6. With darker skin than usual (swarty).
7. Such in what it is pleasant and convenient to live (cozy).
8. With many twists and turns (winding).
9. Pleasant to the ear, harmonious (melodious).
10. Made by own hand, home means (self-made).
11. One that cannot be forgotten (unforgettable).
12. Very necessary, such that it cannot be replaced (indispensable, necessary).
13. not seen before, unusual, exceptional (unseen).
14. One that cannot be avoided, avoided (inevitable).
15. Tiring (tiring).

What to do?

1. Speak quietly, unintelligibly (mumble).
2. Shrill, sharply scream (squeal).
3. Roll over your head (tumble).
4. To do something or move hastily, randomly (to fuss).
5. Walk, making frequent, small steps (mining).
6. To be in a state of half-sleep (to doze off).
7. To drag, pull something without taking it off the ground (drag).
8. Mutter angrily, expressing no pleasure (grumble, grumble).
9. To live for some time at someone's house (to visit).
10. Feel disgust for something unpleasant, unclean (disdain).
11. To say something rude, defiant (to be rude).
12. Shut the door abruptly, with noise (slam).
13. With a sharp movement, open wide (open).
14. Rapidly rise, take off (soar).
15. Stay in the air on motionless outstretched wings (soar).