Literature lesson in grade 11

The image of the lyrical hero in poem
V.V. Mayakovsky "Cloud in Pants"

Klishova Olga Gennadevna,
teacher of Russian language and literature
GBOU "Academic gymnasium №56"
St. Petersburg

The purpose of the lesson:

Educational -develop skills for holistic analysis of a work of art.

Developing- to develop analytical thinking in the discussion of a work of art.

Educational- to develop an aesthetic sense, the ability to understand and appreciate the artistic word.

Lesson Objectives:

1. On the basis of the text of the 1st chapter of the poem, analyze the poetics of early Mayakovsky.

2. Determine the function of pictorial and expressive means in creating the image of a lyrical hero.

3. Determine the ideological meaning of the poem, the essence of Mayakovsky's lyric "I".

4. Develop expressive reading skills.

Method:heuristic.

Receptions:teacher's word, analytical conversation, text analysis, commented reading.

Equipment:poem text, projector, presentation.

During the classes

(Slide 1)

Teacher:Your task today is to try to name the lesson, give it a “name”.

(Slide 2)

Formulation of the problem.

Teacher: Dedication: the poem was written by V.V. Mayakovsky Maria Denisova, and dedicated to Lilya Brik ("You, Lilya")

(Slide 3)

Why did I write alone (Slide 3a) and dedicated another? (answer at the end of the lesson)

Introductory part of the lesson.

Prologue _______________

1) ??? What images, already familiar from Mayakovsky's poems, do we see in the Prologue? How is the conflict that is characteristic of the entire work of Mayakovsky already declared here?

(- conflict between the poet and the world; - the figure of the poet - the lyrical "I" of Mayakovsky: youth of the soul, impudence, the ability to love with all being is the lot of the elect; - the desire to transform into a superman, to become a giant, etc.)

(Slide 4)

2) ??? It is the Prologue that makes us return to the name - "A Cloud in Pants".

(Slide 5)

How is the meaning of this metaphor understood?

(- duality, ambiguity of the artistic image: a rude Hun, a barbarian, calling for destruction, but at the same time a defenseless, gentle creature.)

3) ??? What is the main technique here (and this is already indicated in the title)?

(- antithesis)

4) ??? Where to find the roots of those contradictions that literally clashed in the poetic space of the poem?

(- early lyrics;

- Manifesto of the futurists "Slap in the face to public taste";

- the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche;

- the conflict between God and man: a person sees the imperfection of the world but does not agree with this state of affairs and wants to take the place of the creator.)

Teacher: Lyrical hero (who is this?) feels like an adult, but not yet needed. Hence the adolescent resentment against God, against the imperfection of the whole world.

(Slide 5a)

No wonder the original title of the poem is "The Thirteenth Apostle, Tetraptych" (tetra - 4)

five) ??? How do you understand the meaning of this name?

(- associations with the Gospel: the poet's personality enters into a dispute with the divine order, with the universe, proclaiming a new truth to the world;

- the discrepancy between the ordinary life of people - everyday life and their philosophical attitude - being.)

6) ??? Think, which name is better? What's the name in to a greater extent reflects Mayakovsky's idea?

(- Of course, the final name is better, because "cloud" is a poetic image.)

Teacher: The censorship did not miss the original title, and the offended poet made concessions:

“When I came to the censorship with this work, they asked me:“ What do you want to do hard labor? ” I said that in no case, that it in no way suits me. Then they crossed out six pages to me, including the title. This is the question of where the title came from. I was asked how I can combine lyrics and a lot of rudeness. Then I said: "Okay, if you want, I will be like mad, if you want, I will be the most gentle, not a man, but a cloud in my pants."

It turns out, even changing the name, Mayakovsky did not abandon his main idea - to portray the hero ...

Which one?

(- consisting of beautiful opposites;

- an unprecedentedly powerful figure, capable not only of arguing, but of challenging the entire society at the beginning of the poem and even the entire universe at the end.)

Teacher: The poem was published in full in Moscow in 1915, and the second edition in 1918 was accompanied by a foreword by Mayakovsky (“4 shouts down”). (Slide 6)

Each part expresses a specific idea. The poem, nevertheless, is an integral passionate lyric monologue, the experiences of the lyric hero capture different spheres of life ...

(- love,

- art,

- power,

- religion.)

7) ??? What image unites all parts of the poem?

(- the lyrical "I" of the hero and poet.)

Analysis of the work.

??? Who is he - a hero who turns himself inside out? What is his word to the world, to all of us? Is it just the bravado of a challenge? Is there something else here? All these questions will need to be answered by referring to the poem. We will analyze the first part together, but how the other three parts are related to the main idea of \u200b\u200bMayakovsky - you will have to think at home on your own.

Part 1________________

1) ??? So what is the main theme of the piece? How is the rebellious element of the poem manifested?

(- through the image of a spontaneous feeling of love)

2) ??? How is love portrayed in the poem?

(- with the help of artistic means,

- through the image of the lyric hero, his condition, his experiences.)

3) ??? The hero is expecting a date with his beloved ... By what means is the growing tension of expectation in which the lyrical hero is located?

(Slide 7)

(- in the waiting scene, the reality of everything that happens is absolutely palpable;

- love both transforms and distorts the lump-man;

- the lyrical "I" of the hero reaches colossal proportions, but still remains the human "I";

- artistic means, with the help of which a picture of a painful evening is depicted, convey a feeling of tension, anxiety;

- the image of the objective, material world as a way to convey the state of the lyric hero;

- memories of a loved one give rise to a lyrical hero in the soul of both happiness and suffering;

- the throwing of the lyrical hero leads to doubts about the existence and power of love: litota of "little ones";

- the hero's nervous state is conveyed through numerous metaphors;

- the result of the lyric hero's expectations - the image of the executed, etc.)

4) ??? Why all this? Why all these artistic means, all these crazy metaphors, hyperboles and epithets? Does he live like that? Why this cry about yourself?

(- Mayakovsky's time is the time of the Personality, it is the person who is the center of the universe.)

five) ??? Finally the heroine appears. How is she depicted? What's going on with the hero?

(Slide 8)

(- sharp movements (comparison with the poem "here") and at the same time embarrassed (pulls gloves);

- tense because she is embarrassed or also suffers;

- terrible news.)

6) ??? How does the hero perceive what his beloved tells him? Why is he upset, shocked?

(- the news of the hero killed: external calm and internal death.)

(Slide 9)

7) ??? Why is Mayakovsky in a frenzy shouting "... Down with your love!"?

(- such a love, calculating, bourgeois, based on self-interest, love that can be stolen - he does not understand and does not accept, his personality, his nature is looking for another love - "bulk-love".)

eight) ??? In the world of ordinary people, in the world of the “fat”, the fate of the beloved is the fate of beauty in the bourgeois world, where beauty and art are valued for money, so it was stolen. How does the lyrical hero see love?

(- love is a "bulk" - an all-embracing, all-consuming feeling;

- true love is difficult because love is suffering;

- love is an unattainable ideal that the soul of a suffering hero strives for - touching and tender, but also hot, rushing and embittered.)

nine) ??? And what is the lyrical hero himself? What is left for him?

(Slide 10)

(- "beautiful disease", "fire of the heart".)

ten) ??? Why, to convey the state of the lyric hero, Mayakovsky describes "fire of the heart"? How do you understand the meaning of this metaphor?

(- “fire of the heart” burns the hero from within, turns him inside out;

- this is an element beyond the control of man, therefore it is impossible to extinguish the fire on its own;

- the catastrophe that befell the hero is comparable to world catastrophes and cataclysms.)

eleven) ??? What is the lyrical hero of the poem? What is the lyrical "I" of Mayakovsky?

(- a suffering rebel, a gentle giant, striving with all his soul for true love.)

Reflection.

And now something has changed in your attitude to what you see and read? Which title of the poem do you prefer? Which name more fully reflects inner world, the state of the hero?

Teacher: Back to the beginning ...

(Slide 11)

Why do you think, after all, Mayakovsky first wrote a poem alone, (Slide 11a)

and then dedicated another?

(- the point is not in the addressee, but in the very feeling of love, which Mayakovsky curses and sings: if there were no addressees of the poem, he would certainly have invented them;

- more important is love as such, love that brings suffering, torment, burning in the fire of passion;

- where there is love, there is always suffering: no suffering - no art.)

Conclusion.

So, love, whatever it may be, is a way of mutual understanding, mutual interaction, human relationship with the world. Other spheres of human life, other ways of dealing with the world - art, power, and religion (primarily Christian patience) - are depicted in other parts of the poem. How they help to create, complement the image of the lyrical hero - you will have to think about this yourself.

(Slide 12)

What "name" would you give today's lesson? Why? Who is he, the hero of V.V. Mayakovsky?

Homework.

To independently analyze the rest of the poem "A Cloud in Trousers" and answer the question: how do other areas of human life help to complement the image of the lyric hero of the poem?

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Paths in the poem by V. Mayakovsky "A Cloud in Pants"

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State budget educational institution additional professional education center for advanced training of specialists of St. Petersburg "Regional center for assessing the quality of education and information technology" curriculum "Teacher's standard: information and communication technologies in professional activity" Electronic teaching materials on the topic: "Paths in the poem by V. Mayakovsky" A Cloud in Pants "Completed by: Stepanova Tatyana Nikolaevna student of the group: 16.41.22 Teacher of Russian language and literature Teacher Vasilyeva Julia Alekseevna Saint Petersburg 2017

Project Objectives To form students' knowledge of trails as a means of artistic expression. Determine the role of tropes in the poem by V. Mayakovsky.

Personal: to foster interest in the word, attentive attitude to one's speech, the ability to appreciate beautiful and correct speech. Metasubject: develop intellectual (the ability to highlight the main thing, compare, generalize, logically express one's thoughts) and communication skills. Subject: to give students knowledge about the types of tropes.

Expected results Carrying out a linguistic analysis of the text and highlighting the means of artistic expression. Students create a table of trails used in the poem Students identify different functions tropes in the text.

Collection of information. The highest score is given if the student has correctly identified the paths in the text, the project contains a sufficient amount of information, links to various sources. Organization of written work. Adequate ways of presenting the material (diagrams, tables) were used. Process and result analysis. The student consistently and fully analyzes the results of the analysis, draws conclusions about the use of means of artistic expression in the text. Personal participation. The child showed enthusiasm, found his own opinion during the project.

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The poem "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) is the central work of Mayakovsky's pre-revolutionary work. In it, the poet tried to show the sad fate of man in bourgeois society. His lyrical hero does not want to put up with reality, so four protests arise in his mind: “Down with your love!”, “Down with your art!”, “Down with your system!”, “Down with your religion!” These four "down with it!", Covering all the foundations of bourgeois society, are a global protest of the lyrical hero Mayakovsky.

The lyrical plot of the poem is the hero's unrequited love for the girl Maria. This love is the real passion. The hero is "perfectly ill," "he has a fire of his heart." But the girl chooses not him, but a "fat wallet", security, stability. The hero is convinced that his beloved was bought. Maria sold her love for money, luxury, position in society.

In a conversation with a girl, the lyrical hero is calm, "like the pulse of a dead man," but his soul has died. It has been trampled by modern love, which is sold for money and is based only on calculation.

From the second part of the poem, we understand that the hero is a poet. The main opposition of this part is the poet and the crowd. The author talks about the conflict between poetry and the surrounding world. The desire of the creators to sing about a young lady, "both love and a flower under the dew" does not correspond to the requirement of today. The lyrical hero rejects everything pseudo-romantic and sublime and chooses the fate of becoming a singer of the "convicts of the city-leper colony", which, in his opinion, are cleaner than "the Venetian lazuli, washed by seas and suns at once!"

It is here, in this vulgarity scary worldwhere the crush “coughs up” on the square, and the street shouts: “Let's go eat!”, the true heroes of life live.

In the last two parts of the poem, Mayakovsky appears as a rebel protesting against the entire bourgeois system, its religion, denouncing them as the root cause of all human misfortunes and misfortunes. So, in religion, the lyric hero of the poem sees only vulgarity and artificiality. Faith in God in the understanding of the lyrical hero Mayakovsky is something that was invented to make a person not free. In the poem, the hero becomes even higher than God and threatens him:

I thought you were an omnipotent god

And you are a dropout, you little god.

Thus, we can say that this work completely rejects the established foundations. The lyrical hero of Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Pants" is a rebellious hero. He revolts against religion, politics, art and love of the bourgeois world. The hero calls for decisive action. In his works, Mayakovsky claims that the role of the poet in the life of society is enormous and it is he who is able to influence the course of history.

In this poem, the main features of Mayakovsky's poetic style were manifested:

1. Combination of plausibility and fantasy: "The twelfth hour fell, like the head of the executed from the block."

2. Using the technique of a detailed metaphor. Thus, the fire of love, the hearth of which is in the heart, gradually engulfs the hero's body, similar to an architectural structure: “Mom! I can't sing. The choir is engaged in the church of the heart! " The poet's heart is compared to a “church” in which the heart, the choir, has caught fire.

3. Using the technique of a detailed metaphor. For example, the phraseologism "nerves diverged" grows in Mayakovsky's work into a whole picture:

Like a sick man out of bed

A nerve jumped off.

Now he and two newer

They rush about with desperate tap-dancing ...

4. Wide use of neologisms: "small, meek little love", "millions of huge, pure loves", "December evening", "tongueless street", "pedestrianized chest".

5. In the field of verse - the use of a "ladder" dividing the line into semantic and intonational parts, focusing on certain meanings.

The poem "A Cloud in Trousers" occupies a special place in Mayakovsky's work. If you study the brief analysis of "Cloud in Pants" according to plan, it becomes clear why. This analysis can be used to teach a literature lesson in grade 11.

Brief analysis

History of creation - the work was written in 1914, during this period the poet was in love with Maria Denisova, but his feelings did not receive an answer and were embodied in poetry. It was first published in 1915.

Poem theme - the central theme can be called the theme of love, however, the theme of the poet and the crowd, the new art, the denial of the dominant order and, finally, the denial of God are also added to it.

Composition - the poem is divided into parts, each of which has its own theme, and if in the first part the lyric hero is waiting for a meeting with his love, and after that he denies this very feeling, then in the last part he accuses God of not taking care of the person, not giving happy love to him. There are four of them.

Genre - a tetraptych poem.

Poetic size - free verse, which manifested the innovation of Mayakovsky as a poet.

Epithets – “bloody heart flap“, “obese footman“, “greasy couch“, “softened brain ".

Metaphors – “and the living room of cambric, the dignified official of the angelic league“.

Hyperbola – “you can't turn it out, so that only solid lips“.

Comparison – “men lying like a hospital“, “women worn out like a proverb“.

Oxymoron – “dead man's pulse“.

History of creation

Vladimir Mayakovsky conceived his poem even before he met Maria Denisova, originally it was to be called "The Thirteenth Apostle". But in fact, the story of its creation begins during the trip of the futurists across Russia. Acquaintance with a beauty who refused to enter into a close relationship with him deeply wounded Mayakovsky and at the same time gave him a great creative impetus: the poem, begun in 1914, he finished in July 1915. In the same year, the work, already under the name "A Cloud in Pants", was published by Osip Brik. The second edition came in 1916, and both were heavily curtailed by the censorship.

Theme

Mayakovsky's poem is also interesting because, despite the presence of a central theme, it is multi-dark, and the rest can be traced through the chapters.

So, in the first chapter, the lyrical hero is waiting for his beloved (Mayakovsky never concealed who his work is dedicated to), and this expectation for him is rather painful than pleasant. He understands that there is no hope for a reciprocal feeling, but still he is ready to listen to Mary's words. The theme of the second part is poetry, which, according to Mayakovsky, should be the poetry of struggle - but not all works and creators correspond to this image. The third part is the denial of the entire state system, which is cruel and inhuman. Here the image of the thirteenth apostle from the original title of the poem appears - this is a man who opposes the masters of life.

Finally, in the fourth part, Mayakovsky again returns to the theme of love, which this time is closely related to the theme of God - the poet not only denies religion, he mocks the Creator himself, who did not give people the opportunity of happy love. The lyrical hero tries to convey his feelings to his beloved - but remains with a bloody heart.

Composition

The work consists of four parts. The four-part composition of the poem allows the poet to consider all facets of his feelings and express his views on life, which can be expressed by the simple slogan "Down with!" - and love, and modern society, and God himself. This is the main meaning and message of the whole work.

Genre

The genre of this work is a poem. Mayakovsky himself said that these are “four shouts from four parts”. He considered “A Cloud in Trousers” a catechism contemporary art - it is truly innovative in its form and rebellious in content.

Expression tools

From the very beginning, Mayakovsky's poetry was as sharp as possible - he used numerous means of expression in order to most clearly convey his thought to the reader. "A cloud in pants", referring to the pre-revolutionary period of his work, already looks like a manifesto. It uses:

• epithets- “bloody heart flap”, “eaten out lackey”, “greasy couch”, “softened brain”;
• metaphors- “and the cambric living room, a dignified official of the angelic league”;
• hyperbole- “you can't turn it out, so that only solid lips”;
• comparisons- “men lying in bed like a hospital”, “women worn out like a proverb”;
• oxymoron- “the pulse of the deceased”.

The rhythm of the poem is innovative - a modernist approach is used, when the marching rhythm and the beating of the pulse are taken as a reference point. Everything expressive means in it they are used not for the beauty of the syllable, but in order to more accurately and succinctly convey the thought that the poet put into his lines.

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Analysis of Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Pants"

The original title of the poem - "The Thirteenth Apostle" - was replaced by the censorship. Mayakovsky said: "When I came to the censorship with this work, they asked me:" What do you want to do hard labor? " I said that in no case, that it in no way suits me. Then they crossed out six pages to me, including the title. This is the question of where the title came from. I was asked how I can combine lyrics and a lot of rudeness. Then I said: "Okay, if you want, I will be like mad, if you want, I will be the most gentle, not a man, but a cloud in my pants."

The first edition of the poem (1915) contained a large number of censorship notes. Completely, without cuts, the poem was published in early 1918 in Moscow with a foreword by V. Mayakovsky: "" A cloud in pants "... I consider it a catechism of today's art:" Down with your love! "," Down with your art! "," Down with your system ! ”,“ Down with your religion ”- four shouts of four parts”.

Each part of the poem expresses a specific idea. But the poem itself cannot be strictly divided into chapters in which four shouts of "Down with!" Are consistently expressed. The poem is not at all divided into compartments with its "Down!", But is a holistic, passionate lyrical monologue caused by the tragedy of unrequited love. The experiences of the lyrical hero capture different spheres of life, including those where loveless love, false art, criminal power dominate, and Christian patience is preached. The movement of the lyrical plot of the poem is conditioned by the hero's confession, at times reaching high tragedy (the first publications of excerpts from The Cloud had the subtitle “tragedy”).

The first part of the poem is about the poet's tragic unrequited love. It contains unprecedented strength of jealousy, pain, the hero's nerves rebelled: "like a patient out of bed, a nerve jumped off," then the nerves "are jumping mad, and the nerves are already giving way."

The author of the poem painfully asks: “Will there be love or not? Which is big or tiny? " The entire chapter is not a treatise on love, but the poet's experiences splashed out. The chapter reflects the emotions of the lyric hero: “Hello! Who is speaking? Mama? Mama! Your son is perfectly ill! Mama! His heart is on fire. " The love of the lyric hero of the poem was rejected (It was, it was in Odessa; "I will come at four," said Maria 2. / Eight. / Nine. / Ten ... The twelfth hour fell, / like the head of the executed from the block; You entered, / sharp, like "here!", / torturing suede gloves, / said: "You know - / I'm getting married"), and this leads him to reject love-sweet-voiced chants, because true love is difficult, it is love-suffering.

His ideas about love are defiant, polemically frank and shocking: “Maria! The poet of the sonnets sings to Tiana 3, // and I am / is made of meat, a man is all - // your body is simply asking, // as Christians ask - // “Our daily bread - / give us this day”. For the lyrical hero, love is tantamount to life itself. The lyrics and rudeness here outwardly contradict each other, but from a psychological point of view, the hero's reaction is understandable: his rudeness is a reaction to the rejection of his love, it is a defensive reaction.

V. Kamensky, Mayakovsky's companion on a trip to Odessa, wrote about Maria that she was a completely extraordinary girl, she “combined the high qualities of a captivating appearance and intellectual aspiration for everything new, modern, revolutionary ...” “Excited, swept up by a whirlwind of love experiences, after the first dates with Maria, - says V. Kamensky, - he flew into our hotel with a kind of festive spring sea wind and enthusiastically repeated: "This is a girl, this is a girl!" ... Mayakovsky, who had not yet known love, first experienced this tremendous feeling, which I could not cope with. Gripped by the "fire of love", he did not know at all what to do, what to do, where to go. "

The insatiable, tragic feelings of the hero cannot coexist with cold quibbling, with refined, refined literature. The street lacks words to express genuine and strong feelings: “the street is writhing tongueless - it has nothing to shout and talk with”. Therefore, the author denies everything that was previously created in the field of art:

I'm over everything that's done I put "nihil".

Of all types of art, Mayakovsky turns to poetry: it has become too detached from real life and from the real language spoken by the street and the people. The poet exaggerates this gap:

and in the mouth dead words decompose corpses.

For Mayakovsky, the soul of the people is important, not their appearance ("We are from soot in smallpox. I know - the sun would darken when he saw our souls with gold deposits"). The third chapter is also devoted to the topic of poetry:

And from cigarette smoke / liqueur glass the drunken face of the Severyanin stretched out. How dare you be called a poet And, grayish, tweet like a quail. Today / it is necessary / brass knuckles / to cut the world in a skull.

The lyrical hero declares his break with previous poets, with "pure poetry":

From you who were wet with love, From which / in a century a tear shed, I'll leave, / the sun with a monocle I put it in a wide-eyed eye.

One more "down with" the poem - "down with your system", your "heroes": "iron Bismarck", billionaire Rothschild and idol of many generations - Napoleon. "I will lead Napoleon like a pug on a chain," the author declares.

The theme of the collapse of the old world runs through the entire third chapter. In the revolution, Mayakovsky sees a way to end this hated system and calls for a revolution - for this bloody, tragic and festive action, which should burn out the vulgarity and dullness of life:

Go! / Mondays and Tuesdays let's paint with blood on holidays! Let the ground under the knives be remembered whom she wanted to vulgarize! Earth, / fattened like a mistress, which Rothschild loved! So that the flags flutter in the heat of firing, like every decent holiday - Raise higher, lamp posts, bloody carcasses of meadowsweet.

The author of the poem sees the coming future, where there will be no loveless love, bourgeois refined poetry, bourgeois order and the religion of patience. And he himself sees himself as the “thirteenth apostle”, “forerunner” and herald of the new world, calling for cleansing from colorless life:

I, ridiculed by today's tribe, like a long, dirty joke, I see time walking through the mountains, that no one sees. Where people's eyes are cut short, the head of the hungry hordes, in a crown of thorns revolutions the sixteenth year is coming. And you have me - his forerunner!

The hero seeks to melt his unquenchable pain, he, as it were, rises to new heights in his personal experiences, trying to save the future from the humiliation that befell him. And he sees how his grief and the grief of many will end in "the sixteenth year."

The hero goes through a painful path of ups and downs in the poem. This became possible because his heart is full of the deepest personal experiences. In the fourth chapter of the poem, the hopeless longing for his beloved returns. "Maria! Maria! Maria!" - the name sounds hysterically as a refrain, in it - "a born word, equal to God in greatness." Confused and endless pleas, confessions - there is no answer to Mary. And a daring rebellion against the Almighty begins - "a dropout, a tiny god." Rebellion against the imperfection of earthly relationships and feelings:

Why didn't you invent so that there is no torment kiss, kiss, kiss ?!

The lyrical hero of the poem is "a handsome twenty-two year old." With the maximalism of entering life young man the poem expresses the dream of a time devoid of suffering, of a future being, where "millions of huge pure loves" will triumph. The theme of personal, insurmountable shocks develops into the glorification of future happiness.

The author is disappointed in the moral strength of religion. The revolution, according to Mayakovsky, should bring not only social liberation, but also moral cleansing. The anti-religious pathos of the poem was sharply defiant, repelling some and attracting others. For example, M. Gorky "was struck by a godless stream in the poem." "He quoted verses from" A Cloud in Trousers "and said that he had never read such a conversation with God ... and that Mayakovsky was great for God from Mayakovsky."

I thought you were an omnipotent god and you are a dropout, you little god. See, I bend over / because of the bootleg I take out a boot knife. Winged scoundrels! / Huddle in paradise! Eat feathers in a frightened shaking! I will open you, smelling of incense from here to Alaska! ...Hey you! Sky! / Hats off! I'm coming! Deaf. The universe is sleeping putting on a paw with the mites of stars a huge ear.