Two verses by A.S.Pushkin ( If I’m correct…)
Critical Rider.
And all the time Esprit, no matter
What he was writing at his will
Hard on his track with heavy clatter
Stern critic gallops behind still.
Pale Rider.
I want the pen to be on a par
with the bayonet;
and Stalin
to deliver his Politbureau
reports
about verse in the making
as he would about pig iron
and the smelting of steel.
“That’s how it is, the way it goes …
We’ve attained the topmost level,
climbing from the workers’ bunks:
In the Union of Republics
the understanding of verse
now tops the prewar norm …”
V.Mayakovsky, Back home, 1925
Time went… Esprit continue his writing
Words, verses quickly in the stir
Hard on his track pale* critic riding
And pierce by pen him like by spear.
- “Pale” since the critic suffered of anemia.
Explanation by A.S.Pushkin
7 XII 2024
Esprit de L'escalier 