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Bagritsky was a complex poet who embraced the Revolution while grappling with its consequences, as reflected in his ominous lines about the tragic post-Revolution era. His best collection, Yugo-zapad, features the notable poem 'Duma pro Opanasa,' which draws inspiration from the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. Bagritsky's vibrant poetry served as a significant influence for young poets in the 1920s and 1930s, paralleling the character of Till Eulenspiegel in his artistic spirit.

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Bunyn - копия

Bagritsky was a complex poet who embraced the Revolution while grappling with its consequences, as reflected in his ominous lines about the tragic post-Revolution era. His best collection, Yugo-zapad, features the notable poem 'Duma pro Opanasa,' which draws inspiration from the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. Bagritsky's vibrant poetry served as a significant influence for young poets in the 1920s and 1930s, paralleling the character of Till Eulenspiegel in his artistic spirit.

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Like his favorite hero, Till Eulenspiegel, Bagritsky was simultaneously a romantic and a man of

the real world. The gait of his poetry was also like Eulenspiegel: light, dancing, clastic. Bagritsky
accepted the Revolution unconditionally, fought in special detachments, and, accepting the age,
wishing to be in harmony with it, tell into its errors. A brilliant master, gifted with a rare
perceptive impressionability, Bagritsky sometimes went astray in his attempts to achieve a
philosophical understanding of the world. His lines about our century in the poem "TVS" are
ominous and repugnant in the face of so many lives tragically destroyed in the post-Revolution
era: "But if he says: 'Lie!' — then lie. / But if he says: 'Kill' — then kill." But we cannot take
these lines, written in 1929, apparently in a period of depression, as the philosophical credo for
all of Bagritsky's poetry, as a few interpreters have attempted to do.

Bagritsky's best collection, Yugo-zapad, contains his finest poem, "Duma pro Opanasa"
("Meditation on Opanas"), written in verse forms inspired by Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), the
great Ukranian poet, using folk song metrics and at times Shevchenko's expressiveness as well.
Bagritsky's talented, multicolored poetry provided, in its time, a master school for the young
poets of the 1920s and 1930s, many of whom flew from his genial hand to reach their own
heights. And in this Bagritsky was Till Eulenspiegel — not just by accident, judging from the
stories that were told. He loved to set songbirds free from their cages.

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