Marina Tsvetaeva, Her Life in Poems - Rolf Gross

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Nagorskaya, who sold thousands of their sleazy novels: “a woman should be permitted everything she craves for!” Sofia's freedom must have exerted a magnetic attraction on the “spartan child”. In 1919-20 Marina put together a cycle of 17-stanzas to Parnok: “Poems to a Friend” (female). I include a few of these in my poems section. Her first poem, written in July 1914, is an ecstatic evocation of their first meeting: I saw you three times, But we cannot stay apart. - After your first sentence My heart burned through! I feel it in the same darkness, Like the trembling of young leaves. You - just a portrait in an album - And I do not know who you are. If everything – as they say – happened by chance, You can close the album ... Oh, this marble brow! Oh, the mystery Behind your huge forehead! Look, I was true Before the call, to longing: My golden mane Did not know anyone's hands. My spirit - has not humbled anyone. We - souls of various castes. My incorruptible demon Will not let me love you. - "So what was it" - This Passes judgement on the other judge. There are many no answers, And you do not know - who I am. July 13, 1914 I love you, - like a storm cloud Above you lies - sin -... ..... ...even facing the grave I could not be saved! October 16, 1914 18
She writes and a few days later describes the state she is in. This trembling, for what really, Am I longing in my dreams - For the ironic charm that is yours - not his Under your caresses' lush plaid Yesterday's dream. What was it - Whose victory - Whose defeat Rethinking everything once more, I am torturing myself again. In fact, I do not know the words for, Was it love Who was the hunter - Who – the prey All devilishly-around! Did I recogniize that long-purring, Siberian cat In that duel of willfulness Who, in whose hands was the ball Whose heart - yours or mine, was Flying at a gallop And yet - what was it What do I want I still do not know: Oh, did I win Or was I conquered October 23, 1914 What was it - I venture to suggest that Marina had one of her crushes on Sofia, and when Sofia, attracted by her obvious inexperience, took advantage of that – a deep kiss caresses - Marina discovered a hitherto unexplored erotic world that left her reeling. Her love of Seryozha was one between two lonely, deeply wounded children. They were both equally innocent, and in her poems to her “shining guard” she kept this innocence throughout her life. Erotic allusions never entered her poems to him. Sofia introduced her to the sensations of an entirely more consuming way of loving. Pra and Max Voloshin, who disliked Sofia, were truly afraid for Marina and her marriage. However, practical Pra, in a letter to Seryozha [VS. p.102] realizes that nothing could be done about “the spell this Sonya has put on her.” - It had to burn itself out. 19
Page 1 and 2: Marina Tsvetaeva A Life in Poems No
Page 3 and 4: poetic power like distress and - lo
Page 5 and 6: Childhood Moscow 8 Tryokhprudny Per
Page 7 and 8: children. In “Mother and Music”
Page 9 and 10: seventeen Marina began to smoke, a
Page 11 and 12: Koktebel Maximilian Voloshin's Have
Page 13 and 14: The motley crowd of greater and les
Page 15 and 16: did not concern her. My poems, writ
Page 17: Sofia Parnok Koktebel and Moscow 19
Page 21 and 22: And I'll tell you: - All the same -
Page 23 and 24: orderly. Eventually he was drafted
Page 25 and 26: In December 1915 Marina was invited
Page 27 and 28: To Osip Mandelstam A strange anxiet
Page 29 and 30: Marina escaped on flights to the ot
Page 31 and 32: Love! Love! Even in convulsions, ev
Page 33 and 34: - Alya had these frequent attacks.
Page 35 and 36: ... Dead - and risen! Just enough f
Page 37 and 38: Berlin - Prague Ilya Ehrenburg Serg
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Page 41 and 42: etween her insatiable need for free
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Page 45 and 46: Swan-like... - But what happened Li
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Page 49 and 50: France 1925 - 1939 The Summer of 19
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Page 61 and 62: in 1924 and 1925), hence my long so
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German is deeper than French, fulle
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eflection when it appears in the wa
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asleep, fast asleep. I sound quite
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winter!... "You don't need to answe
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This letter became the last in thei
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France 1925 - 1939 The Lure of the
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Mur and Marina, 1936 Photo dommuseu
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In your family album! Children! You
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People are all the same to me, And
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go. But there was, of course, no ch
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Marina Tsvetaeva, Golitsyno 1939 No
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The idea of suicide is disturbing t
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August 1, move to Prague, where the
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August 17, Marina and Mur evacuated
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