Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. My Hamlet.
Commentary to the poem “The Silly Dream”.
To this section, it can be added Vladimir Vysotsky’s sketch “If you were asked...” (1976) to the film “Armed and Very Dangerous” (1977):
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If you were asked once, “Would you wish What’d you reply to this, Come on, reveal it! If you were asked then, “Would you please What’d you reply to this, Come on, reveal it! |
Here can also be added Igor Girkin’s poem “The Exhortation for Myself” (1991):
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Don’t wait for orders! don’t sit still, Don’t listen to dulcet tones! Go forward through downpours and winds And wailing of snowstorms! Forget about repose and ease, While thou’rt alive — make way! There will be ages for those deeds When lying in the grave! Be honest, brave, do a real work, Be at thy work a swell. If get’st to order — take care of Thy people as of thyself! The man, who’s never made o’ersights, Has spent his days in vain — That man hasn’t born the load of life And dragged without avail! Don’t be concerned about a get And what the public says — Remember that but God will set A price for thy affairs! |
The presented text is adapted from Sergey Roy and Alec Vagapov’s translations.