ISO short Russian poem for beginners

[Deborah Hoffman]

Something I learned in connection with participles:
 
Много видевший, много знавший,
Знавший ненависть и любовь,
Всё имевший, всё потерявший
И опять всё нашедший вновь.
 
Вкус узнавший всего земного
И до жизни жадный опять,
Обладающий всем и снова
Всё боящийся потерять.
--Dmitri Kedrin, 1945
 
>Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:13 PM



>From: 

>"John Langran" <john at RUSLAN.CO.UK>



>To: 
>undisclosed-recipients

>I agree about the Blok. Most of the poems suggested are excellent for students who >have reached a certain level. I used several of those mentioned in Ruslan 3, as
>well as Marshak "Bagazh", Okudzhava "Pesenka o bumazhnom soldatike", >Rozhdestvensky Prologue to "Rekviem" and Yevtushenko excerpts from "Stantsiya >Zima".
>
>However for near beginners it is much more difficult to use classical poetry, but if you >are going to use poetry later in the course it is good to make an early start. For that >reason I asked a teacher friend in Moscow who writes verse for fun to write something >using lexis and structures from Ruslan 1. There are some of his poems in the recent NA >edition.  Here's a simple one for lesson 3:
>
>"Петербург"
>Красивый город Петербург.
>Антон и Вера там живут.
>Есть в этом городе метро,
>Антон живёт недалеко.
>От центра города легко
>К нему приехать на метро!
>С.М. Козлов, 2008
>
>John Langran
>www.ruslan.co.uk
 
Deborah Hoffman
Russian > English Translator
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Vice-Chair, Graduate Student Senate
Kent State University


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