Khlebnikov (+ another question, about the word безволода)

[Denis Akhapkin]

I think "безволод" is contextual antonym for "Всеволод".

знамя (кого?) Всеволода (Всеволод = тот, кто владеет всем) vs. знамя
безволода (безволод = тот, кто не владеет ничем, отказывается от
владения и власти)

Best,

Denis Akhapkin

2012/2/28 Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>:
> Dear all,
>
> The following offlist message is a good summary of everything important about this passage, but let me thank EVERYONE who helped to piece it together!
>
>> I read this as meaning that the waterfall of beer and blood has been there,
>> and the mills are now being placed to profit by the energy, that will turn
>> the millwheels. I agree with Hugh that "beloved" or "sweet" would better
>> convey what I take to be a sarcastic epithet. It's about war profiteering
>> in both economic and political senses, as I take it. It took me a while to
>> realize that the prepositional phrase С ... волной modifies отрицаем. So
>> "we" are rising up to drown war-mongering, etc., with the red wave of
>> revolution. It is 1917 "now," so the war has been going on for three years.
>> "You" must be the Germans; presumably beer runs in their veins instead of
>> blood! One can almost see the propaganda poster that depicts the image this
>> passage describes.
>
> I am hoping that this second question will prove simpler!
>
> Перерезанное красной молнией
> Голубое знамя безволода,
> Знамя ветреных зорь, утренних солнц
> Поднято и развевается над землей,
> Вот оно, друзья мои!
> Правительство земного шара.
>
> What does безволода mean?  My first guess is that it might be a neologism meaning something like "anarchy".  But I may well be totally wrong.
>
> All the best,
>
> Robert
>
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