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  1. Philologists are shot for this.
    By this” phrase ” people metaphorically mean Brodsky's poem “Don't leave the room, don't make a mistake…” (1970)
    Joseph Alexandrovich was an excellent poet, playwright, translator, and writer. His contribution to Russian literature is invaluable and you can write a lot about it.
    The poem lends itself to deep analysis and hides several ideas that are known to certain people. When faced with a certain situation (problem) in life, these very words are used to describe it. Relying not on a straight-forward value, but on a hidden one.

    one example of a brief �analysis:
    …the poem is imbued with deep irony and disgust for those who are afraid of the truth and cannot afford the luxury of living as their inner feelings suggest. Such people, according to the poet, it is better to stay at home at all, since ” everything is meaningless outside the door-especially the exclamations of happiness.” Openly ridiculing such double-dealers, who are ready to spend hours talking about justice and individual freedom, but so that no one can hear it, Brodsky recommends that they give up small everyday joys for the purity of the experiment. How can you host a girl in your house if you are not legally married to her, or allow yourself to drive a “motor” with a modest Soviet salary, the lion's share of which will have to be given to a taxi driver on the meter? However, people who live by double standards do not mind such trifles, which really annoys Brodsky. Therefore, the author advises such “freedom lovers” to bury themselves alive in four walls in order to get rid of all sorts of temptations. Indeed, it is good to live when everyone has forgotten about you, and you can amuse yourself with the illusion of complete freedom, merging “face with wallpaper”. But even those to whom this letter was addressed were well aware that it is simply impossible to drop out of society without consequences for one's own reputation and career in the USSR. Such people have only two options-prison or a madhouse. In rare cases, however, they are offered to voluntarily and forcibly leave the country, but for this you need at least to be considered a dissident. There aren't many such people in Brodsky's entourage, so he advises everyone else to lock the door and barricade themselves with a cabinet “from chronos, cosmos, eros, race, virus.”

  2. It's all about context.�

    It's one thing when it's just a quote or a social media status, and quite another when you come to it through knowledge and testing.�

    That is why” don't leave the room, don't make a mistake ” performed by Brodsky will be different than that of a drunk. And it will be completely different from what a doctor says, or if a prison guard says it.

  3. In my opinion Brodsky conveys the feelings of a person who exists in his own poetic world remaining himself and to go out into the world of the philistine is to change yourself all this is permeated with irony and even self irony

  4. Have you ever seen a drunk who speaks poetry? In fact, this phrase reflects a deep meaning. Indeed, in a country where you can be beaten half to death for making a joke or making a picture in the wrong style, isn't it better to stay at home and be yourself than to be in public and hide what you really think? I wouldn't leave home with such rules either.

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4 Answers

  1. Philologists are shot for this.
    By this” phrase ” people metaphorically mean Brodsky's poem “Don't leave the room, don't make a mistake…” (1970)
    Joseph Alexandrovich was an excellent poet, playwright, translator, and writer. His contribution to Russian literature is invaluable and you can write a lot about it.
    The poem lends itself to deep analysis and hides several ideas that are known to certain people. When faced with a certain situation (problem) in life, these very words are used to describe it. Relying not on a straight-forward value, but on a hidden one.

    one example of a brief �analysis:
    …the poem is imbued with deep irony and disgust for those who are afraid of the truth and cannot afford the luxury of living as their inner feelings suggest. Such people, according to the poet, it is better to stay at home at all, since ” everything is meaningless outside the door-especially the exclamations of happiness.” Openly ridiculing such double-dealers, who are ready to spend hours talking about justice and individual freedom, but so that no one can hear it, Brodsky recommends that they give up small everyday joys for the purity of the experiment. How can you host a girl in your house if you are not legally married to her, or allow yourself to drive a “motor” with a modest Soviet salary, the lion's share of which will have to be given to a taxi driver on the meter? However, people who live by double standards do not mind such trifles, which really annoys Brodsky. Therefore, the author advises such “freedom lovers” to bury themselves alive in four walls in order to get rid of all sorts of temptations. Indeed, it is good to live when everyone has forgotten about you, and you can amuse yourself with the illusion of complete freedom, merging “face with wallpaper”. But even those to whom this letter was addressed were well aware that it is simply impossible to drop out of society without consequences for one's own reputation and career in the USSR. Such people have only two options-prison or a madhouse. In rare cases, however, they are offered to voluntarily and forcibly leave the country, but for this you need at least to be considered a dissident. There aren't many such people in Brodsky's entourage, so he advises everyone else to lock the door and barricade themselves with a cabinet “from chronos, cosmos, eros, race, virus.”

  2. It's all about context.�

    It's one thing when it's just a quote or a social media status, and quite another when you come to it through knowledge and testing.�

    That is why” don't leave the room, don't make a mistake ” performed by Brodsky will be different than that of a drunk. And it will be completely different from what a doctor says, or if a prison guard says it.

  3. In my opinion Brodsky conveys the feelings of a person who exists in his own poetic world remaining himself and to go out into the world of the philistine is to change yourself all this is permeated with irony and even self irony

  4. Have you ever seen a drunk who speaks poetry? In fact, this phrase reflects a deep meaning. Indeed, in a country where you can be beaten half to death for making a joke or making a picture in the wrong style, isn't it better to stay at home and be yourself than to be in public and hide what you really think? I wouldn't leave home with such rules either.

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