A tit that steals wheat. The house that Jack built. Speech and posture
Which Jack built
And this is wheat
Which Jack built.
And this is a cheerful tit bird,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
Here's a dog without a tail
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
But the cow is hornless,
Kicked an old dog without a tail,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
And this is an old woman, gray-haired and stern,
Who milks a hornless cow,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
And this is a lazy and fat shepherd,
Who quarrels with the cowshed
Who milks a hornless cow,
Kicked an old dog without a tail,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
Here are two roosters
Which wake up that shepherd,
Who scolds the strict cowshed,
Who milks a hornless cow,
Kicked an old dog without a tail,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
(R. Burns, translation by S. Marshak)
Barboulier's Jealousy
“...So know, my friend,
Why give me a wallet filled
chervonets,
And this wallet is in a rich box,
This box is in a precious case,
This case is in a wonderful chest,
This chest is in a wonderful cabinet,
This locker is in a magnificent room,
This room is in a pleasant room,
This room is in a luxurious castle,
This castle is in an incomparable fortress,
This fortress is in the famous city,
This town is on a fertile island,
This island is in a rich province,
This province is in a prosperous monarchy,
This monarchy - all over the world -
Then and then the whole world, where would be
This prosperous monarchy
This big province
This fertile island
This famous city
This incomparable fortress
This luxurious castle
This is a pleasant room
This magnificent room
This wonderful locker
This wonderful chest
This precious case
This rich box
In which the wallet would be locked,
filled with ducats, -
I would be just as little interested in
How your money And yourself."
(J. Moliere)
Chapter 4 Warm-up in between
You have more power if
you are in control.
Speech and posture
During speech, it is necessary to maintain a feeling of external and internal smartness.
Get it right posture. To do this, you need to sit or stand straight, with your shoulders back, without straining your body, arm and neck muscles. The head should be kept straight, without much tension, without dropping forward or throwing it back. This body position should become natural and familiar while working on breathing and voice. In a word, we need the posture of a liberated, free person(by the way, it has nothing to do with ballet posture).
Defects in posture are acquired as a result of frequent and prolonged adoption of incorrect postures and body positions. Incorrect posture, increasing muscle tension, can lead to distortion in the sound of the voice.
To improve your posture, do the following exercises.
Exercise 1
Sitting (standing). Imagine that there is a thread attached to the top of your head and it is gently pulling you up. Feel what is happening to your body: your back is straight, your head is raised, your chest protrudes slightly forward, your lower abdomen is tucked.
Exercise 2
Standing with your back straight, mentally connect your earlobes and shoulders with an imaginary cord. Walk around the room so that the cord remains taut.
Exercise 3
Standing close to the wall. Lower your arms, close your feet, look straight ahead. Find the points of contact between the housing and the wall. Mentally count to 20. Move away from the wall, maintaining your posture. Walk around the room with good posture (as if you were standing against a wall).
Exercise 4
Standing (sitting). Pull your shoulders back, clasp your hands behind your back, clasping your fingers together. Stay in this pose for 10-30 seconds. Perform the exercise 2-3 times in a row.
Muscle relaxation
As you know, muscular and emotional relaxation is the main condition for natural speech.
Most people who stutter experience feelings of anxiety, uncertainty, and fear in the process of verbal communication. They are characterized by an imbalance and mobility between the processes of excitation and inhibition, and increased emotionality. Any, no matter how small stressful situations become excessive for their nervous system, cause nervous tension and increase the external manifestations of stuttering. Many people who stutter are known to speak freely when they are calm. A state of calm is mainly ensured by general muscle relaxation. And vice versa, the more relaxed the muscles, the deeper the state of general peace. Emotional arousal weakens with sufficiently complete muscle relaxation.
Learning to voluntarily relax muscles and free yourself from excess tension is possible only through constant conscious control over their activity. The ability to relax muscles is called relaxation- muscle release.
The skill of voluntarily relaxing muscles is developed through the use of special exercises that teach you to feel strong muscle tension and then their relaxed state.
Relaxation, both physical and mental, is the main goal of relaxation exercises.
Many of you are already so accustomed to physical tension that you perceive it as a natural state. It should be clearly understood that, having mastered relaxation, you will learn to regulate tension, that is, relax when you need it.
Please read carefully before performing the exercises. guidelines. As you read the description of each exercise, try to imagine how you would perform it. As you master it, pay special attention to accumulating practical experience. Do not hurry! The relaxation method involves gradually mastering exercises, the main conditions for the implementation of which are patience and perseverance.
Experience has proven that relaxation can be achieved only through regular and systematic implementation of the given set of exercises for a long time.
Remember that the beneficial effect of relaxation in its entirety will not be achieved immediately. Over time, you will begin to perform relaxation exercises at a faster pace than in the beginning. Later, you can relax when you need to. This is not easy, but you will definitely learn this too. At some stage, you will no longer need to perform exercises on the elements, as at the very beginning of classes. And finally, you will be able (if necessary) to release internal tension from yourself on command.
So, now you already know - and this is extremely important - about your ability to overcome internal tension. And they are able to do it themselves - without any outside interference.
A set of relaxation exercises must be mastered so well that the implementation of each of them becomes automatic. This is the basis of “minute” relaxation, which you should be able to use repeatedly throughout the day. For example, before a serious discussion, before an important exam, in conflict situation at home or at work. In other words, when you need to relax, relieve tension.
Once you truly master relaxation, it will become an integral part of your lifestyle, and this, in turn, will help improve your speech.
♦ It is necessary to voluntarily tense as much as possible and then relax any muscle group (tongue, neck, arm, etc.) as much as possible. At the same time, it is important to create a feeling of contrast between their tense and free state.
♦ It is useful to control the strength of muscle tension both through bodily sensations during exercises and visually, paying attention to the area of the shoulder girdle, neck, and facial muscles. Such control makes it easier to transition to deep relaxation, as a result of which freedom of action and the ability to control muscles are developed.
♦ It should be remembered that irrational relaxation is the same obstacle to free movements as stiffness.
Which Jack built.
And this is wheat
Which Jack built.
And this is a cheerful tit bird,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
Here's a dog without a tail
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
And this is a hornless cow,
Kicked an old dog without a tail,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
And this is an old woman, gray-haired and stern,
Who milks a hornless cow,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
And this is a lazy and fat shepherd,
Who milks a hornless cow,
Kicked an old dog without a tail,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
Here are two roosters
Which wake up that shepherd,
Who scolds the strict cowshed,
Who milks a hornless cow,
Kicked an old dog without a tail,
Who pulls the cat by the collar,
Which scares and catches the tit,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is kept in a dark closet
Which Jack built.
Great ones about poetry:
Poetry is like painting: some works will captivate you more if you look at them closely, and others if you move further away.
Small cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creaking of unoiled wheels.
The most valuable thing in life and in poetry is what has gone wrong.
Marina Tsvetaeva
Of all the arts, poetry is the most susceptible to the temptation to replace its own peculiar beauty with stolen splendors.
Humboldt V.
Poems are successful if they are created with spiritual clarity.
The writing of poetry is closer to worship than is usually believed.
If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow without shame... Like a dandelion on a fence, like burdocks and quinoa.
A. A. Akhmatova
Poetry is not only in verses: it is poured out everywhere, it is all around us. Look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life emanate from everywhere, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.
I. S. Turgenev
For many people, writing poetry is a growing pain of the mind.
G. Lichtenberg
A beautiful verse is like a bow drawn through the sonorous fibers of our being. The poet makes our thoughts sing within us, not our own. By telling us about the woman he loves, he delightfully awakens in our souls our love and our sorrow. He's a magician. By understanding him, we become poets like him.
Where graceful poetry flows, there is no room for vanity.
Murasaki Shikibu
I turn to Russian versification. I think that over time we will turn to blank verse. There are too few rhymes in the Russian language. One calls the other. The flame inevitably drags the stone behind it. It is through feeling that art certainly emerges. Who is not tired of love and blood, difficult and wonderful, faithful and hypocritical, and so on.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
-...Are your poems good, tell me yourself?
- Monstrous! – Ivan suddenly said boldly and frankly.
- Do not write anymore! – the newcomer asked pleadingly.
- I promise and swear! - Ivan said solemnly...
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. "Master and Margarita"
We all write poetry; poets differ from others only in that they write in their words.
John Fowles. "The French Lieutenant's Mistress"
Every poem is a veil stretched over the edges of a few words. These words shine like stars, and because of them the poem exists.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
Ancient poets, unlike modern ones, rarely wrote more than a dozen poems during their long lives. This is understandable: they were all excellent magicians and did not like to waste themselves on trifles. Therefore, behind every poetic work of those times there is certainly hidden an entire Universe, filled with miracles - often dangerous for those who carelessly awaken the dozing lines.
Max Fry. "Chatty Dead"
I gave one of my clumsy hippopotamuses this heavenly tail:...
Mayakovsky! Your poems do not warm, do not excite, do not infect!
- My poems are not a stove, not a sea, and not a plague!
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Poems are our inner music, clothed in words, permeated with thin strings of meanings and dreams, and therefore, drive away the critics. They are just pathetic sippers of poetry. What can a critic say about the depths of your soul? Don't let his vulgar groping hands in there. Let poetry seem to him like an absurd moo, a chaotic pile-up of words. For us, this is a song of freedom from a boring mind, a glorious song sounding on the snow-white slopes of our amazing soul.
Boris Krieger. "A Thousand Lives"
Poems are the thrill of the heart, the excitement of the soul and tears. And tears are nothing more than pure poetry that has rejected the word.
Here's the house
Which Jack built.
And this is wheat
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And this is a nasty fat rat
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
Here's the cat. He's terribly proud of himself
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And here comes the dog - simplicity itself,
But there’s just something that doesn’t like the cat,
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And here is a cow without its right horn,
She's a little angry at the dog
Who is terribly proud of himself
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And here comes the girl - touchable!
She milks the cow without a horn,
Because the dog is simplicity itself
But still he really doesn’t like the cat,
Who is terribly proud of himself
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And this is a shepherd, a lazy man and a slacker,
Which is just Monday
Who is a little angry at the dog
Because the dog is simplicity itself,
But still he really doesn’t like the cat,
Who is terribly proud of himself
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And this is the priest who performed the wedding on Christmas Eve
In the rye I kissed my touchy one,
Who milks a cow without a horn,
Who is a little angry at the dog
Because the dog is simplicity itself.
But still he really doesn’t like the cat,
Who is terribly proud of himself
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And this is a rooster. He sings songs
That shepherd who, although a slacker,
But still, as recently as Monday
In the rye I kissed my touchy one,
Who milks a cow without a horn,
Who is a little angry at the dog
Because the dog is simplicity itself,
But still he really doesn’t like the cat,
Who is terribly proud of himself
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
And here is the peasant in whose house he lives
The same rooster that sings songs
And this priest doesn’t let him sleep,
Who got married on Christmas Eve before last
That shepherd who, although a slacker,
But still, as recently as Monday
In the rye I kissed my touchy one,
Who milks a cow without a horn,
Who is a little angry at the dog
Because the dog is simplicity itself,
But still he really doesn’t like the cat,
Who is terribly proud of himself
Because he is afraid of him like fire
That fat gray rat
With the habits of an old sly fox,
Who often steals wheat,
Which is stored in a dark closet
In the house,
Which Jack built.
Reviews
Igor,
I'm glad to see you on the main page, regardless of the occasion :))).
Knowing your talent, I think that you could still make the beginning of the poem different from Marshakov’s. And I believe that you will.
Not at all because someone not very smart immediately rushed to accuse you of “plagiarism”. It’s just always interesting to solve a super task, right? :)))
As for Vladislav Sergeev, it’s great that he put your translation on the main page and drew attention to it. For my part, I advise everyone to rush to your page to get high, bathe in English children's poetry, in the poems of Edward Lear, in limericks, etc.
And I don’t completely disagree with you about “virtual” popularity. After all, on the Internet there are the same readers who are no different from real ones :))). Yes, in the virtual the stupidity of all kinds of “krytyks” is more clearly visible (I don’t mean Misha Translator, although I do not agree with a number of his comments). But popularity in the virtual is not virtual popularity at all, but quite real :)). And if 15 thousand people read your poems online, then these are exactly 15 thousand REAL readers. Don't forget about it :)).
After all, ultimately we write for readers. And nothing else. Otherwise - only masturbation :))).
All the best to you and further success.
It's funny, but there was also an option with rice.
Namely - "a fat rat that spoils rice bags..." something like that. But rice is still a bit too Asian.
Imagine, "The House That Zhang Li Built." By the way, this is an excellent topic for a parody - Russian ditties are well known for being adapted into haiku.