A Cloud in Trousers

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A Cloud in Trousers is a landmark 1915 Russian Futurist poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky that blends passionate love, political revolt, and avant-garde experimentation.

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instanceOf Russian Futurist poem
poem
addresses artistic rebellion
class struggle
personal love
author Vladimir Mayakovsky NERFINISHED
compositionPeriod 1914–1915
contains autobiographical elements
dramatic monologue elements
irony
political invective
religious imagery
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
genre Futurism NERFINISHED
avant-garde literature
historicalContext pre-revolutionary Russia
influenced Soviet avant-garde poetry
intendedForm long poem
languageScript Cyrillic
length long
literaryForm lyric poem
literarySignificance landmark of Russian Futurist poetry
major work of Vladimir Mayakovsky
meter free verse
movement Russian Futurism NERFINISHED
narrativeVoice first person
originalLanguage Russian
originalTitle Облако в штанах NERFINISHED
partCount 4
period Russian Silver Age NERFINISHED
protagonist lyrical I
publicationYear 1915
setting early 20th-century urban Russia
structure four parts
style declamatory
experimental
fragmented syntax
innovative imagery
theme alienation
love
political revolt
revolution
social protest
urban life
uses colloquial language
enjambment
hyperbole

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Vladimir Mayakovsky notableWork A Cloud in Trousers