First Ice- Andrei Voznesensky

First Ice

A girl freezes in a telephone booth.

In her draughty overcoat she hides

A face all smeared

In tears and lipstick

She breathes on her thin palms.

Her fingers are icy. She wears earrings.

She'll have to go home alone, alone,

Along the icy street.

First ice. It is the first time.

The first ice of telephone phrases.

Frozen tears glitter on her cheeks-

The first ice of human hurt

Andrei Voznesensky

Atmosphere

Setting

Subject

Structure

Vision

Tone

Diction

Sound Pattern

Imagery

Theme

• adolescent girl

Passionate

• break up

• directed at anyone

• strong emotion is expressed

• through a teenage girl's eyes

Monosyllabic

• words aren't often more than 1-2 syllables

Rough

• poem stanzas are separated unevenly

• no pattern in sentences

Cliche

• classic break up scenario

Repetitive

Translation

• poem is interpreted differently; using the same theme

She'll have to go home alone, alone,...

First ice. It is the first time. the first ice of the telephone phrases.-

Emotional over Thoughtful

The First Ice

In the telephone booth the girl freezes.

Her face is smeared with running tears

and lipstick; she huddles, peers

out from her chilly collar, aches –

blows upon her thin little paws,

icicle fingers! Earrings flash.

Back – alone as she is, along

the long, lonely, icy lane.

The first ice. The first time, it was,

first ice cracking in phoned phrases –

the frozen track shines on her cheeks –

first ice on her insulting ears.

First Frost

A girl is freezing in a telephone box

huddled in her flimsy coat,

her face stained by tears

and smeared with lipstick.

She breathes on her thin little fingers,

Fingers like ice, glass beads in her ears.

She has to beat her way back alone

down the icy street.

First frost. A beginning of losses.

The first frost of telephone phrases.

It is the start of winter glittering on her cheek,

the first frost of having been hurt.

Progressive

• simple vocabulary

• discover deeper meaning of the situation

• limited thinking required

• continuously captivates audience

Striking

• deep emotion

• majority of audience can relate

• strong impression

Easily Understood

• straight forward

• hurt, rejection

Sight

Touch

Rejection

"She breathes on her thin palms. Her fingers are icy."

• sense of weather, coldness

• depressing

• describes face

"A face all smeared in tears and lipstick."

• cold

• based on teenage girl being rejected and stood up

• lonely

Maturing

• first time heart broken

• May 12, 1933- June 1,2010

• present day

• Sovient and Russian poet

• telephone booth

• known as "Children of 60's"

• influenced to write based on his mother