The capability of woman’s body, seemingly without cause, to create and possibly destroy life within her seemed to mankind akin to the mystery of the seed in the soil this eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth eventually became symbolized through the myth of the Grain Mother Demeter and the loss, and return, of her daughter, Persephone. The mystery of woman has captured the imaginations of humanity since before the dawn of agriculture. +-+) under the title “?+2'7%?” (“Why?”) the present title is taken from a notebook variant, originally composed in Pyatigorsk, upon Khlebnikov’s return, Orst to Baku and then to the Caucuses, from Persia, where he had spent the previous summer as an attaché of the Red Army’s command on its “march on Tehran.” In the context of this poem, Khlebnikov later wrote in 1922 mentioning the efforts of Fridtjof Nansen, one of the organizers of international aide for the victims of the Volga region famine: “A world revolution requires a world conscience.” 010+2'3 0+45” (budet sevodnya iz babochek borsch “Today there will be broth out of moths.”) “… 67+(4-( 0+89.7. !e deceptively simple music of the original reveals an intricate design for the ear: “$%&'( )'*+&,. !is particular poem is charged with a pathos that eerily presages Khlebnikov›s own death: weakened by a period of starvation, Khlebnikov died of infection on June ,-, +/, the year after “Hunger” was written. Though on first appearance somewhat uncharacteristic of Velimir Khlebnikov’s work-he is primarily associated with Zaum and Russian futurism-in its brilliant simplicity, “Hunger” is representative of his frequent use of a folk-naïve style.
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