''All Right!'' (also: ''Good!'', ) is a

poem Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky ( – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, Russian Revolution, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Ru ...

written for the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. Started in December 1926 and completed in August 1927, it was published in October

1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first ...

by GIZ Publishers. Prior to that Mayakovsky recited the poem at his numerous public performances, and parts of it were published by numerous Soviet newspapers throughout the year. "For me ''All Right!'' is a manifesto kind of thing, in the way that '' A Cloud in Trousers'' has been, for its time. t incorporatesless abstract poetic tricks (hyperbole, self-important vignettes), and more of the new, freshly invented ways of processing historical and agitative material," he wrote in the autobiography ''I, Myself''.Makarov, V., Zakharov, A., Kosovan, I. ''All Right!''. The Works by Vladimir Mayakovsky in 6 volumes. Ogonyok Library. Pravda Publishers. Moscow, 1973. Vol.V, pp. 344-345

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1927 poems Socrealist literature Poetry by Vladimir Mayakovsky {{1920s-poem-stub