They gave the elephant shoes and he took one shoe. Analysis of the poem “Children in a Cage” by Marshak

Hey, don't stand too close -
I'm a tiger cub, not a pussy!

Elephant
They gave the shoes to the elephant.
He took one shoe
And he said: “We need wider ones.”
And not two, but all four!

Zebras

striped horses,
African horses,
It's good to play hide and seek
In the meadow among the grass!
Lined horses
Like school notebooks
Painted horses
From hooves to head.

Giraffe

Picking flowers is easy and simple
Small children
But to the one who is so tall,
It's not easy to pick a flower!

Owls

Look at the little owls -
The little ones are sitting next to each other.
When they don't sleep,
They are eating.
When they eat
They don't sleep.

Penguin

Really, kids, am I good?
It looks like a big bag.
On the seas in years past
I overtook steamships.
And now I'm here in the garden
I swim quietly in the pond.

Swan

Why does water flow
From this baby?
He recently came out of the pond,
Give me a towel!

Baby Ostrich

I am a young ostrich
Arrogant and proud.
When I'm angry I kick
Calloused and hard.
When I'm scared I run
I crane my neck.
But I can't fly,
And I can't sing.

Monkey

Sailed across the ocean
Sailor from Africa
Baby monkey
He brought it to us as a gift.

She sits, sad,
All evening long
And such a song
In his own way he sings:
"In the far hot south,
On palm trees and bushes
My friends are screaming
Swinging on their tails.
Wonderful bananas
In my homeland.
Monkeys live there
And there are no people at all.”

White bears

We have a spacious pond.
My brother and I swim together.

The water is cool and fresh.
The guards change her.

We're swimming from wall to wall
Sometimes on the side, sometimes on the back.

Keep to the right, dear.
Don't touch me with your foot!
Eskimo dog
There is a note on the twig:
"Don't come close!"

Don't believe the note -
I am the kindest animal.
Why am I sitting in a cage?
I don't know myself, kids.

Dingo dog

No, I'm not a wolf or a fox.
You come to our forests,
And there you will see a dog -
Warlike dingo.
Let the kangaroo tell you
Like in the Australian heat
Chased his sister through the forests
Lean, skinny dingo.

She goes into the bushes - and I follow her,
She is in the stream - and I am in the stream,
She's faster - and I'm faster,
The tireless dingo.

She's cunning and I'm not simple
In the morning we ran to the stars,
But I caught her by the tail
The relentless dingo.
Now I'm in everyone's sight
In the zoological garden,
I'm spinning like a top and waiting for meat,
Restless dingo.

Camel

Poor little camel:
The child is not allowed to eat.
He ate this morning
Only two of these buckets!

Lion cubs

Don't you know dad -
A big, red lion?
He has heavy paws
And a shaggy head.
He screams loudly - in a bass voice,
And you can hear him far away.
He eats meat at lunch
And we suck milk.

(Illustration by V. Simonov)

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ZOO Early, early we get up
We call the watchman loudly:
- Watchman, watchman, hurry up
Go out and feed the animals!
The watchman came out of the guardhouse,
He sweeps the paths
Smoking a pipe at the gate,
He doesn't give us lunch.
Long, long time at the bars,
We stand with our throats agape.
We know, we know without a watch,
That lunch is ready for us.
At lunch, at lunch
We don't chat with our neighbor,
We forget about everything
And we chew, chew, chew.
It's hard work -
Cheeks are shiny with sweat.
After eating you need sleep.
Dark brown bear cub
Sleepy grumbles to himself, Only a pony and a camel
They get to work.
On a camel, on a camel,
Like in the desert, people drive
They pass by the ditch,
Behind which they see a lion,
They drive past the cage
Where eagles sit on a branch.
Clumsy, shaggy and thin,
A camel walks through the garden.
And in a circle, on the site,
Black-maned horses
They rush side by side and in single file,
They wave their bangs and tail.
But now it gets cold.
Strangers are leaving the garden. The lights are burning behind the fence,
And we are left alone.
ELEPHANT
They gave the shoes to the elephant.
He took one shoe And he said: - We need wider ones,
And not two, but all four!
GIRAFFE
Picking flowers is easy and simple
Small children But to the one who is so tall,
It's not easy to pick a flower!
TIGER CUB Hey, don't stand too close -
I'm a tiger cub, not a pussy!
ZEBRAS
striped horses,
African horses,
It's good to play hide and seek
In the meadow among the grass!
Lined horses Like school notebooks
Painted horses
From hooves to head.
WHITE BEARS
We have a spacious pond.
My brother and I swim together. The water is cool and fresh.
The guards change her.
We're swimming from wall to wall
Sometimes on the side, sometimes on the back.
Stay to the right, darling
Don't touch me with your foot!
OWLS Look at the little owls -
The little ones are sitting next to each other.
When they don't sleep,
They are eating.
When they eat
They don't sleep.
OSTRICH
I am a young ostrich, Arrogant and proud.
When I'm angry, I kick
Calloused and hard.
When I'm scared I run
Stretching your neck. But I can't fly,
And I can't sing.
PENGUIN
Really, kids, am I good?
It looks like a big bag. On the seas in years past
I overtook steamships.
And now I'm here in the garden
I swim quietly in the pond.
SWAN Why does water flow
From this baby?
He recently came out of the pond,
Give me a towel!
CAMEL Poor little camel:
The child is not allowed to eat.
He ate this morning
Only two of these buckets!
Eskimo dog
There is a note on the twig:
"Don't come close!"
Don't believe the note - I am the kindest animal.
Why am I sitting in a cage?
I don't know myself, kids.
PENGUIN We are two brothers, two chicks.
We are fresh out of the egg.
What kind of bird is our mother?
Where can we find her?
We don't know anyone here
And we don’t even know who we are.
Geese? Ostriches? Peacocks?
You guessed it! We are penguins.
She's faster - and I'm faster,
The tireless dingo.
She is cunning, and I am not simple.
In the morning we ran to the stars,
But I caught her by the tail
The relentless dingo.
Now I'm in everyone's sight
In the zoological garden,
I'm spinning like a top and waiting for meat, Restless dingo.
LION CUB
Don't you know dad -
A big, red lion?
His paws are heavy
And a shaggy head.
He screams loudly - in a bass voice,
And you can hear him far away. He eats meat at lunch
And we suck milk.
LION CUB
No, wait, wait, wait,
I'll deal with you!
My father in one leap
Deals with a bull.
It would be a shame if I
I won't catch the sparrow. Hey, come back while you're still alive!
Mother! Mother! Flew away!..
LIONESS
What a foggy summer
In this unkind country!
I'm dressed in a warm dress
But it's cold, I'm cold!
They call me savage
Because I'm sitting in sadness,
Dreaming of hot Africa,
About soft, hot sand.
I met a crocodile here.
He smiled at me like a friend.
“Do you want,” I asked him, “ To the bananas and palm trees to the south?" "Child," he answered sadly, "
Don’t see my native land!”
And tears from the crocodile's eyes
It started running down my black cheeks.
HYENA
The rhinoceroses snored
A long-legged ostrich is dozing.
Thick-skinned hippopotamus
Lay down quietly on your stomach.
A camel sleeps with its knees bent.
But I, a hyena, can’t sleep!
My time is coming:
I will howl until the morning.
During the day I was silent gloomily - I'm afraid of the noise of the day -
But my hoarse laughter
It scares everyone at night!
Even lions are afraid of me...
How can you not laugh at them?
BEAR
Here's a bear, a bear, a bear!
Who wants to watch?
Come visit Misha, Throw some sweet gingerbread to Misha.
Misha asks, Misha waits,
Mouth open wide.
No, to the right! No, to the left!
We missed, you bastards!
Now they're in the mouth!
What a gingerbread - pure honey!
For such a treat
We'll put on a show.
Come on, Misha, take a bow!
Strangers are leaving the garden. Come on, Misha, somersault!
JACKAL
My father is a steppe jackal
I was looking for food for myself.
Far away in the land of sand
He accompanied the caravans
And in the desert under the moon
Crying loudly in silence. He ate bones and scraps,
And now he lives in a cage.
He's sheltered from the rain here
And you are always full.
African young
Doused with water.
I washed my hair and ears -
And the tub became dry.
For a good elephant
We need a whole river.
Take it away
pelvis,
Bring it
Don't believe the note - Fontanka!
He calls his sister for a walk,
And my sister is sitting in a bag
On mom's belly.
WHERE DID YOU HAVE DINNER, SPARROW? -Where did you have lunch, sparrow?
- In the zoo with the animals.
I had lunch first
Behind bars by the lion.
Took some refreshment from the fox.
I drank some water at the walrus's.
I ate carrots from an elephant.
I ate millet with the crane.
Stayed with a rhinoceros
I ate a little bran. I went to the feast
In tailed kangaroos.
I was at a festive dinner
At the shaggy bear.
A toothy crocodile
Almost swallowed me.
ORPHANAGE
This spring
In the zoological garden
Deer and lion, badger and lynx
And the cubs were born.
An orphanage has been set up for them.
With green meadow and pond. They play and lie down.
A goat butts bear cubs.
And the lion and the wolf rush at a gallop
And they are chasing a multi-colored ball.
A year or two will fly by quickly,
And the wolf will be afraid of the lion,
And they will live apart in the world
Badger and lion, bear and elk.
FOMKA
In front of the pool at the zoo -
Bear wet tracks. -
With a heavy splash at midday hot
The bear comes out of the water.
Even in the bones he is very thin,
He is also short in stature.
He is not a bear, but a bear cub,
But snow-white, like an old man.
Easily recognized by its white skin
The tramp of the ice fields.
He heard the whistling of a winter storm
In his distant homeland.
Met with blizzards and drifting snow,
Spending the night with my mother on the ice.
Now he is nicknamed Fomka And they forced me to live in the garden.
He doesn't spend the night here on an ice floe,
And on an asphalt mountain.
He is disturbed by the cry of a peacock,
The roar of a tiger at dawn.
He is looking for cool shade during the day
And not finding her anywhere,
Languishing from boredom and laziness,
Soundlessly splashes towards the water.
He growls at the watchman quietly...
But don't growl, winter will come,
The blizzard and drifting snow will return -
And you will no longer be Fomka,
And the seasoned bear Thomas!
ABOUT THE HIPPOPOTAMUS
Mom and I agreed
Wait for the day off
And watch the gi-gi-topama...
No, hip-popo-toto-popama...
No, gi-goto-popo-potama...
Let mom speak for me!
Entered the open gate
And we both ran
Look at the hippopotamus!
We call him that more often.
He doesn't know his own names:
Whatever you call it, it’s all the same
And his mouth is open like a suitcase.
He looked around at those standing nearby
Their uninvited guests,
He turned his back to the bars,
He bent down a little - and plopped!
I think hippopotamus
The name is so difficult for

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Poem Children in a Cage read
Zoo
Early, early we get up
We call the watchman loudly:

- Watchman, watchman, hurry up
Go out and feed the animals!
The watchman came out of the guardhouse,
He sweeps the paths

Smoking a pipe at the gate,
He doesn't give us lunch.
Long, long time at the bars,
We stand with our throats agape.

We know, we know without a watch,
That lunch is ready for us.
At lunch, at lunch
We don't chat with our neighbor,

We forget about everything
And we chew, chew, chew.
It's a hard job
Cheeks are shiny with sweat.

After eating you need sleep.
An elephant is leaning and dozing.
Showing yourself to the people
The hippopotamus goes into the water.

The owl is sleeping, clinging to a stump,
The deer sleeps and the seal sleeps.
Dark brown bear cub
He grumbles to himself in his sleep,

Only a pony and a camel
They get to work.
On a camel, on a camel,
Like in the desert, people drive
They pass by the ditch,
Behind which they see a lion,

They drive past the cage
Where eagles sit on a branch.
Clumsy, shaggy and thin,
A camel walks through the garden.
And in a circle, on the site,
Black-maned horses

They rush side by side and in single file,
They wave their bangs and tail.
But now it gets cold.
Strangers are leaving the garden.

Elephant

The lights are burning behind the fence,
And we are left alone.
They gave the shoes to the elephant.
He took one shoe

Giraffe

Picking flowers is easy and simple
And he said: - We need wider ones,
And not two, but all four!
Small children

But to the one who is so tall,

It's not easy to pick a flower!
Tiger cub

Zebras

striped horses,
Hey, don't stand too close
I'm a tiger cub, not a pussy!
African horses,
It's good to play hide and seek
In the meadow among the grass!
Lined horses
Like school notebooks

White bears

Painted horses
From hooves to head.
The water is cool and fresh.
We have a spacious pond.

We're swimming from wall to wall
My brother and I swim together.
The guards change her.
Sometimes on the side, sometimes on the back.

Owls

Stay to the right, darling
Don't touch me with your foot!
Look at the little owls
The little ones are sitting next to each other.
When they don't sleep,
They are eating.

When they eat

They don't sleep.
Arrogant and proud.
When I'm angry, I kick
Calloused and hard.

When I'm scared I run
Stretching your neck.
But I can't fly,
And I can't sing.

Penguin

Really, kids, am I good?
It looks like a big bag.
On the seas in years past
I overtook steamships.
And now I'm here in the garden
I swim quietly in the pond.

Swan

Why does water flow
From this baby?
He recently came out of the pond,
Give me a towel!

Camel

Poor little camel:
The child is not allowed to eat.
He ate this morning
Only two of these buckets!

Eskimo dog

There is a note on the twig:
"Don't come close!"
Don't believe the note
I am the kindest animal.
Why am I sitting in a cage?
I don't know myself, kids.

Little penguins

We are two brothers, two chicks.
We are fresh out of the egg.
What kind of bird is our mother?
Where can we find her?

We don't know anyone here
And we don’t even know who we are.
Geese? Ostriches? Peacocks?
You guessed it! We are penguins.

Kangaroo

Here's a look at the game
Two Australian kangaroos.
They play leapfrog
In the zoological garden.

Dingo dog

No, I'm not a wolf or a fox.
You come to our forests,
And there you will see a dog
Warlike dingo.

Let the kangaroo tell you
Like in the Australian heat
Chased his sister through the forests
Lean, skinny dingo.

She goes into the bushes - and I follow her,
She is in the stream - and I am in the stream,
She's faster - and I'm faster,
The tireless dingo.

She is cunning, and I am not simple.
In the morning we ran to the stars,
But I caught her by the tail
The relentless dingo.

Now I'm in everyone's sight
In the zoological garden,
I'm spinning like a top and waiting for meat,
Restless dingo.

Lion cubs

Don't you know dad?
A big, red lion?
His paws are heavy
And a shaggy head.

He screams loudly - in a bass voice,
And you can hear him far away.
He eats meat at lunch
And we suck milk.

Lion cub

No, wait, wait, wait,
I'll deal with you!
My father in one leap
Deals with a bull.

It would be a shame if I
I won't catch the sparrow.
Hey, come back while you're still alive!
Mother! Mother! Flew away!..

Lioness

What a foggy summer
In this unkind country!
I'm dressed in a warm dress
But it's cold, I'm cold!

They call me savage
Because I'm sitting in sadness,
Dreaming of hot Africa,
About soft, hot sand.

I met a crocodile here.
He smiled at me like a friend.
“Do you want,” I asked him,
To the bananas and palm trees to the south?

“Child,” he answered sadly,
Don’t see my native land!”
And tears from the crocodile's eyes
It started running down my black cheeks.

Hyena

The rhinoceroses snored
A long-legged ostrich is dozing.
Thick-skinned hippopotamus
Lay down quietly on your stomach.

A camel sleeps with its knees bent.
But I, a hyena, can’t sleep!
My time is coming:
I will howl until the morning.

During the day I was silent sullenly
I'm afraid of the noise of the day
But my hoarse laughter
It scares everyone at night!

Even lions are afraid of me...
How can you not laugh at them?

Bear

Here's a bear, a bear, a bear!
Who wants to watch?
Come visit Misha,
Throw some sweet gingerbread to Misha.
Misha asks, Misha waits,
Mouth open wide.

No, to the right! No, to the left!
We missed, you bastards!
Now they're in the mouth!
What a gingerbread - pure honey!

For such a treat
We'll put on a show.
Come on, Misha, take a bow!
Come on, Misha, somersault!

Jackal

My father is a steppe jackal
I was looking for food for myself.
Far away in the land of sand
He accompanied the caravans
And in the desert under the moon
Crying loudly in silence.
He ate bones and scraps,
And now he lives in a cage.
He's sheltered from the rain here
And you are always full.

Elephant

African young
Doused with water.
Wash my head and ear
And the tub became dry.

For a good elephant
We need a whole river.
Take it away
pelvis,
Bring it
Fontanka!

Monkey

Sailed across the ocean
Sailor from Africa
Baby monkey
He brought it to us as a gift.

She sits, sad,
All evening long
And such a song
In his own way he sings:

"In the far hot south,
On palm trees and bushes,
My friends are screaming
Swinging on their tails.

Wonderful bananas
In my homeland.
Monkeys live there
And there are no people at all.”

Kangaroo

Long-tailed kangaroo
He calls his sister for a walk,
And my sister is sitting in a bag
On mom's belly.

Tiger cub

Hey, don't stand too close -
I'm a tiger cub, not a pussy!

Elephant

The lights are burning behind the fence,
He took one shoe
And he said: “We need wider ones.”
And not two, but all four!

Zebras

striped horses,
African horses,
It's good to play hide and seek
In the meadow among the grass!

It's good to play hide and seek
Like school notebooks
Painted horses
From hooves to head.

Giraffe

Picking flowers is easy and simple
Small children
But to the one who is so tall,
It's not easy to pick a flower!

Owls

Look at the little owls -
The little ones are sitting next to each other.
When they don't sleep,
They are eating.
When they eat
They don't sleep.

Penguin

Really, kids, am I good?
It looks like a big bag.

On the seas in years past
I overtook steamships.

And now I'm here in the garden
I swim quietly in the pond.

Swan

Why does water flow
From this baby?
He recently came out of the pond,
Give me a towel!

Baby Ostrich

I am a young ostrich
Arrogant and proud.
When I'm angry I kick
Calloused and hard.

When I'm scared I run
I crane my neck.
But I can't fly,
And I can't sing.

Monkey

Sailed across the ocean
Sailor from Africa
Baby monkey
He brought it to us as a gift.

She sits, sad,
All evening long
And such a song
In his own way he sings:

"In the far hot south,
On palm trees and bushes
My friends are screaming
Swinging on their tails.

Wonderful bananas
In my homeland.
Monkeys live there
And there are no people at all.”

White bears

We have a spacious pond.
My brother and I swim together.

The water is cool and fresh.
The guards change her.

We're swimming from wall to wall
Sometimes on the side, sometimes on the back.

Keep to the right, dear.
Don't touch me with your foot!

Eskimo dog

There is a note on the twig:
"Don't come close!"

Don't believe the note -
I am the kindest animal.

Why am I sitting in a cage?
I don't know myself, kids.

Dingo dog

No, I'm not a wolf or a fox.
You come to our forests,
And there you will see a dog -
Warlike dingo.

Let the kangaroo tell you
Like in the Australian heat
Chased his sister through the forests
Lean, skinny dingo.

She goes into the bushes - and I follow her,
She is in the stream - and I am in the stream,
She's faster - and I'm faster,
The tireless dingo.

She's cunning and I'm not simple
In the morning we ran to the stars,
But I caught her by the tail
The relentless dingo.

Now I'm in everyone's sight
In the zoological garden,
I'm spinning like a top and waiting for meat,
Restless dingo.

Camel

Poor little camel:
The child is not allowed to eat.
He ate this morning
Only two of these buckets!

Where did the sparrow have lunch?

-Where did you have lunch, sparrow?
- In the zoo with the animals.

I had lunch first
Behind bars by a lion.

Took some refreshment from the fox.
I drank some water at the walrus's.

I ate carrots from an elephant.
I ate millet with the crane.

Stayed with a rhinoceros
I ate a little bran.

I went to the feast
In tailed kangaroos.

I was at a festive dinner
At the shaggy bear.

A toothy crocodile
Almost swallowed me.

Analysis of the poem “Children in a Cage” by Marshak

Despite the fact that the number of works for children today is very large, it is rare that a house will not have a collection of Marshak’s poems. Samuil Yakovlevich’s work “Children in a Cage” is almost 100 years old, it has gone through many editions and is still in demand on the children’s literature market. The writer’s unsurpassed talent, his understanding of a child’s thoughts, and his unfailing sense of humor made the “Children in a Cage” series a classic and an example of children’s poetry.

Together with his little readers, the author walks between the cages in the zoo and offers a look at its inhabitants. The title of the collection itself is interesting: children in a cage: a simple rhyme gives room for imagination. The child is transported to an amazing world in which behind bars are not just wild animals, but “children” just like him. Getting to know birds and animals is fun and easy, and their distinctive features are highlighted in a couple of lines.

What is surprising about the cycle of children's prose is that the author does not just draw the image of an animal, but creates an emotionally charged artistic image. Using the simplest words, S.Ya. Marshak accurately conveys not only the appearance, but also the habits of the animals. Reading the lines about polar bears, “We swim from wall to wall, sometimes on our sides, sometimes on our backs,” the image of sedate and large animals slowly swimming in their pond in the summer heat arises in your mind. It’s as if the child is being invited on an entertaining journey, jokingly telling, teaching and even warning “Hey, don’t stand too close - I’m a tiger cub, not a pussy!”

Seeing a picture in a book, a child remembers familiar lines, and vice versa, hearing poetry, he imagines the image of a zoo inhabitant - this trains memory and imaginative thinking. The animals introduce themselves to their little reader, hold attention with bright details and phrases and invite them to continue the journey further. The introduction to the elephant occurs in just four lines, but a whole story unfolds in them: the elephant did not have shoes, someone (most likely a child) shared his shoes, the elephant took them, examined them and was surprised. The author conveys surprise only through rhymes: “to the elephant” - “alone”? And the requirement: “wider” - “four”.

Marshak looks at his heroes through the eyes of a child, maintaining childish spontaneity and naivety. The reader is presented with a fairy tale in which animals can speak and reason, an elephant can offer his shoe, and a cheerful sparrow will tell about dinner at the neighbors' house. The author embodied children's thinking in an ideal form and conveyed it to us in the cycle of the wonderful literary work “Children in a Cage.”

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