"Tamara and I go in pairs" - a teaser from the poems of Agniya Barto

Agniya Barto, a talented poetess, wrote poems for children. The genre is undeservedly considered light. At children vocabulary, as a rule, is insignificant, they simply do not have time to type it, and rhymed works written in simple language, but containing new concepts, are extremely necessary. But this is not enough - the poems should be well remembered. And finally, they just have to be interesting. Without a plot, albeit uncomplicated, children (and adults generally) can not do without. All these requirements are fully consistent with the works of Agnia Lvovna. Each of them has its own history, short, but substantial. And the imprint of time lies on almost every poetic text that Agniya Barto wrote.

We Tamara - girlfriends and orderlies

Here is a story about two girlfriends, Tanya and Tamara. If we take into account the situation in the country of the Soviets as of 1933, it becomes clear their desire to join the medicinal craft, and not to simple, but to traumatology. Throughout the USSR, regular Civil Defense exercises are conducted, people are taught to handle gas masks, apply bandages, tires and provide first aid. "Tamara and I go in pairs," but not just because the girlfriends, but because of more serious. On the wave of a general atmosphere of maintaining readiness to repulse the attack of capitalist predators.

Can everyone be a hospital attendant

So, why girls want to be nurses, it's understandable. At the same time they have healthy Soviet collectivism as opposed to decadent bourgeois individualism. All friends want to do together, and the problem seems to be one, but serious. There is no object for manifesting high aspirations, namely bruises, scratches, cuts and other injuries, perhaps even more serious. It turns out that Tamara and I go in pairs, and all for nothing. The fact that any business needs to learn, and especially to such a difficult and responsible as medicine, little girls do not yet think. It seems to them that it is only necessary to take in hand all that is necessary (green, cotton, bandage and iodine), as the problem will be solved by itself. And besides, the ability, it turns out, besides professional knowledge, is also needed. Tamara was able to provide simple first aid, and Tanya, judging by her self-critical remark at the end of the line, just roars.

Common aphorism

Do not find in our country an adult or an elderly person who would not read in childhood Agnia Barto. The popularity of some quotes from her poems, which have become aphorisms, is enormous. "Tamara and I go in pairs" -they are talking about inseparable friends (and even friends), who are always together under any circumstances. Sometimes this phrase is pronounced with a fair amount of malice (something like "The little girls with Masherochka", having a common root "sherry", in French meaning "expensive" or "expensive"). But, in fact, if there is such a friendship between two people, expressed in the need for constant communication, then, most likely, the teaser "Tamara and I walk a couple" is the result of envy. Something like "tili-tili dough" ...