Even More Briusov

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

Ты не ведала слов отреченья.
Опустивши задумчивый взор,
Точно в церковь ты шла на мученья,
Обнаженной забыла позор.

The last line is "[you] forgot the disgrace of nudity"? {In English it has to become a noun for syntax's sake. I know it is an adjective in Russian.}

I'm pretty sure this is the meaning, but I must be sure, because if you haven't guessed yet, I am writing a paper on Briusov. It is late at night where I am, so you guys are the only ones I can ask who might be awake. ;)

EDIT:
Oh the Briusov keeps coming...

Но не поддамся страху,
Но не он нарушит слово!
И рука, сдавив наваху,
На смертельный бой готова.

Чу! как будто смутный топот!
Что нам бури! что нам грозы!
Сердце! прочь безумный ропот,
Вспомни ночь и вспомни шепот...
Гей! сюда! я здесь, дон Хозе!

Questions: I cannot find наваху. Multitran offered Navajo, but wouldn't that be capitalised? If it does in fact mean Navajo, then I don't understand the meaning of И рука, сдавив наваху.
Is the narrator "don Jose" or is he calling the storm don Jose? (I'd like to ask why, but if there isn't a specific right answer, then I'll make my own interpretation.)

PS I am sorry that I didn't include the entirety of both poems, but if you're interested, they are В прошлом and Ожидание, respectively.

Comments

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

Well, that would be Обнаженная, забыла позор, right?

[odin2000.livejournal.com]

yes, you are quite right, позор=shame

[yms.livejournal.com]

You have to feel what is the instrumental case in such situations. IMHO, while the nominative just states something (e.g. some quality), the instrumental means staying in a certain state for a while, "being as something", or exposing one of your possible states. It's the same instrumental as in "я работаю поваром" :)
The nominative "обнаженная" also can mean this, but it has a wider spectrum of meanings, it's slightly less definite.

[-ufo-.livejournal.com]

i guess author meant "being nude she forgot disgrace"
or smth like that

[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

Another possible (although less likely) reading is "you have forgotten the disgrace of a/the nude (woman)" (then, обнаженной is genitive).

[shalapanova.livejournal.com]

well as far as I know "наваха" is a kind of Spain knife ("navaja" in Spanish). No idea what it looks like.
"Хозе" is a Spain transcription of Joseph written by Cyrillic.

I tried google...

[shalapanova.livejournal.com]

http://images.google.ru/images?q=navaja&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images/

Wich of them is the right one?
There were even Swiss knifes in results. :-)

[definite.livejournal.com]

"наваха" here means "navaja", i.e. a long Spanish knife. In Multitran this meaning is given in Spanish section of the dictionary.

The narrator in the second verse is calling don Jose, however, I do not why. :)

[serialcondition.livejournal.com]

I think it is "while you were nude, you forgot your disgrace/shame"
if you read line 2 and 4 together emitting the 3rd line clause, it makes sense

[odin2000.livejournal.com]

наваху - it is a case of word наваха.
Наваха - a type of spanish knife.