The lyrics are such a layer of literature that affects the inner world of a person: what he feels, what he is experiencing, what circumstances occupy his thoughts and impressions. Lyrical works convey the state of the author at certain points in his life. Many classics of literature have worked in this area. Poetry lovers know Alexander Blok, a famous poet of the early twentieth century.
Blok's Poetic Heritage
A. Blok is a bright personality of Russian poetry. His poems always aroused the interest of the reading public. They were waited impatiently, read and re-read, because the soul of the poet was traced in them against the background of the tragic events of the time. Flourishing on the basis of the terrible events of the era, Blok's poetry was the embodiment of the catastrophe of the individual and society. Blok managed to convey in the verses emotional confusion, perceptible only by the most piercing gaze. His poems are his thoughts, these are the colors and sounds of life.
Any poem by A. Blok is comparable to a dew on the grass, reflecting in the light of the rising sun all the beauty of nature. So are the verses: in them is the whole truth of life seen by the poet, in them is all life.
One of the poet’s most capacious poems in life is permeated with a sense of hopelessness and, at the same time, hope for happiness. Hopes for expecting something beautiful in that terrible world when the poet lived.
Singer of the Revolution
Alexander Blok was born into an intelligent family: his father was a lawyer, his mother is the daughter of the famous rector of St. Petersburg University. The parental family broke up early. Nevertheless, Blok received a good education: a gymnasium, then a university. Blok's wife was L.D. Mendeleev, daughter of a famous chemist.
With her, he traveled to Italy, where a cycle of poems was created that brought him fame in poetic circles. The block took part in the events of World War I, the 1917 revolution. He refused emigration, considered her flight. He wrote poems in which the war was reflected. Known in this regard is the poem "Twelve", reflecting the events of the revolution. The block also works in the field of theory of literature, an example is his article "On the appointment of a poet." Hard war times affected the health of A. Blok, and in 1921 he died of heart disease.
Symbolist block
This modernist trend in literature is vividly represented in the works of A. Blok. Symbols that are signs of a real artistic image are widely used by the poet. They help him to reveal the idea of the poem, to feel what is not visible to the ordinary look. The poet uses his inner vision and seeks correspondence between the phenomena of the real and unreal world. Noteworthy in this regard is the cycle "Poems about the Beautiful Lady." Here the idea that love for a woman develops into love for the Universe is embodied. As a result, love for the Beautiful Lady is seen as a love of beauty, the ideal. After reading the verses, it is not difficult to conduct this analysis. The block, “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”, are episodes of the poet’s personal biography reinterpreted in the lines of his works.
The beginning of the creative path
As a symbolist poet, Alexander Blok entered literature. "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" - this is the first collection, a book of mystical poems. The severity of real life led the poet into mystical religious distances. About this collection.
The cycle was released in 1904. Anxiety, a sense of near catastrophe shows a textual analysis. The block "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" suggested, as an adult's view of life. This is the embodiment of cold, ruined life, death in poetry.
The collection includes poems about love, his general tone is lack of understanding, mystery. In every poem, a creative principle is felt that can transform the environment. The theme of each poem follows from the deep feelings of the poet.
The cycle "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" is dedicated to Lyubov Mendeleeva, who will later become his wife.
"Stranger"
A beautiful dream is faced with dirty reality. The story is so lyrical and melodic and at the same time as real and cruel as it can be only in the symbolist lyrics of A. Blok. This shows a deep poetic analysis. Block - "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" - "Stranger".
This is he, the ideal of beauty, about which Blok wrote earlier. Only against the backdrop of this beautiful can you see the whole tragedy of our time.
This ideal can expel everything ugly from life, can “recreate,” as Block wrote, her. The beautiful Stranger, alone, is among a crowd of drunk and yelling people. This contrast suggests that the Russian people deserve a better fate.
Blok understands that one cannot go into the dream world when hunger and devastation are all around. Religious dreams go to the background, the poet’s soul awakens interest in the fate of the motherland, the fate of the Russian people. The collection of "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" is dedicated to this very topic: the Universe and Eternal beauty are inextricable.
In search of new ways to rebuild life, Blok is revising its own positions. All his life he was looking for the perfect man. The cult of the Beautiful Lady is precisely that form of non-recognition of the horrors of the modern Block of life. Alexander Blok, “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” is amazing, every poem of this collection is filled with a premonition of change.
The meaning of Blok's poetry
The block lived at the turn of two centuries. He foresaw future terrible events and showed this in his early works. About this they say "Poems about the Beautiful Lady." "The Stranger" draws a lyrical hero belonging to two worlds. On the one hand, it is a world of illusion, poetry, where everything is shrouded in mystery, and the poet is the guardian of this mystery. On the other - a vulgar world that is stronger. After all, the Stranger dissolves in a haze, and the lyrical hero returns to terrible reality.
If we consider the poetry of Blok as a whole, then it is presented as a lyrical confession of the poet, in which analysis comes first. The block, “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” is the whole world of a person who is shocked by social contradictions.
They talked about him and will always talk, because this is one of the tops of the best pages of our poetry. His work fills readers with feelings of love and faith in the victory of a bright and pure world.
Alexander Blok called his poems the diary of life. By the power of talent, he belongs to those artists who make up our pride and glory.