The poem Factory was written by Alexander Blok in November 1903. For the first time in his work, a young budding poet touched on topics not so romantic as in the entire previous period of creativity when creating the collection “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”, the work on which was conducted in 1901-1902. The verse “Factory” is part of the cycle “Crossroads” (relating to 1902-1904), which also includes poems “A Black Man Run Around the City”, “Last Day”, “A Sick Man Wandered Along the Coast ...”, “From the Newspapers " other. This cycle represents the first attempt by the symbolist poet to turn to social issues, touching upon the problems of class inequality, overwork of workers, oppression of the ruling classes and new revolutionary mindsets.
An analysis of the Blok’s poem “Factory” shows that the poet himself deeply sympathizes with factory workers mercilessly exploited by manufacturers, whose image is not clearly written in the poem, but is only marked by mystical references to “a motionless someone” and “a black someone”. There is much more ominous meaning in these references than in any detailed description, since it is instinctively laid down in human nature to be afraid of everything unknown.
An analysis of Blok's poem in this case shows that the poet gives absolutely no dynamic description of events, but as if picking up paints and a brush, he paints a gloomy picture of the life of factory workers. The epithets “black” and “motionless”, so successfully used by Blok, even more than the unknown, underline and reinforce the sinister impression of the image of a “someone” frozen on the wall, counting people behind the blindly locked gates.
An analysis of Blok’s poem allows us to see how densely this poem is filled with various symbols, which together create a whole sinister image of the prison factory. So, the image of the “dead shut gate” only enhances the feeling of something sinister and hidden inside, within the walls of the factory. Also, this image, along with the epithet "motionless someone", gives an additional sense of static, petrification, lack of life. In this case, the poet uses the technique of lexical parallelism, using different epithets to transmit and enhance the same meaning.
An analysis of Blok’s poem in this case allows you to feel all the soreness of the oppressive atmosphere of the factory, which is ruled by ominous silence and only “thoughtful bolts creak”. Neither the noise of footsteps, nor the cries of people, nor conversations are heard outside the gates of such a factory, as if they are the gates to another world - the afterlife. The feeling of soreness in the poem is conveyed by the epithets "windows zholty" and "in yellow windows."
A double mention of yellow only further enhances the effect. An analysis of Blok’s poem makes it possible to understand that by intentionally using the “yellow” word form instead of the adjective, the poet seeks to show the reader that in this case not only the color itself is of paramount importance, but rather the transmission of the very sensation of pain coming from the factory. At such a factory, people do not work, but are in slavery, lose their health and slowly die.