The poet wrote his poem in 1908, the day before the next, new year. Blok wrote “On valor, on exploits, on glory” at the moment when his beloved wife went to his friend, Andrei Bely, also a poet. The poem is autobiographical. It entered the cycle of "Retribution."
A brief analysis of the poem
Alexander Alexandrovich deceived and deceived the reader’s expectations by writing the first line. After all, Blok does not write about feats in this poem at all. We are talking about love experiences, and not at all about civic duty. It is the love message that is the genre of the poem. In it, the lyrical hero speaks with his lover, who left him for another man. He hopes to be heard. The hero is in despair, he even throws out the “treasured ring” - a symbol of fidelity. The symbol of the unknown is night. The block “About Valor, About Feats, About Glory” was dedicated for the first time in five years to his wife. After completing the six-year cycle of love lyrics, “Poems about the Beautiful Lady,” he stopped making initiations to her. Then Lyubov Dmitrievna became his wife. However, as soon as she left, dedications to her resumed. By epithets, the poet described the loss of the meaning of life: "spinning a damned swarm", as well as "on a wet night you left home." And the words about how the hero called the lyrical heroine “like his youth”, of course, indicate that the departed lover meant a lot to him. The spiritual life ended with the departure of his beloved, now he lives in the wine and passion that torment him. And his Fair Lady turned into a destroyer. It is not without reason that the blue color appears in the poem - in medieval times it meant treason.
The block “About Valor, About Feats, About Glory” was enclosed in a ring composition, wrote a five-foot iambic and used a cross rhyme. At the end of the work, the hero nevertheless made a decision, removing the portrait from the table.
Block: Love Poems
The poet wrote a lot about love, with particular sadness. This is an important topic of his work, one of the main. "Poems about the Beautiful Lady," Alexander Alexandrovich wrote under the impression of falling in love with Mendeleev - his future wife. He endowed the earthly creation with unearthly qualities, seeing in it that feminine ideal that he had invented for himself.
687 poems were dedicated to Lyubov Dmitrievna. After their wedding, the poet switches to other topics - civil. These were the cycles “Yamba” and “The Terrible World”, as well as “Retribution”, into which love lyrics broke again. The block “About Valor, About Feats, About Glory” was included in this cycle precisely. Alexander Alexandrovich always believed in the luminous power of love and devoted himself completely to it. However, his love was not only romantic. He also loved Russia with all his heart, his homeland.
Homeland in the poetry of the poet
Alexander Alexandrovich began to study Russia with legends, conspiracies, folklore and scientific articles. Blok begins to write poems about Russia in 1906. The first of them was written on September 24th. It was called "Russia." And it feels like a poet was inspired by legends. The block repeats the motives of Gogol and Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov. But so far this is not the Russia in which the poet lives. This is the Russia that he loves.
Then follows his cycle "Homeland". The bloc does not separate itself from Russia; it experiences everything with it. He loves her any. Blok writes verses about Russia with no less love than verses about his Fair Lady, and maybe even more.
On the history of his country, Blok wrote a cycle “On the Kulikovo Field”. The poet longs for the revival of the country and speaks about this in his works.
At Blok, the motherland has the appearance not of a mother, as was customary, but of a wife. This was a new trend of the Symbolists, adopted from Vladimir Solovyov, which meant a lot to Alexander and was his inspirer at the beginning of his career.
Creative way
From childhood, the poet was influenced by literature. His aunts and mother, as well as his grandmother, were translators and writers. And having entered the law faculty in 1898, he did not finish his studies at it and transferred after three years of study to the philological faculty. Literature has taken its toll. From the age of five, Alexander composed poems, but began seriously to write only at eighteen. In 1906, Blok was already recognized as a poet.
Alexander Alexandrovich always bowed to Pushkin and considered him the greatest talent. His first university poems were inspired by the work of Alexander Sergeyevich. And shortly before his death, in the winter of 1921, Blok read a speech dedicated to Pushkin "On the appointment of the poet." This was his last public appearance. On August 7 of that year, Alexander Blok died.