Summary
Aleksandar Blok: Poems and Poems
To understand Aleksandar Blok (1880–1921), as Andrej Beli writes, means to understand the connection between his early poetry and the poem "Twelve", written three years before the poet's death. The selection before us represents an insight into the rich and varied creativity of this great poet of the Silver Age. Before us are Blok's early verses, "pure symbolism" (Ante Lucem, Poems about a Divnoj Dama), poetry from a later period (Poems from other collections), as well as three of Blok's poems - The Twelve and The Scythians from 1918 and the unfinished poem Revenge, which he wrote between 1910 and 1921.
Aleksandr Blok's poems are full of vagueness and foreboding. In them, literary criticism noticed a special metaphoricity, irony and a grotesque spirit of negation of social circumstances. Blok developed emotionality and lyricism in his poetic expression, and his poetry is "the anticipation of something new, that will come", which the poet can express with symbols and the music of verses.
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