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When a poet is truly talented, his poetry is all-encompassing and it is very difficult to single out the main themes of his work. So it is with the poetry of A. Blok. As a symbolist in his early work, he considers three themes: Life, Death, God. In one form or another, these themes are interpreted in different periods of creativity and appear either in vague images-symbols of the cycle “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”, or in the ironic lines of later poems. The typical images-symbols of the early Blok were the star, spring, fogs, wind, semi-darkness, shadows and dreams. All this, used in a metaphorical sense, became symbols, with the help of which the poet learns the eternal secret of life. But after the blue mists of early creativity come a romantic admiration for the purely earthly features of life. This is how the Stranger appears - the embodiment of Femininity, accessible not only to the Soul of the World, but also to a real woman.

It is interesting that A. Blok also depicts the Motherland as a woman. So in the poems "Rus", "Russia", "On the field of Kulikovo" we meet the image of Russia-Women, Rossi-wife. Homeland is hope and comfort for him. He believes in her resilience, just as he believes in the resilience and courage of a Russian woman, capable of loving recklessly, forgiving generously and worthily enduring life's trials. So the theme of the Motherland is intertwined with eternal themes Life, Death, God.

Blok also says a lot about love as the basis of being. The poet objects to the gross interference in the poetry of love of any calculations, love is an element, it is a storm. It is no coincidence that Blok conveyed it with these images-symbols. The search for harmony in the life of the poet is connected with the images of love. Moral problems in society are solved through the search for unity with the world. Dividedness, the search for balance lead at times to sad conclusions: “That happiness was not needed, that this pipe dream was not enough for half a lifetime.” However, a connection with the world is found. And in the later poems of A. Blok, the question of the meaning of being, of Life, Death and God, is again resolved. These themes are eternal, no matter how they appear in the work of A. Blok.

“After all, the topic is mine, I now know it firmly, without any doubt - a living, real topic; she is not only bigger than me, she is bigger than all of us and she is our universal theme... I consciously and irrevocably dedicate my life to this theme.”

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok completely, entirely, immensely loved Russia, gave her soul as a beloved woman. His life was forever intertwined with the Motherland, he sacrificed a part of himself to her, and she healed his soul with her “healing space”.

Blok saw Russia as Gogol saw it - above the clouds and beautiful. She is a child of Gogol, his creation. “She opened up to him in beauty and music, in the whistle of the wind and in the flight of an extravagant troika,” wrote A.A. Blok in the article "Child of Gogol". The poet sits in the same three, in which he flies through the boundless fields, blurred and dirty paths of Russia. And along the way, Blok sees what squeezes his heart - the wretchedness and humiliation of the Fatherland.

And in the patches of her rags

Souls hide nakedness.

The poet's soul is naked, like a naked country. “This is the harmonious dance of Russia, which has nothing to lose; she gave her whole body to the world and now, freely throwing her hands into the wind, she went to dance throughout her aimless expanse, ”wrote Blok in the article“ timelessness ”. And it is precisely with aimless expanse that Russia heals a person. One must fall in love with her, “one must travel around Russia,” Gogol wrote before his death.

I will cry over the sadness of your fields,

I will love your space forever ...

Shelter you in the vast expanses!

Us and live and cry without you.

A.A. Blok created his own commandment of love: “If only a Russian falls in love with Russia, he will fall in love with everything that is in Russia. Without the illnesses and sufferings that have accumulated in her in such quantities and of which we ourselves are guilty, none of us would have felt compassion for her. And compassion is already the beginning of love ... ”Blok lived with love for Russia, and this gave him strength.

In Blok's poetry, there is a prophetic prediction and a sense of the fate of the Fatherland in the past. Great value have poems "Scythians" and "On the field of Kulikovo." The poem "Rus" is saturated with magical and fabulous motifs. Before us appears such Russia as Gogol created it, full of rituals and secrets. Russia for Blok is a special country, doomed to endure horrors and humiliation, but a semi-victorious one. Key to victory A.A. Blok saw in the revolution, in it, as he believed, lofty ideals. He viewed revolution as an element capable of changing the world. But this did not happen, and the poet's dream was dispelled like an obsession, leaving in his soul only a bitter residue of hopes that did not come true.

"Fatherland is life or death, happiness or death." Life according to this principle for Blok is not fanaticism, but canceled the complete devotion to Russia. The poet believed that the time would come when a ray of sun would fall on the country, and it would sparkle with all the colors of the rainbow. Today, at the turn of the third millennium, only we can choose between life and death and thereby determine our own destiny.

A.A. Block
Main themes of the lyrics
A. A. Blok comprehended his work in its unity, calling everything written a novel in verse, and the three-volume, which included poems, dramas, poems, “a trilogy of incarnation”.
1. Poems about the "Beautiful Lady"2. Poems about Russia3. Poem "Twelve" Poems about the "Beautiful Lady"
A beautiful lady is the embodiment of eternal femininity, the eternal ideal of beauty.
Lyrical hero- a servant of the Beautiful Lady, waiting for the transformation of life.
The poet is ready to renounce everything real and earthly, to lock himself in his experiences: I foresee You. Years pass by - All in the guise of one I foresee You. The whole horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear, And silently waiting - longing and loving. In the verses of this cycle, there is a motive of anxiety, a feeling of an imminent catastrophe, loneliness, longing.

Features of poetic speech:
Fantasy and mystery depicted.
Indefinitely personal proposals.
Special epithets: "invisible hands", "impossible dreams", "non-existent steps".

2. Poems about Russia
In Blok's lyrics one can hear a constant appeal to Russia. Not only in the airless space of fantasy, but also in a certain Russian air, in the expanse of Russian fields, he places his lyrics. The content and spirit of his lyricism Blok does not think outside the deepest connection with Russia. He derives a special imprint of his soul from recent history.

Poems Features of content and style
“Russia” (1908) The theme of the motherland in this poem is rooted in the deep past. This is a filial confession about the era, the times of the “dark and deaf years”, but already foreshadowing the elemental winds of the revolution - with robber whistling, the destruction of estates. But this theme is “freedom without cross" passes only as a hint, an unconscious foreboding:
And the impossible is possible, The road is long and easy...
“On the Kulikovo field” cycle (1908) The spiritual result of all previous years is a new philosophy of life, a new understanding of its essence, as if a synthesis of the previous concepts of “temple” and “elements”: And the eternal battle! We only dream of peace Through blood and dust... The steppe mare flies, flies And crushes the feather grass...
In "Field Kulikovo" a female image appears - special, consistent with everything else. In this image there is nothing from earthly women, it is like a return to the poetry of the Blok of the Eternal Femininity itself - but transformed, with a different face:
Oh, my Russia! My wife! Painfully, a long way is clear to us! ..
...Sizzling years!
There is dumbness - then the hum of the tocsin
Is there madness in you, is there hope in you
Made me stop my mouth.

From the days of war, from the days of freedom -
In the hearts that were once enthusiastic,
There is a bloody glow in the faces.
There is a fatal void.
Blok seeks to fill this void with Russia; he speaks of Russia with a kind of painful groan of love and anguish. He calls her his wife, his poor wife, his life; he takes his impoverished country and the circle of its low, impoverished villages deeply into his heart and madly wants to unravel its riddle and its sobs.

3. Poem "Twelve"
The poem "The Twelve" was written in three days, in January 1918. Putting an end to the end of the poem, Blok wrote in his diary: "Today I am a genius."
In the poem, the music of the element played out, the whole poem is filled with it. Music is heard in the whistle of the wind, and in the marching step of the "twelve", and in the "gentle tread" of Christ. Music is on the side of the revolution, on the side of the new, pure, white. old world(black) music is devoid of.

Basic artistic technique- antithesis, contrast, what is opposed in the poem?

old world new world
bourgeois red army
writer-vitia wind
comrade pop snow

Dog
Element of color "Black evening. White snow» Black - old, outgoing, white - new, aspiring to the future. Brutal separation - such is the time, no halftones. And in the poem there is a red color - the color of the banner, blood, revolution.
The element of music Chapter 2 - the rhythm of the march; Chapter 3 - ditty, chapter 9 - urban romance.
Element of nature Unrestrained, cheerful, cruel. "Wind - in all God's world!" space scale, the wind knocks down, drives representatives of the old world into the snowdrifts. “The wind is cheerful and angry and glad. He twists skirts, mows passers-by, tears. He crumples and wears a large poster: "All power to the Constituent Assembly."
The wind accompanies the "Twelve" ("The wind is walking, the snow is fluttering, twelve people are walking"). The wind plays with the red flag. The snow twists, flutters, turns into a blizzard, "the snow curled like a funnel, the snow rose like a column." Snowstorm in Petrukha's soul. The blizzard starts.
The element of human souls Unrestrained, cruel, incomprehensible at the “twelve”: “A cigarette is in the teeth, a cap is crushed, an ace of diamonds should be put on the back” (ace of diamonds is the sign of a convict) Freedom, freedom, Eh, eh, without a cross! That is, everything is permitted. Hatred of the old world results in the call "Let's fire a bullet at Holy Russia - into the condo, into the hut, into the thick-assed."
Chapter 8 The scariest chapter. Boring! Everything without measure: grief, joy, longing. Boring is gray, gray is faceless.
Chapter 11
All twelve - away.
Ready for everything
Nothing to be sorry about.
The element of permissiveness All this is cruel, incomprehensible, unrestrained, scary! But still ahead of the "twelve" - Christ. He seems to take them out of the blizzard streets of Petrograd into other worlds.
The Appearance of Jesus Christ With the appearance of Christ, the rhythm changes: the lines are long, musical, as if universal silence sets in:
With a gentle step over the wind,
Snowy scattering of pearls,
In a white corolla of roses -
In front is Jesus Christ.

In the article "Intelligentsia and Revolution", written almost simultaneously with the poem, Blok exclaimed: "What is conceived? Redo everything. Arrange so that everything becomes new, so that our deceitful, dirty, boring, ugly life becomes fair, clean, cheerful and beautiful.

The main motives, images and symbols of A. Blok's lyrics

The outstanding Russian poet Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921) became an idol for both Symbolists, Acmeists, and all subsequent generations of Russian poets.

At the beginning of his poetic path, the mystical romanticism of Vasily Zhukovsky's work was closest to him. This "singer of nature" with his poems taught the young poet purity and elation of feelings, knowledge of the beauty of the surrounding world, unity with God, faith in the possibility of penetrating beyond the earthly. Far from the theoretical philosophical doctrines, the poetry of romanticism, A. Blok was prepared to perceive the basic principles of the art of symbolism.

Zhukovsky's lessons were not in vain: the "sharp mystical and romantic experiences" fostered by him riveted Blok's attention in 1901 ᴦ. to the work of the poet and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, who was the recognized "spiritual father" of the younger generation of Russian symbolists (A. Blok, A. Bely, S. Solovyov, Vyach. Ivanov, etc.). The ideological basis of his teaching was the dream of the kingdom of divine power, which arises from modern world who is mired in evil and sins. He can be saved by the World Soul, the Eternal Femininity, which arises as a kind of synthesis of harmony, beauty, goodness, the spiritual essence of all living things, the new Mother of God. This Solovyov theme is central to Blok's early poems, which were included in his first collection Poems about the Beautiful Lady (1904). Although the poems were based on a real living feeling of love for the bride, with time - the poet's wife - L. D. Mendel-eeva, the lyrical theme, illuminated in the spirit of the Soloviev ideal, acquires the sound of the theme of sacred love. O. Blok expands the thesis that in personal love world love is revealed, and love for the universe is realized through love for women. For this reason, the abstract figures of the Eternally Young Wife, the Lady of the Universe, etc. cover the concrete image. The poet bows before the Beautiful Lady - the personification of eternal beauty and harmony. In "Poems about the Beautiful Lady", there are no doubt signs of symbolism. Plato's idea of opposing two worlds- earthly, dark and joyless, and distant, unknown and beautiful, the holiness of the elevated unearthly ideals of the lyrical hero, he was led to them, a decisive break with the surrounding life, the cult of Beauty - the most important features of this artistic direction, found bright embodiment in Blok's early work.

Already in the first works were the main features of the poetic manner block: musical and song structure, attraction to sound and color expressiveness, metaphorical language, complex structure of the image - everything that the theorists of symbolism called impressionistic element, considering it an important component of the aesthetics of symbolism. All this determined the success of Blok's first book. Like most symbolists, Blok was convinced that everything that happens on earth is only a reflection, a sign, a "shadow" of what exists in other, spiritual worlds. Accordingly, words, language turn out to be "signs of signs", "shadows of shadows" for him. In their "earthly" meanings, he always looks at "heavenly" and "eternal". All the meanings of Blok's symbols are sometimes very difficult to reread, and this is an important feature of his poetics. The artist is convinced that something “incomprehensible”, “secret” must always remain in the symbol, which cannot be conveyed either by scientific or everyday language. At the same time, another thing is also characteristic of the Blok symbol: no matter how ambiguous it is, it always retains its first - earthly and concrete - meaning, bright emotional coloring, immediacy of perception and feelings.

Also in early poems of the poet features such as tension of lyrical feeling, passion and confession. This was the basis of Blok's future conquests as a poet: unstoppable maximalism and unchanging sincerity. At the same time, the last section of the collection contained such verses as "From the Newspapers", "Factory", etc., which testified to the emergence of civic sentiments.

If "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" was liked, first of all, by the symbolists, then the second book of poems " unexpected joy"(1907) made his name popular with the general public. This collection includes poems from 1904-1906. and among them are such masterpieces as "The Stranger", "The Girl Sang in the Church Choir...", "Autumn Will", etc. The book testified to the highest level of Blok's skill, the sound magic of his poetry captivated the reader. Significantly the theme of his lyrics also changed. Block Hero acted no longer as a hermit monk, but as a resident noisy city streets who eagerly peers into life. In the collection, the poet expressed his attitude to social problems , the spiritual atmosphere of society. deepened in his mind gap between romantic dream and reality. These poems of the poet displayed impressions from the events of the revolution of 1905-1907,"which the poet was a witness to. And the poem "Autumn Will" became the first embodiment of the theme of the motherland, Russia in the work of Blok. The poet intuitively discovered in this topic the most dear and intimate for him.

The defeat of the first Russian revolution decisively affected not only the fate of the entire poetic school symbolism, but also on the personal fate of each of its supporters. Distinctive feature Blok's creativity of the post-revolutionary years - strengthening citizenship. 1906-1907. was a period of reassessment of values.

During this period, the Block's understanding of the essence is changing artistic creativity, the appointment of the artist and the role of art in society. If in the early cycles of poems the lyrical hero of Blok appeared as a hermit, a knight of the Beautiful Lady, an individualist, then over time he spoke about the obligation of the artist to the era, to the people. The change in Blok's social views was also reflected in his work. At the center of his lyrics is a hero looking for strong ties with other people, realizing the dependence of his fate on the common fate of the people. The cycle of "free thoughts" from the collection "Earth in the Snow" (1908), especially the poems "On Death" and "In the North Sea", shows a tendency to democratize the work of this poet͵ ĸᴏᴛᴏᴩᴏᴇ is displayed in the state of mind of the lyrical hero, in the worldview, and in the end, in the lyrical structure of the author's language.

However, a feeling of despondency, emptiness, complicated by personal motives, fill the lines of his poems. Began awareness of the environment reality as a "terrible world", which disfigures and destroys a Man. Born in romanticism, the theme of a collision with the world of evil and violence, traditional for classical literature, found a brilliant successor in A. Blok. Blok concentrates the psychological drama of personality and the philosophy of being in the historical and social sphere, feeling first of all On the one hand, he strives to change society, and on the other hand, he is frightened by the decline of spirituality, the elements of cruelty that increasingly engulfed the country (the cycle "On the Kulikovo Field" (1909)). image of a lyrical hero, crisis man who lost faith in the old values, considering them dead, lost forever, and did not find new ones. Blok's poems of these years are filled with pain and bitterness for tormented destinies, a curse on a tough terrible world, the search for saving points of support in a destroyed universe and gloomy hopelessness and found hope, faith in the future. Those that were included in the cycles "Snow Mask", "Scary World", "Dances of Death", "Atonement" are rightly considered the best of what was written by Blok during the heyday and maturity of his talent.

The topic of death scary world The block was illuminated significantly wider and deeper than his predecessors, however, at the top of the sound of this topic is the motive for overcoming evil, which is important for understanding Blok's entire work. This, first of all, manifested itself in the theme of the motherland, Russia, in the theme of finding a new destiny for Blok's hero, who seeks to bridge the gap between the people and that part of the intelligentsia to which he belonged. In 1907-1916 he. a cycle of poems "Motherland" was created, where the paths of development of Russia are comprehended, the image of which appears either attractively fabulous, full of magical powers, or terribly bloody, causing anxiety for the future.

It can be said that the gallery of female images-symbols in Blok's lyrics, in the end, finds its organic continuation and logical conclusion: Beautiful Lady - Stranger - Snow Mask - Faina - Carmen - Russia. Nevertheless, the poet himself insisted later that each next image is not just a transformation of the previous one, but, first of all, the embodiment of a new type of the author’s worldview at the next stage of his creative development.

The poetry of A. Blok is a kind of mirror, which reflects the hopes, disappointments and drama of the era of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Symbolic saturation, romantic elation and realistic concreteness helped the writer to discover a complex and multifaceted image of the world.

The outstanding Russian poet Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921) became an idol for both Symbolists and Acmeists, and all subsequent generations of Russian poets.

The lessons of Zhukovsky were not in vain: the "acute mystical and romantic experiences" fostered by him riveted Blok's attention in 1901 to the work of the poet and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, who was the recognized "spiritual father" of the younger generation of Russian symbolists (A. Blok, A. Bely, S. Solovyov, Viacheslav Ivanov, etc.). The ideological basis of his teaching was the dream of the kingdom of divine power, which arises from the modern world, which is mired in evil and sins. He can be saved by the World Soul, the Eternal Femininity, which arises as a kind of synthesis of harmony, beauty, goodness, the spiritual essence of all living things, the new Mother of God. This Solovyov theme is central to Blok's early poems, which were included in his first collection Poems about the Beautiful Lady (1904). Although the poems were based on a real living feeling of love for the bride, with time - the poet's wife - L. D. Mendeleeva, the lyrical theme, illuminated in the spirit of the Soloviev ideal, acquires the sound of the theme of sacred love. O. Blok develops the thesis that in personal love world love is revealed, and love for the universe is realized through love for a woman. Therefore, the abstract figures of the Eternally Young Wife, the Lady of the Universe, etc. overlap the concrete image. The poet bows before the Beautiful Lady - the personification of eternal beauty and harmony. In "Poems about the Beautiful Lady", there are no doubt signs of symbolism. Plato's idea of opposing two worlds- earthly, dark and joyless, and distant, unknown and beautiful, the holiness of the elevated unearthly ideals of the lyrical hero, he was led to them, a decisive break with the surrounding life, the cult of Beauty - the most important features of this artistic direction, found a vivid embodiment in the early work of Blok.

Already in the first works were the main features of the poetic manner block: musical and song structure, attraction to sound and color expressiveness, metaphorical language, complex structure of the image - all that the theorists of symbolism called impressionistic element, considering it an important component of the aesthetics of symbolism. All this determined the success of Blok's first book. Like most symbolists, Blok was convinced that everything that happens on earth is only a reflection, a sign, a "shadow" of what exists in other, spiritual worlds. Accordingly, words, language turn out to be "signs of signs", "shadows of shadows" for him. In their "earthly" meanings, he always looks through the "heavenly" and "eternal". All the meanings of Blok's symbols are sometimes very difficult to reread, and this is an important feature of his poetics. The artist is convinced that something "incomprehensible", "secret" must always remain in a symbol, something that cannot be conveyed either by scientific or everyday language. However, another thing is also characteristic of the Blok symbol: no matter how ambiguous it is, it always retains its first - earthly and concrete - meaning, bright emotional coloring, immediacy of perception and feelings.

If "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" liked, first of all, the symbolists, then the second book of poems " unexpected joy"(1907) made his name popular with the general public. This collection includes poems from 1904-1906. and among them are such masterpieces as "The Stranger", "The Girl Sang in the Church Choir...", "Autumn Will", etc. The book testified to the highest level of Blok's skill, the sound magic of his poetry captivated readers. Significantly the theme of his lyrics also changed. Block Hero acted no longer as a hermit monk, but as a resident noisy city streets who eagerly peers into life. In the collection, the poet expressed his attitude to social problems, the spiritual atmosphere of society. deepened in his mind gap between romantic dream and reality. These poems of the poet displayed impressions from the events of the revolution of 1905-1907,"whose witness was the poet. And the poem" Autumn Will "becoming the first embodiment of the theme of the motherland, Russia in the work of Blok. The poet intuitively discovered in this topic the most dear and intimate for him.

The defeat of the first Russian revolution had a decisive effect not only on the fate of the entire poetic school of symbolism, but also on the personal fate of each of its supporters. A distinctive feature of Blok's creativity in the post-revolutionary years is strengthening citizenship. 1906-1907 was a period of reassessment of values.

During this period, Blok's understanding of the essence of artistic creativity, the appointment of the artist and the role of art in society change. If in the early cycles of poems the lyrical hero of Blok appeared as a hermit, a knight of the Beautiful Lady, an individualist, then over time he spoke about the artist's obligation to the era, to the people. The change in Blok's social views was also reflected in his work. At the center of his lyrics is a hero looking for strong ties with other people, realizing the dependence of his fate on the common fate of the people. The cycle "free thoughts" from the collection "Earth in the Snow" (1908), especially the poems "On Death" and "In the North Sea", shows a tendency to democratize the work of this poet, which is displayed in the state of mind of the lyrical hero, in the worldview, and in the end, in the lyrical structure of the author's language.

However, a feeling of despondency, emptiness, complicated by personal motives, fill the lines of his poems. Began awareness of the environment reality as a "terrible world", which disfigures and destroys a Man. Born in romanticism, the theme of a collision with the world of evil and violence, traditional for classical literature, found a brilliant successor in A. Blok. Blok concentrates the psychological drama of personality and the philosophy of being in the historical and social sphere, feeling primarily social discord On the one hand, he strives to change society, and on the other hand, he is frightened by the decline of spirituality, the elements of cruelty that increasingly engulfed the country (the cycle "On the Kulikovo Field" (1909)).In his poetry of those years, the image of a lyrical hero appears, crisis man who lost faith in the old values, considering them dead, lost forever, and did not find new ones. Blok's poems of these years are filled with pain and bitterness for tormented destinies, a curse on a tough terrible world, the search for saving points of support in a destroyed universe and gloomy hopelessness and found hope, faith in the future. Those that were included in the cycles "Snow Mask", "Scary World", "Dances of Death", "Atonement" are rightly considered the best of what was written by Blok during the heyday and maturity of his talent.

The topic of human death in a terrible world was covered by Blok significantly. wider and deeper than his predecessors, however, at the top of the sound of this theme is the motive for overcoming evil, which is important for understanding Blok's entire work. This, first of all, manifested itself in the theme of the motherland, Russia, in the theme of finding a new destiny for Blok's hero, who seeks to bridge the gap between the people and that part of the intelligentsia to which he belonged. In 1907-1916. a cycle of poems "Motherland" was created, where the paths of development of Russia are comprehended, the image of which appears either attractively fabulous, full of magical powers, or terribly bloody, causing anxiety for the future.

It can be said that the gallery of female images-symbols in Blok's lyrics, in the end, finds its organic continuation and logical conclusion: Beautiful Lady - Stranger - Snow Mask - Faina - Carmen - Russia. Nevertheless, the poet himself insisted later that each next image is not just a transformation of the previous one, but, first of all, the embodiment of a new type of the author's worldview at the next stage of his creative development.

Oh, I want to live crazy

Everything that exists - perpetuate,

Impersonal - to humanize,

Unfulfilled - to embody!

The work of Alexander Blok, the great poet of the early 20th century, is one of the most remarkable phenomena in Russian poetry. By the power of talent, passion for defending his views and positions, by the depth of penetration into life, by the desire to answer the biggest and most pressing questions of our time, by the significance of innovative discoveries that have become an invaluable asset of Russian poetry, Blok is one of those figures of our art who make up his pride and glory.

What attracts me to Blok's poetry? First of all, the fact that all the phenomena of the surrounding world and all the events of history, all the legends of the centuries, people's grief, dreams of the future - everything that became the subject of experiences and food for thought, Blok translated into the language of lyrics and, above all, perceived as lyrics. Even Russia itself was for him a “lyrical magnitude”, and this “magnitude” was so huge that it did not immediately fit into the framework of his work.

It is also extremely important that the big patriotic theme, the theme of the Motherland and its destinies, enters Blok’s lyrics simultaneously with the theme of the revolution, which captures the poet to the most hidden depths of his soul and gave rise to a system of completely new feelings, experiences, aspirations that arose as if during lightning discharges, in their dazzling light - and the theme of the Motherland becomes the main and most important in Blok's work. One of his most "remarkable poems, written during the days of the 1905 revolution and inspired by it, is" Autumn Will ". In this poem, which will be followed by a huge in its own way internal meaning and the artistic perfection of the cycle “Motherland”, those experiences and thoughts of the poet, which gave his lyrics new and extraordinarily important features, were deeply affected.

All the same, the same, and at the same time a completely different beauty native land opened up to the poet in the most inconspicuous for the "foreign gaze" plain, striking neither with bright colors, nor with variegated colors, calm and monotonous, but irresistibly attractive in the eyes of a Russian person, as the poet acutely felt and conveyed in his poem: open to the eyes, The wind bends the resilient bushes, The broken stone lay down on the slopes, The scarce layers of yellow clay.

Autumn roamed in the wet valleys, It exposed the cemeteries of the earth, But thick mountain ash in the passing villages The red color will dawn from afar ...

It would seem that everything is monotonous, familiar, has long been familiar in these “wet valleys”, but in them the poet saw something new, unexpected and as if echoing the rebellious, young, perky that he felt in himself; in the severity and even scarcity of the open space that opened before him, he recognized his own, dear, close, grasping the heart - and could not help but respond to the red color of the mountain ash, reddening in front of him, calling somewhere and pleasing with new promises that the poet had not heard before. That is why he experiences such an unprecedented upsurge of inner strength, the charm and beauty of the fields and slopes of his native land appeared before him in a new way: Here it is, my fun, dancing And ringing, ringing, disappearing in the bushes! And in the distance, in the distance, your patterned, your colored sleeve invitingly waves.

Before him there are real forests, fields, slopes, he is attracted by the path that disappears in the distance. This is exactly what the poet says in his “Autumn Will” with some kind of inspired joy, bright sadness and extraordinary breadth, as if accommodating the entire native expanse: Will I sing about my luck, How I ruined my youth in hops ...

I will cry over the sadness of my fields, I will love your expanse forever ...

The feeling that scorches the heart of the poet and his work, invariably mixed with every thought, every experience, is, in addition to love for the Motherland, and love for the mother. Mother, in the feat of whose son the radiance of the sun itself is seen, and let this feat cost the son of his whole life - the mother’s heart is overwhelmed with “golden joy”, for the filial light defeated the surrounding darkness, reigns over her: The son did not forget his own mother: The son returned to die.

His lyrics became stronger than himself. This is most clearly expressed in his love poems. No matter how much he kept saying that the women we love were made of cardboard, against his will he saw in them the stars, felt in them extraterrestrial distances, and - no matter how much he himself laughed at it - every woman in his love poems combined for him with clouds, sunsets, dawns, each opened gaps in the Other, that's why he creates his first cycle - “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”. The Beautiful Lady is the embodiment of eternal femininity, the eternal ideal of beauty. The lyrical hero is a servant of the Beautiful Lady, waiting for the coming transformation of life.

Hopes for the advent of "eternal femininity" testify to Blok's dissatisfaction with reality: I foresee You. Years pass by...

The beautiful Lady, one and unchanging in her perfection, in her wondrous charm, at the same time constantly changes features and appears before her knight and servant either “Virgin, Dawn”, then “Wife clothed in the sun”, and this is what the poet calls to her. in the expectation of the times foretold in ancient and sacred books: To you, whose Twilight was so bright, Whose voice calls with quietness, - Raise the arches of heaven The ever-falling vault.

Love itself collects ideal, heavenly features in the eyes of the poet, and in his beloved he sees not an ordinary earthly girl, but the hypostasis of a deity. In the verses about the Beautiful Lady, the poet sings of her and endows her with all the attributes of divinity - such as immortality, infinity, omnipotence, wisdom incomprehensible to an earthly person - the poet sees all this in his Beautiful Lady, who now “goes to earth in an incorruptible body”.

Even when the lyrics of Blok spoke, it would seem, only about the private, intimate, personal, because in it, through the personal, the unique, the great, the world breaks through. “Unity with the world” - this motive, common to all of Blok's lyrics, is extremely important for understanding the meaning of Blok's works, his work, even going beyond the immediate response to this or that event.

The poet, explored many areas of human relations and experiences, experienced the whole cycle of feelings, passions, aspirations, matured and tempered in trials and struggles - all this constitutes the content of that “novel in verse”, which is Blok’s lyrics, taken as a whole: I bless everything that was, I was not looking for a better share.

O heart, how much you loved! Oh mind, how you burned! Let both happiness and torment Leave their bitter mark, But in a passionate storm, in a long boredom - I have not lost the former light ...