Ebook {Epub PDF} The Twelve Other Poems by Alexandr Blok






















Three hundred ninety one poems by Alexander Blok. The preeminent symbolist and lyric poet of early-twentieth-century Russia, Blok was perhaps the most powerful echo of Pushkin’s voice. His father was a professor of law at the University of Warsaw and his mother a translator of literature. In the dunes – poetry. In hot dance bacchanalian. In the taverns, in the alleys, in twisted. The shaggy paws and horrible. The minute explosion of revelations. In my heart sick and silent. At sea, the mere wave - fleeting. In the sky - day, all nights superstitious. In uncertain, shaky flight. Alexander Block, poems by Alexandre Block, also rendered as Blok and Alexandr Blok, in English translation. Alexander Block is a leading poet of the Russian symbolism movement, a literary giant of the fin de siècle through the Russian civil war period, though like many poets he doesn’t translate well.


The history of the creation of the poem "12" was accompanied by grand events that soon faded away. After the noise of the revolution, an ominous silence ensued for Blok. He practically did not write poems, many of his ideas remained unfulfilled. Creative death led to the death of the physical: the poet did not survive Through the understanding of the Bolshevik Revolution, we have a clearer comprehension of Alexander Blok's "The Twelve," which uses cinematic montage. This poem presents countless ideas to the reader that cannot be understood without a background of the Bolshevik Revolution. Poverty, uncertainty, and overall unrest were some of the factors of. The twelve, and other poems [by] Alexander Blok. Translated from the Russian by Jon Stallworthy and Peter France Oxford University Press New York Australian/Harvard Citation. Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich. France, Peter. Stallworthy, Jon. , The twelve, and other poems [by] Alexander Blok.


The feminine image with which he described the motherland became in his later poems increasingly identified with the fallen women and prostitutes of earlier poems. Blok’s mystical perception of the Revolution as a cosmic event, as an inevitable historical retribution is reflected in his undoubted masterpiece “The Twelve” (), in. In the dunes – poetry. In hot dance bacchanalian. In the taverns, in the alleys, in twisted. The shaggy paws and horrible. The minute explosion of revelations. In my heart sick and silent. At sea, the mere wave - fleeting. In the sky - day, all nights superstitious. In uncertain, shaky flight. Alexander Block, poems by Alexandre Block, also rendered as Blok and Alexandr Blok, in English translation. Alexander Block is a leading poet of the Russian symbolism movement, a literary giant of the fin de siècle through the Russian civil war period, though like many poets he doesn’t translate well.

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