2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
A bright representative of the Symbolists, who saw not only the past path of his country, but also the future, was Alexander Aleksandrovich Blok. The homeland played an important role in the poet's work.
Motherland in the work of A. A. Blok
The poet reflected the process of the formation of Russia, touching in his works not only the historical past of the country, but also its future, the tasks facing it, its purpose.
The image of the Motherland of the Blok interested in the years of the First Russian Revolution. However, the heyday of the topic is noted after its completion. The revolutionary experiences of rise and fall are reflected in every stanza of the poet's patriotic poems.
Blok's poems about the Motherland are imbued with a feeling of boundless love, tenderness, but at the same time they are saturated with pain for the past and present of Russia and hope for a better future.
The poet believed that his country not only deserved a better future, it also showed the way to it. Therefore, he saw in her his consolation, healing:
Love for the Motherland remained the only pure and sincere feeling. It was on her that she could relywounded by loneliness and misunderstanding of society, the soul of the poet. Blok himself was aware of this need.
Motherland, her attitude changed, but the change in the nature of feelings did not affect the power of love that the writer carried through his whole life.
Image of the Motherland and Alexander Alexandrovich
Thanks to the works of A. A. Blok, years later we can see the Russia of the author's time: full of movement, life, tearful, but still unique, original. A special vision of historical events affects the poet's poems, in which the theme of the Motherland occupies an important place.
Blok created his own unique image of Russia unknown to others. She became for him not a mother, but a beautiful woman: lover, girlfriend, bride, wife.
The early work of the poet is characterized by a vision of a poor and dense country, but at the same time unusual and talented.
The Motherland in Blok's works is a beautiful lover who will forgive in any situation. She always understands the poet, because she is a part of the soul, her better half, a manifestation of purity. Blok understood that, despite her “shameless and deep” sins, the Motherland remains “more precious than all lands” for him.
How does Blok see Russia? The homeland of Alexander Alexandrovich has charming features, which the poet called "robber beauty": vast expanses, long roads, foggy distances, wind songs, loose ruts.
Blok loved his Fatherland recklessly, sincerely believing and hoping that soon“light will overcome darkness.”
Let's consider some of Alexander Blok's poems in order to most accurately understand the theme that is so significant for him: "Motherland".
Block. The poem "Gamayun, the prophetic bird"
It is believed that the theme of the tragic history of Russia first appeared in a poem belonging to the very young Alexander, "Gamayun, the prophetic bird":
The poem was Blok's first loud appeal, combining love for Russia and awareness of the horror from the past and present. But the author wants to understand the truth, no matter how terrible and terrible it is.
The first deliberate and serious embodiment of patriotic thought is considered to be a work dated 1905, "Autumn Will".
The poet addresses the Motherland:
The lyrical hero shown by Blok experiences loneliness, and it is unbearably tragic. Only love for Russia and its nature can help overcome it. The poet admits that the landscapes of his native land are sometimes plain and not pleasing to the eye, but they can give peace, happiness and the meaning of life to his tormented soul:
Psalms sung by the poor are an echo of drunken Russia. However, this does not bother the poet. After all, it is the true face of Russia, without embellishment and rich pathos, that is an inexhaustible source of his inspiration. It is this Motherland - dirty, drunk, impoverished - that heals Blok, gives him peace and hope.
The cycle of works "On the fieldKulikov"
Blok's poems about the Motherland, included in the cycle of works "On the Kulikovo Field", have a deep, passionate meaning. The history of the native country sounds louder here than the voice of the poet himself. Due to this, a tense and tragic effect is created, pointing to the country's great past and predicting an equally great future.
Comparing the past and future deeds of a great power, the author in the past is looking for a force that allows Russia to boldly go to its intended goal and not be afraid of "darkness - night and abroad."
"Unbreakable silence", in which the country is mired, predicts "high and rebellious days," Blok believed. The homeland shown in the works stands at the crossroads of time and space - past, present and future. The historical path of the country is embodied in the lines:
The poem "Fed" was a response to the phenomena of the revolution in 1905. These lines express faith in the coming changes, which were expected by both Blok himself and the Motherland.
Block. Poem "Rus"
The theme of the Motherland is also reflected in the work "Rus". Here, a mysterious, unpredictable and at the same time beautiful Russia appears before readers. The country seems to the poet a fabulous and even magical land:
Intertwining worlds (the real world and the dream world) help the poet mentally transport readers to the old, old times, when Russia was full of witches and witches' charms.
The lyrical hero is recklessly in love with the country, so he is in awe of it. He sees hernot just unusual, but mysterious, charmingly ancient. But Russia appears before him not only fabulous, but also impoverished, suffering and sad.
The work "Born in Deaf Years" is dedicated to Z. N. Gippius and imbued with anticipation of future changes.
Block understood that the current generation was doomed, so he called on him to rethink life, to renew it.
Russia's doom lies in its untapped potential. She, possessing incredible we alth, is terribly poor and frighteningly miserable.
Motherland as the central leitmotif of the work
The poem "Russia" is striking in its sincerity and honesty: not in a single line, not in a single word did the author lie about how he sees and feels his native country.
It is thanks to his honesty that the reader is presented with the image of a poor Motherland, which aspires "to the distant past".
In the poem one can feel the influence of the lyrical digression about the bird-troika from the poem "Dead Souls" by N. V. Gogol.
Blok's "troika" develops into an ominous sign of a dramatic confrontation between the people and the intelligentsia. The image of the Motherland is embodied in the mighty and unrestrained elements: blizzard, wind, blizzard.
We see that Blok is trying to comprehend the meaning of Russia, to understand the value, the need for such a complex historical path.
Bloc believed that Russia would get out of poverty due to hidden strength and power.
The poet describes his love for the Motherland, admiration for the beauty of nature, reflections on the fate of his country. Block uses the motif of the road that runs through the entire poem. First we see a beggarRussia, but then it appears to us in the image of a country that is wide and powerful. We believe that the author is right, because you should always hope for the best.
Block shows us Russia poor, but beautiful. This contradiction is manifested even in the epithets used by the poet, for example, "robbing beauty".
Two sphinxes in the work of A. A. Blok
Nikolai Gumilyov wrote very beautifully about A. Blok's poetry: “Two sphinxes stand in front of A. Blok, making him sing and cry with their unresolved riddles: Russia and his own soul. The first is Nekrasovsky, the second is Lermontov. And often, very often Blok shows us them, merged into one, organically inseparable.”
Gumilyov's words are indestructible truth. They can be proved by the poem "Russia". It has a strong influence of the first sphinx, Nekrasov. After all, Blok, like Nekrasov, shows us Russia from two opposite sides: powerful and at the same time powerless and wretched.
Bloc believed in the power of Russia. However, in contrast to Nekrasov's precepts, Alexander Alexandrovich loved his Motherland only with sadness, without endowing his feeling with anger. Blok's Russia is endowed with human features, the poet endows her with the image of a beloved woman. Here the influence of the second sphinx - Lermontov's - is manifested. But their similarity is not complete. Blok expressed more intimate, personal feelings, endowed with noble thoughtfulness, while in Lermontov's poems the hussar arrogance was sometimes heard.
Should I feel sorry for Russia?
The poet says he doesn'tknows how and cannot feel sorry for the Motherland. But why? Maybe because, in his opinion, nothing can obscure the "beautiful features" of Russia, except for care. Or maybe the reason is pity?
The poet loves his Motherland. This is the hidden reason for the lack of pity towards her. This feeling would kill the pride of Russia, would humiliate her dignity. If we correlate a large country with a single person, we get a good example of the relationship between pity and humiliation. A person who has been pitied by being told how poor and unhappy he is loses not only his self-esteem, but sometimes his desire to live, as he begins to understand his own worthlessness.
All difficulties must be conquered with your head held high, without expecting sympathy. Perhaps this is what A. A. Blok wants to show us.
The great historical merit of the poet is that he connected the past with the present, which we see in many of his poems.
Motherland has become the connecting theme of many works by A. Blok. It is closely connected with the various motifs of his poems: love, retribution, revolution, past path and future path.
So wrote Vladimir Orlov and it seems he was completely right.
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