We make an independent analysis of Blok's poem "The Stranger"

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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was a special person with a fine mental organization and a penchant for solitary contemplation, perhaps this was the main reason for his choice of life path as the "master of rhymes". In Russian literature, he took his rightful place as a symbolist poet, who created his amazingly penetrating works during the cultural period of the Silver Age.

One of the most striking and memorable reading public was Blok's verse "The Stranger". The time of its writing (1906) falls on one of the most difficult periods in the life of the poet. At that time, 26-year-old Alexander Blok was having a hard time with a temporary break in relations with his adored wife, Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (it was to her that he had previously dedicated his “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”), the reason for which was her relationship with the poet’s friend, Andrey Bely.

Analysis of Blok's poem "The Stranger" clearly shows the whole gamut of feelings and experiences of the young poet during the dramatic period of familyconflicts. The cycle of poems that were later included in the collection "Terrible World" also dates back to this time. Through renunciation of mundane and rough reality, the pain of loneliness and dreams of the sublime beauty of another, unreal world, Blok tries to comprehend the reality around him and find in it the secret key that opens the door to the perfect world of beauty and harmony.

When analyzing Blok's poem "The Stranger", we can clearly see the contradictions between the rough and vulgar world of reality and the ideal ideas about the world that live in the soul of the poet. Blok himself clearly speaks of this in the final lines of the poem: “There is a treasure in my soul, and the key is entrusted only to me.”

The contradictions of the worlds are exposed with the help of bright and contrasting images that are opposed to each other. Here we notice such oppositions as “spring and corrupting spirit”, lexical repetitions “baby crying” and “female squealing”, boredom of “country dachas” and “meaninglessly twisting disk” of the moon, and vulgarity of “tried wits” walking among the ditches with ladies.

Analysis of Blok's verse "The Stranger" shows us how the poet's soul wants to rebel against the vulgar routine, but since all the events of the surrounding reality are predictable and invincible in their constancy, which is clearly shown in the poem by the threefold repetition of the phrase "and every evening", the young dreamer prefers to remain every day "humble and deafened by wine", as "moisture tart and mysterious". It seems that it is this "tart moisture" that allows him to dissolve the surrounding reality, enveloping it"spirits and mists" (read - wine pairs), allowing you to see everything in a different light.

Analysis of Blok's poem "The Stranger" shows that the mention of "fogs" occurs twice in the text of the work, namely, when the stranger "moves in a foggy window" and when she is alone, "breathing in spirits and fogs", sits by the window. It is these “mists” that create in the imagination of the lyrical hero of the poem the whole romantic image of a stranger (“Is it just a dream of me?” He mentally asks), which, in fact, according to the poet himself, in real life is just a “drunk monster”.

Analysis of Blok's poem "The Stranger" gives an answer to the question of finding a way out into another reality of the ideal world. In the last lines, the poet exclaims: “I know: the truth is in wine,” which means that he has already found his “key” to the “treasure” of the ideal world of his own soul.