Collection of a beautiful lady block analysis. About the collection "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" (A. Blok)

Quite distinct In our opinion, the poems “I am waiting for a call, looking for an answer ...”, “Twilight, spring twilight ...”, “I believe in the Sun of the Covenant ...”, “I, a child, light candles...”, “I enter dark temples...”, “We met with you at sunset...”. “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”, these are poems about the ideal, sublime love that the poet felt for L. D. Mendeleeva. Among other things, this is a mystical admiration for the Lady of the Universe, the Eternal Femininity, about which Blok read from V. Solovyov. Consistently and systematically, Blok also translates "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" his "earthly" feelings and the "higher", ideal-mystical plan.

In "Poems about a Beautiful Lady" the beloved, devoid of any earthly features, is endowed with the signs of a real deity. This is the Heavenly Virgin, the Eternal Feminine. Mistress of the Universe, Radiant Queen, Dawn, Kupina. The lyrical hero is a youth, a slave, a monk, a knight, who has been happy to serve his Lady all his life. The beloved appears to him as if in a wonderful dream or in a fairy tale. She often appears in the dusk, in the fog, surrounded by shaky shadows. The impression of ghostliness, uncertainty of the image is also enhanced by the fact that the poet avoids specific, descriptive epithets. They are designed only for the emotional perception of the reader: fragrant tears, azure dreams, a bewitched step, a bottomless look, a stubborn dream, a mysterious dusk, etc. Archaic, church “prayer” vocabulary (lamp, chandelier, chasuble, etc.) corresponds conception of the beloved as a deity. Constant dreams of meeting Her, waiting for Her call are associated with the second coming, with a complete renewal, the transformation of the whole world - quite in the spirit of V. Solovyov's predictions.

In "Poems about a Beautiful Lady" for us, the emphasized ignorance of everyday life, egocentrism, idealism, mysticism are unacceptable. But nevertheless these verses were liked and still are liked by many readers. Even now they are of interest to us not only as an important stage in Blok's creative path, without which it is impossible to understand his further development. “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” also have their own completely independent aesthetic value. A great connoisseur and connoisseur of poetry M. Rylsky wrote: “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” are, first of all, poems about love and high human beauty, this is the triumph of living life dressed in conventionally mystical clothes, a premonition of the world dawn. P. Antokolsky (in the titled article "Alexander Blok" in ᴘẚʜᴇ) emphasized the importance of the first book of lyric poetry for educating the feelings of modern youth. Although they do not have a realistic depiction of the beloved and the environment, we can talk about a truthful, realistic depiction of the feelings and experiences of the lyricist. This is probably the "secret" of the charm of Blok's poetry. Pure feelings of first love often give rise to idealization, deification of the beloved, the desire to see in her all the most beautiful, sublime, "unearthly". These feelings, well known to many readers, have found a very precise, psychologically truthful expression in Blok's surprisingly tender, melodic verses. The mastery of euphony - alliterations and assonances, sound repetitions, "bewitching" rhythms, over which the poet himself seemed not to have control - all this captivated readers.

In the subjective representation of the Block his lofty feelings, his ascetic service to the Eternal Femininity were not at all something narrow, private. On the contrary, they seemed to the poet to be part of that significant, great thing that should transform the whole world. And this, it seemed to him, was more important than all the base worldly worries.

Compared to the lofty ideal, everything else is nothing more than ordinary, unremarkable vanity.

In serving the Beautiful Lady, who should transform the world, the poet saw his main feat of life:

There will be a day - and great things will happen,
I feel in the future a feat of the soul.

Let the Block representation about the feat was vague, indefinite, foggy, at first erroneous, it is important for us to note the constant desire of the lyricist, the will to the feat, the willingness to accomplish it at all costs, and if necessary - “burn yourself to the ground”

In 1908, Blok characterized his "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" as "those DREAMS and fogs, with kᴏᴛᴏᴘyᴍ and the soul struggles to get the right to life."

Page 1 from 1

Mysterious and magical cycle of Poems about the Beautiful Lady

Lonely, I come to you, Bewitched by the fires of love. You guess. Do not call me, I myself have been telling fortunes for a long time. A. A. Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok is one of the most refined poets of Russian classical literature. Carried away in his youth by the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov about two worlds, the poet temporarily becomes a mystic, feels in the world around him the harbingers of the end of the world. And Blok feels the coming revolution as unfolding chaos. He sees salvation in the divine principle of the World Soul or Eternal Femininity. During this period, a mysterious and magical cycle of Poems about the Beautiful Lady appears ....

Cycle "Poems about a Beautiful Lady" by Alexander Blok

Alexander Blok entered the history of literature as an outstanding lyric poet. Having begun his poetic path with a book of mystical poems about a beautiful Lady, Blok completed his twenty years of work in Russian literature with a curse on the old world in the poem "The Twelve". Blok went through a difficult creative path from a symbolist poet, from a fruitless romantic dream to reality, to a revolution. Many former "friends" of Blok, having fled the revolution to other countries, shouted in the Paris newspapers that Blok had sold himself to the Bolsheviks, that his fine taste and talent had become coarsened, but this was not so. Blok himself suffered in the revolution (peasants burned his Shakhmatovo estate), but he was able to understand something else - the cup of patience of the people overflowed. Blok listened sensitively to life, showed the deepest interest in the fate of Russia, in the fate of the Russian people. The early period of the poet's work passed under the sign of religious dreams, leading to "other worlds" ....

Analysis of Blok's poetic diary "Poems about the Beautiful Lady"

His own, Blok's, was clearly and peculiarly manifested in the collection “Poems about the Beautiful Lady, the poet's love diary. Individualism, gloomy loneliness, which permeate a number of poems in the first collection, here acquires a mystical-elegiac coloring, conveying a special attitude of the poet, who lived by mystical premonitions and expectations. The illusory idea of life is further affirmed in the "extremely important" year for Blok in 1900, when he became acquainted with the philosophy and poetry of Vl. Solovyov, who preached the idea of the end of the universe, leading away from the world of reality, developing the theme of "the otherworldly world" ....

"Poems about the unknown soldier" - one of the brilliant creations of Osip Mandelstam

Mandelstam Osip Emilievich January 15, 1891, Warsaw December 27, 1938, Second River camp near Vladivostok, Russian poet, prose writer, translator, essayist. He started as a representative of acmeism. Poetry is saturated with cultural and historical images and motifs, marked by a concrete-material perception of the world, a tragic experience of the death of culture. Collections "Stone" (1913), "Tristia" (1922), the cycle "Voronezh Notebooks" (published 1966). The book "Conversation about Dante" (published 1967), autobiographical prose, articles on poetry. Repressed; rehabilitated posthumously. "Poems about the Unknown Soldier" - one of the highest, brilliant creations of Osip Mandelstam - is at the same time one of the most significant works of world poetry of the 20th century. It was written on March 1-15, 1937. During the rampant Red Terror in Russia. During the final formation of Fascism in the West. Between World War I and World War II... Let's remember him....

Oral folk art of the summer cycle. Summer cycle of calendar rituals (general characteristics)

Oral folk art of the summer cycle is a continuation of the annual calendar rituals. The ancient ancestors of the Slavs celebrated the arrival of summer with the onset of heat, i.e. with "the complete victory of summer over winter." The summer cycle of folk art represents an integral system of ritual and poetic actions, which is rooted in hoary antiquity. As in other periods of the year, summer rituals were closely connected with ancient cults and beliefs, ancient mythology. The central holiday - Kupala, and all the others pass it on, are considered a kind of preparation, with increasing force they show the complete dominance of summer on earth ....

Russian poets often dedicated their poems to real or fictional objects of love and adoration. Thus, both the most ordinary women and unearthly muses from the world of dreams became them. However, there were cases when, in one harmonious unity, two hypostases of femininity merged into a symbolic whole, and this whole became extremely important, fundamental, paramount for the poet. It is to such lyrics that the present analysis will be devoted. Blok, whose "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" still excites hearts, created an imperishable, living image, and therefore it is impossible not to talk about him.

History of the collection

A lyrical cycle about great love, dedicated to the best of women, was created by the poet in the period from 1897 to 1904. This was the time of the development of Blok's stormy, but tense, nervous romance with Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, the whole gamut of feelings for which Alexander Alexandrovich, as if confessing, reflected in the poems of the collection. The well-bred and well-educated Lyuba made the poet rush from coldness to jealousy, from obsession to indifference, from happiness to joy. In the poems of Blok, who attributed himself to the direction of symbolism, the whole palette of love emotions acquired even greater significance, was raised to limits inaccessible to the consciousness of an ordinary man in the street.

But this is not all that will be preceded by further analysis. Blok ("Poems about the Beautiful Lady" - this is the first poetic collection on the account of the poet) was very ambiguous about his beloved: he believed that the earthly, carnal closeness of two people is an obstacle to the merging of souls, while Love wanted simple female happiness. Perhaps such an influence on the poet was made by his negative intimate experience: according to Blok, physical communication could only take place with a prostitute, and in the case of a worthy woman, this was identified in his mind with a vice.

Be that as it may, they met in their youth: she was 16, he was 17. Their communication, friendship and even mutual sympathy were interrupted, but later fate brought them together again, and Alexander Alexandrovich saw in this a mysterious omen, a sign sent over. They got married, although their happiness turned out to be shaky, fragile: Lyuba always begged her husband to leave mysticism and kiss her not on the pages of books, but in real life.

Who is the Beautiful Lady?

Without a description of the character of Lyubvi Mendeleeva, the analysis itself cannot take place. Blok, whose "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" to some extent played a cruel joke on the girl, spiritualized and idealized her image so much that a real, earthly, interesting personality was lost behind him. Lyuba was serious, strict, impregnable, and at the same time witty, calm, joyful. Golden-haired and ruddy, the granddaughter of the great chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev could not and did not want to spend her whole life searching for the mysterious meanings of love, “poser with the habits of a veil,” as she herself once called Blok.

The entire environment of the poet also saw in her the embodiment of eternal, ideal femininity, in connection with which they interpreted her gestures, behavior, mood, and outfits in different ways. The marriage of Alexander Alexandrovich and Mendeleev was considered a sacred mystery, capable of bestowing, according to V. Solovyov, purification of the world. There were also those who saw only negative properties in Love: for example, Anna Akhmatova called her “a hippopotamus that has risen on its hind legs,” and considered it a stuffed fool. The woman became literally a hostage to the current situation. As a result, she found what she was looking for - love, understanding, support ... But not in her husband, but in another man.

Fight of two (or more) knights

This is the last story that will precede the poetic analysis. Blok, whose poems about the Beautiful Lady could not satisfy the one to whom they were dedicated, soon turned out to be “overboard”: Love, who felt unnecessary and forgotten, began a relationship with her husband’s close friend, the poet Andrei Bely. This connection was finally interrupted only in 1907. Subsequently, Lyuba entered into an informal relationship with G. Chulkov, from whom even a child was born. Blok, who all this time continued to be the legal husband of Mendeleeva, agreed to become the father of the baby, since he could not have his own children, but the boy died a little more than a week after his birth.

And what about the poet?

Alexander Alexandrovich himself was also not sinless: he was seen in connection with the actress N. Volokhova, whom Lyubov even asked to take care of Sashenka, because he is "nervous" and "he needs a special approach." As a result, Volokhova decided to interrupt her presence in the life of this strange family. Alexander Alexandrovich died in 1921, Mendeleev died 18 years after her husband. She did not remarry for the rest of her life.

Sections of the collection and key poems of the cycle. "The wind brought from afar ..."

So, how did Blok put his worldview into practice? “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” (an analysis of the poem, and more than one, will be presented later) as a collection opens with the cycle “Ante Lucem”, which in Latin means “before the light”. The lyrical hero here is a lost, lonely person wandering in the dark. He is cut off from worldly happiness and joy, unable to experience them. The concept of two worlds is clearly traced: a creator with poetic thinking and a deep romantic soul wants to know the beyond, heavenly secrets, and in this he opposes the crowd that lives in an unremarkable earthly plane.

The cycle of poems about the Beautiful Lady (Block), the analysis of which requires a careful approach, is the second and central part of the collection of the same name. There is still no sense of reality, stability, but the creator gains hope - the incorporeal, obscure, Beautiful Lady must save him, fill existence with meaning. There is a transformation of the medieval motif of knightly service.

What do the poems about the Beautiful Lady look like? Alexander Blok, whose analysis of life and work has already been partially analyzed, created, for example, the poem "The wind brought from afar ...", which is associated with the wind of change, dynamics, change, rebirth. The eternal, deadly night from the poems of the first cycle begins to play with new colors - the reader seems to feel the imminent onset of spring, hears songs, distinguishes colors. No, the Beautiful Lady is not here yet, but everything speaks of her imminent arrival, of the destruction of the shackles of loneliness of the lyrical hero, of renewal.

“I enter dark temples…”

What are the most significant poems about the Beautiful Lady (Block)? An analysis, a short or full description of the history of the appearance of the collection, an emphasis on the poet's biography - none of the sections can do without the lyrical work "I enter the dark temples ...". Written in 1902, it is the quintessence of symbolism and mysticism. Here the reader is again faced with the uncertainty, the incorporeality of the described image, although certainty is sometimes found in the portrait of the Lady, for example, in the poem "She is slim and tall ...".

Here we are faced with the motive of expectation and ... fear. The lyrical hero yearns for a meeting, but is afraid of what it will bring him, afraid of being unworthy. It is no coincidence that the place of expectation in the work is the church - this only exalts the spirituality of the Beautiful Lady, her crystal purity and holiness.

The final part of the collection

The collection “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” (Block), the analysis of which was presented in detail in this article, closes with the “Crossroads” cycle. Here, the motives of hopelessness, confusion of the lyrical hero, anxiety are clearly manifested, the predominance of realistic components becomes more and more obvious. The social problems raised (in the poems "Factory", "From the newspapers", "Is everything calm among the people? ..") remain without resolution.

The motive of the “end of the world” becomes dominant: the lyrical hero, and the poet himself, no longer hopes for salvation, for the arrival of the Beautiful Lady, for the possibility of purification and rebirth. He withdraws from the spiritless existence and no longer participates in what is happening.

Poems about the "Beautiful Lady" are the first step of Alexander Alexandrovich Blok in his
Many years of creative journey from romantic symbolism to critical realism. This is the first and most
Ingenious, in my opinion, his achievement. These works are amazingly beautiful, warmly and gently written ...
Poems about the “Beautiful Lady” were written at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a difficult, troubled time; time
Reassessment of values, revision of life principles; time of repression and revolution, protest, humiliation and
Ignoring the person as a person. Everyone suffered from the peasant to the nobleman. Thus people
Exhausted by the ruthless reality, they were looking for an outlet, peace in the mystical.
Solovyov's philosophy had a huge influence on the formation of the worldviews of many of Blok's contemporaries.
Especially the thesis: “the very love of the world is revealed through love for a woman ... in love is our salvation ...”, so is our
The poet, creating his small works, tried to hide from the gray, rough reality, sought salvation in
Paradise, perhaps even utopian, the world of his endless love for the “Beautiful Lady”, in her beauty,
"Eternal Femininity". The poet completely dissolved in the pool of beautiful dreams, the worship of this heavenly goddess, he
He clearly saw every feature of her face, knew everything about the creature created by his thought, he was a slave to his dreams:
Your passions defeated by force,
Weak under the yoke.
Sometimes a servant; sometimes - cute;
And forever - a slave.
For some reason, Blok foresaw the arrival of this amazing maiden, he was afraid that on the way to reality, a gentle creature
Will lose some of its original beauty:
How clear is the horizon! And radiance is near.
But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance.
In fear of the terrible, burning and corroding everything in its path, the elemental world, Alexander Alexandrovich
He himself begins to look for his “Beautiful Lady”: a soft, bewitching voice in bustling shops, a quiet
Breathing in the noise of an unceasing street, a modest look in the crowd of passers-by... Looking for a soulless, wordless creation
His own - finds an even more beautiful, real, living woman, independent and free, like the wind, light and
Transparent ... His soul was overflowing with joy, hope for happiness, he wanted to take his beloved by the arm and
Fly to a free future. The power of beauty of Lydia Dmitrievna Mendeleeva (It was truly a “Beautiful Lady”:
Graceful, educated. She illuminated everyone not only with the light of the goodness of her heart, but outwardly she was like a golden
A ray of sun in the gray dust of the present: a blond braid neatly descended to the waist, huge sapphire eyes
Often woke sincere smiles on the tired faces of ordinary people.) was so large and bright that he could not
He was afraid of getting hurt on the sharp thorns of all-consuming time, on the evil “rabbit looks of drunkards”, ridicule
“twelve” on that long and bottomless journey to the shining star of supreme contentment somewhere in the distance:
And full of cherished trembling
Long awaited years
We will rush off-road
Into the unspeakable world.
So the poet fell in love with an earthly woman, forever burying somewhere in the depths of his soul the image of his dream. That's what he
Then I felt:
No longing, no love, no resentment,
Everything faded, passed, departed ...
White camp, voices of a memorial service
And your golden oar.
But nevertheless, the "Beautiful Lady" was still alive, she simply reincarnated, like Blok's feelings. They are
They became even more sublime and at the same time closer to reality. Alexander Alexandrovich is still up to the end
He did not believe in the reality of the existence of Lydia Dmitrievna. He loved her with pure, sincere, divine love,
He trembled at the thought of frightening her away, believed that she would fly away like a butterfly if she heard footsteps nearby, and therefore
For a very long time I simply admired the perfection of her beauty:
In the shadow of a tall column
I tremble at the creak of doors.
And he looks into my face, illumined,
Only an image, only a dream about Her.
In those moments, the lover knew for sure that it was this girl who was his “Majestic Eternal Wife”, the same
The half that he was lucky to meet at the very beginning of his life:
I hear neither sighs nor speeches,
But I believe: Honey - You.
It was really her. In January 1903, the solemn marriage of Alexander
Aleksandrovich Blok and Lydia Dmitrievna Mendeleeva.
The great poet lived with this woman until the last day of his life, and until his last breath he did not stop her.
Be in love. Over the years, this feeling grew stronger, in the most difficult moments only the thought of a loved one helped to survive and gave
The strength to rise again and again and move on towards your cherished goal, at least a little distract from the evil
The injustices of life
... And there, having sharpened axes,
merry red people,
Laughing, lit fires ...
With me - spring thought,
I know you are not alone...
Or:
The violins groan indefatigably
Sings to me: “Live!”
The image of a beloved girl -
A tale of sweet love.
It was this tender feeling that illuminated the entire life path of the poet.
Blok was able to brilliantly depict him in his cycle of poems about the “Beautiful Lady”. Each
Of which there is a small masterpiece, as it was written under the influence of emotions, moments, fragments ... All these
Separate and coordinated fragments are alive, each of them breathes love, and if you listen, you can even feel
The rhythm of his heartbeat:
Oh I'm used to these robes
Majestic Eternal Wife!
Run high on the ledges
Smiles, fairy tales and dreams!
The poet poured the raging music of his feelings into poetry, and now each of us can enjoy this wonderful
Consonance in the cycle “About the Beautiful Lady”.

(No ratings yet)

Other writings:

The poet created his first book under the strong influence of the philosophical ideas of Vladimir Solovyov. In this teaching, the poet is attracted by ideas about the ideal, about striving for it as the embodiment of Eternal Femininity - beauty and harmony. Blok gives his ideal image a name - Beautiful Read More ......
You can only give birth to a symbolist - Xia ... to be an artist - that means you are - To hold the wind from the worlds of art, Completely different from this world, Only influencing it; in those mi - Rach there are no causes and effects, time AND space, dense and Read More ......
The central cycle of the first volume of Blok's lyrical trilogy is “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”. It was these poems that until the end of his life remained for Blok the most beloved. As you know, they reflected the love affair of the young poet with his future wife L. D. Mendeleeva and Read More ......
In our opinion, the poems “I am waiting for a call, looking for an answer ...”, “Twilight, spring twilight ...”, “I believe in the Sun of the Covenant ...”, “I, a boy, light candles ...”, will give a completely clear idea of Blok’s early lyrics ... “I enter dark temples…”, “We met with you at sunset…”. “Poems Read More ......
Alexander Blok entered the history of literature as an outstanding lyric poet. Having begun his poetic path with a book of mystical poems about a beautiful Lady, Blok completed his twenty years of work in Russian literature with a curse on the old world in the poem “The Twelve”. Blok went through a difficult creative path from a symbolist poet, Read More ......
The end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century incredibly enriched Russian culture. It is this time that is usually called the Silver Age of our painting, music, architecture and, of course, our literature. I would like to note that the work of writers and poets of the Silver Age is generally very close to me. Read More ......
About a beautiful lady A model of unearthly love for A. Blok was his wife Lyubov Mendeleeva. In the first poetry, the author is anxious, waiting for the arrival of the only light that the soul so asks for. Anticipating her appearance, he silently waits, at the same time yearning and Read More ......
Lonely, I come to you, Bewitched by the fires of love. You're guessing - Don't call me - I myself have been telling fortunes for a long time. A. A. Blok Alexander Alexandrovich Blok is one of the most refined poets of Russian classical literature. Carried away in his youth by the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov about Read More ......

Analysis of Blok's poem "About the Beautiful Lady"

The central cycle is "Poems about the Beautiful Lady". The life story that formed the basis of these poems is the poet's love for L.D. Mendeleeva, who later became his wife. It was this plot of his life that Blok, in a letter to Bely, called "moments of too bright light".

During this period, Blok was fascinated by the ideas of the mystic philosopher and poet Vladimir Solovyov. Solovyov proclaims the existence of the Soul of the world, the Eternal Femininity, the Deity, existing in the female image, which strives into the world in order to transform it, purify it and save it from the impending catastrophe.

The romantic consciousness of the young Blok, striving for the ideal, in the guise of an earthly girl, his beautiful beloved, discerned the features of the Divine. He transformed the story of real, earthly love into a myth.

His beloved appears as a strict and majestic Deity, the Virgin of Light. She is devoid of specific features, because it is difficult, simply impossible to discern them in the radiance with which she is surrounded. Her appearance is embodied in the symbolic images of a lamp, a dawn, a lighthouse, a fire, a Biblical burning bush, a star, a flame.

She is the only light of his universe. And the poet addresses his beloved with “you”, but he always writes this word with a capital letter, and we understand that this is not a close “you”, but a prayerful “You”, with which a person turns to God. Therefore, for Her, Blok has another epithet - "holy." In the poems of this period, the image of the beloved is often associated with the image of the temple, church shrines, bell ringing, and icons. And the color palette of the first volume is connected with this, where the most common colors are blue ("azure", "azure"), white and gold - the colors of the temple.

She is strict, majestic, mysterious. In her presence, everything is shrouded in mystery. The epithet "mysterious" and the word "mystery" appear in the poems of the first volume in the most unusual and bizarre combinations. Here there is a "mysterious twilight" and "mysterious inflorescences", "moments of secrets" and "mystery of dawn". The whole world, waiting for Her coming, was an "eternal mystery", an "ancient mystery", an "incomprehensible mystery". She herself was a mystery. She has a "mysterious voice", a "mysterious look". She has no definite form, because She is not only a flash of light, but also an eternal mystery.

The world in anticipation of Her is dark and empty. This darkness, gloom is the antithesis of the "light" image of the Beautiful Lady. There are no specific signs of Her, because She is a dazzling light and mystery, but there are no specific signs of the world, because it is shrouded in darkness, darkness, night, darkness. The words of this "dark" row in the poems of the first volume are as often found as the light images. He perceives everything in the world as signs of Her appearance, which he expects, hopes and fears.

While waiting for Her in this world, he feels infinitely lonely. And in relation to Her, he feels like a slave, a monk who has accepted voluntary service, a youth who “lights candles” in the temple and throws white flowers over the church fence. His love is shy, timid, hopeless. And at the same time, his feeling is a passionate expectation, a premonition of a miracle.

Chukovsky writes about the first book of poems with delight: “He sang about this only - day after day for all six years: from 1898 to 1894 and dedicated 687 poems to this topic ... This, it seems, was not in Russian, nor in any other literature. Such a one-stringed soul!... Not once in all this time did he find a single word - another. There were streets around, women, restaurants, newspapers, but he did not become attached to anything, and so he walked like a seraph past all of our human hustle and bustle ... He did not say a word about us, he never even looked in our direction, and everything was there - in blue and pink. These words very accurately convey the mood of the main cycle of the first volume - "Poems about the Beautiful Lady".

"Poems about the Beautiful Lady", like the poems of the other two cycles, are written in the aesthetics of symbolism. The complexity of image-symbols, musicality, sound and color expressiveness, metaphorical complexity of the language, irrationality - these are the characteristic features that determine the peculiarity of the lyrics of the first volume. That is why immediately after the publication of the first collection of poetry (and "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" came out as a separate edition in 1904), Blok took a leading place in the circle of Russian symbolists. Another purely biographical remark. Alas, the poet did not make happy the woman to whom he dedicated the beautiful and unearthly words of love. Lyubov Dmitrievna was an ordinary woman who wanted simple human happiness: home, family, children. And she was elevated to the rank of Deity. She wrote Blok bitter words that he was "pulling" her to such heights, where she was "cold, scared and bored."

With his sense of homelessness, the catastrophic nature of life, with his attitude to earthly love as a "false road" that invariably ends in a dead end of disappointment and separation, of course, simple human happiness was impossible. Having survived all this, already in adulthood, in the verses of the third volume, he will say bitter words that the poet pays for the joys and torments of creativity with his own life (poem "And again the impulses of youth ...")

[biography]

Every person in one way or another is characterized by a sense of beauty, a desire for beauty. At all times, the personification of this was a woman, as we can judge from ancient myths and legends. A special cult of a woman, a lady, developed in the Middle Ages, in the era of chivalry. Let us recall Don Quixote, who, in the name of his Dulcinea, did a variety of, sometimes fantastic and absurd deeds. The great Dante and Petrarch in sublime, enthusiastic verses immortalized the images of their beloved Beatrice and Laura.

In Russian poetry of the Silver Age, the cult of a woman was embodied primarily in the poetry and philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. In his view, a woman personified the image of the World Soul, the Eternal Wife, Sophia the Wise, was a symbol of harmony, reason, love and beauty. The cult of the Eternal Femininity was further developed in the work of Alexander Blok, for whom Vladimir Solovyov became a spiritual teacher. It is Blok who owns unusually lyrical and tender poems about the Beautiful Lady.

Alexander Blok made his debut in poetry as a traditional romantic, and in his early poems there were corresponding motives: alienation from the crowd, disappointment in life, disbelief in happiness. And suddenly, in the darkness of unbelief, blindness, She appears - "clear", "radiant", "illumined", "golden". Blok describes it in the same way as icon painters usually depict the Mother of God surrounded by radiance. At the same time, a real, quite earthly woman, Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva, became the prototype of the Beautiful Lady.

At first glance, there is nothing in common between the "heavenly" Mother of God and the "earthly" beloved of the poet. But in his mind, there is a connection between them, and this connection is mystical. Just like the romantic poets, Blok recreates the image of a real woman in accordance with his ideal, turning her into a Beautiful Lady, into a Madonna. The poet himself (a lyrical hero) appears before us, according to the definition of J. Aikhenvald, “a knight and a pilgrim”.

He anticipates the Mother of God, follows “in the footsteps of her blue paths”, breaking ties with reality and transporting himself to a completely different world - the world of “dreams and fogs”, the world of dreams. Blok called the cycle of poems about the Beautiful Lady "a closed book of being", which reflected a journey through the "countries of the soul" in the "early morning dawn". "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" convey a special - prayerful - state of the soul of the hero (author), a state of inner contemplation. The lyrical hero of Blok contains the whole Universe, his soul is equal to the universe:

I don't care - the universe is in me ...

Block contrasts this ideal world with the real one. It is in the realm of the ideal that he seeks salvation from the vulgarity and rudeness of earthly existence:

Seeking salvation.

My fires burn on the heights of the mountains -

The whole region of the night was illuminated.

But the brightest of all is the spiritual gaze in me

And you are away.

The Beautiful Lady is the undivided mistress of the poet’s soul, the motive of insight is associated with her (“I am here at the end, full of insight”); she opens the way for him to comprehend Eternity, being her messenger:

I'm just waiting for a conditional vision

To fly off into another void ...

In many verses of the cycle, the image of the Beautiful Lady is incorporeal, unsteady, barely perceptible, perceived not so much by sight (internal) as by hearing (also internal):

The wind brought from afar

Your sound songs...

Thus, the Beautiful Lady becomes a link between the earthly (alien) and heavenly (native) worlds. We see that the lyrical hero values earthly attributes little - with all his being he strives upward. Let us turn to the poem "I enter the dark temples." The whole poem is imbued with a solemn mood, the hero is waiting for a meeting with her "in the flickering of red lamps." As you know, red is the color of fire, passion. This passion is filled with the soul of the beautiful Lady waiting for the appearance: "I'm trembling from the creak of doors." He desperately wants to see Her, but he knows that this is impossible:

And illumined looks into my face

Only an image, only a dream about Her.

This invisible presence is dearer to the hero than the real one. Moreover, he is afraid of a real meeting, which allows us to talk about, for example, a line from the poem “I foresee You”:

But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance.

The poet understands that the earthly embodiment of a dream is impossible without the destruction of the ideal.

As we can see, in the image of the Beautiful Lady there are more heavenly than earthly features: it seems sublime, absolutely inaccessible and incomprehensible. And yet the earth is present in it. This is indicated by the appeal to Her for “you”, earthly epithets (“sweetheart”), some features that make her appearance visible: “virgin robe”, “white dress”, “pale beauty”. In some poems, the image of the heroine fits the poet into a real earthly landscape:

We met at sunset

You cut the bay with an oar.

With all his striving upwards, the lyrical hero of Blok cannot completely break with the earth. Moreover, he begins to be weary of this gap, strives to "overcome dreams and fogs" in the name of gaining reality. That is why Blok called "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" the beginning of the "trilogy of incarnation."