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Analysis of A. Blok’s poem “We met you at sunset”

Students: Tatarnikova E.,

Ganakin I.,

Perova M..

In the poem “We Met You at Sunset,” a special world of a hero in love opens up before us.

The four-stanza poem is based on the plot of a meeting that does not promise a future, bordering on separation.

In addition, 2 motives are clearly expressed in the poem: the motive of the meeting (stanzas 1 and 2) and the motive of the lyrical hero’s parting with his beloved (3-4 stanzas).

The meeting of the heroes takes place at sunset, shrouded in the evening aura of mystery; this already initially indicates the “sunset” of the relationship. In addition, they are found against the backdrop of a river, which personifies the irreversible passage of time. She “cut the bay with an oar,” as if striking a blow to the feeling that is carried away by the river’s current.

The heroes have no future: all verbs in the poem are used in the past tense. Their dates are shrouded in fog, which symbolizes the instability, fragility, and illusory nature of their meetings.

But their dates were romantic, imbued with secrets that the evening hid. The image of evening candles emphasizes the purity and purity of their relationship.

Her image hides, slips away, and is also carried away by the current of the river. Her image is elusive, vague: we see only the outlines of her figure in a white dress (“I loved your white dress”). She is silent, incomprehensible, immaculate. He idolizes her image.

Vaguely, vaguely outlining Her image, the poet thereby mainly describes Feel lyrical hero. He sincerely loved Her unattainable image, “having fallen out of love with the sophistication of dreams.”

But reality does not accept their meetings. Therefore, in the 3rd stanza the motive of parting is clearly expressed: “...approaches, rapprochements, combustions - the azure silence does not accept...”. These lines are the boundary between the characters' relationships. The presence of a dash and an ellipsis once again emphasizes this gap.

But Her image for the hero is a source of eternal happiness, eternal joy, beauty. Despite the fact that there remains an emptiness in the hero’s soul: “... no melancholy, no love, no resentment, everything has faded, passed, moved away ...”, the last two lines of the poem: “White camp, voices of a memorial service // And your golden oar.” - sound like a song addressed to Greatness, Femininity, Beauty and Love.

The color scheme of the poem.

1st stanza. Bright red sunset on a dark river background.

2nd stanza. The dark background of their meeting.

3rd stanza. Evening fog against the background of the river bank, in the distance there is a light reflection of the moon.

4th stanza. Dawn, predominance of scarlet and gold colors. Her image is in white.

Sound recording.

The dominant vowels are “e, and” – tenderness and lordship; “o” – delight; "a" - splendor.

The consonants “v, l” symbolize affectionate, enveloping, pleasant.

These sounds fill the poem with musicality, melodiousness, and grandeur.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Blok“I, a lad, light the candles.”

Students: Lukyanova A.,

Lukina K.,

Vanyushin D.,
Kolotilina A.

The poem “I, a youth, light candles” consists of four stanzas, where the lines clearly rhyme with a cross rhyme. Poetic thought moves from stanza to stanza with the help of a lyrical plot that conveys the internal state of the lyrical hero (praying, admiring, admiring), who appears before us in the guise of a devoted, kneeling, obedient young admirer of Her image.

The mention of candles, censer fire, church fence, altar, as well as the dominance of white color (white church, white flowers) testify to the holiness of the image of the heroine, emphasizing Her purity and purity. In addition, the color white in Christian symbolism represents Faith.

In “Memoirs of Alexander Blok” by Sergei Solovyov we read: “The silence, modesty, simplicity, grace of Lyubov Dmitrievna Mendeleeva charmed everyone... Her Titian and ancient Russian beauty also benefited from her ability to dress elegantly, white suited her most, but she was also good in white, and bright red..."

Now we can say with confidence that the symbolism white not accidental: he is under the impression of a romantic experience - A. Blok’s passion for L.D. Mendeleeva, and also personifies Faith in the Eternal, Pure, Beautiful, Feminine as the appearance of the sublime.

Fire and candles are associated with the color red, which symbolizes love. But for A. Blok, love is a mystery, something perfect, unearthly. We have not encountered any poems by A. Blok in which he wrote about love as a reality. Love is always just an image, a symbol, that is, the feeling of love available to the soul is never embodied in a real person. That is why Her image in the poem is immaterial: “She is without thought and without speech // on that shore she laughs.” They cannot meet - they are separated by a river. For the hero, she is a symbol of the ethereal concentration of Faith, Hope, Love.

He is a humble youth, lighting candles, ready to do anything for Her sake, in order to capture Her unearthly Face. Only through Her image can he comprehend the secrets of beauty and marriage.

Color scheme of the poem:

1 stanza. The red color of the incense fire and candles on the dark background of the interior church decoration. Blue river background. Her image on the other side in a white dress.

2nd stanza. White church against the backdrop of an evening sunset in a dusky blue twilight.

3 stanza. Her appearance is in bright light colors, a white church, a church fence, white flowers.

4th stanza. Dawn against a background of a foggy veil with a hint of scarlet.

Sound recording.

The vowels “a”, “o”, “e” dominate, which indicates the contrast of dark and light backgrounds: “a” - light, wide, “e” - warm, narrow, “o” - dark, endless. These sounds add beauty, smoothness, and melody to the sound of the poem.

« I enter dark temples …»

Students: Loburenko I.,

Gostyukhina G.

The poem incorporates the main motifs of the cycle “Poems about a Beautiful Lady.”

The reason for creating the poem was the meeting of A. Blok with L. D. Mendeleeva in St. Isaac’s Cathedral. An image appears before the lyrical hero that can only be compared with Pushkin’s Madonna. This is “the purest example of pure beauty.” In the poem, with the help of color, sound and associative symbols, the image of the Beautiful Lady of the lyrical Hero mysteriously and indefinitely appears before us. All words and stanzas are full of special significance: “Oh, I’m used to these vestments,” “Oh, holy ..." - with the help of anaphora, the author emphasizes the importance of the event.

The intonation is solemn and prayerful, the hero longs and begs for a meeting, he trembles and trembles all over in anticipation of her. He expects something wonderful, majestic and completely worships this miracle.

“The flickering of red lamps” does not allow us to clearly see the image of the Beautiful Lady. She is silent, inaudible, but words are not needed to understand and respect Her. The hero understands Her with his soul and raises this image to heavenly heights, calling her “The Majestic Eternal Wife.”

Church vocabulary (lamps, candles) places the image of the Beautiful Lady on a par with the deity. Their meetings take place in the temple, and the temple is a kind of mystical center that organizes the space around itself. A temple is an architecture that strives to recreate a world order that amazes with harmony and perfection. An atmosphere is created corresponding to the anticipation of contact with the deity. The image of the Mother of God appears before us as the embodiment of the harmony of the world, which fills the hero’s soul with reverence and peace.

He is a loving, selfless, under the impression of a beautiful person. She is that beautiful and ethereal thing that makes the hero shudder: “And an illuminated image looks into my face, only a dream about her,” “I tremble from the creaking of doors...” She is the concentration of his faith, hope and love.

Color palette consists of dark shades of red (“In the flickering of red lamps...”), which convey sacrifice: the hero is ready to give up his life for the sake of his beloved (red is the color of blood); yellow and gold colors (candles and church images), carrying warmth directed towards a person and the special value of the surrounding existence. Tall white columns elevate the significance of both the image of the Beautiful Lady and the emotional feelings of the hero. Blok wrapped everything that happened in the poem in darkness, covered it with a dark veil (“dark temples”, “in the shadow of a high column”) in order to somehow protect this closeness and holiness of the characters’ relationship from the outside world.

Color painting. Sound recording.

Stanza 1: the sounds “a”, “o”, “e” combine tenderness, light, warmth, delight. The tones are light and shimmering. (Color white, yellow.)

Stanza 2: sounds “a”, “o”, “and” - constraint, fear, darkness. The light is diminishing. The picture is unclear. (Dark colors.)

Stanza 3: The darkness leaves, but the light comes slowly. The picture is unclear. (A mixture of light and dark colors.)

Stanza 4: the sounds “o”, “e” carry ambiguity, but bring the greatest flow of light, expressing the depth of the hero’s feelings.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Blok"The girl sang in the church choir".

Students: Vishnyakova A.,

Novikova A.

In this poem, the poet conveys the interaction of the Eternal Feminine, beauty with the reality of life, that is, the connection between the earthly and the Divine.

At the beginning of the poem there is peace, tranquility. A church is depicted, a singing girl, and in the background there are ships sailing into the sea, people who have forgotten their joy. The girl in the church song empathizes with “...the tired in a foreign land, the ships that have gone to sea and forgotten their joy.” Her song is a prayer for those torn away from their native home, for those abandoned to a foreign land. The peaceful singing prompted everyone from the darkness to look at her white dress and listen to the mournful song. The darkness and her white dress symbolize the sinful and the holy in this cruel world. With her singing, she instilled in people a piece of sincere kindness, hope for a better, brighter future: “...And it seemed to everyone that there would be joy, that all the ships were in a quiet backwater, that tired people in a foreign land had found a bright life for themselves.”

We see the unity of those present in the church in one spiritual impulse. Even at the beginning of the poem there was no hope for happiness, a bright life. But when her gentle voice was heard from the darkness and a white dress appeared, illuminated by a beam, then the confidence came that the world was beautiful, it was worth living for the sake of beauty on Earth, despite all the troubles and misfortunes. But in the midst of universal happiness, someone will be deprived and unhappy - the one who went to war. And now the warrior will live only with memories, hoping for the best.

With her dazzling radiance and gentle voice, the girl gave people the opportunity to forget for a moment about what was happening outside the church. In the image of the girl they saw that ray of life that they so needed. They saw her not as a simple girl, but as a Divinity who descended from heaven to the sinful earth to save their souls. In the last column of the poem, the cry of a child is a harbinger of war. After all, the poem was written in 1905 (the end of the Russo-Japanese War).

Helps us understand the deeper meaning of the poem color background. If at the beginning of the poem people are absorbed in darkness, then at the end of the poem the dark tones turn into light. It seemed to them that they “...found a bright life.”

In the fourth stanza, in the third line - “...participated in secrets, - the child cried” - this child is prophetic, the future is open to him, he knew in advance the tragic outcome for Russia in the war in the summer of 1905. The child personifies rebirth, renewal, everything that is bright and innocent. And in this case, he is a child prophet, foreseeing a difficult future for Russia.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Blok “She is slim and tall”

Students: Wirtz Yu.,

Miller A.,

Vdovina S.,
Lychagin D..

The poetic thought in the poem “She is slender and tall” moves from stanza to stanza with the help of a lyrical plot: waiting to meet her beloved. The poem sounds in a sublime tone. “She is slim and tall...” - speaks of the heroine’s inaccessibility. With the help of these lines we present real features that elevate Her image. With the words “Always arrogant and stern,” the author emphasizes Her constancy and inviolability. She is the ideal for the lyrical hero, but is inaccessible and unattainable for him. The hero lives to see Her every day, to know that She is nearby. He does not expect reciprocity and does not ask for anything in return, he is ready to do anything for Her sake, he watches and, as it were, protects Her Majestic image. He knows every hour, moment of Her life in advance. But we understand that the hero does not see the real girl, but only represents Her. Her image is not clear to us, it is incomprehensible and vague: “... She is – and with her the reflection is shaky.” The lyrical hero is so exhausted by anticipation that the author compares him to a villain. The villain is a symbol of darkness, he is never seen. Likewise, the hero is constantly in the shadows, and therefore his image is invisible. We only feel his presence nearby. He constantly pursues Her. He plays hide and seek, does not give his beloved the opportunity to find himself, does not show himself, always remains at a distance.

Here a third person appears - the rival of the lyrical hero. But it is also surrounded by a dark background. We do not see a clear image, again unclear, dark, incomprehensible.

The line “And I watched and sang their meetings” delighted us most of all. The lyrical hero not only accepts, but glorifies his choice, still remaining at a distance from Her. But still, with his heart and soul, he is with Her, does not leave Her for a moment, follows every meeting.

With the words “Yellow lights and electric candles flashed,” the author illuminates the path of the lyrical hero along which he follows his beloved, illuminates his pure feelings. Yellow and “electric” colors confirm the hero’s true and warm feelings. The line “She had a presentiment of something” suggests that at least for a moment, the heroine still feels His closeness, understands that someone lives with fiery love for Her. Although She will only think about it and not believe it, because she does not know about the existence of the lyrical hero, this is the whole tragedy.

Sometimes the heroine begins to anticipate his presence, and he has hope and the possibility that she will finally notice him. But even at this moment the hero is hiding, hiding somewhere far away, not just far away, but into the depths, which will darken him again. “Blind dark gates” symbolize invisibility, obscurity, fog. They help the lyrical hero to be in a constant shadow, but at the same time they divide him, separate him from his beloved, become a kind of barrier, and a dark one, which kills the opportunity to break out to the heroine. Not only the beloved, but everyone does not see the lyrical hero. He completely cut himself off from the outside world, dedicated himself and his life only to Her. He does not need communication with others, the world is alien to him. Only She is the meaning of his life, thanks to love for Her he lives. At the same time, he watches his opponent, perhaps evaluating him, but not in order to compare him with himself, but to rejoice at the choice of his beloved. In the line “Her silver-black fur,” the hero again notices Her peculiarity. Even clothes elevate, place Her higher. Silver is associated with shine, which gives purity and sincerity to the heroine. The fur says that the image is dear to the hero; he always keeps it in his heart. The heroine’s whispering lips prove that he can only hear a whisper, since he is not given the opportunity to understand what this Beautiful Goddess and “Saint” is talking about.

The heroes of the poem are He and She.

HE is earthly, so down to earth that he is afraid to leave the ground. He is a mortal and sinful man. In the poem he takes the role of an observer, since he is at a distance from his beloved, unable to be close, he is in constant motion, as evidenced by the presence of verbs: watched, ran, knew. Possesses pure love, which fills the life of the lyrical hero with reverence and peace. Has mental pain, sadness, embarrassment, which causes a strong feeling of separation. Lives for the sake of the ideal he worships. She is the meaning of his life. He remains with devotion in his soul and sincere joy because his beloved is happy.

SHE is the embodiment of “Deity”, “Goddess”, “Majestic Wife”, “Saint”. The image has many faces: on the one hand, it is an earthly woman, and on the other, a majestic, sublime one, likened to the image of the “Mother of God,” who embodies the harmony of the world, takes the role of an ideal that fills the hero’s life with meaning. It has the properties of something mysterious, mystical, unearthly, silent. He has the love of an eternal admirer, about whom he knows nothing and has no idea of ​​his existence.

The heroes are separated by the incompatibility of Earth and Sky. They are from different worlds. They are united by an unsolved mystery that, like a cloud, envelops the heroes. We do not see a single clear image of the heroes; they are darkened, unclear, vague.

Sound recording. Color painting.

The sound “e” predominates, which elevates the breadth of the hero’s feelings. The combination of the sounds “o” and “a” is filled with symbolic meaning, expressing the splendor, height, delight and depth of the hero’s feelings for the Beautiful Lady.

Her image appears in dark silver tones, the sounds “d” and “t” denote fog and darkness. The silvery color and “shaky reflection” speak of the slight ease of the characters’ relationship. At the same time, her severity and arrogance worsen the relationship; one can immediately predict the impossibility of a connection between them.

The structure of the first three stanzas is the same; they consist of simple sentences. There are dots at the end of the lines. This means that the hero is confident in himself.

The structure of the last two stanzas is combined into one difficult sentence. Here dark, cold colors begin to thicken, which confirms the predominance of the “i” sound.

The intonation is calm, even, not emotionally elevated. There are no punctuation marks expressing violent feelings.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Block "Stranger"

Students: Vorobyova A.,

Zaitseva A.,

Lavoshnichenko T.,
Khoroshavtseva A.

The poem is built on the principle of contrast.

In the first stanza of the poem, the central place is occupied by the restaurant, which symbolizes the evening chaos. Chaos is not only in the city itself, but also in the souls, in the minds of people. Before the lyrical hero there appears a realistic picture of a vulgar, unspiritual life, which the hero rejects, but he himself cannot get out of. Nature is likened to wild life; it does not want to see what is happening around: “the hot air is wild and deaf.” It's spring outside, but here it is not a symbol of fragrance, life and happiness. It is rather imbued with the spirit of decay and decay. Hot air intoxicates already drunk people. And all this is ruled by a “spring and pernicious spirit” - the spirit of death and decay of society. Just as dirt is exposed in the spring, so in the evening drunk people are exposed. They enjoy only earthly vulgar things, but not anything sublime.

In the second stanza, instead of urban chaos, we see the dacha chaos that reigns everywhere. There should be fresh, clean air at the dachas, but there isn’t, and there is dust everywhere, making it difficult to breathe. The picture of everyday life is depicted - endless, hopeless. The baby's crying confirms this. The child feels bad, he feels this chaos like no one else.

The “bakery pretzel,” which is “a little golden,” is the hope of saving those “drowning” in vulgarity. Everyone sees this clearing, but no one strives for it, because everyone is accustomed to an idle life. This bakery has probably been closed for a long time. Bread, which is “the head of everything,” has become of no use to anyone. And therefore, “the bakery’s pretzel turns a little golden,” which, with the onset of evening, loses its need.

The third stanza begins with the words: “and every evening behind the barrier...”. A barrier separates one world from another. The idle evening life of wits begins with the same thing - walks. “Bowler hats” indicate that these are people from the upper class. The wits walk around “wringing their bowlers” in greeting, and at the same time they probably have a smile on their face. But she is not sincere, but, most likely, selfish, “pasted” - they smile for the purpose of personal gain. Wealth does not make the “wits” better - they all walk among ditches, and ditches are not the best place for walking, only disgust arises. The image of “wit” is associated with upstarts, egoists and buffoons. The word “wit” is used with the epithet “tested,” i.e. accustomed to their “title”

The first line of the fourth stanza sets us in a romantic mood: “oarlocks creak over the lake...”. But then we hear a disgusting screech, which makes our souls feel tight, maybe a little scary.

The moon, which is a symbol of love, should set one in a romantic mood, but it “curls senselessly” in the sky. Blok compares it to a disk, and with this word an image of something metallic and unnatural appears. In this world, it has lost its properties - it is more like an electric light bulb. The author personifies her, saying that she is “accustomed” to everything that is happening in the world.

The next two stanzas are a transition to another picture, directly opposed to the surrounding vulgarity. From these lines we learn that the lyrical hero is lonely: “and every evening my only friend is reflected in my glass.” Maybe this friend is nothing more than a reflection in the glass of the lyrical hero himself. He called the wine with which he “stunned” his grief “tart and mysterious” moisture. In the last stanza of the first part, the author once again emphasizes the earthiness of the situation in which people find themselves. The lackeys “stick around” here, for them it’s a job and, despite humiliation and physical fatigue, they have to court “drunkards with rabbit eyes.” The poet compares these people to animals. Man has sunk so low that he has lost all his qualities, and now he obeys only animal instincts. And in the lives of these “suicides” there was only one truth left - wine.

In the first part, low vocabulary is used: “wild, drunk, pernicious, alley dust, crying, screeching, crooked, sticking out, screaming.”

In the second part, Blok speaks sublimely and mysteriously. At the beginning of the poem, the real world is depicted. However, the next six stanzas in content and poetics constitute such an obvious contrast to the first part.

The lyrical hero is dissatisfied with the real world. This makes him go into the world of dreams, fantasies and fantasies. He confused himself and now cannot understand whether this is a dream or reality.

But She appears - a Stranger who completely intoxicates Him. She is a ghost who comes from the darkness. She “moves”, “slowly” walks. The dirt of the surrounding vulgar environment does not come into contact with Her, It seems to float above her. The lyrical hero does not know who this woman is, but He elevates Her to a heavenly deity. The fact is that the Stranger is both the embodiment of high beauty and the product of the “terrible world” of reality - a woman from the world of “drunkards with rabbit eyes.”

When She “floated” among the drunken people, no one paid attention to Her except the lyrical hero, because She is a figment of his imagination. The stranger is lonely: “always without companions, alone.” And while waiting for something, “she sits by the window.” It is not by chance that She sits down at the window: moonlight falls on Her from the window, which gives Her great mystery, enigma and sets Her apart from the crowd. Just as people sailing in boats do not see the beauty of the moon, so the drunkards surrounding the Stranger cannot appreciate Her charms. She sits by the window to admire the beauty of the moon and not see all the vulgarity surrounding Her.

Let us remember what the air was like at the beginning of the poem - suffocating, heavy, rotten. And now “breathing spirits and mists” is air inspired by something light, divine, inaccessible to the lyrical hero. He exalts Her to the point that he himself cannot approach Her. But at the same time He is chained with a “strange intimacy.” He wants to unravel, understand who She is.

Her “elastic slit” “winds”. At this word we shudder; it blows a light breeze over us. We can imagine that “her elastic silks” are swaying in the wind - this gives her lightness and ghostliness. The rings are like handcuffs that do not allow her to escape from the world of vulgarity. This world surrounded Her on all sides. Because of this, She wears a hat with “mourning feathers.”

He and She are united by loneliness. Therefore He is “chained by intimacy.” Behind the appearance of the Stranger, the hero sees “an enchanted shore, an enchanted distance.” He wants to go to Her in the “enchanted distance”, to get away from the world of vulgarity, which a minute ago seemed invincible. She is nearby, on the other side, where goodness reigns, where everything is beautiful. The stranger is so far and high that the hero can only admire Her, but is not able to reach Her. He must unravel the mysteries of life: “deep secrets have been entrusted to me, someone’s heart has been entrusted to me...”. He came up with Her past and present, and completed Her state of mind in his imagination. The hero is given the Stranger's secret. He must solve it in order to get to the “enchanted shore.” The sun is the secret. It is a symbol of happiness and love. And the feeling and understanding of this dedication to other people’s secrets gives the lyrical hero such a strong feeling, as if “all the bends were pierced by tart wine.” The wine enabled him to swim to where “bottomless blue eyes bloom on the far shore.” The heroine is “ingrained” into his imagination; he cannot get a single detail of Her image out of his head, even “ostrich feathers.” He drowns in Her bottomless eyes, which beckon Him to the other shore - a symbol of new life, new discoveries.

The last stanza of the poem is built on understanding what happened in the hero’s soul. He woke up from a fairy tale, a dream world. The hero guessed the secret: “the truth is in wine.” The guessed secret, which opened the possibility of another life on the far shore, far from the vulgarity accepted by everyone, is perceived by him as a newfound treasure, “and the key is entrusted only to me.” The wine that hits his head helps him gain faith and hope, and he shouts: “You’re right, you drunken monster! I know: the truth is in the wine.” It is not for nothing that he called himself a monster - he remains one, but dedication to the secret charm of another world, albeit in the imagination, is established as truth.

The salvation of the lyrical hero is that He remembers about the existence of unconditional love, longs to believe, yearns for the only love.

The cycle “Poems about a Beautiful Lady” (1901-1902) became central in the first volume of A. Blok’s lyrical trilogy. In it, the poet focused on “new poetry”, which reflected the philosophical teachings of Vl. Solovyov about Eternal Femininity, or about the Soul of the World. “Poems about a Beautiful Lady” were connected for Blok with his youthful love for his future wife L. D. Mendeleeva and therefore were dear to him all his life. Vl. Soloviev, in his teaching, argued that only through love can one comprehend the truth, unite with the world in harmony, and defeat selfishness and evil within oneself. He believed that everything feminine contains a life-giving principle. Mother, wife, lover - they are the ones who save the cruel world from destruction. “High” love for a woman can reveal the hidden secrets of the world and connect a person with heaven.

In this cycle, Blok’s lyrical hero no longer experiences melancholy and loneliness, as in the early poems, the perception of the world and the emotional tone of the poems change. They acquire an elegiac tone and mystical content. At that time, the poet was tensely waiting for a revelation, calling on the Beautiful Lady. He wanted the time of truth and happiness, the transformation of the world, to come sooner. Blok expressed his feelings through symbolism. He animated Femininity itself, calling his dream Eternally Young, Eternal Wife, Princess, Saint, Virgin, Dawn, Bush.

The images of the Beautiful Lady and the lyrical hero, her knight, are dual. Poems that talk about “earthly” love for a real woman are classified as intimate lyrics. The hero is waiting for his Lady, gives her description:

She is slim and tall, always arrogant and stern.

For the hero, she is a deity whom he worships, although he sees her only from afar or in the evening “at sunset.” Every meeting with her is a joyful and long-awaited event. Either she is dressed in “silver fur”, then in a “white dress”, she goes “into the dark gates”. These traits real woman suddenly disappear, and the poet already sees the mystical image of the “Virgin of the Rainbow Gate”, calls her “Clear”, “Incomprehensible”. The same thing happens to the hero himself. Either he is “young, and fresh, and in love,” then he imagines himself as a monk lighting candles in front of the altar in the Temple of the Virgin, then as her knight. Before us are living heroes and the hard work of their souls, capable of feeling deeply and strongly. The dramatic anticipation of the arrival of the Beautiful Lady is caused by the hero's doubts. He feels unworthy of Her. Blok contrasts the earthly and the heavenly, the physical and the spiritual. The lyrical hero passionately longs for the arrival of the Beautiful Lady, but he is an earthly man, with weaknesses and shortcomings, living according to earthly laws. Will he be able to begin to live according to the laws of love, truth and beauty? The hero calls for light and deity, but will he survive? Material from the site

The hero strives for the light with all his soul, but is still in darkness. Hence, one of the central themes of the cycle is the theme of the path to light. The hero repeats “Come!”, addressing the Beautiful Lady. Her image is an embodied secret that she can reveal to people. Soberly assessing the state of human aspirations, the poet did not hope for quick changes in the souls of people, so he writes: “You are far, both before and now...” Blok, using symbols, tried to tell readers that if people do not follow the path of good, love and justice, then a universal catastrophe awaits them. But still, his hero believes that someday life will change for the better: “But I believe you will rise”; “You will open the Radiant Face.”

Blok used and transformed his personal experiences in his creativity. The cycle “Poems about a Beautiful Lady” should be considered as a love and landscape lyrics, as a mystical-philosophical story about the poet’s path to Sophia, that is, to wisdom, and about the path of the world to spiritual Transfiguration.

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The poetic thought in the poem “She is slender and tall” moves from stanza to stanza with the help of a lyrical plot: waiting to meet her beloved. The poem sounds in a sublime tone. “She is slim and tall...” - speaks of the heroine’s inaccessibility. With the help of these lines we present real features that elevate Her image. With the words “Always arrogant and stern,” the author emphasizes Her constancy and inviolability. She is the ideal for the lyrical hero, but is inaccessible and unattainable for him. The hero lives to see Her every day, to know that She is nearby. He does not expect reciprocity and does not ask for anything in return, he is ready to do anything for Her sake, he watches and, as it were, protects Her Majestic image. He knows every hour, moment of Her life in advance. But we understand that the hero does not see the real girl, but only represents Her. Her image is not clear to us, it is incomprehensible and vague: “... She is – and with her the reflection is shaky.” The lyrical hero is so exhausted by anticipation that the author compares him to a villain. The villain is a symbol of darkness, he is never seen. Likewise, the hero is constantly in the shadows, and therefore his image is invisible. We only feel his presence nearby. He constantly pursues Her. He plays hide and seek, does not give his beloved the opportunity to find himself, does not show himself, always remains at a distance.

Here a third person appears - the rival of the lyrical hero. But it is also surrounded by a dark background. We do not see a clear image, again unclear, dark, incomprehensible.

The line “And I watched and sang their meetings” delighted us most of all. The lyrical hero not only accepts, but glorifies his choice, still remaining at a distance from Her. But still, with his heart and soul, he is with Her, does not leave Her for a moment, follows every meeting.

With the words “Yellow lights and electric candles flashed,” the author illuminates the path of the lyrical hero along which he follows his beloved, illuminates his pure feelings. Yellow and “electric” colors confirm the hero’s true and warm feelings. The line “She had a presentiment of something” suggests that at least for a moment, the heroine still feels His closeness, understands that someone lives with fiery love for Her. Although She will only think about it and not believe it, because she does not know about the existence of the lyrical hero, this is the whole tragedy.

Sometimes the heroine begins to anticipate his presence, and he has hope and the possibility that she will finally notice him. But even at this moment the hero is hiding, hiding somewhere far away, not just far away, but into the depths, which will darken him again. “Blind dark gates” symbolize invisibility, obscurity, fog. They help the lyrical hero to be in a constant shadow, but at the same time they divide him, separate him from his beloved, become a kind of barrier, and a dark one, which kills the opportunity to break out to the heroine. Not only the beloved, but everyone does not see the lyrical hero. He completely cut himself off from the outside world, dedicated himself and his life only to Her. He does not need communication with others, the world is alien to him. Only She is the meaning of his life, thanks to love for Her he lives. At the same time, he watches his opponent, perhaps evaluating him, but not in order to compare him with himself, but to rejoice at the choice of his beloved. In the line “Her silver-black fur,” the hero again notices Her peculiarity. Even clothes elevate, place Her higher. Silver is associated with shine, which gives purity and sincerity to the heroine. The fur says that the image is dear to the hero; he always keeps it in his heart. The heroine’s whispering lips prove that he can only hear a whisper, since he is not given the opportunity to understand what this Beautiful Goddess and “Saint” is talking about. Heroes of the poem He and She .

HE– earthly, so down to earth that he is afraid to leave the ground. He is a mortal and sinful man. In the poem he takes the role of an observer, since he is at a distance from his beloved, unable to be close, he is in constant motion, as evidenced by the presence of verbs: watched, ran, knew. Possesses pure love, which fills the life of the lyrical hero with reverence and peace. Has mental pain, sadness, embarrassment, which causes a strong feeling of separation. Lives for the sake of the ideal he worships. She is the meaning of his life. He remains with devotion in his soul and sincere joy because his beloved is happy.

SHE- the embodiment of the “Deity”, “Goddess”, “Majestic Wife”, “Saint”. The image has many faces: on the one hand, it is an earthly woman, and on the other, a majestic, sublime one, likened to the image of the “Mother of God,” who embodies the harmony of the world, takes the role of an ideal that fills the hero’s life with meaning. It has the properties of something mysterious, mystical, unearthly, silent. He has the love of an eternal admirer, about whom he knows nothing and has no idea of ​​his existence.

“I love high cathedrals...” Alexander Blok

I love tall cathedrals
Humble your soul, visit,
Enter the gloomy choirs,
Disappear in the crowd of singers.
I'm afraid of my two-faced soul
And I bury it carefully
Your image is devilish and wild
Into this sacred armor.
In my superstitious prayer
I seek protection from Christ,
But from under the hypocritical mask
Lying lips laugh.
And quietly, with a changed face,
In the deathly flickering of candles,
I will awaken the memory of Two-Face
In the hearts of praying people.
Here the choirs trembled, fell silent,
They rushed to run in confusion...
I love tall cathedrals
Humbling your soul, visit.

Analysis of Blok’s poem “I Love High Cathedrals...”

The work of 1902, included in the corpus of “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” indicates the contours of the motif of duality, which will be developed in later cycles. The “sad” figure of an “aging youth” emerging from the unsteady “October fog” appears in the poem “Double” from the collection “ Scary world" The character turns to the lyrical hero: he reports that he is tired of the unfair lot that forces him to live “someone else’s” life.

In the artistic space of “I Love High Cathedrals...” the double of the lyrical “I” has not yet acquired its own flesh, but has managed to firmly establish itself in the “two-faced” soul of the hero. The internal contradictions that arise between the light and dark principles determine the strange behavior of the lyrical subject.

Christian meekness, the need for “superstitious prayer,” hope for help higher powers- all these traits belong to the light side of the soul, the “sacred armor”. Obeying her call, the hero comes to the temple. The “diabolical and wild” appearance manifests itself in the form of a mocking “hypocritical” mask with grinning “lying lips.” The hero, confused and frightened by his discovery, tries to hide the destructive part of his nature from the believers gathered in the temple. However, even the twilight, illuminated by the unfaithful “deadly” flame of candles, does not help the lyrical “I”. The “changed face”, reminiscent of the devil, is seen by others. The impression is so terrible that the congregation shudders, the singers fall silent and people flee from the church in panic.

The final couplet exactly repeats the first lines, but it is filled with the opposite meaning. Instead of humility, in the final refrain one hears ominous mockery and gloomy satisfaction of the dark face, this time having won victory over the soul.

“Mad laughter and crazy scream” are also heard in the final part of the poem “To the Double,” dated the end of 1901. The lyrical hero addresses his second self, calling him “poor friend,” funny and pitiful. The self-confident and cynical double predicts the disappearance of his rival and his imminent triumph associated with the appropriation of other people's awards.

In the work “She is slim and tall...” the lyrical subject follows the meeting of a loving couple, like a “villain” or “invisible” madman playing “hide and seek” on the gloomy city streets. He acts as the lover's double, described as a man with a "rough profile."

Color scheme of the poem:

1 stanza. The red color of the incense fire and candles on the dark background of the interior church decoration. Blue river background. Her image on the other side in a white dress.

2nd stanza. White church against the background of an evening sunset in dusk of a dull blue color. 3rd stanza. Her appearance is in bright light colors, a white church, a church fence, white flowers. 4th stanza. Dawn against a background of a foggy veil with a hint of scarlet.

Sound recording.

The vowels “a”, “o”, “e” dominate, which indicates the contrast of dark and light backgrounds: “a” - light, wide, “e” - warm, narrow, “o” - dark, endless. These sounds add beauty, smoothness, and melody to the sound of the poem.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Block "I enter dark temples …»

The poem incorporates the main motifs of the cycle “Poems about a Beautiful Lady.” The reason for creating the poem was the meeting of A. Blok with L. D. Mendeleeva in St. Isaac’s Cathedral. An image appears before the lyrical hero that can only be compared with Pushkin’s Madonna. This is “the purest example of pure beauty.” In the poem, with the help of color, sound and associative symbols, the image of the Beautiful Lady of the lyrical Hero mysteriously and indefinitely appears before us. All words and stanzas are full of special significance: “Oh, I’m used to these vestments,” “Oh, holy ...” - with the help of anaphora, the author emphasizes the importance of the event. The intonation is solemn and prayerful, the hero thirsts and begs for a meeting, he trembles and trembles all over waiting for her. He expects something wonderful, majestic and completely worships this miracle. “The flickering of red lamps” does not allow us to clearly see the image of the Beautiful Lady. She is silent, inaudible, but words are not needed to understand and respect Her. The hero understands Her with his soul and raises this image to heavenly heights, calling her “The Majestic Eternal Wife.” Church vocabulary (lamps, candles) places the image of the Beautiful Lady on a par with the deity. Their meetings take place in the temple, and the temple is a kind of mystical center that organizes the space around itself. A temple is an architecture that strives to recreate a world order that amazes with harmony and perfection. An atmosphere is created corresponding to the anticipation of contact with the deity. The image of the Mother of God appears before us as the embodiment of the harmony of the world, which fills the hero’s soul with reverence and peace. He is a loving, selfless person, impressed by a beautiful person. She is that beautiful and ethereal thing that makes the hero shudder: “And an illuminated image looks into my face, only a dream about her,” “I tremble from the creaking of doors...” She is the concentration of his faith, hope and love. Color palette consists of dark shades of red (“In the flickering of red lamps...”), which convey sacrifice: the hero is ready to give up his life for the sake of his beloved (red is the color of blood); yellow and gold colors (candles and church images), carrying warmth directed towards a person and the special value of the surrounding existence. Tall white columns elevate the meaning of both the image of the Beautiful Lady and emotional feelings hero. Blok wrapped everything that happened in the poem in darkness, covered it with a dark veil (“dark temples”, “in the shadow of a high column”) in order to somehow protect this closeness and holiness of the characters’ relationships from the outside world. Color painting. Sound recording. 1st stanza: the sounds “a”, “o”, “e” combine tenderness, light, warmth, delight. The tones are light and shimmering. (Color white, yellow.) Stanza 2: sounds “a”, “o”, “and” - constraint, fear, darkness. The light is diminishing. The picture is unclear. (Dark colors.) Stanza 3: The darkness leaves, but the light comes in slowly. The picture is unclear. (A mixture of light and dark colors.) Stanza 4: the sounds “o”, “e” carry ambiguity, but bring the greatest flow of light, expressing the depth of the hero’s feelings.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Blok "The girl sang in the church choir" .

In this poem, the poet conveys the interaction of the Eternal Feminine, beauty with the reality of life, that is, the connection between the earthly and the Divine. At the beginning of the poem there is peace, tranquility. A church is depicted, a singing girl, and in the background there are ships sailing into the sea, people who have forgotten their joy. The girl in the church song empathizes with “...the tired in a foreign land, the ships that have gone to sea and forgotten their joy.” Her song is a prayer for those torn away from their native home, for those abandoned to a foreign land. The peaceful singing prompted everyone from the darkness to look at her white dress and listen to the mournful song. The darkness and her white dress symbolize the sinful and the holy in this cruel world. With her singing, she instilled in people a piece of sincere kindness, hope for a better, brighter future: “...And it seemed to everyone that there would be joy, that all the ships were in a quiet backwater, that tired people in a foreign land had found a bright life for themselves.” We see the unity of those present in the church in one spiritual impulse. Even at the beginning of the poem there was no hope for happiness, a bright life. But when her gentle voice was heard from the darkness and a white dress appeared, illuminated by a beam, then the confidence came that the world was beautiful, it was worth living for the sake of beauty on Earth, despite all the troubles and misfortunes. But in the midst of universal happiness, someone will be deprived and unhappy - the one who went to war. And now the warrior will live only with memories, hoping for the best. With her dazzling radiance and gentle voice, the girl gave people the opportunity to forget for a moment about what was happening outside the church. In the image of the girl they saw that ray of life that they so needed. They saw her not as a simple girl, but as a Divinity who descended from heaven to the sinful earth to save their souls. In the last column of the poem, the cry of a child is a harbinger of war. After all, the poem was written in 1905 (the end of the Russo-Japanese War). Helps us understand the deeper meaning of the poem color background. If at the beginning of the poem people are absorbed in darkness, then at the end of the poem the dark tones turn into light. It seemed to them that they “...found a bright life.” In the fourth stanza, in the third line - “...participated in secrets, - the child cried” - this child is prophetic, the future is open to him, he knew in advance the tragic outcome for Russia in the war in the summer of 1905. The child personifies rebirth, renewal, everything that is bright and innocent. And in this case, he is a child prophet, foreseeing a difficult future for Russia.

Analysis of the poem by A.A. Blok “She is slim and tall”

The poetic thought in the poem “She is slender and tall” moves from stanza to stanza with the help of a lyrical plot: waiting to meet her beloved. The poem sounds in a sublime tone. “She is slim and tall...” - speaks of the heroine’s inaccessibility. With the help of these lines we present real features that elevate Her image. With the words “Always arrogant and stern,” the author emphasizes Her constancy and inviolability. She is the ideal for the lyrical hero, but is inaccessible and unattainable for him. The hero lives to see Her every day, to know that She is nearby. He does not expect reciprocity and does not ask for anything in return, he is ready to do anything for Her sake, he watches and, as it were, protects Her Majestic image. He knows every hour, moment of Her life in advance. But we understand that the hero does not see the real girl, but only represents Her. Her image is not clear to us, it is incomprehensible and vague: “... She is – and with her the reflection is shaky.” The lyrical hero is so exhausted by anticipation that the author compares him to a villain. The villain is a symbol of darkness, he is never seen. Likewise, the hero is constantly in the shadows, and therefore his image is invisible. We only feel his presence nearby. He constantly pursues Her. He plays hide and seek, does not give his beloved the opportunity to find himself, does not show himself, always remains at a distance. Here a third person appears - the rival of the lyrical hero. But it is also surrounded by a dark background. We do not see a clear image, again unclear, dark, incomprehensible. The line “And I watched and sang their meetings” delighted us most of all. The lyrical hero not only accepts, but glorifies his choice, still remaining at a distance from Her. But still, with his heart and soul, he is with Her, does not leave Her for a moment, follows every meeting. With the words “Yellow lights and electric candles flashed,” the author illuminates the path of the lyrical hero along which he follows his beloved, illuminates his pure feelings. Yellow and “electric” colors confirm the hero’s true and warm feelings. The line “She had a presentiment of something” suggests that at least for a moment, the heroine still feels His closeness, understands that someone lives with fiery love for Her. Although She will only think about it and not believe it, because she does not know about the existence of the lyrical hero, this is the whole tragedy. Sometimes the heroine begins to anticipate his presence, and he has hope and the possibility that she will finally notice him. But even at this moment the hero is hiding, hiding somewhere far away, not just far away, but into the depths, which will darken him again. “Blind dark gates” symbolize invisibility, obscurity, fog. They help the lyrical hero to be in a constant shadow, but at the same time they divide him, separate him from his beloved, become a kind of barrier, and a dark one, which kills the opportunity to break out to the heroine. Not only the beloved, but everyone does not see the lyrical hero. He completely cut himself off from the outside world, dedicated himself and his life only to Her. He does not need communication with others, the world is alien to him. Only She is the meaning of his life, thanks to love for Her he lives. At the same time, he watches his opponent, perhaps evaluating him, but not in order to compare him with himself, but to rejoice at the choice of his beloved. In the line “Her silver-black fur,” the hero again notices Her peculiarity. Even clothes elevate, place Her higher. Silver is associated with shine, which gives purity and sincerity to the heroine. The fur says that the image is dear to the hero; he always keeps it in his heart. The heroine’s whispering lips prove that he can only hear a whisper, since he is not given the opportunity to understand what this Beautiful Goddess and “Saint” is talking about. Heroes of the poem He and She .HE– earthly, so down to earth that he is afraid to leave the ground. He is a mortal and sinful man. In the poem he takes the role of an observer, since he is at a distance from his beloved, unable to be close, he is in constant motion, as evidenced by the presence of verbs: watched, ran, knew. Possesses pure love, which fills the life of the lyrical hero with reverence and peace. Has mental pain, sadness, embarrassment, which causes a strong feeling of separation. Lives for the sake of the ideal he worships. She is the meaning of his life. He remains with devotion in his soul and sincere joy because his beloved is happy. SHE- the embodiment of the “Deity”, “Goddess”, “Majestic Wife”, “Saint”. The image has many faces: on the one hand, it is an earthly woman, and on the other, a majestic, sublime one, likened to the image of the “Mother of God,” who embodies the harmony of the world, takes the role of an ideal that fills the hero’s life with meaning. It has the properties of something mysterious, mystical, unearthly, silent. He has the love of an eternal admirer, about whom he knows nothing and has no idea of ​​his existence. The heroes are separated by the incompatibility of Earth and Sky. They are from different worlds. They are united by an unsolved mystery that, like a cloud, envelops the heroes. We do not see a single clear image of the heroes; they are darkened, unclear, vague. Sound recording. Color painting. The sound “e” predominates, which elevates the breadth of the hero’s feelings. The combination of the sounds “o” and “a” is filled with symbolic meaning, expressing the splendor, height, delight and depth of the hero’s feelings for the Beautiful Lady. Her image appears in dark silver tones, the sounds “d” and “t” denote fog and darkness. The silvery color and “shaky reflection” speak of the slight ease of the characters’ relationship. At the same time, her severity and arrogance worsen the relationship; one can immediately predict the impossibility of a connection between them. The structure of the first three stanzas is the same, they consist of simple sentences. There are dots at the end of the lines. This means that the hero is confident in himself. The structure of the last two stanzas is combined into one complex sentence. Here dark, cold colors begin to thicken, which confirms the predominance of the “i” sound. The intonation is calm, even, not emotionally elevated. There are no punctuation marks expressing violent feelings.