Alexander Blok: homeland in the poet's works

A bright representative of the Symbolists, who saw not only the past path of his country, but also the future, became Alexander Blok. Motherland played an important role in the poet's work.

Homeland in the work of AA Blok

The poet reflected the process of Russia's formation, touching in his works not only the historical past of the country, but also its future, the tasks facing it, its mission.

The image of Blok's Homeland was of interest in the years of the First Russian Revolution. However, the flowering of the theme is celebrated after its completion. The revolutionary experiences of recovery and collapse were reflected in every stanza of the poet's patriotic poems.

Blok's poems about the Motherland are permeated with a feeling of boundless love, tenderness, but at the same time they are saturated with pain for the past and present of Russia and the hope for a better future.

The poet believed that his country is not just worthy of a better future, it also points the way to it. Therefore he saw in it his consolation, healing:

Love for the Motherland remained the only pure and sincere feeling. It was on her that the soul of the poet, wounded by loneliness and misunderstanding of society, could rest on her. This need was realized by Blok himself.

Homeland, her attitude changed, but the change in the character of feelings did not affect the power of love that the writer carried through his entire life.

Image of the Motherland and Alexander Alexandrovich

Thanks to the works of AA Blok, years later we can see Russia from the time of the author: full of movement, life, tear-stained, but still unique, original. A special vision of historical events affects the poems of the poet, an important place in which is the theme of the Motherland.

The bloc created its own unique, unknown to others image of Russia. She became for him not a mother, but a beautiful woman: a beloved, a friend, a bride, a wife.

For the early creation of the poet is characterized by a vision of a pauper and dense country, but at the same time unusual and talented.

The homeland in the works of Blok is a wonderful beloved, who in any situation will forgive. She always understands the poet, because she is a part of the soul, her better half, a manifestation of purity. Blok understood that, despite the "shameless and impenetrable" of her sins, the Motherland remains for him "all the edges more expensive."

What kind of Russia does Blok see? The homeland of Alexander Alexandrovich possesses charming features, which the poet called "robbery": vast expanses, distant roads, foggy distances, windy songs, loose tracks.

Blok loved his homeland recklessly, sincerely believing and hoping that soon "the light will overcome darkness".

Let's consider some of the poems of Alexander Blok, in order to understand the most meaningful topic for him: "Motherland".

Block. The poem "Gamayun, the Bird Wishing"

It is believed that the topic of the tragic history of Russia first appeared in a poem belonging to a very young Alexander, "Gamayun, the bird prophetic": "

The poem was Blok's first vociferous message, which combined love for Russia and the realization of horror from the past and the present. But the author wants to understand the truth no matter how terrible and terrible it is.

The first thoughtful and serious embodiment of patriotic thought is the work, dated 1905, "Autumn Will."

The poet turns to his homeland:

The lyrical hero, shown by Blok, experiences loneliness, and it is unbearably tragic. Help to overcome it can only love Russia, its nature. The poet admits that the landscapes of his native land are sometimes unattractive and not pleasing to the eye, but they can give comfort, happiness and the meaning of life to his tormented soul:

The psalms praised by the beggar are an echo of the drunken Rus. However, this does not confuse the poet. After all, it is the true face of Russia, without embellishment and rich pathos, is an inexhaustible source of his inspiration. It is this homeland - the dirty, drunk, beggar heals Blok, gives him peace and hope.

The cycle of works "On the Kulikovo field"

Blok's poems about the Motherland, included in the series of works "On the Kulikovo Field," have a profound, passionate meaning. The history of the native country sounds louder here than the voice of the poet himself. Due to this, a tense and tragic effect is created, pointing to the great past of the country and predicting an equally great future.

Comparing the past and future acts of a great power, the author in the past is looking for a force that allows Russia to boldly go to the goal and not be afraid of "darkness - night and foreign."

"An impassable silence" in which the country is mired, predicts "high and rebellious days," Blok thought. Homeland, shown in works, stands at the crossroads of time and space - past, present and future. The historical path of the country is embodied in the lines:

The poem "Filled" was a response to the phenomena of the revolution in 1905. These lines express the belief in the coming changes that Blok himself expected, as well as the Motherland.

Block. The poem "Rus"

The theme of the Motherland is reflected in the work "Rus." Here, before the readers appears a mysterious, unpredictable and simultaneously beautiful Russia. The country seems to the poet a fairy-tale and even witch-like land:

Intertwining worlds (real and dream world) help the poet mentally transfer the readers to old, old times, when Russia was full of witch and sorcerous charms.

The lyrical hero is recklessly in love with the country, so he reveres before her. He sees it not just unusual, but mysterious, charmingly ancient. But Russia appears before him not only fairy, but also poor, suffering and sad.

The work "Born in the Year of the Deaf" is dedicated to Z. N. Gippius and is permeated with anticipation of the coming changes.

Blok understood that the present generation is doomed, so he urged him to rethink life, renewal.

The impoverishment of Russia lies in the untapped potential. She, possessing incredible riches, is terribly poor and frighteningly wretched.

Homeland as the central theme of the work

The poem "Russia" amazes with its sincerity and honesty: in no line, in one word the author did not lie in the way he sees and feels his native country.

It is thanks to his honesty before the readers that the image of a poor homeland appears, which is directed "To the distant ages."

In the poem, the influence of the lyrical digression about the bird-troika from the poem "The Dead Souls" by NV Gogol is felt.

Blok's "Three" is growing into an ominous sign of the dramatic confrontation between the people and the intelligentsia. The image of the Motherland is embodied in a mighty and unrestrained element: a blizzard, a wind, blizzards.

We see that Blok is trying to comprehend the significance of Russia, to understand the value, the need for such a complex historical path.

Blok believed that due to hidden power and power, Russia would get out of poverty.

The poet describes his love for the Motherland, admiration for the beauty of nature, reflections on the fate of his country. The block uses the motif of the road passing through the entire poem. At first we see a pauper Russia, but then it appears to us in the image of a country that is broad and powerful. We believe that the author is right, because we must always hope for the best.

Blok shows us Russia as a beggar, but beautiful. This contradiction manifests itself even in epithets used by the poet, for example, "robbery".

Two sphinxes in the work of AA Blok

Nikolai Gumilev wrote very beautifully about the poetry of A. Blok: "Before A. Blok are two sphinxes, forcing him to sing and cry with his unresolved riddles: Russia and his own soul. The first is Nekrasov's, the second is Lermontov's. And often, very often Block shows us them, merged into one, organically inseparable. "

Gumilev's words are an indestructible truth. They can be proved by the poem "Russia". It is strongly influenced by the first Sphinx, Nekrasov. After all, Blok, like Nekrasov, shows us Russia from two opposite sides: powerful and at the same time impotent and wretched.

Blok believed in the strength of Russia. However, in contrast to Nekrasov's precepts, Alexander Alexandrovich loved the Motherland only with sorrow, without giving his feelings anger. Blokovo Russia is endowed with human features, the poet gives her the image of a beloved woman. Here the influence of the second sphinx, Lermontov, is manifested. But their similarity is not complete. Blok expressed more intimate, personal feelings, endowed with noble meditation, while Lermontov's poems sometimes heard hussar arrogance.

Is it worth pitying Russia?

The poet says that he can not and can not spare the Motherland. But why? Maybe because, in his opinion, nothing can cloud the "beautiful features" of Russia, except care. And can the reason be in pity?

The poet loves the Motherland. This is why the reason for the lack of pity for her is hidden. This feeling would kill the pride of Russia, humiliate her dignity. If we correlate a large country with an individual, we get a good example of the relationship between pity and humiliation. The man who was sorry, having told about how poor and unfortunate he is, not only loses his sense of dignity, but also sometimes the desire to live, as he begins to understand his worthlessness.

All difficulties must be conquered with a high head, without waiting for sympathy. Perhaps this is what AA Blok wants to show us.

The great historical merit of the poet is that he linked the past with the present, which we see in many of his poems.

The homeland became the connecting theme of many of the works of A. Blok. It is closely connected with the various motives of his poems: love, retribution, revolution, the way past and the future path.

So wrote Vladimir Orlov and, it seems, he was completely right.