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Municipal budgetary educational institution Biokombinat secondary school in the village of Biokombinat, Shchelkovo municipal district, Moscow region Analysis of the poem by A.A. Blok “On valor, about exploits, about glory...” Prepared by Irina Azimova, a student of grade 11 a, p.BIOKombinat, 2017.
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Goals and objectives: . get acquainted with the poem “On Valor, About Feats, About Glory”, analyze it (ideological content, artistic features; develop the skill of analyzing lyrical text; develop the ability to work in a group; develop aesthetic taste; instill a love for Russian poetry;
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About valor, about exploits, about glory... About valor, about exploits, about glory I forgot on the sorrowful earth, When your face in a simple frame shone on the table in front of me. But the hour came, and you left home. I threw the treasured ring into the night. You gave your destiny to someone else, And I forgot your beautiful face. The days flew by, spinning like a damned swarm... Wine and passion tormented my life... And I remembered you in front of the lectern, And I called you like my youth... I called you, but you didn’t look back, I shed tears, but you didn't condescend. You sadly wrapped yourself in a blue cloak, You left the house on a damp night. I don’t know where the shelter of your pride is. You, my dear, you, gentle one, have found... I sleep soundly, I dream of your blue cloak, In which you left on a damp night... I can’t dream of tenderness, of glory, It’s all over , youth is gone! I removed your face in its simple frame from the table with my own hand.
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Alexander Alexandrovich Blok lived and wrote in very difficult historical conditions, painfully feeling the lack of harmony in the “terrible world.” He did not feel it in his soul either. Only love could bring Blok that necessary, desired peace, without which it was impossible to live. Love was designed to eliminate chaos not only in the soul, but also in the world around the poet. Blok deified love, which revealed to him the high meaning of life. He dedicated a large number of poems to this wonderful feeling. One of them is “About valor, about exploits, about glory...”.
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This work was written in 1908. It has the structure of a ring composition: the first line repeats the last, but is opposed to it; at the conclusion of the poem, the author seems to want to repeat the first line, but he no longer thinks about valor or exploits, he is looking for at least tenderness, but does not find it either.
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The genre of the poem is a love letter. The hero turns to the woman he loves who has left him. He feels a passionate desire to return the love lost many years ago: And I remembered you in front of the lectern, And I called you, like my youth... I called you, but you did not look back, I shed tears, but you did not descend.
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It is no coincidence that the poet compares the heroine with his youth, because separation from his beloved means the loss of the former ideal, the youthful romantic dream. The heroine of the poem is called “sweet, gentle”, and her face is beautiful. But this ideal image contrasts with an imperfect, disharmonious world, with the image of a “sorrowful land” and a “cursed swarm” of days. The “terrible world”, embodied in the image of a “damp night”, turns out to be stronger than the hero and takes away his beloved. The lyrical hero is so resigned to the loss of happiness that he decides to commit a monstrous act: Your face in its simple frame I removed it from the table with my own hand.
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Those days when the beloved’s face shone were replaced by terrible days, spinning like a “cursed swarm.” The image of a “terrible world” is symbolic; it is one of the key ones in the poem. Merging with the image of a damp night, it contrasts with the “blue cloak” of the past, the cloak in which the heroine wrapped herself when leaving home, the only tangible detail associated with the heroine’s appearance. In Blok, as in the poetry of the late Middle Ages, this color symbolizes betrayal, and not so much betrayal in love as betrayal of ideals, as well as the collapse of youthful faith in the happy mystical life of the spirit, in world harmony. You sadly wrapped yourself in a blue cloak, You left the house on a damp night. I don’t know where the refuge for my pride is. You, my dear, you, gentle one, have found... I sleep soundly, I dream of your blue cloak, in which you left on a damp night...
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Days are like nights, life seems like a dream (“I am fast asleep”). The poem contains a large number of epithets: “on a sorrowful land”, “cherished ring”, “cursed swarm”, “on a damp night”. The tenderness with which the hero remembers his beloved, comparing her with his youth: “And he called you like his youth...” is emphasized in the work with such epithets as: “beautiful face”, “you, dear”, “you , tender.” There are personifications and metaphors in the poem: “when your face in a simple frame shone on the table in front of me”, “I threw the treasured ring into the night”, “you gave your destiny to another”, “the days flew by”, “wine and passion tormented my life "
Blok's love lyrics enjoy significant popularity. And by many it is revered as something worthwhile. The poem, named after the first line “About valor, about exploits, about glory...” refers to the author’s love lyrics and offers a rather banal plot. The lyrical hero talks about lost youth and love, the past years have passed just as early love has gone, they are gone irrevocably and the lyrical hero laments about this fact.
The subject of the speech begins his own monologue with a mention of the portrait of his beloved, which he eventually removes both from his own table and from his own memory. The block has two narrative threads that act as complementary factors. Along with parting, the subject of speech explores the end of youth; more precisely, there is a motive for parting, which occurs with both love and youth.
In general, the story is a rather simple situation, the girl leaves for another, Blok calls out, but receives no answer, he drowns his sadness in wine and debauchery, and after that he goes to the temple and even there he remembers his love. After this, he completely breaks up with his love and also leaves his youth. In these discussions, the lyrical hero forgets about exploits and glory and he doesn’t need anything else and worldly vanity is alien.
Probably, the symbolism of the blue cloak, as well as the combination of the portrait and the lectern, have some significance, and Blok could well have encrypted some details and double meanings into this narrative. However, to my taste, the poem looks almost meaningless and empty, most of all similar to the whining of a jaded metropolitan dandy who is alien to the noble struggle for love and any achievements.
In a sense, such an interpretation may seem rather primitive, but, if you look at it, the lyrical hero is nothing more than a simple person who wasted his own youth and missed his own opportunities. His situation is bleak, but most of all I am outraged and saddened by the attitude of the subject of speech towards the woman who rejected him. He easily parts with this memory and erases it from his own memory; such instability in his views largely explains his lack of intention to fight for love and, in general, a more or less courageous attitude towards life.
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Alexander Blok is a brilliant Russian symbolist poet at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, like others when he wrote love lyrics based on his impressions of his own love in life.
He compared his love with the knightly ideal of the Beautiful Lady. The purpose of his life was constant service to this ideal.
However, over the years, the image of the Lady gradually changed. In 1906, the poem “Stranger” was written, where this is already visible. Over the course of two years, Blok also wrote the sad poem “About Valor, About Deeds, About Glory.” In it, the poet is sad for the lost ideal.
If you carefully analyze the work, you will notice that it looks like a love letter. The first line in the verse repeats the last, but is the opposite of it. Kohl The main character turns to the woman who left him, to his lost love. He bitterly regrets that time cannot be returned, but he is still tormented by a passionate desire to return his love.
The hero is so absorbed in love that he even forgot about his valor, exploits and glory. He compares love to his youth. Having lost love, romantic youthful dreams are also lost. The poet uses the symbol of a “terrible world” as a key symbol in his poem. The past is symbolized by the “blue cloak” in which his beloved wrapped herself and left him from home. Blok writes how his time passed after the loss. These were difficult days that dragged on like a “damned swarm.” Every day he was tormented by frustration, pity and unfulfilled passion.
The poet uses many epithets “beautiful, tender.” This is what he calls his youth and love, the images of which merge. The hero called to his departing beloved, but in vain. She didn’t even look back, didn’t condescend, and he even shed tears all the time. She left for someone else, giving him her destiny. All that remained for the hero was to forget the “beautiful face.” Blok endows the heroine with great pride, or maybe even accuses her of it. He does not know where "shelter for her pride." The last lines are especially bitter. The hero bitterly realizes that time is inexorable, that life is short. Youth and its attributes - glory, tenderness are gone and can no longer be returned by any means. The hero resolutely removes his beloved’s face from the table. This means that he decided to forget the past and still continue to live.
You can notice that the verse echoes Pushkin’s work “I remember a wonderful moment...” However, the ending is completely different and even the opposite of it. Against Blok's bitterness and disappointment in Pushkin, we see the awakening of the soul at the end.
Love is probably the main feeling in Blok’s work. He believed in her unusual power, and throughout his life he tried to serve her.
Analysis of the poem About valor, about exploits, about glory according to plan
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
“About valor, about exploits, about glory”
Alexander Blok's lyrics are special in that the ideal of a beautiful and sublime woman has not found an earthly embodiment. Perhaps that is why the author wrote about love with sadness. The poem “About valor, about exploits, about glory...” was included in the “Retribution” cycle, which prophesied a quick reckoning with a society that made a man a slave.
The work is written in a special style and is noticeably different from the rest of the poems in the cycle. The hero's voice is excited, the words sound loud. Your breathing is interrupted, and your heart is pounding restlessly in your chest. The reason for this is separation from my beloved. The poem is divided into three parts by an invisible line. The first part is the departure of the beloved. The second part describes a bitter existence without hope for change. In the third and final part, the hero has come to terms with his fate. The main essence of the poem is to convey the feelings of a loving heart after parting. It begins with sadness and memories, then comes the realization of loss. The series of feelings ends with apathy and indifference to what is happening and the future.
The first and last stanzas echo the motif of a forgotten portrait removed by the hero from the table. This is a sign that he accepts life with all its circumstances. The words with which the author describes his beloved emphasize the unearthly origin of love. In the second stanza the main focus was the “ring”. As a traditional sign of endless love and loyalty to each other. A desperate hero, after his beloved leaves, throws away the “cherished ring.” Night is presented as a symbol of darkness and the unknown. It is significant that the hero remembers his beloved in front of the lectern. The lectern is a high, sloping table on which sacred books are placed in the temple. With each line the emotional tension grows.
The fourth stanza is the most intense - it is the culmination of the entire work. Then the rhythm slows down. Surprisingly precisely chosen words fully convey the depth of the hero’s feelings. He gives without demanding anything for himself. The reader becomes not a spectator of events, but a participant in all the experiences that befell the hero.
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A. Blok's poem "About valor, about exploits, about glory..." Analysis of the poem "About valor, about exploits, about glory"The poet wrote his poem in 1908, the day before the next New Year. Blok wrote “About valor, about exploits, about glory” at the moment when his beloved wife left for his friend, Andrei Bely, also a poet. The poem is autobiographical. It was included in the “Retribution” cycle.
Brief analysis of the poem
Alexander Alexandrovich was cunning and deceived the reader’s expectations by writing the first line. After all, Blok does not write about exploits in this poem at all. We are talking about love experiences, and not at all about civic duty. It is a love letter that appears. In it, the lyrical hero speaks to his beloved, who left him for another man. He hopes to be heard. The hero is in despair, he even throws away the “cherished ring” - a symbol of fidelity. Night is a symbol of the unknown. For the first time in five years, he dedicated the block “On Valor, About Deeds, About Glory” to his wife. Having completed the six-year cycle of love lyrics “Poems about a Beautiful Lady,” he stopped making dedications to her. Then Lyubov Dmitrievna became his wife. However, as soon as she left, the dedications to her were renewed. The poet used epithets to describe the loss of the meaning of life: “spinning around in a damned swarm,” and also “on a damp night you left the house.” And the words about how the hero called the lyrical heroine “like his youth” certainly indicate that the departed beloved meant a lot to him. Spiritual life ended with the departure of his beloved, now he lives on wine and passion, which torment him. And his Beautiful Lady turned into a destroyer. It is not without reason that the color blue appears in the poem - in medieval times it meant treason.
The block “On valor, on exploits, on glory” was enclosed in a ring composition, written in iambic pentameter and used. At the end of the work, the hero nevertheless made a decision, removing the portrait from the table.
Block: poems about love
The poet wrote a lot about love, with particular sadness. This is an important theme of his work, one of the main ones. Alexander Alexandrovich wrote “Poems about a Beautiful Lady” under the impression of falling in love with Mendeleeva, his future wife. He endowed the earthly creature with unearthly qualities, seeing in her the feminine ideal that he invented for himself.
687 poems were dedicated to Lyubov Dmitrievna. After their wedding, the poet switches to other topics - civil ones. These were the cycles “Iambics” and “Scary World”, as well as “Retribution”, into which love lyrics again broke through. The block “On valor, on exploits, on glory” was included in this cycle. Alexander Alexandrovich always believed in the bright power of love and devoted himself completely to it. However, his love was not only romantic. He also loved Russia, his homeland, with all his soul.
Homeland in the poet's verses
Alexander Alexandrovich began to study Russia from legends, conspiracies, folklore and scientific articles. Blok began writing in 1906. The first of them was written on September 24. It was called "Rus". And it feels like the poet was inspired by legends. Blok repeats the motifs of Gogol and Pushkin, Lermontov and Nekrasov. But this is not yet the Russia in which the poet lives. This is Rus', which he loves.
Next comes his cycle “Motherland”. Blok does not separate himself from Russia; he experiences everything with her. He loves any of her. Blok writes with no less love than poems about his Beautiful Lady, and maybe even with more.
Blok wrote the cycle “On the Kulikovo Field” about the history of his country. The poet longs for the revival of the country and speaks about this in his works.
U has the appearance not of a mother, as was customary, but of a wife. This was a new trend of the Symbolists, adopted from Vladimir Solovyov, who meant a lot to Alexander and was his inspiration at the beginning of his creative career.
Creative path
The poet was influenced by literature from childhood. His aunts and mother, as well as grandmother, were translators and writers. And having entered the Faculty of Law in 1898, he did not finish his studies and, after three years of study, transferred to the Faculty of Philology. Literature has taken its toll. From the age of five, Alexander composed poetry, but began to write seriously only at eighteen. In 1906, Blok had already received recognition as a poet.
Alexander Alexandrovich always admired Pushkin and considered him the greatest talent. His first university poems were written under the impression of the work of Alexander Sergeevich. And shortly before his death, in the winter of 1921, Blok read a speech dedicated to Pushkin “On the appointment of a poet.” This was his last. On August 7th of the same year, Alexander Blok died.
Alexander Blok devoted many of his works to the theme of love. He put all his essence, emotions, experiences into these works.Being an extremely romantic person, generous with spiritual personal feelings, with his poems he literally created a school of love experiences.
Dedicating poems to his muse, his beautiful lady, the poet literally dissolves in his own emotional impulses and difficult moods. This is the highest value of his life.
Blok considered spiritual intimacy to be the pinnacle of relationships.
The history of the conception and creation of the poem
Blok’s poem “About valor, about exploits, about glory...” was created based on real events that happened to the poet himself. It is known that when he saw his future wife for the first time, the author was captivated and delighted. That is why the lyrics of this period are so passionate and so impressionable. He hoped that his marriage with the woman he loved would be happy. But everything turned out to be completely different from what the poet had planned.
But Lyubov Mendeleeva was missing something in her marriage. She became interested in someone else again and went to him. She gives birth to a son from this man, but then decides to return to the poet again. All this time they did not interrupt contact, since Alexander Blok himself insisted on friendship, for whom spiritual intimacy was always more important than physical intimacy. It is known that they knew each other from early childhood, but then, having separated for a while, they met again. After they began to live together, the poet did not want any carnal relationships, since for him it was secondary and overshadowed spiritual intimacy. Lyubov Mendeleeva was an actress who, every time, both after her tours and after new hobbies, still returned to Alexander Blok.
All these love triangles eventually spilled out into a lyrical work in 1908.
About valor, about exploits, about glory
I forgot on the sorrowful land,
When your face is in a simple frame
It was shining on the table in front of me.
But the hour came, and you left home.
I threw the treasured ring into the night.
You gave your destiny to someone else
And I forgot the beautiful face.
The days flew by, spinning like a damned swarm...
Wine and passion tormented my life...
And I remembered you in front of the lectern,
And he called you like his youth...
I called you, but you didn't look back,
I shed tears, but you did not condescend.
You sadly wrapped yourself in a blue cloak,
On a damp night you left home.
I don’t know where my pride has a refuge
You, dear, you are tender, you found...
I sleep soundly, I dream of your blue cloak,
In which you left on a damp night...
Don't dream about tenderness, about fame,
Everything is over, youth is gone!
Your face in its simple frame
I removed it from the table with my own hand.
With great sadness, the poet describes the situation in which he found himself. The departure of the beloved is a tragedy that plays out before the reader’s eyes. Complete despair and disappointment engulfs the main character in “I threw the treasured ring into the night.”
Memories remain, a bright image, and as proof that everything happened, a photograph on the table “of your face in a simple frame.” Sadness and pain of loss do not cause negative feelings. The main character remembers the bright image “in front of the lectern.” Even the fact that the beloved has left for another man does not allow her image to be tarnished.
The poet does not blame anyone for his suffering; not a single bad word is said about the departed woman. The hero has no choice but to accept his fate. With a heavy heart, he mentally lets go of the object of his adoration.
To make it easier to cope with the loss, the abandoned lyricist removes the photograph of the woman with his own hand, hoping that this will make him feel better.
Composition “About valor, about exploits, about glory...”
Blok’s entire poem is divided into three large parts: the first is the author trying to forget the woman he loves, the second is his memory of her, the third is the decision to let go. he ends up removing her photograph from his desk. The composition in the work is circular and helps the author show the present time, the past and what awaits in the future.
The poet, trying to explain his main idea to the reader, uses a large number of verbs, but all of them are used in the past tense. The poet shows that everything has already passed, and there is now no suffering in his life at all. The author talks about those feelings that he has already experienced, it’s just that the memory of them remains. The soul of the main character has now calmed down and he can even sleep, calmly and without worries.
An interesting female image is shown by Alexander Blok in just a few descriptive features. She is beautiful, gentle, independent, fearless and proud. The poet’s attitude towards her is tender, as if he is creating a deity out of her. And her photograph, like an icon, stood on his table. He dreams of her as if she were bliss; dreams of her bring joy to the poet, not suffering. Maybe that’s why the author chooses the form of a message for this poem - a declaration of love.
Expressive means
The declaration of love that sounds in Alexander Blok's poem refers to the time when they were together with the woman they loved, but now this time has passed and will never return. The author tries to use as many expressive means as possible to diversify the literary text:
★ Metaphors.
★ Anaphora.
★ Epithets.
★ Syntactic parallelism.
★ Comparisons.
★ Paraphrase.
★ Personifications.
★ Inversion.
★ Dots.
All this helps the perception of the poem. By the end of the work, the reader sincerely sympathizes with the author, sharing his tragedy.
Symbols in the poem
One of the symbols that the author successfully introduced into the text is a ring. Its main character throws himself into the night, as an indicator of a complete break. The rings that spouses gave each other are no longer a symbol of love and fidelity, so there is no need to stand on ceremony with this accessory.
The second symbol is a blue cloak, which is repeated several times in the text. The cloak is a symbol of the road, and the blue color itself is anxiety and loneliness. Blue is also the color of betrayal. For our lyrical hero, everything is mixed up from the betrayal of his beloved woman and disappointment, and Blok chooses a blue cloak to show even more clearly the tragedy of the situation.
Photography becomes a symbol of love and tenderness, and the author emphasizes “in a simple frame” several times. The author is so in love that he doesn’t care what quality the frame is. Photos are dear to my heart.
Analysis of the poem
The love story described in the poem is controversial and controversial. You can't return your former happiness. A problem that has arisen in family life is a fateful fate!
Alexander Blok treated his own wife more like a muse, like a creative inspirer. And Lyubov Mendeleeva, although she was a person of art and an actress, apparently wanted to remain an earthly woman. This was the contradiction between the spouses, so talented and so different.
For the poet, his wife is not only a source of purity. He associates it with freshness, with youth. He notes that after her departure there is a farewell to youth: “Everything is over, youth is gone!” It’s as if with the woman’s departure the main character lost all his bearings, but realized that this was the point of no return. The point of no return to youth, love, former happiness.
His hopes were dashed, which is why he removes the portrait of his beloved woman from the table at the very end of the poem. It’s difficult for him to do this, but he understands that he must. The poet showed the reader that reason still triumphed over feelings, and no matter how sad he was, he still committed the final act. This decision turned out to be the most correct and correct. Now this enormous feeling of love will no longer bring him so much pain and suffering. And maybe happiness will soon appear in his life, and sadness and tragedy will go away.