Literature. Grade 11
Lesson 23
Subject: The image of the "soul in love" in "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" by A.A. Blok.
Goals: to give an idea of the symbolism of the early works of A. A. Blok. Show the ambiguity of symbols in poems of different years.
to improve the ability of students to draw independent conclusions after getting acquainted with several works of the poet.
to cultivate attention to the word, to form an interest in the lyrics of A. A. Blok.
I anticipate you. The years are passing by
All in the guise of one I foresee You.
A. A. Blok.
DURING THE CLASSES
Organizational moment.
Checking homework: expressive reading by heart of A. Blok's poem "The Stranger"
Presentation of the topic and objectives of the lesson.
Work on the topic of the lesson.
Teacher's word.
In his Autobiography, Blok wrote: “In connection with acute mystical and romantic experiences, the poetry of Vladimir Solovyov took possession of my whole being. Until now, the mysticism, with which the air of the last years of the old and the first years of the new century was saturated, was not clear to me; I was disturbed by the signs that I saw in nature, but I considered all this to be subjective and carefully protected from everyone ... ”
Let us repeat the main features of symbolism: attitude to the real world, attitude to the word, the goal of creativity.
Let us turn to the early lyrics of A. Blok and see what are the characteristic signs of symbolism in the poems of the poet of the first, early period of creativity, which were included in the cycle “Poems about the Beautiful Lady”.
In his youth, Blok prepared for the theatrical career. After graduating from high school, in the summer of 1898, he participated in an amateur production of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.
Blok, as usual, spent the summer at the Beketovs' estate near Moscow, Shakhmatovo, and equipped a home theater in the nearby Boblov, which belonged to Blok's grandfather's friend, the great chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev. Blok played the role in the play, and played Ophelia, the daughter of a scientist. “Is it surprising,” wrote M.A. Beketova, “that a romantically inclined and ardent boy fell in love with Ophelia.”
In 1903, Blok married with. Their family life was far from idyllic. In a bitter moment, the poet wrote in his diary: “Lyuba ruined so many years of my life, tormented me ... Lyuba on earth is terrible, sent to torment and destroy earthly values. But - 1898 - 1902 did what I can not part with her and love her. (1910). The memory of the performance, which forever linked their fates, constantly arose in verses addressed to his wife:
I am Hamlet. Cold blood
When the treachery of the whip weaves,
And in the heart - first love
Alive - to the only one in the world.
You, my Ophelia,
The cold took away life,
And I'm dying, prince, in my native land,
Stabbed with a poisoned blade.
“I am Hamlet, the blood is getting colder…”, 1914.
The main place in the spiritual life of the poet was occupied by a difficult relationship with Lyubov Dmitrievna. It was to her that the first Blok's collection "Poems about the Beautiful Lady" was addressed. The meeting with her in these verses appears as a meeting with the messenger of "other worlds." The poet elevated an ordinary earthly girl to an unattainable and incomprehensible ideal. He wrote all appeals to her with a capital letter, in poems and letters he called her the Mysterious Virgin, the Mistress of the Universe, the Majestic Eternal Wife.
Analysis of the poem "Introduction"
Rest is useless. The road is steep.
The evening is wonderful. I knock on the gate.
Dolny knock is alien and strict,
You scatter pearls around.
Terem is high, and the dawn froze.
The red secret at the entrance lay down.
Who set fire to the tower at the dawn,
What did the Princess herself erect?
Each skate on a patterned carving
The red flame is thrown towards you.
The dome aspires to the azure heights.
The blue windows lit up with a blush.
All bells are ringing.
Filled with springless outfit.
Have you been waiting for me at sunset?
Terem lit? Did the gate open?
1. What visual images are present in this poem? What picture are they creating?
2. What symbols - objects did you find and what do you think they could mean?
3. What colors are combined in this poem, what is their symbolic meaning? Choose a dominant color. What does she contribute to the poem?
4. What is the lyrical hero of this poem, his thoughts, mood, feelings? How is the image of the Beautiful Lady created?
5. Pay attention to the graphics of individual words. Is this spelling accidental? What is its meaning?
We see a high tower, unusually beautiful, with patterned carvings. The dome of this tower is directed skyward. Terem is surrounded by gates, a steep road leads to it.
Every visible image contains a symbol. A tall tower surrounded by gates is a symbol of the inaccessible and something romantic, fabulous. The dome is directed to the azure heights - this is the dream of the lyrical hero about the unusual, eternal, imperishable.
The dominant color in the poem is fire. It is expressed both in nouns (dawn), and in adjectives (red secret), and in verbs (set fire). Here and "blush", and "lit up". This is the fiery dream of the hero, this is the fire in his soul, the fire of love for the unearthly, mysterious and inaccessible Princess.
The lyrical hero strives for this tower, reaches it and knocks on the gate. He is close to making his dream come true. The one he aspires to resembles a fairy-tale heroine, Princess Nesmeyana. We do not see her, but the tower in which she lives helps us create the image of a mysterious, mysterious, unearthly woman.
Analysis of the poem "I Anticipate You".
I anticipate you. Years pass by
All in the guise of one I foresee You.
The whole horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear,
And silently I wait, longing and loving.
The whole horizon is on fire, and the appearance is near,
But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance,
And daringly arouse suspicion,
Replacing the usual features at the end.
Oh, how I fall - both sadly and lowly,
Not having overcome deadly dreams!
How clear is the horizon! And radiance is near.
But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance.
1. What is the role of the color dominant in this poem?
2. What can be said about the lyrical hero, his mood, attitude towards the heroine?
3. What is the peculiarity of the compositional repetition of individual lines?
4. What is the peculiarity of the graphics of individual lines? What thought does this suggest?
5. How is the epigraph related to the meaning of the poem?
Student observations. As in the previous poem, the dominant colors here are light, fire: “the horizon is on fire”, “it is unbearably clear”, “radiance is close”. The hero's dream is pure, clear and beautiful, it is close. The hero lives in anticipation, a premonition of Her appearance.
She doesn’t even have a name, she doesn’t have any definite features, only a stream of light surrounds Her, pours over Her, comes from Her, as if from a saint, like a halo above the head of the Mother of God. She is united with this image in "form one".
For the lyrical hero, the beloved is the bearer of Eternal Femininity, spirituality, and beauty. This is the ideal. He awaits Her coming, "yearning and loving." Not even loving, but idolizing. Longing, fear seize the hero when he feels her close appearance. He is afraid that Her “familiar features” will suddenly change, he will not recognize his ideal and his dreams will turn out to be just a dream. This is also evidenced by the epigraph to the poem: “You will shake off a heavy dream.” He calls his dream "deadly", because the death of the hero is connected with its collapse. Such a semantic series as “fire”, “radiance” is associated with the image of Her. And with the symbol of the collapse - "suspicion", a sad fall and a "death dream".
4. Analysis of the poem "You are burning over a high mountain."
You are burning above a high mountain,
Inaccessible in Her Terem.
I will come running in the evening,
In rapture I will embrace the dream.
You heard me from afar
You will build your fire in the evening.
I will stand, faithful to the dictates of Rock,
Learn the fire game.
And when in the midst of the darkness sheaves
Sparks will swirl in the smoke -
I'll ride with fire circles
And I will overtake You in the tower.
1. What symbols are hidden behind the visible pictures? Was there a repetition of such pictures?
2. What colors help create the mood and draw the image of the Beautiful Lady? Is there a dominant? Which? What is behind it?
3. What is the lyrical hero, his moods, feelings? How is the image of the Beautiful Lady created?
4. Compare the first and third stanzas. How is content changing?
Before us again is a high mountain, a tower, evening. The picture seems to be familiar. And the same colors, among which the bright, the color of fire, burning dominates: “burning”, “making a fire”, fire game”, “Sparks”, “fire circles”.
The lyrical hero is intoxicated with his dream, faithful to fate, completely subject to it, wants to comprehend the secret, merge with his dream and “overtake it in the tower”. He is sure that his dream will come true, he will be able to merge with eternity, become a particle of eternal fire and achieve the ideal.
She, his dream, is inaccessible, like a Princess, but still she is waiting for him, preparing a meeting for him.
5. Analysis of the poem "I enter the dark temples."
I enter dark temples
I perform a poor ritual.
There I am waiting for the Beautiful Lady
In the flickering of red lamps.
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.
Oh I'm used to these robes
Majestic Eternal Wife!
Run high on the ledges
Smiles, fairy tales and dreams.
Oh, Holy One, how gentle are the candles,
How pleasing are Your features!
I hear neither sighs nor speeches,
But I believe: Honey - You.
1. How does the scene change in this poem? Does the setting help to create the image of the Beautiful Lady? What's new in her image?
2. What associative array can be chosen for the image of the Beautiful Lady?
3. What is the attitude of the lyrical hero towards Her? What is his mood?
Before us are “dark temples” with high columns and the image of the Mother of God. This image is lit by gentle candles. And all around is silence.
The Beautiful Lady is a “dream”, a dream, an ideal, “The Majestic Eternal Wife”. For a lyrical hero, she is inaccessible, therefore
Run high on the ledges
Smiles, fairy tales and dreams.
She is a saint for him, his ideal was embodied in her:
But I believe: Honey - You.
The color also changes: “Dark temples”, “shadow of a high column”, “flickering of red lamps”. And only the image of the Beautiful Lady is associated with light, a bright beam: “an illumined image”, “gentle candles”.
The hero is fascinated, he trembles in anticipation of the meeting, he is glad to see unearthly features.
In the poem, the real dissolves into the mystical, the symbolic. Church, the image of the Mother of God, twilight, illuminated icons, silence, reverence - and the dream of an ideal Wife, and unearthly happiness.
CONCLUSION. What is the image of the Beautiful Lady in the early poems of A. Blok?
(based on analyzes and textbook material - pp. 180-184)
At first, this is the image of a fairy-tale princess living in a high tower. Maybe it was inspired by the Russian song “My joy lives in a high tower”. The road to it is difficult. The Beautiful Lady is surrounded by light, she radiates it herself. Then her image is transformed into the image of the Mother of God, embodying all the best, a symbol of perfection, ideal and harmony, “the purest beauty, the purest example.”
6. Analysis of the poem “I will get up in a foggy morning”.
I'll get up in the foggy morning,
The sun hits your face.
Are you a desirable friend?
Are you coming up to my porch?
Open the heavy gates!
The wind blew through the window!
The songs are so funny
Not distributed for a long time!
With them in the foggy morning
Sun and wind in your face!
With them a desirable girlfriend
Comes up to my porch!
1. What is the color and sound content of the poem?
2. What is the lyrical hero, his thoughts, feelings, mood?
3. How does the image of the Beautiful Lady change?
4. What's new in the relationship between the lyrical hero and the Beautiful Lady?
There is no color dominant in this poem. Soft colors (“foggy morning”) and the sun are combined. We hear songs and feel the wind that brings change. The beautiful Lady ceases to be inaccessible, she becomes a “desirable friend”, who goes up to the porch to the hero. We do not hear mysterious bells, instead of them - joyful songs. The bewilderment of the hero in the first stanza is replaced by delight in the second and third. He seems to welcome the changes that have taken place. This is well shown through the syntax. The first stanza ends with an exclamatory sentence, conveying the bewilderment of the hero, who did not expect the arrival of the “desired girlfriend”. And in the third - exclamatory sentences sound like a hymn to this friend. The whole poem is filled with a joyful feeling, a new attitude.
7. Questions for working on the poem "We met with you at sunset."
We met at sunset
You cut the bay with an oar.
I loved your white dress
Having fallen out of love with the refinement of dreams.
Silent meetings were strange.
Ahead - on a sandy spit
The evening candles were lit.
Someone thought of a pale beauty.
Approaching, approaching, burning
The azure silence does not accept ...
We met in the evening mist
Where there are ripples and reeds near the shore.
No longing, no love, no resentment,
Everything faded, passed, departed ...
And your golden oar.
1. How has the image of the Beautiful Lady changed in this poem? Pay attention to colors and sounds. What new symbolic content do they take on?
2. What changes have occurred in the lyrical hero?
The background of the narrative has changed: it is reduced, perhaps trivial: a bay, a boat, two lovers, an evening.
The heroine has changed. This is no longer the Majestic Wife, but an earthly woman.
The semantic content of symbols and their semantics also change. This is a bay and a spit. This is a shore with ripples and reeds. And now it is no longer the lyrical hero who thinks about the ideal, but someone else, but the lyrical hero “has fallen out of love with the refinement of the dream”. His past delights "faded, passed away, departed." The “white camp, the voices of the funeral service and the golden oar” also remained in the past.
The color changes, it becomes muted: “sunset”, “evening candles”, “pale beauty”, “evening fog”. And here are the sounds that create a sad mood, conveying the sadness of the hero, his nostalgia for a dream: “silent meetings”, “voices of a memorial service”, “azure silence”.
CONCLUSION - on questions and analyzed poems.
- What evolution did the image of the Beautiful Lady undergo in the early work of Blok? What explains this?
Love is drawn by Blok as a rite of service to something higher. The fictional world is opposed to the events of reality. Initially, the Beautiful Lady is the bearer of the Divine Beginning, Eternal Femininity. Then this image decreases, becomes earthly, acquires real features.
- Why did Blok's early work gravitate toward symbolism?
Timofeev explains it this way: “... going into a dream, into mysticism, into loneliness is a kind of protection from this world of social contradictions and catastrophes.” Anatoly Gorelov defines the significance of the poems about the Beautiful Lady in “the establishment of such ideal values of life, which together would express the beauty of life.
Summary of the lesson.
Homework: pp.180-185; prepare an oral analysis of A. Blok's poem about Russia.
One of the pearls in the collection of poems about the Beautiful Lady (1898-1904) is considered a poem with a mystical subtext “I foresee You. Years pass by, ”which Alexander Blok wrote in the fall of 1901. In the lines one of the frames of the poet's vision of his ideal woman, where you can see the original approach to the presentation of thoughts and the depth of the transfer of emotions. Poems are written on behalf of a lyrical hero who has been searching, waiting and praising the image of the Lady all his life.
The depth of block feelings
The small size of the poem is compensated by its depth, in the waters of which you can see more than in any other story. The depth is achieved by a long-term desire to create and convey to others your understanding and vision of a woman - a Lady with a capital letter, a Stranger, for whom you can sacrifice everything. It is symbolic that Blok does not draw the image of a woman from any particular person, since every individual has flaws, but the Lady does not.
The author writes that feelings for a woman cannot be limited by time and distance, he deifies the Lady, raising her above the worldly fuss. Such women are sworn on their knees, for the sake of such women they go into the fire and do not stop before the face of death. With a slight stretch, the poem can be called a confession, which the lyrical hero of Blok pours out on readers in the hope of understanding.
Theme of the poem
The main theme of the poem "I foresee you" is the hero's expectation of the Lady. Years run by - it has no weight before the sacrament of the meeting, the horizon burns with lights - they are not able to frighten away the hope of those who are waiting.
And silently I wait, longing and loving.
The hero is both waiting and afraid of meeting a girl, because he has come up with an image for himself in advance, which may not correspond to reality. He fears that the Lady will change her appearance or change her usual, but far-fetched features.
Appeal to the Lady
The appeal to You with a capital letter is symbolic - this is how they turn to the Gods, this is how Blok, in the face of a lyrical hero, addresses a Woman. Some lines are repeated several times, this helps the author to focus in the right places and give the poem a Blokish charm. The line "But I'm scared ..." is repeated twice. This author shows that the joy of meeting equals the fear of expectation, but even according to this formula, the hero is ready not to deviate from the image.
There is also a repetition of the phrase from the title “I foresee You…”. To foresee is more than to wait - it is to be sure of the inevitability of coming! Repetition focuses the reader on this point.
At the end of the poem, the approach of the Lady is felt - the radiance is already close, the horizon is already freed from fire, but the fear does not go away. The feeling of fear of changing the created appearance and the joy of meeting are mixed in the soul of the hero. Isn't this cocktail considered happiness, isn't it for the sake of these moments you want not to exist, but to live? Didn't each of us invent for ourselves the image of the Stranger, who must, is obliged to come sooner or later?
Not having overcome deadly dreams!
These deadly dreams are one of the main life values, because they distinguish a person from an unreasonable creature, through them a spark of God penetrates into the soul, and into the lungs a breath of fresh air, spreading a feeling of happiness through the blood.
And the heavy dream of worldly consciousness
You will shake off, yearning and loving.
Vl. Solovyov
I anticipate you. Years pass by
All in the guise of one I foresee You.
The whole horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear,
And silently I wait, longing and loving.
The whole horizon is on fire, and the appearance is near,
But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance,
And daringly arouse suspicion,
Replacing the usual features at the end.
Oh, how I fall - both sadly and lowly,
Not having overcome deadly dreams!
How clear is the horizon! And radiance is near.
But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance.
In conclusion, I propose to listen to an audio recording of this poem, read by A Kutepov.
A. Blok's poem "I anticipate you ..." is a confession in which the lyrical hero confesses his dreams, feelings and fears to his beloved. Her image, the image of the Beautiful Lady, is the ideal of a woman, which does not exist in reality: “All in the guise of one I foresee you ...”
But the created harmony is broken by the reality that breaks into it. The lyrical hero is seized with confusion, melancholy, fear that this very ideal of a woman will collapse, she will turn out to be different.
The hero is afraid of being disappointed
in it, and at the same time in his own world, which is far from reality.
The entire horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear.
And silently I wait, longing and loving.
The whole horizon is on fire, and the appearance is near,
But I'm afraid: you will change your appearance ...
These lines of the poem prove all of the above and once again emphasize the feeling of discomfort, discord, inharmony in the poet's soul.
The lyrical hero deifies his beloved, this can be seen from the spelling of the pronoun “You” and the impossibility of life without her: “Oh, how I will fall - both sadly and lowly, not having overcome mortal dreams!”
In the poem, A. Blok uses various literary
tropes, such as epithets - "death dream", "daring suspicion", metaphors - "horizon on fire". There is also an anaphora, that is, a repetition of the words: “The entire horizon is on fire”, “But I’m scared, you will change your appearance.”
It is interesting that there is an epigraph to the poem: “And you will shake off the heavy dream of worldly consciousness, yearning and loving.” He makes it clear that with the advent of love, a person breaks out of everyday life, love makes a person better, elevates him, although sometimes it gives rise to fear and confusion.
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The cult of the Beautiful Lady originated in the Middle Ages. Even then, in the works of poets, this image absorbed the features of both a particular beauty and the Madonna. And for Blok, the Beautiful Lady is a fusion of an earthly woman and the Blessed Virgin. She appears in three guises: in cosmic perception, she is the Soul of the World; in religious perception, she is the Queen of Heaven; The lyrical hero calls her high words: Virgo, Dawn, Majestic Eternal Wife, bright, clear, radiant, incomprehensible, Mistress of the universe. In all verses of the cycle, the words denoting this image are written by the author with a capital letter. The image of the Beautiful Lady is inseparable from the image on the icons in gold robes and the radiance of lamps. The lyrical hero thinks of his life only as a prayer ministry to his beloved. He foresees Her appearance - "the whole horizon is on fire." Light, fire are the color dominant in the poem: “the horizon is on fire”, “it is unbearably clear”, “radiance is close”. Above it flows a stream of light. The light comes from Her herself, as if from a saint.
But, anticipating that Her appearance is close, the lyrical hero suddenly feels fear. He is afraid that Her "familiar features" will change, that he will not recognize his ideal, and that his dreams will turn out to be only a dream. This is also evidenced by the epigraph to the poem: "And a heavy dream ... you will shake off ...". The symbol of the collapse of a dream is associated with such expressive means as epithets (impudent suspicion; a sad and low fall) and metaphor (deadly dreams).
“Radiance is near,” but the hero is afraid that the Beautiful Lady will change her appearance. The motive of impatient expectation of the beloved echoes the motive of fear of this meeting. The hero is afraid that the immaculate Beautiful Lady may turn into a sinful earthly creature, and her descent into the world will turn out to be a fall. How the lyrical hero would like his Beautiful Lady to always be embodied in some kind of Divine principle, capable of saving humanity and reviving it to a new beautiful life!
Alexander Blok adhered to the theory of symbolism not only in creativity, but also in everyday life, therefore he perceived each event as an omen. The poem "I Anticipate You ..." was written two years before Lyubov Mendeleev became his wife. It really turned out to be prophetic. Blok's forebodings came true, his family life was difficult, but the poet until his death believed that his chosen one was given to him from above.
The poem is written in couplets, multi-foot iambic.
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A. Blok's poem "I anticipate you ..." is a confession in which the lyrical hero confesses his dreams, feelings and fears to his beloved. Her image, the image of the Beautiful Lady, is the ideal of a woman, which does not exist in reality: "All in the guise of one I foresee you ..."
But the created harmony is broken by the reality that breaks into it. The lyrical hero is seized with confusion, melancholy, fear that this very ideal of a woman will collapse, she will turn out to be different. The hero is afraid to be disappointed in her, and at the same time in his world, which is far from reality.
The whole horizon is on fire - and unbearably clear.
And silently I wait, longing and loving.
The whole horizon is on fire, and the appearance is near,
But I'm scared: you will change your appearance ...
These lines of the poem prove all of the above and once again emphasize the feeling of discomfort, discord, inharmony in the poet's soul.
The lyrical hero deifies his beloved, this can be seen from the spelling of the pronoun "You" and the impossibility of life without her: "Oh, how I will fall - both sadly and lowly, not having overcome mortal dreams!"
In the poem, A. Blok uses various literary tropes, such as epithets - "deadly dream", "daring suspicion", metaphors - "horizon on fire".
There is also an anaphora, that is, a repetition of the words: "The entire horizon is on fire", "But I'm scared, you will change your appearance."
It is interesting that there is an epigraph to the poem: "And you will shake off the heavy dream of worldly consciousness, yearning and loving." He makes it clear that with the advent of love, a person breaks out of everyday life, love makes a person better, elevates him, although sometimes it gives rise to fear and confusion.
Updated: 2013-02-23
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