Poems

Alexander Blok is the greatest poet of the Silver Age of Russian culture, an innovator who changed the face of domestic poetry in the 20th century. Blok is a symbolist poet, and his verses, even when they seem clear at first glance, reveal new depths of meaning with each reading – and from the poetic lines emerges a living, noble, exceptionally extraordinary personality of a person who has experienced much.
Reverent hymns in honor of the incomparable Lady, piercing poems about Russia, poems from the famous cycles "Snow Mask," "On the Kulikovo Field," "Terrible World," "Carmen," "Italian Poems," and many others have been included in this book. The "Trilogy of Incarnation," composed by Blok, like every cycle by Blok, is a significant event in Russian poetry, and each poem is an integral part of this event. The theme of past exalted love, lost happiness, and forever lost Light runs through all the poet's work. The symbolists anticipated the second coming of Christ, but the revolution began…