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I would like to introduce you my poem, that is written by Russian poet Aleksandr Block.
You can see the original text and the second one is translated to English:
English translation:
“Stranger”
In the evenings, on restaurants
Hot air is wild and dull,
And reigns shouting drunken
Spring and noxious spirit.
Far above the dust lanes
Over the boredom of country cottages,
A little gilded pretzel bakery
And hear a child crying.
And every night, beyond the barriers,
Wringing their hats,
Among the ditches are walking with the ladies
Proven hearts.
Above the lake creak oarlocks
And a woman's scream,
And in the sky, to all accustomed
No point grimaces drive.
And every night, only one
Reflected in my glass
And moisture tart and mysterious
Like me, he and stunned.
And the tables next to
Lackeys sleepy protrude,
And drunk with the eyes of rabbits
‘In vino veritas! ’A scream.
And every evening at this hour
(Or is it just a dream to me?)
Waist, silk caught,
In the misty moving window.
And slowly passing between the drunken,
Always, without satellites, one
Breathing perfumes and mists,
She sits by the window.
And wafted by ancient beliefs
Her silky
And the hat, in mourning feathers
And in the rings narrow arm.
And the strange proximity shackled,
Look for the dark veil,
And see the enchanted shore
Amazing sea.
Deaf secrets entrusted to me,
I am someone's sun handed,
And all my soul meanders
Pierced by the wine.
The ostrich plumes
In my swing brain
And the bottomless blue eyes
Bloom on the far shore.
In my heart lies a treasure
And has the key to me!
You're right, drunken monster!
I know: the truth in wine.
Aleksandr Blok
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich is a Russian poet who was born in 1880 in St. Petersburg and continued his work until 1921. His work became a tragic and deep, filled with a sense of catastrophic era. He started in the spirit of symbolism that is close to music and formed under the influence of romance.
Paradoxical combination of mystical and domestic, detached and everyday is typical for most creative Bloc as a whole. This is a distinguishing feature, and his mental organization, and as a consequence of his own, Blok’s Symbolism. Especially characteristic in this respect has become a textbook classic looks hazy silhouette matching "Stranger" .
The poem “Strange" by Alexander Blok belongs to the period of writing "terrible world" when the principal in the perception of a poet of the world have been feeling melancholy, disbelief and very despair. The atmosphere is not the beauty but the cruelty, lies and misery, and out of this impasse there.
This poem has a lot of symbols and represents symbolism as well. Symbol is a word that an author may use in his poem to represent some meanings other than the original. As a result, “Stranger” will have many hidden meaning based on the use of symbolism.
In the first stanza there are several examples of symbolism. These are: evenings, restaurant, reigns shouting drunken. Evening is a time of the day and in the context of this poem means that is dark, and it is time for mystery things to happen. Restaurant means a place, where people are going to spend some time, and have some food and drinks. But if you see deeper in this poem it is the embodiment of vulgarity, where only drunk people are around. Next symbol is "reigns shouting drunken", that represent vulgar world as well. However, the motive of intoxication in "The Stranger" is deployed on.
In "The Stranger" all myth poetical meanings accumulated symbolism in the image of the sun: "Disco" meaningless, and the curve he was evidently unable to keep the grimace from vulgarity life. The word "curve", apparently, significantly and their affinity with the "curvature" as untrue, "drive" in "The Stranger" - the sun is wrong and unjust.
Block describes it the real world – prostitutes, the dirty streets with gutters, the kingdom of vulgarity, where among the pouring slops walk "tested wits" with the ladies.
In the evenings, on restaurants
Hot air is wild and dull,
And reigns shouting drunken
Spring and noxious spirit.
(Blok)
What about the name “The Stranger”? Who is this person? It is a person you don’t know? Or do you know this person? In this poem it is a vague vision that emerged in a drunken poet's mind, a phantom created by drunken imagination. The action in "The Stranger" is also timed to the spring (we can feel spring air), although, in contrast to expectations, fueled by the symbolist tradition, the spring air is intoxicatingly fresh, and "wild and dull."
What about the lyrical hero? He is alone and surrounded by drunks all over. He rejects this horrific world of the soul, like a farce, in which there is no place for anything beautiful and holy. This world poisoned him, but among these intoxicating fumes appeared stranger. She by herself and her image awakens a sense of light and it seems that she believes in beauty. The image of her is surprisingly romantic and alluring and it is evident that the poet was still alive in the belief in goodness. Filth and vulgarity can’t tarnish the image of a stranger, reflecting the dreams Bloc of pure unconditional love. And although the poem ends with the words "In vino veritas", but the image of a beautiful stranger inspires confidence in a bright start in life.
In the first part of the poem with the help of symbols we see dirt and vulgarity of the world, and in the second - a beautiful stranger. So I can tell that his track can convey the main idea of Blok. The image of a stranger transforms the poet changed his poems and thoughts.
You can see the original text and the second one is translated to English:
НЕЗНАКОМКА
По вечерам над ресторанами
Горячий воздух дик и глух,
И правит окриками пьяными
Весенний и тлетворный дух.
Вдали над пылью переулочной,
Над скукой загородных дач,
Чуть золотится крендель булочной,
И раздается детский плач.
И каждый вечер, за шлагбаумами,
Заламывая котелки,
Среди канав гуляют с дамами
Испытанные остряки.
Над озером скрипят уключины
И раздается женский визг,
А в небе, ко всему приученный
Бесмысленно кривится диск.
И каждый вечер друг единственный
В моем стакане отражен
И влагой терпкой и таинственной
Как я, смирен и оглушен.
А рядом у соседних столиков
Лакеи сонные торчат,
И пьяницы с глазами кроликов
«In vino veritas!» кричат.
И каждый вечер, в час назначенный
(Иль это только снится мне?),
Девичий стан, шелками схваченный,
В туманном движется окне.
И медленно, пройдя меж пьяными,
Всегда без спутников, одна
Дыша духами и туманами,
Она садится у окна.
И веют древними поверьями
Ее упругие шелка,
И шляпа с траурными перьями,
И в кольцах узкая рука.
И странной близостью закованный,
Смотрю за темную вуаль,
И вижу берег очарованный
И очарованную даль.
Глухие тайны мне поручены,
Мне чье-то солнце вручено,
И все души моей излучины
Пронзило терпкое вино.
И перья страуса склоненные
В моем качаются мозгу,
И очи синие бездонные
Цветут на дальнем берегу.
В моей душе лежит сокровище,
И ключ поручен только мне!
Ты право, пьяное чудовище!
Я знаю: истина в вине.English translation:
“Stranger”
In the evenings, on restaurants
Hot air is wild and dull,
And reigns shouting drunken
Spring and noxious spirit.
Far above the dust lanes
Over the boredom of country cottages,
A little gilded pretzel bakery
And hear a child crying.
And every night, beyond the barriers,
Wringing their hats,
Among the ditches are walking with the ladies
Proven hearts.
Above the lake creak oarlocks
And a woman's scream,
And in the sky, to all accustomed
No point grimaces drive.
And every night, only one
Reflected in my glass
And moisture tart and mysterious
Like me, he and stunned.
And the tables next to
Lackeys sleepy protrude,
And drunk with the eyes of rabbits
‘In vino veritas! ’A scream.
And every evening at this hour
(Or is it just a dream to me?)
Waist, silk caught,
In the misty moving window.
And slowly passing between the drunken,
Always, without satellites, one
Breathing perfumes and mists,
She sits by the window.
And wafted by ancient beliefs
Her silky
And the hat, in mourning feathers
And in the rings narrow arm.
And the strange proximity shackled,
Look for the dark veil,
And see the enchanted shore
Amazing sea.
Deaf secrets entrusted to me,
I am someone's sun handed,
And all my soul meanders
Pierced by the wine.
The ostrich plumes
In my swing brain
And the bottomless blue eyes
Bloom on the far shore.
In my heart lies a treasure
And has the key to me!
You're right, drunken monster!
I know: the truth in wine.
Aleksandr Blok
Blok, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich is a Russian poet who was born in 1880 in St. Petersburg and continued his work until 1921. His work became a tragic and deep, filled with a sense of catastrophic era. He started in the spirit of symbolism that is close to music and formed under the influence of romance.
Paradoxical combination of mystical and domestic, detached and everyday is typical for most creative Bloc as a whole. This is a distinguishing feature, and his mental organization, and as a consequence of his own, Blok’s Symbolism. Especially characteristic in this respect has become a textbook classic looks hazy silhouette matching "Stranger" .
The poem “Strange" by Alexander Blok belongs to the period of writing "terrible world" when the principal in the perception of a poet of the world have been feeling melancholy, disbelief and very despair. The atmosphere is not the beauty but the cruelty, lies and misery, and out of this impasse there.
This poem has a lot of symbols and represents symbolism as well. Symbol is a word that an author may use in his poem to represent some meanings other than the original. As a result, “Stranger” will have many hidden meaning based on the use of symbolism.
In the first stanza there are several examples of symbolism. These are: evenings, restaurant, reigns shouting drunken. Evening is a time of the day and in the context of this poem means that is dark, and it is time for mystery things to happen. Restaurant means a place, where people are going to spend some time, and have some food and drinks. But if you see deeper in this poem it is the embodiment of vulgarity, where only drunk people are around. Next symbol is "reigns shouting drunken", that represent vulgar world as well. However, the motive of intoxication in "The Stranger" is deployed on.
The second stanza of the poem also contains examples of symbolism. There are: child crying, women scream, moisture tart and mysterious. A child is a baby ,and a crying child is the one who is in need of something and in the context of this poem is a child that is scared of something. It shows that the atmosphere is not good for kids to be here. A woman’s scream symbolizes unhappy women that have to stay close to these guys in restaurant.
“Tart" and especially "mysterious" are epithets that gives the wine a special evaluative sense, but the wine as if it were just a drink, "stun", intoxicating in a literal sense. Also we can see that world of "drunks with the eyes of rabbits gives the poem a vulgar sense again. Comparison with "rabbits" in accordance with the conventional wisdom views on this animal brings a shade of meaning “lust”.In "The Stranger" all myth poetical meanings accumulated symbolism in the image of the sun: "Disco" meaningless, and the curve he was evidently unable to keep the grimace from vulgarity life. The word "curve", apparently, significantly and their affinity with the "curvature" as untrue, "drive" in "The Stranger" - the sun is wrong and unjust.
Block describes it the real world – prostitutes, the dirty streets with gutters, the kingdom of vulgarity, where among the pouring slops walk "tested wits" with the ladies.
In the evenings, on restaurants
Hot air is wild and dull,
And reigns shouting drunken
Spring and noxious spirit.
(Blok)
What about the name “The Stranger”? Who is this person? It is a person you don’t know? Or do you know this person? In this poem it is a vague vision that emerged in a drunken poet's mind, a phantom created by drunken imagination. The action in "The Stranger" is also timed to the spring (we can feel spring air), although, in contrast to expectations, fueled by the symbolist tradition, the spring air is intoxicatingly fresh, and "wild and dull."
What about the lyrical hero? He is alone and surrounded by drunks all over. He rejects this horrific world of the soul, like a farce, in which there is no place for anything beautiful and holy. This world poisoned him, but among these intoxicating fumes appeared stranger. She by herself and her image awakens a sense of light and it seems that she believes in beauty. The image of her is surprisingly romantic and alluring and it is evident that the poet was still alive in the belief in goodness. Filth and vulgarity can’t tarnish the image of a stranger, reflecting the dreams Bloc of pure unconditional love. And although the poem ends with the words "In vino veritas", but the image of a beautiful stranger inspires confidence in a bright start in life.
In the first part of the poem with the help of symbols we see dirt and vulgarity of the world, and in the second - a beautiful stranger. So I can tell that his track can convey the main idea of Blok. The image of a stranger transforms the poet changed his poems and thoughts.
