Oh, Portia, thank you for restacking, though. I don’t even know how to do it. I will never manage all these technical details. And thanks for all your comments and for liking my comments. Larisa
Lively and fun to read as always. It seems, from this distance, that Blok was a madman. Mad for poetry. Mad for women. Mad for himself and maybe intolerable to himself?
I’m thinking perhaps madness can be described as an extreme disagreement with reality, that is to say with how things are normally done. The great poets and artist routinely seem to fall into that description. Malcolm Gladwell would describe them as outliers. “Madness” just sounds so romantically 19th century.
In one way, you are right. When he was young, he wrongly accepted Soloviev's Philosophical doctrine about saving the world with the help of the Eternal Feminine Goddess. But never mad. I am sorry that I couldn't show you his full, honest relation to Russian life, politics, and just the human side of it.
I’ve been looking into Soloviev and it’s fascinating how so much energy and intellect was brought to bear on questions that are fundamentally about splitting dogmatic hairs between religious doctrines. But what, in your view, was wrong about Blok’s acceptance of Soloviev’s ideas regarding Sophia, if I understand that to be your meaning of Eternal Feminine Goddess.
Thank you for teaching me. And I am absolutely amazed that you went so far as to find Soloviov's teaching. Now, everybody only reads about S.'s philosophy because of Blok. Sofia, in the Russian sense, meant the Wise Eternal Beauty, which is why the first Blok's book was Poems About Beautiful Lady.
(I think where you wrote bitten to death in several places that surely you meant beaten to death).
Oh, Portia, thank you for restacking, though. I don’t even know how to do it. I will never manage all these technical details. And thanks for all your comments and for liking my comments. Larisa
Thank you so much, Sandra, Clarion, Coms Combell, and others, for your interest in Aleksandr Blok and my writing about him
...thank you
Thank you, Chen, for the interest and restacking
I'm very grateful for your writing -fascinating account I never knew, well, most of it.
After your series about Esenin I went and re-read Esenin's poems.
Now it'lll be Blok, I think
Glad to be the agitator.
Lively and fun to read as always. It seems, from this distance, that Blok was a madman. Mad for poetry. Mad for women. Mad for himself and maybe intolerable to himself?
It was a time of high ideals. So foreign to our present reality.
I’m thinking perhaps madness can be described as an extreme disagreement with reality, that is to say with how things are normally done. The great poets and artist routinely seem to fall into that description. Malcolm Gladwell would describe them as outliers. “Madness” just sounds so romantically 19th century.
In one way, you are right. When he was young, he wrongly accepted Soloviev's Philosophical doctrine about saving the world with the help of the Eternal Feminine Goddess. But never mad. I am sorry that I couldn't show you his full, honest relation to Russian life, politics, and just the human side of it.
I’ve been looking into Soloviev and it’s fascinating how so much energy and intellect was brought to bear on questions that are fundamentally about splitting dogmatic hairs between religious doctrines. But what, in your view, was wrong about Blok’s acceptance of Soloviev’s ideas regarding Sophia, if I understand that to be your meaning of Eternal Feminine Goddess.
Thank you for teaching me.
Thank you for teaching me. And I am absolutely amazed that you went so far as to find Soloviov's teaching. Now, everybody only reads about S.'s philosophy because of Blok. Sofia, in the Russian sense, meant the Wise Eternal Beauty, which is why the first Blok's book was Poems About Beautiful Lady.
I don't think he was mad. He was an extremely honest man.
What a great, difficult, fascinating man. Larisa, you make Blok alive in all his contradictions.
Thank you, Portia. Great compliment.
It is a passionate life at a tumultuous time. Thank you for your understanding.