Alexander Alexandrovich Blok was one of the 20th century’s finest Russian poets who was known as the leading Symbolist and whose poetry is filled with sound play and often mysticism. He married Lyubov Mendeleeva, an actress and the daughter of the chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev. Blok’s poem “The Twelve” about a motley crew that led the Revolution sparked controversy from many quarters.
Street, lamp, pharmacy,
languor’s dull light with nonsense.
Another quarter of a century survived--
exits from sameness nonexistent.
Go ahead, die as you start– start as you die.
The old-new stupidly relives the new-old.
Night’s canal ripple is cold as ice--
pharmacy, lamp, street repetition’s scold.
1912
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