Żywioł muzyczny w światopoglądzie Aleksandra Błoka

Abstract

The paper contains an attempt to explain the sense of the conception of music (musicalness) in Blok’s system of ideas. The author indicates that music is for the poet a metaphor of the most vivid and perspective forces in the respective worlds of nature, human being and society. The sources of this tradition can be found in Symbolist literature (music — the highest product of human achievement, the highest form of art) and Modernistic philosophy (life is similar to music for it changes rhythmically). In Blok’s publicism these subjects were dealt with in a specific way and connected with the ideological tradition of the Russian intelligentsia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Blok was convinced that the extermination of the contemporary civilization and culture was near at hand. He looked for salvation to music. In the specific circumstances of Russian life on the turn of the nineteenth century he saw music embodied in revolution and the common people, regarding these notions from the aesthetic point of view, not from a social or political one.