#the selected poems of alexander blok

[asoftepiloguemylove]

I GET MEAN WHEN I'M NERVOUS LIKE A BAD DOG // AN INNATE INABILITY TO BE LOVED

image: Su Xinyu Recovery (2015) / quote: Su Xinyu & Lucile Brock-Broido the unbearable heaviness of girlhood (via @metamorphesque) // pinterest // Gregory Alan Isakov "Master & A Hound," This Empty Northern Hemisphere // pinterest // pinterst // Alexander Blok "I Leave the Tiresome Noise and Clamor," The Selected Poems of Alexander Blok (via @/rouxney) // Christina Marie Brown Ghost I // pinterest

[raisunii]

lover. | a web weave

take me to church, hozier / pride and prejudice (2005) / selected poems, alexander blok / we'll never have sex, leith ross / letters to milena, franz kafka / the disappearance of eleanor rigby / the song of achilles, madeline miller / burn this, adam driver and keri russell / letters to milena, franz kafka

[petaltexturedskies]

You're alone, you're in love, you're with me, and till dusk, full of yearning, I'm with you, I'm with you,

Alexander Blok, from "An Autumn Evening" in Selected Poems

[llovelymoonn]

(i’m obsessed with you)

rainer maria rilke book of hours: love poems to god: “extinguish my eyes, i’ll go on seeing you” (tr. anita barrows & joanna macy) (via @derangedrhythms​) \\ anna akhamtova the complete poems of anna akhmatova: uncollected poems and fragments 1957-1966 \\ anna akhmatova poem without a hero and selected poems: “to alexander blok” (tr. lenore mayhew & william mcnaughton) (via @feral-ballad​)

buy me a chai latte

[arsonistfriday]

Day 7 of c!Primetober, Alone in the Universe: autophobia | isolation | weaponizing abandonment issues

dragonno1412 | "Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems: 'to Alexander Blok'" by Anna Akhmatova | "Live Like This" by IRONTOM | proudfreakmetarusonniku | "The Opposite of a Haunting is Something Very Lonely" by Katie Maria | "Adult Grief" by Louise Glück | Dream SMP | "Here's the Life I've Always Longed For" by Anna Haifisch

@cprimetober @proudfreakmetarusonniku @dragonno1412

[lilie-petal]

“Hopes in my heart other-worldly…”

— Alexander Blok, from Selected Poems; “from Lines to the Beautiful Lady (1901-1902)”

[kiwi-smug-silvalina]

“Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that make him sick.”

And so the curtain closes on yet another play…

Hippocrates // Alexander Blok, from a poem titled "O What Is Setting Sun's Radiance To Me," featured in The Twelve & Other Poems // Metal Bars // Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Cutting Odette’s Fingernails” // danusha laméris // Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. July 1935 featured in Selected Diaries // Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta," // T. S. Eliot, from The Complete Works of T. S. Eliot; "The Confidential Clerk,"

(Part 1/2) (Part 2/2)

kantje, Showtime SMP, on growth, sacrifice, development and the choices we made with the consequences we suffer

@zeteri-art @mcyt-valentines

Thank you for looking at this <3

[violentwavesofemotion]

[feral-ballad]

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “To Alexander Blok”

[hauntedbythenarrative]

On mourning myself

Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz//A Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector//angels in the cemetery//Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation; from ‘Fog Land’, Ingeborg Bachmann//Claude Monet//Night, The City Has Simmered Down, Alexander Blok//Montmartre in the rain, Pierre Bonnard//Sound of the War, Vicente Aleixandre//Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky//The Merry Cemetery, Amrita Sher-Gil//The Unabridged Journals, Sylvia Plath//Sylvia Plath//Weeping Madonna Statue

[queenlucythevaliant]

Ooooh I would love to hear about your hypothetical curriculum for St. Petersburg!

In my mind, there are two other parallel versions of me that chose other fields of study. There's one who chose theology, and there's one who chose Russian lit.

So five-ish years ago, I read St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov. I absolutely adored it. As I read, I kept a running list of all the literature, music, and art that I wanted to look up and experience once I had finished the book. This turned into a sort of self-taught class on the literature of St. Petersburg, which continues to be one of my greatest fascinations. I read voraciously, listened to little but Petersburg opera for months (hit me up for Russian opera recs!), and when I read other Russian cultural histories, I kept similar lists and read even more. I've still got quite a lot of Russian classics on my to be read list, but this technique gave me a wonderful start, which led me in turn to create this hypothetical lit curriculum. I would love nothing more than to somehow share Petersburg's beautiful body of poetry, prose, and essay with others.

Note: this is probably a bit more than would fit in a standard undergrad semester, but I've already made substantial cuts from the original lists and can't bring myself to pare it down anymore. Suspend your disbelief, etc.

The Petersburg Mythos

Alexander Pushkin: The Bronze Horseman and The Queen of Spades

Mikhail Lomonosov: Masquerade

Nikolai Gogol: The Nevsky Prospect and The Overcoat

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: White Nights and Crime and Punishment. Maybe also The Adolescent if there's time; if not, I would at least include one particular excerpt from it.

Ivan Turgenev: Home of the Gentry

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina

Yevgeny Zamyatin: “Moscow-Petersburg”

Essay: Using “Moscow-Petersburg” as a framework, examine the projected mythos of St. Petersburg in contrast to that of another major city in Europe, Asia, America, or even in fiction.

The Silver Age

Alexandre Benois: “Picturesque Petersburg”

Andrei Bely: Petersburg

Boris Pasternak: “February” “A Wedding” “My Sister, Life” “Hamlet”

Alexander Blok: “The Dances of Death” “The City Sleeps” “The Stranger”

Nikolay Gumilyov: “The Lost Tram” “The Sixth Sense”

Anna Akhmatova: "The Prayer"

Marina Tsvetayeva: “To Akhmatova”

Essay: While the influence of Golden Age literature on the Silver Age is clear, many have noted an air of dread and anticipation preceding the Bolshevik Revolution in their work is well. Was St. Petersburg of the Silver Age more past- or future-oriented? Defend your answer.

The Martyr City

Anna Akhmatova: Untitled poem on Gumilyov’s arrest

Osip Mandelstam: “Leningrad,” “Petropolis,” Untitled “Help me, O Lord…”

Yevgeny Zamyatin: The Cave

Konstantin Vaginov: The Goat Song

Yuri Tynyanov: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar

Anna Akhmatova: “Requiem” and “Poem Without a Hero”

Mikhail Zoshchenko: Nervous People

Choose an emotional response to the suffering of the early Soviet Era, such as grief, alienation, fear, or hope, and analyze its presence in the literature of early to mid-century Leningrad.

Expatriates, Non-Russians, and the End of the Soviet Era

Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory

Alexander Kushner: selections from We Cannot Choose Times…

Andy Croft: Epilogue to “Fellow Travellers”

Olga Berggolts: Untitled “We pronounced the simplest, poorest words…”

Vladamir Kornilov: “Freedom”

Essay: How does the writing of those who are alienated from St. Petersburg’s identity in some way differ from those who are immersed in it? (In order to answer this question, you will need to decide: What is St. Petersburg’s identity?)

[asoftepiloguemylove]

LET'S PROVE THERE'S A RELIGION IN OUR LOVE // DEVOTION IN BEYOND EVIL

Leah Horlick For Your Own Good (via @geryone) // 괴물 Beyond Evil (2021) dir. Shim Nayeon // Fleurie Love and War // Sean Glatch "Caffine, Pt. 1," 4:41 // 괴물 Beyond Evil (2021) dir. Shim Nayeon // Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // pinterest // Fall Out Boy Hum Hallelujah // 괴물 Beyond Evil (2021) dir. Shim Nayeon // Maggie Stiefvater Call Down the Hawk // 괴물 Beyond Evil (2021) dir. Shim Nayeon // Alexander Blok "I Leave the Tiresome Noise and Clamor," The Selected Poems of Alexander Blok // Mitski I Don't Smoke // 괴물 Beyond Evil (2021) dir. Shim Nayeon // pinterst // Taylor Swift marjorie

[potatowitch]

lyric + poetry prompts

... that are all vaguely anders inspired oops

a love that burns like fire (alexander blok, the scythians)

and every breath we drew was hallelujah (leonard cohen, hallelujah)

there's something so tragic about you, something so magic about you (hozier, from eden)

man was born for love and revolution (osamu dazai, the setting sun)

and everyone who touches me must suffer (martha gellhorn, selected letters)

my head is bloody but unbowed (william ernest henley, invictus)

let us take a knife and cut the world in two (langston hughes, tired)

you outshine everything, even the sun at its zenith (marina tsvetaeva, poems for akhmatova)

love me because i am lost (louise bogan, song)

i was here. i loved you. some days, it wasn't enough (chelsea dingman, things i never give myself permission to say)

rage against the waking dawn (the family crest, battle cry)

from dust and ashes i have called you - and dust you shall become, in the end (noah gundersen, oh death)

i'll be dead before the day is done (florence and the machine, seven devils)

tell me, are you free while the gallows stand? (thrice, firebreather)

find resurrection in the flames (son lux, pyre)

we will unravel all of the chains, and toss the remnants all down the drain (radical face, small hands)

you are the kindest thing that ever happened to me (nikita gill, persephone to hades)

still you stand, sturdy and smelling of smoke (clementine von radics, little bird)

you can have my heart if you have the stomach to take it (yves olade, when rome falls)

i love you, love, in fire and blood (pablo neruda, i do not love you except because i love you)

and i am coming home to you if it's the last thing that i do (the mountain goats, sax rohmer 1)

and i am the fire and i am the forest and i am the witness watching it burn (mitski, a burning hill)

[petaltexturedskies]

My dearest, tenderest one, I love the star-infused melancholy of your face,

Alexander Blok, from "Retribution" in Selected Poems

[llovelymoonn]

How about a web weaving about love on the brink of obsession?

I feel as though I should put it out there that I don’t condone such behavior!

ヾ(´･ ･｀｡)ノ

walt whitman leaves of grass: "from pent-up aching rivers" \\ gregory orr the last love poem i will ever write: poems, 2019: "we were that joke..." \\ via @blameauthority \\ joy ladin forgetting (via @weltenwellen) \\ debra baxter heart of gold \\ alexander blok the selected poems of alexander blok: "on the dunes" \\ joy ladin forgetting

buy me a coffee

[happyhauntt]

sht i made for other people * ottilie mckinnon & remus lupin in i’ll grow myself an ivy noose.

quote by alexander blok, from selected poems; “An Autumn Evening” wr. c. 1906.

by gracefulheretic on wp.