In the piercing cycle "Homeland" sadness and pain, boundless longing are poured in all poems, which from ancient times declared and did not let Russia go. Only two works are devoted to the images of people, and not of the motherland as a whole. A. Blok told about the colorless life of a young girl. An analysis of the poem “On the Railroad” will be given below.
Under the measured rumble of iamba
There is an unhurried and, in fact, terrible description of the existence of a young girl somewhere in the depths of Russia, who does not know how to keep flying youth. Her painful daily visits to the station are shown with empty hopes for some (what?) Changes in life. After all, she is “beautiful and young,” characterizes her Block. On the railroad (analysis of the poem will show this), life will squeeze the heroine’s heart and soul with such unbearable anguish that from the first stanza it is clear how scary and fast she will end her life and hopes.
In the quagmire of life
In the terrible monotonous being of the heroine there was only one entertainment - a trip in the evening, dressed up, to the station. The whole tedious, languid day was coming to an end by the arrival of a fast train, through the windows of which one could look in and see another life - bright and elegant. And her cheeks were red, and the curl curled steeper, and the heroine, standing next to the gendarme near the faded dusty bushes, was exhausted in empty dreams, bogged down in inertia. From afar, I saw three bright lights of a racing train, and the cars, trembling and creaking, walked on and on, without stopping, and longing tore my heart: again it stands, no one needed. The train flashed, looked at the empty eyes of the wagons - and that's all, and nothing more.
Sheer indifference, at least scream, at least do not scream, nobody cares about her. Existence without events takes place on a small stop (and Block clearly describes it), on the railway. The analysis of the poem says that the heroine has nowhere to put her strength, feelings, mind, beauty.
Only once
Just once the hussar drew attention to her, casually leaning on scarlet velvet. He smiled gently, glancing up - and there was nothing left.
Time does not wait, the train sped off into the distance. But for a second she was appreciated. This is both beautiful and humiliating. As a train, a futile youth raced. And then what? And now there is nothing but a dull monotony, except for numbing and coarsening mind and soul of petty deeds. And then what? Is it really so necessary to age so colorless that no one would be glad of her lively cheerful character and gentle charm of youth? The bitterness, regrets, hopeless melancholy eating the heroine shows Blok ("On the Railroad"). Analysis of the poem does not allow to hope for any changes in the life of the heroine.
Sharp turn
How many times the poor thing had to go through the woods to the station, how many times it took to stand under a canopy, how many times a long platform was passed, only she and the Almighty know. After all, it was so irresistibly attracted from this quiet place to where life is seething and changing every day. And nothing happened. And then there came an instant desire to put an end to the sleepy fog of life (Blok says) on the railway. The analysis of the poem speaks of a spontaneous, but not an accidental decision of the girl to smile farewell and without desire, like in a whirlpool, to throw herself under a train.
A terrible beginning and a terrible end
Like a musical rondo, the first and last quatrains begin and end with a sharply tattered miserable wretched life that did not even bloom, and could not bloom in full force. And now, as if alive, with her eyes stopped open, she lies in a mowed ditch, rolling off the rails under a mound. Actually, she died not now, but even then, when they smoldered and with every passing day, hopes faded away.
Physically alive, she was already dying when she threw greedy glances at the windows of the cars. What questions can now arise to her? And would the girl want to answer them? After all, everyone does not care. Everything is just empty curiosity. This is how Blok narrates (“On the Railroad”). The analysis of the poem only states, as a doctor, the fact of death.
Russia
Alone and no one needs, neither himself, nor people, girl. But what about Russia without a daughter? She herself is a beggar, lying in a nap, humiliated and wild. Such saw her at a crossroads, on the railway block. The analysis done by the poet as a scalpel reveals its randomness and disastrous path. But it was just such an immensely loved and hated poet at the same time. Contradictively, with a blood-drenched heart, he looked bitterly at what was happening on the railway, Block. He conducted an analysis of Russian reality throughout the entire cycle of poems "Russia." “On the Railroad” is a piece of the mosaic that made up “Russia” - a boundless longing.
The poet’s heart is crying, blood is flowing from him on the Kulikovo field. And the artist himself does not know what to do with himself, not to give advice and recipes to the children of Russia. One thing knows for sure that “the heart cannot live in peace,” Block. “On the Railroad” (analysis of the verse makes it clear to us) is a piercing cry of the soul, breaking the hearts of both the poet and the heroine of the work. Vulgarity, savagery, and age-old darkness triumph.
Reading Block Aloud
Poems should be perceived by ear, like music, because this is the only way to hear sounds and understand, feel how the images form.
Let's start with the language of metaphors. Wagons, yellow and blue, are intended for wealthy people who can afford to ride in the first and second grade, which the poet does not specify, and green ones for poverty, because it is clear to contemporaries without explanation. In this quatrain, in addition, sound assonances and alliterations are interesting: the repeated syllables “li” soften the menacing knock of wheels and make it humming. The soft “l” repeated 10 times in the quatrains of the hussar softens the inevitability of a fleeting meeting with the eyes of strangers to each other. Whistling and hissing "s" and "g" emphasize the rapid progress of the composition. If you carefully read and say out loud, then this expressive coloring will be heard. And the reception in the composition, when the denouement precedes the story, reinforces the image of the railway created as a symbol of life gauge, from which it cannot be turned right or left. Temporary forms of verbs are also important. In the first and last quatrains, verb forms are used in the present tense, and this also enhances its inverse composition. The image of the path, passing through the whole poem, becomes the central, oppressive and mortifying person. This is how the Block “On the Railroad” builds. Analysis,
artistic means are given briefly. They can be supplemented further.
The essence of the world at Blok is terrible and filled with scattering evil, soulless and indifferent, human stupidity, hopeless, stately, endless. But no, this is not the end, says the poet. There are also forests, glades, mists, rustles in oats. The beautiful exists outside of people. It can and should be seen.