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Poem. Publication date. 1918. Media type. Print. The Twelve ( Russian: Двена́дцать, romanized : Dvenádtsat) is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917.
The Twelve is a poem about the Russian Revolution. It consists of twelve parts, or cantos, of various forms and lengths. Aleksandr Blok’s title refers to the twelve revolutionaries marching on...
By Aleksey Calvin. The Twelve is more than a mere masterful poem: it is a distillation of the tumultous time and place in which it was written, both in its stylings and its pervasive singular spirit.
Metadata. Aleksandr Blok’s (1880-1921) Twelve is a major literary document of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917. More powerfully than any historical text, Blok’s work captures the social chaos, the cultural fragmentation, the aspirations, the fears, the ambiguity, and the ambivalence of this cataclysmic event for the Russian ...
Twelve men are marching through the town. Their rifle butts on black slings sway. Lights left, right, left, wink all the way... Cap tilted, fag drooping, every one. Looks like a jailbird on the run! Freedom, freedom, Down with the cross! Rat-a-tat-tat! It’s cold, boys, and I’m numb!
Mar 26, 2017 · Jury Annenkov. John Ellison discusses Alexander Blok's great poem The Twelve, and its links to the Russian Revolution. I came fresh, utterly fresh, to the most famous poem by Alexander Blok - The Twelve - written in January 1918, and the freshest of poetic responses to the November Bolshevik revolution.
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