{"id":269,"date":"2016-10-27T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/?p=269"},"modified":"2016-10-27T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:46:16","slug":"gilded-symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/russian-culture\/unit-9-the-silver-age-and-revolution\/gilded-symbolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilded Symbolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was fascinated with Alexander Blok&#8217;s A<em> Puppet Show.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Blok employs a great deal of keenly timed symbolism that adds\u00a0immense comedy and social critique.<\/p>\n<p>Color plays a large role in\u00a0<em>Puppet Show\u00a0<\/em>to convey differing contexts in ridiculous situations throughout. For example, the audience witnesses two couples demonstrate the wide spectrum of romantic interaction. The pallid couple &#8212; &#8220;Our sleepy story is so quiet. You closed your eyes without sin&#8221; &#8212; juxtaposed with the &#8220;whirlwind of cloaks&#8221; black and red couple that busts onto the scene saying, &#8220;Watch out, temptress! I&#8217;ll remove my mask! And you&#8217;ll find out that I am faceless. You swept away my features, and led me to darkness, where my black double nods to me, nods to me,&#8221; (28-29).<\/p>\n<p>Better yet than this comical comparison is the third couple, the female half of which merely repeats the final word said by her male companion. This interaction killed me. &#8220;O, how captivating your words are! Sayer of my soul! How much your words say to my heart!&#8221; (30).<\/p>\n<p>The third person symbolic discussion of death and the end of the world continued into the poem\u00a0<em>A Voice From the Chorus<\/em>: &#8220;You will be waiting, child, for spring &#8211; and spring will fool you. You will call for the suns rising &#8211; and the sun will lie low. And your shout, when you start shouting, silence will swallow,&#8221; (68). The seasonal symbolism is haunting, personifying spring and nature as heartlessly ignoring a child&#8217;s cries for help.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am overtired, but this play confused me. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but a good bit went over my head. Blok: 1. Price: 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fascinated with Alexander Blok&#8217;s A Puppet Show.\u00a0Blok employs a great deal of keenly timed symbolism that adds\u00a0immense comedy and social critique. Color plays a large role in\u00a0Puppet Show\u00a0to convey differing contexts in ridiculous situations throughout. For example, the audience witnesses two couples demonstrate the wide spectrum of romantic interaction. The pallid couple &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[27,108,110,109],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-10-building-the-ussr","category-unit-9-the-silver-age-and-revolution","tag-blok","tag-puppet-show","tag-symbolism","tag-voice-from-the-chorus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-fall-2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}