Темата за града в лириката на Христо Смирненски и Александър Блок
The theme of the city in the poetry of Hristo Smirnenski and Aleksander Blok

Summary/Abstract: The researchers of Smirnenski’s poetry discover a connection between some of his works and A. Blok’s poem The Twelve (the image of the revolutionary as Christ with both poets). The text studies other modes of closeness between Blok and Smirnenski: the interpretations of the themes of the feast, the factory, and the harlot, included in the wider theme of the City. Kinship can be found in the opposition of two worlds - the sublime and true, versus the base social reality - by means of the contrast between the poetics of symbolism, and the linguistic means as social reality signs intended to break this poetics. Unlike Blok, however, Smirnenski breaks down the poetics of symbolism externally – through parody in his humorous works. Thus both poets, through similar but also distinct strategies, outline the limits of symbolism and imply its ending.

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