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RE: Poem of the day. Aleksandr Blok - "To The Muse"
@godflesh - This might seem strange, but I immediately sensed the 'Muse' to be Marxist Communism, and how it lured him to destruction.
These days we can find the same 'muse' in neo-Marxism and post-Modernism.
Spirituality and tradition go hand in hand.
Thank you for the poem and the background on the author. So many people suffered during that time.
Most socialist artists avoided symbolism back then. They preferred to shout out loud their revolutionary ideas in any media they could. That's why symbolists couldn't go forward with other comrades even though lots of them were very faithful communists... The conflict between art and communism comes from the way communism denies "individualism". That's why most of accomplished communist artists lived outside communist countries!
Thank you for the reply, something to research and think about.