Transformation of Coldness’ Motive in A.A.Blok’s Poetry

The work is devoted to the transformation of the motif of coldness in A. Blok's “trilogy of Becoming Human”. This motif is not only recurrent, but also a meaningful one, since it is repeated throughout all three volumes and is connected in a complex way with the motifs' system of the whole “trilogy”. The study includes four chapters. The first one focuses on different approaches to the concept of “motif” and on the motifs that were already identified in Blok’s poetry. The second chapter is devoted to the transformation of the motif in the early poetry of Blok, as well as its links with the works of V.S. Solovyov and the Symbolists. The third chapter considers the cycles of the second volume and similarity of the motif in Blok's and Gogol's works. The fourth chapter completes the study of the evolution of the motif in the last cycles of the “trilogy of Becoming Human”.