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This article is a “mythopoetic” interpretation of Valerii Briusov’s poem In a Bordello (1905) from the poetic cycle Everyday Life. The text takes the form of a dialogue between the lyrical subject and the mythological heroine Aphrodite. Thanks to the use of the figure of the Greek goddess of love, who in this poem, as in the works of the Russian Symbolist as whole, appears as the personification of...
This article is an analysis of the mythopoetic image of Ariadne in five poems by Valery Briusov. TheGreek myth ofAriadnecombinestwo phenomena: love and loneliness. InthepoemsanalyzedtheRussianSymbolistBriusovfocuseshisattentionononestoryfromtheancientmythofTheseus and Ariadne, Theseus’ abandonment of Ariadne on the island of Naxos.Briusov interpretsthe story through his Symbolist worldview. Heshowsthatlonelinessintheworldisnotaninherentpartofbeing;...
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