SOURCE: "Structure and Symbol in Blok's The Twelve" in The American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. XIX, No. 2, April, 1960, pp. 259-75.
In the following essay, Reeve offers a reading of The Twelve as an apolitical poem, in which the Christ figure symbolizes "apotheosis in suffering not through it" and "real freedom in actual restraint as distinguished from the idea of liberation."
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