Eurythmy: music and movement in Andrei Bely’s poetry

Abstract

The purpose of this article is an attempt to interpret individual fragments from the poems of Andrei Bely, which will be based on certain phonosemantic theories presented by the poet in his theoretical works, as well as in his cult poem about the sound called "Glossolalia", which we will pay special attention to. Referring to the memoirs of Bely's contemporaries and to the autobiographical texts of the poet himself, we will show the great influence that Rudolf Steiner had on the Russian thinker with his anthroposophical teachings in the field of mystical symbolism and eurythmy. The era of the beginning of the XX century is known not only for its versatile research in the field of expanding consciousness but also for the work of many authors on creating a new sensibility, a new art, and a new human. In this regard, we tried to consider some of the author's works.