ABSTRACT
Galaktion subsumed all previous Georgian poetry into his own private world: 'The Wind Blows' raises Tsereteli's questing 'Suliko' to a Symbolist musicality and Weltschmerz; Nikoloz Baratashvili's Merani and cult of the azure transcend their historical associations and, seen through the Symbolism of Alexander Blok (and his blessed eternal land), become part of a private apocalyptic race of mind and time in Galaktion's 'Azure Horses'l (~'JPl;X~ Ob:J6:Joo, 1915), a poem that had a delayed impact on the public:
Skeletal stands of lifeless trees, forests of mad faces and forces, Disembodied run the days - quicker, crazier they run. With hallucinatory dreams - with my azure horses You will rest with me. Every one is in its place. Second after second speeds, yet I cannot feel contrition, Pillows of eternity stay impervious to tears.
