The Bolshevik Revolution aimed to create a close to utopian society where the wage earners known as the proletariat class would finally be on an equal level as everyone else. This revolution allowed poets to use their craft of writing to address and critique the happenings around them. The poem “The Twelve” by Alexander Blok expresses the different social classes in Russia and what each class was going through doing the time of the revolution. The poem is very interesting because it utilizes polyphonic rhythms, harsh and slangy language which caused many readers to scorn Blok for his portrayal of Petrograd. The blizzard which engulfs petrograd represents the revolution and its relentlessness and destructiveness. The poem uses this storm to
