The motives of voyages and ships in the essay "Belfast" by V. Khodasevich

The paper analyzes the essay where Khodasevich's describes a "journey" through the shipyards of Belfast. Khodasevich conceptualizes his observations in the context of the poetic tradition by referring the reader, predominantly, to Dante's "Divine Comedy". The paper discusses the ways in which the essay juxtaposes the eschatological images of dying ships (the famous Titanic was built in a Belfast shipyard) with the motifs of creativity which Khodasevich associated with Pushkin's "Autumn" and Baudelaire's "Voyage" and "Invitation to a Voyage".