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The present study examines Velimir Khlebnikov’s early poem “Vam” (“To You”, 1909), addressed to Mikhail Kuzmin. Drawing on Kuzmin’s diary entries and Khlebnikov’s corres­pon­dence, it seeks to reconstruct the poets’ personal and creative relationship, clarify the da­ting of the young author’s ...

An Old English poem, preserved in a copy of the 12th century, Instructions for Chris­tians, consisting of 265 lines, is considered through the prism of the explication of the theme of moral instructions in the Old English tradition. The poem, along with other Old English ...

The article focuses on the genre characteristics of P. A. Viazemsky’s miniature “Commemoration of the battle of Borodino”. Connections of the work with genres of an ode and an elegy are explored. The poem contains in itself elements of traditional ode of the Classicism epoch and largely intertwine with poetic of battle ode, this is largely about praise of the great historical event and Russian arms (Battle of Borodino) and commanders (Miloradovich ...

The paper is the first translation into Russian of the poem ‘Everything has already hap­pened! (Epistle to Julius Stettenheim)’ by the outstanding German scholar, professor at the University of Königsberg, medical practitioner and poet Paul Henry Gerber (1863—1919). The poem first appeared in Gerber’s ...

The material of the late poems by G. Shpalikov, one of the prominent representatives of poetry during the Khrushchev Thaw era, is singled out and examined in terms of the sphere of key images and motifs in the poet’s artistic world, which are encoded by the ontological-tragic ...

The object of this study is the poem Such merriment it was... by V. A. Sosnora, one of the prominent writers of the second half of the 20th century. The article analyzes the poet’s creative process in working on the text. The study draws on the poem’s draft version, which has not ...

... articles, notes, etc.]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Mayakovskiy, V. V., 1955. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy: V 13 t. 1955—1961. T. 1. Sti­khotvoreniya, tragediya, poemy i stat'i 1912—1917 godov [Complete works: In 13 volu­mes. 1955—1961. Vol. 4. Poems of 1922, poems, propaganda and essays of 1922—1923]. Moscow (in Russ.). Mayakovskiy, V. V., 1957. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy: V 13 t. 1955—1961. T. 4. Sti­khot­voreniya 1922 goda, poemy, agitlubki i ocherki 1922—1923 godov [Complete Works: ...

... tradition that comes from Dante, Mandelstam, and Tsvetaeva. Averintsev, S. S., 1982. Paradise. In: S. A. Tokarev, ed. Mify narodov mira [Myths of the World]. Vol. 2. Moscow. pp. 363—366 (in Russ.). Aristov, V., 2008. Izbrannye stikhi i poemy [Selected poems]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Daenin, E., 2000. Vozvedenie v stepen' [Exponentiation]. Moscow (in Russ.). Dante, Alig'eri, 1974. Bozhestvennaya komediya [The Divine Comedy]. Moscow (in Russ.). Dragomoshchenko, A., 2011. Tavtologiya: stikhotvoreniya,...

... “Whatever is, is right” into the French language — which was part of the competition task. The author considers the ways the proposition was translated into the Russian and German languages. The article shows the contribution of Voltaire and his Poem on the Lisbon Disaster and Candide: or, Optimism to the post factum changes in the perception of the competition results and to the emergence of new shades of meaning in the concept of optimism. The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 had a profound effect ...

The article is focuses on the interaction of artistic and scientific discours­es: scientific thinking into poetry. Based on two poems (Dom filozofa by Czesław Miłosz and The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House by How­ard Nemerov), the author examines the possibilities of thinking about cogni­tive problems in the space of poetry. Reincarnating as their characters (philos­opher ...

This article deals with the 'time' concept in Boris Pasternak's poem “Sparrow Hills” and its English translation by Eugene M. Kayden. The focus is placed on implicitness as a basic feature of the semantic structure of a poetic text. The poem's main image – Pentecost (“Whitsun”) – proves to be a manifestation ...

... relevant research question. Valery Pereleshin is one of the prominent figures in the Chinese segment of Russian émigré literature. This article examines the metaphorical image of the bee, which has a crucial role in the poetics of Pereleshin’s book of poems On the Way (1937). The study focuses on three poems where this image is central. Analysing the image of the bee in the context of literary tradition and mythological connotations suggests that the bee is metaphorically related to the persona. This ...

... Slavic and East European Journal , 13 (1), pp. 1—22. Bely, A., 1910. Simvolizm: kniga statei [Symbolism: a book of articles]. Moscow (in Russ.). Blok, A. A., 1911. Nochnye chasy: chetvertyi sbornik stikhov [Night hours: The fourth collection of poems]. Moscow (in Russ.). Blok, A. A., 1934. Heine in Russia: On Russian translations of Heine’s poems. In: A. A. Blok, ed. Sobranie sochinenii. T. XI: Istoriya literatury 1903—1921 [Collected Works. Vol. XI: History of Literature 1903—1921]....

... communication has been clarified. In this study, it is understood as an interaction between the writer and the reader in the process of interpreting a poetic work. The poetic function of syn­tactic means is analysed on the example of Yevgeny Boratynsky’s poem "Autumn", which plays a special role in his creative heritage. Along with the poetic function, the emotive, phat­ic, conative, referential and metacommunicative functions of syntactic constructions are re­vealed. The author demonstrates ...

I analyse three hagiographic poems written by Konrad von Würzburg, a German poet of the XIII century. The poems describe the lives of Saint Alexis, a Man of God, Saint Pantaleon and Pope Sylvester. These saints are worshipped both by the Catholic and the Orthodox churches. Special ...

This article is an attempt to expose and analyse the chronotopical structure of Boris Pasternak's poem ‘Neogliadnost’/’Spanlessness’, written in 1944. The axiological meaning of spatiotemporal images in the poet's Weltanschauung is evaluated within a broader context of Russian language and culture. It is argued that the poem’s key value-laden ...

The images of nature in the poems of the two national geniuses are considered within the opposition of the horizontal/vertical, which is laden with philosophical and metaphorical semantics. Both poets show that, in the absence of spirituality, the true internal freedom sought by ...

The article examines the structure of Baratynsky’s poem and compares it to a Karamzin’s tale because in spite of some substantial differences these two works prove to be clearly similar. The characters could be more deeply understood if the esearch goes into their inner world. Such analysis allows to ...

Based on the work of a famous 19th century Russian author, this article focuses on the development of the theme of robbers’ life, which was introduced by Pushkin and became central to Russian Romanticism. An analysis of the poem in the axiological aspect shows that A. Veltman – as well as other Russian poets – is interested in the moral and psychological reasons behind this phenomenon rather than social ones. The plot structure and the author’s position suggest that ...

The article has conducted a comprehensive analysis of Joseph Brodsky’s poem “I always kept saying that the fate is a game...” based on functional-semantic and communicative-pragmatic approaches. In the process of analysis, the main emphasis is placed on the author’s modality as a means of transmitting his individual ...

This research focuses on the linguistic and cultural specifics of the concept «unity in diversity» in P. B. Shelley’s poem “Love’s philosophy”. The study reflects the expert linguistic interest to the national cultural and individual author’s specificity in interpreting philosophical concepts in literature, which have a meaning-­forming function within the space-time ...

This article focuses on an in-depth analysis of the poem “On the way to Skyros” by Joseph Brodsky. The goal of this article is to identify the ways the author expresses his guidelines in the process of transformation of the mythological plot (the myth of Theseus). The analysis has been carried out ...

Analyzing the system of P. Shelley’s literary images, the authors argue that allegorical characters of P. Shelley’s poem form two opposite groups, those of good and evil, light and darkness, and truth and falsehood. P.Shelley’s negative characters are a reflection of the poet’s views on reality and the sociopolitical situation in the country. The mythological and ...

Irony is considered as a means to express implicit judgements in N.V. Gogol's poem Dead Souls. The author analyses lexical units comprising the ironic semantics of judgements about characters. Special attention is paid to comparing irony explicators used in the original text and the poem’s translation into German. 1. Коковина ...

This article focuses upon the 'time' and 'space' concepts in Boris Paster-nak’s poem “When it Clears up” (1956) and its English translation by Lydia Pasternak-Slater. Special emphasis is laid upon the significance of the 'holi-day' concept for the structural unity of the poem. In the atemporal dimension of a ‘holiday,’ visible ...

The plot structure of the poem by a Russian author of the Pushkin era A. Podolinsi is characterised in comparison with the context of Russian Romanti-cism and the conceptual constants of Russian cultural consciousness. The au-thor identifies the function of the image of house ...

This article aims to interpret the images of the red horse and the white poodle featured in Victor Sosnora’s poem The Latvian Ballad. These characters, mentioned in the final verses of each odd-numbered stanza, provide the leitmotif of the poem. Their appearance in the fictional world of The Latvian Ballad constitutes the primary event of the text. The title,...

... the ethnographic era and its modern interpretation. Further on, following Buslaev‘s fundamental idea that at its initial stage literature assumes not only secular, but also spiritual social obligations, it is possible to show that the title of the poem turns out to be a semantic intensifier, necessary to strengthen the imperative mood of the verb phrase “Nybbar myn!” (“Forgive (me)!”), which opens the verse. The word in the title is not only desemantized, but also loses its nominal features,...

... limitations imposed by conventional boundaries, thereby offering a means of resisting capture by com­mercial interests Aigi, G., 2001. Razgovor na rasstoyanii: stat'i, esse, besedy, stikhi [Conversation at a Dis­tance: Articles, Essays, Conversations, Poems]. St. Petersburg (in Russ.). Avramidis, K. and Tsilimpounidi, M., eds., 2017. Graffiti and Street Art: Reading, Writing and Representing the City. London. Azarova, N. M., 2015a. Interlingual Interactions in the Poetry of Arkady Drago­moshchenko....

... Russ.). Golynko-Wolfson, D., 2012. Poetic film: problem statement and materials for ex­amination. Translit , 9. Available at: https://litbook.ru/article/261/?ysclid=lq8abx3 ord83552342 [Accessed 24 December 2023] (in Russ.). Goryachok, K. L., 2021. Poems by Dziga Vertov — a dialogue with oneself. Kine­ma , 1 (1), pp. 90—99 (in Russ.). Goryachok, K. L., 2022. Avtorskaya estetika Dzigi Vertova (1910—1940-e gody) [Dzi­ga Vertov’s aesthetics of (1910—1940s)]. PhD thesis. Moscow (in Russ....

... and American ‘language writing’ (Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman). The article scrutinizes the linguistic charac­teristics of such discursive interaction within the experimental form of a ‘treatise disguised as a poem’. Specific linguistic traits of the treatise genre, typically found in scientific and philo­sophical works, are transposed onto poetic texts. These include discourse words and expres­sions conveying metatextual deixis and the process of argumentation,...

... poezii — dvizhenie navstrechu (grammat­ika, leksika, tekst) [ The language of philosophy and the language of poetry — a move­ment towards each other (grammar, vocabulary, text)]. Moscow (in Russ.). Baytov, N., 2003. Stikhotvoreniya 2003 goda [Poems of 2003]. Available at: http:// levin.rinet.ru/FRIENDS/BYTOV/stihi31.html [Accessed 8 July 2023] (in Russ.). Beloglazova, Ye. V., 2010. Polydiscursivity in the context of ideas about discur­sive heterogeneity. In: Aktual'nye problemy sovremennoi ...

This article delves into the early era of 'digital poetry', focusing on poems from the digital poetry collection First Screening (1984) by bpNichol — a poet renowned for his 'movies of words'. Two poems from this collection — 'Letter' and 'After the Storm' — were initially published in print, coming out in 1967 and ...

... shift, Kruchyonykh views Pushkin as a ‘sound-poet’. That analytical position made it possible to move from dis­missing him as ‘a deaf singer’ to the avant-gardist glorification of Pushkin as a genius who worked with the sound texture of the poem. Kruchyonykh demonstrates that for Pushkin the shift is a powerful semantic generator of poetry, a tool that makes an error ‘the rule of break­ing rules’: semantic deviations turn into neologisms, whereas the shift itself enters the realm of ...

In this article, I analyse the vehicles of humour in two short forms of Internet poetry that developed in the 2000s: the pirozhok (literary, a ‘stuffed bun’) and the poroshok (‘powder’). Poems of these genres are quatrains written in iambic tetrameter. Pirozhoks have no rhyme scheme, whereas, in poroshoks, the fourth line truncated to two syllables rhymes with the second line. The poroshok as a genre is a descendant of the pirozhok. Just ...

... of the Lyric Text. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 78, pp. 95—148 (in Russ.). Zel'dovich, G. M., 2016b. On discourse relationships in lyric poetry. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 89 (in Russ.). Zel'dovich, G. M., 2018a. The composition of the lyric poem and the "tightness" of the verse: Typological richness of information as a marker of foreground in the lyric text. In: E. V. Maslii and A. V. Kardashova, eds. Lyudmila Savchenko. Dusha vosplame­nen­naya [Lyudmila Savchenko. Inflamed soul]....

This article revises the traditional views of Tyutchev as a panthesist, Schellingian, etc. Poems, articles, and letters are used to emphasise the Christian foundations of his oeuvre, which focuses on the anthropological problem of the ‘mystery of the human being’. The vicissitudes of human spirit, the dramatic conflict between two major ...

... — early 19th centuries in Russian literature; though it is the expressiveness and imagery of poetry which can have a great impact on the myths in public consciousness. The present study is based on the texts published in the following collections of poems: “Epigrams and Satire: from the history of literary feud of the 19th century” (Epigramma i satira: iz istorii literaturnoy bor’by XIX veka. Moscow, 1931. Vol.1); “Russian epigrams of the second half of the 17th — early 20th centuries” ...

The article analyzes the typological connections between N. V. Gogol’s prose poem “The Dead Souls”, H. Heine’s poem in verse “Germany: A Winter Tale” and J. Rizal’s novel “Noli me tangere”. The author studies how, in all three works, the image of the author and of his country are interconnected. Each author sees ...

The article presents the results of counting and arranging parts of speech in Boris Ryzhy’s poems. The science article aims to identify and present an objective “part-of-speech picture” (as applied to nouns, adjectives and verbs) of Boris Ryzhy’s poetic idiolect. Within the framework of this research work was chosen the multifaceted approach ...

The article considers the specific perception of Dostoevsky's creativity in poetry and essays by Milos. The author studies Milosz's multiple reinterpre­tations of the precedent formula “If there is no God, everything is allowed” in the poems “If not”, “Meaning” and “Oeconomia divina”. It is concluded that the poems under study form a "triptych", where the leading role is played by dialectics of word and silence. 1. Гильманов В. Х., Копцев И....

Our comparative study focuses on Mickiewicz’s Saint Petersburg poems (Part III of Dzyady, 1832) and Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman (1833). We explore the eschatological figurativeness of the two texts and the eccentricity, as Yuri Lotman put it, of the Saint Petersburg space. We conclude that Mickiewicz’s eschatology ...

Using the poem “Dead souls” by N. V. Gogol and its two English trans­lations made by D. J. Hogarth and R. A. Maguire, the author considers lexical units having a cultural component and belonging to the following semantic fields — Clothes, Transport and Food....

... result in not only the character’s social climbing, but also lead to the development of his personality. A comparison of the journey story models of the mythological character and Byron’s main character makes it possible to conclude that in the poem, the greatness of man, who is able to assert his will in his argument with destiny, becomes the most important sacred value. This value becomes the main outcome of the main character’s journey of life. 1. Байрон Дж. Г. Мазепа // ...

In line with the need for a comprehensive system analysis of the poetic works of the influential Tatar poet and literary figure Fatih Karimi, this arti-cles considers the early but the most literary advanced poems created as his poetic voice was emerging. The study shows that the process of the poet’s creative evolution followed a trajectory from the ‘social ideological order’ towards expressing the ‘living’ human feeling and lyrical sacredness....

The article deals with parentheses and particles as one of the ways of expressing certainty and uncertainty in Russian and their equivalents in English. The research is based on the poem by N. Gogol "Dead Souls" and its two translation versions. 1. Беляева Е. И. Достоверность // Теория функциональной грамматики: Темпоральность. Модальность. Л....

The article analyses the peculiarities of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “New Poems” in the context of mythological constructions of German Romanticism. The author formulates the hypothesis of mythologisation as the expression of the sacred in poetry. The epiphany of the image of the Thing (das Ding) is reached by means of artistic ...

The article considers the interrelated images of the 'fruit' and the 'mirror' in poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak in the context of their artistic worldviews. The author compares the function of both images in the oeuvre of the poets. 1.  Баевский В.   С. Музыкальный подтекст стихотворного ...

This article focuses upon the axiological prototype of the ‘time’ category in Boris Pasternak's poem Unique Days and its English translation by Lydia Pasternak-Slater. 1.  Аврелий Августин . Исповедь / пер. с лат. М.   Е. Сергеенко. СПб., 1999. 2.  Бобылев Б.   Г. Концептуальный ...

This article considers the structural and semantic features of the M. Yu. Lermontov's poetic syntax and determines the role of mononuclear sentences in the formation of the general sense of the poem. 1.  Бабайцева В.   В ., Максимов Л.   Ю . Синтаксис. Пунктуация. М., 1981. 2. Валгина Н.   С . Синтаксис современного русского языка. М., 1973. 3.  ...