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UDC 81`42
DOI 10.20339/PhS.6-25.051
Bryukhanova Yulia M.,
Candidate of Philology,
Docent of the Modern Russian Literature
Irkutsk State University;
F.M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy
e-mail: okt28@yandex.ru
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4675-9077
Merkulova Olga N.,
Candidate of Philology,
Associate Professor of the Modern Russian Literature Department
Irkutsk State University
e-mail: olzame@ya.ru
The purpose of the research is to examine the poetic images of the master of free verse Alexander Sokolnikov, whose creative worldview is based on mythological consciousness. This thesis is reflected, in particular, in the creation of the image of the Water. The article analyzes the poetic hydronymics of Sokolnikov’s poems, with a special emphasis on the image of the Lena River. The traditional mythological semantics of unity, presented in Sokolnikov’s poems through the motif of ‘all-pervading water’, is noted. A characteristic of the lyrical subject is given as a creator who extracts an image-sound from emptiness (significant nothingness) and silence and transforms it into a plastically tangible verbal series. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time it introduces the poetry of Alexander Sokolnikov into a scientific context, which has obvious figurative and thematic parallels with the historical and literary context of the turn of the 20th–21st centuries. As a result of the research, it was found that in Sokolnikov’s poetry, mythopoetic of the Water is embodied as a universal mythopoetic image, in the ambivalent nature of which the cosmogonic component is significant. At the same time, the position of the lyrical subject is maximally open to the acceptance of the world and is reflected in its responsiveness and creative resonance with existence.
Keywords: mythopoetic of water, free verse, vers libre, Alexander Sokolnikov, poeticism of the river Lena
The research was carried out at the expense of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project No. 23-18-00408, https://rscf.ru/project/23-18-00408 /); F.M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy
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