The article is devoted to a comprehensive cognitive-pragmatic study of the features of free verse in the early works of the Chuvash avant-garde poet Gennady Aigi (the second half of the 1950s). The article presents the results of a cultural interpretation and structural analysis of some of the poems from the early works of the poet in the Chuvash language, which became the starting point for the development of G. Aigi’s avant-garde poetry in the 1960s and 1970s, when the poet began to create his works in Russian. As a follower of the Russian poetic avant-garde, Gennady Aigi has gone through a difficult journey in search of his own idiosyncratic free verse style. The early poetic texts written in his native language demonstrate a gradual departure from ‘classical’ verse and a transition to the free verse format, which allows G. Aigi to achieve a semantic dominant in his texts to convey his worldview and understanding of the world. This transformation begins with the violation of quantitative structure of the strophic system, followed by the abandonment of traditional verse meters, the departure from strict line lengths, and the absence of clear rhyme schemes, as well as the deviation from grammatically correct syntactic structures. The text’s rhythm takes center stage, emphasizing the musicality of the language and playing a crucial role in interpreting the conceptual archetypes in G. Aigi’s poetry. The features of versification presented in this article are characteristic of G. Aigi’s avant-garde poetry.

Keywords: avant-gardism, neo-avant-gardism, G.N. Aigi, free verse, Chuvash language

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The birth of avant-gardism in the early work of Gennady Aiga