Esenin and Emile Verhaeren: creative parallels

https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.1-17.072  

Voronova Olga Ye.

Doctor of Philology, Professor

Ryazan State University named for S. Yesenin

e-mail: o.voronova@rsu.edu.ru

The article draws attention to the features of creative commonness of Sergei Esenin and Emile Verhaeren, manifested, in particular, in the theme of tragic confrontation between town and country, nature and civilization, as well as in the use of the literary devices of romantic expression and metaphorization in reconstructing military and revolutionary events.

Keywords: Sergei Esenin and Emile Verhaeren, creative parallels, nature and civilization, antiurbanism, poetry of the First World War, revolutionary-romantic motifs.

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