ПОЭТ-ГРАЖДАНИН КАК КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ГЕРОЙ В РУССКОЙ И КИТАЙСКОЙ ПОЭЗИИ: ТЕМА НАРОДНЫХ СТРАДАНИЙ В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ ДУ ФУ И Н. А. НЕКРАСОВА

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the aspects of the Russian-Chinese cultural dialogue: a citizen poet as a cultural hero in Russian and Chinese poetry on the example of the theme of folk suffering in the works of N. Nekrasov and Du Fu, analyze historical, autobiographical and philosophical determinants of the poets' appeal to civil and folk subjects, considered how archetypal situations, motives and images are actualized in the work of both poets, determined by their writing reputation, their status in the cultural life of the era – the role of a citizen poet, patriot poet, singer of folk suffering. When comparing the works of poets, many typologically similar motifs significant for their artistic world are revealed that represent the theme of folk suffering: steady personosphere, correlation of a subject of national sufferings to motive of wandering and steady top wasps of great Russians and the Chinese rivers, the emotional sphereof the lyrical hero, motive of wretchedness and poverty of the people, motive of national groan and crying of children, motives of beating by a whip and bones of dead persons, motives of soldiering, military service, a landowner and official arbitrariness, inaction and silence of the power, its deafness to national sufferings. Special attention is paid to a subject of a heavy female share in works of poets, epization of their lyrics containing the developed plots reproducing various sides and options of national sufferings and also the system of poems doubles amazingly connected not only separate motive and figurative musters, but also logic of expansion of a lyrical plot, the principles of the subject organization and almost literally repeating verbal formulas. The article concludes that there are similarities and differences in the artistic representation by the poet-citizen of the topic of folk suffering.