Образ храма в сборнике Е.А. Боратынского «Сумерки» и проблема композиции

Abstract

The image of the temple in the Boratynsky cycle “Twilight”, consisting of 26 lyric miniatures, occurs only once — in the poem “Prejudice! he is a fragment…” (1840–1841). The context in which the word “temple” appears is such that it creates amphibole, the ambiguity of its reading: on the one hand, we are talking about a certain temple as a religious building destroyed by time; on the other, about the “temple” of the “old truth” lying in the “ruins”, lost by the descendants of the ancient truth. In addition to the function of creating a lyrical chronotope (the temple as a metaphor for the lost past connects the figurative system of the poem and cycle with historical, world and biblical times, the “language of the ruins” and “the old truth” are opposed to the “modern truth”, as “ancestor” and “descendant”), the image of the temple is involved in the unfolding of the author’s compositional plan and cycling. The image of the temple in the structure of Boratynsky’s book of poems creates left- and right-directed intertextual implicit, allusive associative connections with many works of the Twilight cycle.