Типы поэтического субъекта в творчестве Геннадия Айги

Abstract

This article constructs a typology of the poetic subject in the poetry of Gennadii Aigi, with a focus on address in lyric communication. It first distinguishes the poetic ego (the speaking entity) from the poetic subject and correlates the latter with the concept of the reader/addressee. While the poetic ego is verbally and poetically expressed in the text, the poetic subject is merely implied and must be reconstructed by the reader as the entity responsible for the poetically and verbally expressed text. This article suggests a fivefold typology of poetic subjects in Aigi’s poetry: 1) a referential subject that is dominated by the relation of itself to the world; 2) an “addressive” subject that is governed by its relation to the addressee; 3) a subject determined by its relation to the verbal and poetic tropes used and/or thematized in the poem; 4) a highly hybrid subject that is characterized by cross-referencing literary and cultural media; and 5) a subject that performs a religious syncretism by which a new kind of psalmody is achieved. This typology enables us to bring the variety of Aigi’s texts into a systematic relation with the concept of the poetic subject.