Diversity, structural and linguistic features of the genre poetry of the 1920s by Yeghishe Charents

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, a new era began in the fields of world and Russian literature, art and culture, which Armenian literature could not remain indifferent. The theoretical foundations of taking the progress of the post-October art in a new direction, to changing the plan of the poem, enriching the content, of looking for new methods and ways of creating images were presented in declaration in three, which being the first attempt in that direction was naturally not free from controversial formulations. In the quest to take the literary and artistic developments in a new direction the role of Y. Charents can't be renounced, whose poems were new both in terms of content and imagery, introducing newly created words into poetry, enriching the genre system with new nuances and a number of other aspects. Charents was experimenting with new models of poem structure, where the means of representation became more objective, the dictionary meanings of words were enriched with new content, and practical applications with new syntactic classifications. Charents' works of the 1920s were notable for their genre variety: poem, poetry, agitka, radio poem, rubayats, rhabsody, publicity, poster, etc. It should be noted that it is difficult to give a stable definition of genre to many of these works, because the poet combines the peculiarities of different genres: style, language, structure, etc. Of course, the poet's persistent search was not always successful. He sometimes crosses the boundaries of propriety, directs the arrows of criticism against him with sharp wordings, which were often directed or intentional. But in honour of the poet it should be noted that he persistently continued his efforts to push literary and artistic productions to a new path of progress enriching Armenian literature with new peculiarities and concluding his search with the monumental collection of "Book of the way.