Elegy and Elegy Mode of Artistry in the Poetry of Rob. Akhmetzyanov and I.A. Kushner

Abstract

The article is devoted to the examination of elegy features and elegy mode of artistry in Russian and Tatar poetry of 70-80s XX century. The actual basis of the research is formed by A. Kushners poems, modern Russian poet and Robert Akhmetzyanov, known Tatar lyric of the XX century. It is stated that elegy was not included in the circle of traditional Tatar poetry genres (wider - oriental), its genetic roots are bound with other forms like marsiya. The author comes to the conclusion, that poetic cycle Kozge elegiyalar (Autumn elegies) by Rob. Akhmetzyanov fully depicts the identity of Tatar artistic consciousness, its literary identity, reflecting in its ability to correlate its deep experiences with poem form and with its architectonic principles. The comparative analysis has shown that subjective and objective in Rob. Akhmetzyanovs elegies exist in a different, less expressive form of contradiction than in the Russian elegy tradition, which is marked by the connection of the Tatar poets artistic way of thinking with folk poetry. Particularly, in the lyrical cycle the author resorts to paired images, like ike alma (two apples), which also appear in the Tatar song. The research proved that Rob.Akhmetzyanovs creativity can be considered as catalyst of elegy in the national literature of the XX century: elegy form and its techniques contributed to the genre recognizability, more than that, elegy became the field of representation of the avant-garde spirit of the Tatar authors creativity. In the A.Kushners poetry elegy and idyllic interact in the same lyrical plot, thus transforming the stable features of the genres mentioned and their modality (Ukhodit leto (The summers leaving), Mne kazhetsya (It seems to me) etc.