Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1103777 Russian Literature 2016 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

The main point addressed by the article is that the choice of lexical and grammatical forms largely determines the subjective perspective of a text. We analyse three early poems by Aigi – ‘Suddenly – a flashing holiday’, ‘You from the end’, ‘To you from the end’ (1963–1964) in which the change of subjective perspective creates an oscillating effect of explicitness/implicitness of the lyrical subject and, accordingly, of the addressee. The analysis of three poems shows that the addressee “You” to whom the poet refers consists in samomysl' (self-thought) or in God, gifting the “I” with this thought. This means that the subject in Aigi's poetry – being formally manifested or not – always coexists with a certain Divine Principle that assumes either a male or female form.

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