Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1103777 | Russian Literature | 2016 | 10 Pages |
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.