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POETICS IMAGES IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF SAKHA CLASSICS

P. Sivtceva-Maksimova

Abstract

In the history of Sakha literature the names «Yksykylekh Ylyksyj» - A.Y. Kulakovsky, «Alampa» – A.I. Sofronov, «Bilatian Oiuunuskay» – P.A. Oyunsky have a great meaning. The most important thing in their heritage is the distinctive vision of the world, reflected in the unique symbolic systems of their poetry, which confirm eastern sources in the national artistic culture of a northern Turkish branch – the Sakha nation. In poetic works of the early literary traditions we have the presence of folk beginnings as a special national perspective in a worldview of any literature in general, verified in a number of special studies. For example, a study of various aspects of the literatures of the people groups in Siberia in the writings of Professor S.J. Baldanov a special attention is paid to the area, where the representation of one main conclusion of similar motives in the analysis of the identity of folklores origin of poetry is made. With this concept, the national contexts manifests itself at the level of artistic forms in compositional revelation, organizing figurative and expressive means to communicate, where the «folklore-ethnographic material penetrates into the artistic fabric of the work, forming together with other elements and components of that art a coherent and unified esthetical system». However, the representation and perception of poems in classical Sakha literature only from this point of view is not enough, because bythe massiveness of the idea and the expression of concerns these works are much higher than other artistic expressions, which are based on the folk imaginations. One of the identifying features of the development of the Eastern literatures R.N. Baimov calls «the role of mythology and the oral national folklore in the spiritual development of culture in general». In the dynamic interweaving of «fantasy and realism, allegorical speech, mystical symbolism and nonfictional reality», he emphasizes «the line in Oriental literatures of all time, «ages», «namely», synthesis of real and mythological in poetics works». In this article the author makes a comparison of the works devoted to the theme of the civil war and the revolution, analyzing the structural gradation of the epic Sakha poetry. Poem-prediction «Shaman's dream» is equated to the indigenous discovery of new contexts, compared with the approaching revolutionary situation. The civil war is shown as an unavoidable continuation of the revolutionary events in Russia (poem «Conversation of the Holy Mountains»). The tragic ending and renunciation of the «false wisdom» is the theme of the «Red Shaman». The idea and the philosophical foundation of the works are encoded in the titles of the poems.

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