THE GENRE OF THE BALLAD IN THE WORKS OF AZIZ ALEM

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of genre and strophic organization of Aziz Alem’s works. It is noted that his creative phenomenon was a reflection of a number of innovative trends that determined the foundations of the development of the national poetic culture of the second half of the twentieth century. The poet significantly enriched the Lezgian literature with new themes, genres and forms of strophic composition. Aziz Alem created many poetic works in various genres of both eastern and Western versification. Among them, a special place is occupied by the ballad, the compositional characteristics of which in the poet’s poems undergo a number of changes. These changes are associated not only with the mental features of the poet’s creative consciousness, but also with the general trends in the development of literary processes in the 1960s and 1980s. Based on this, the purpose of the article is to analyze the ballads of A. Alem in the context of their genre transformations.