THE NATIONAL IMAGE OF THE WORLD IN M. ATABAYEV’S POETRY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the poetry of the national poet of Dagestan M. Atabayev from the point of view of reflecting the national picture of the world in it. To determine the poet’s innovation in the thematic aspect, the article examines the features of the use of folklore images in the works, which, in turn, reveals the deep recesses of national identity, ethnic mentality and expresses a certain ethnic picture of the world. The author of the article claims that the formation of the culture of any ethnic group is influenced by factors such as history, habitat, traditions, etc. For the first time in Kumyk poetry, the poet subtly and soulfully sang about his native nature – not abstractly, not detached, but in a state of indissolubility and fusion with personality. The heartfelt poems dedicated to the Yakhsaysuv and Terek rivers are defined in the article as a major aesthetic and philosophical discovery. M. Atabayev, through his work, was able to most fully present the peculiarity of the worldview, the way of thinking of the Kumyk people, who keep ethnic memory in their minds.