DETAIL AND SUBTEXT IN THE POETICS OF M. ATABAEV’S LOVE LYRICS

Abstract

The article presents a study of love lyrics of M. Atabaev, a national poet of Dagestan, whose poetry is distinguished by melodiousness, confession, melodiousness and philosophical depth. Using structural, comparative, typological and motivic methods, the author comes to the conclusion that Atabaev’s love lyrics combine balanced feelings and thoughts, delicacy and true folk chastity. Poems about love have a unique personality both in form and in the means of expression. The article pays special attention to artistic means: conciseness, replacing words with details (“shaking glass” at a wedding, “trembling lips”), conveying complex mental states without pathos. It is argued that the poet has developed his own unique view of the human condition – “his vision” and “his feeling”, which determines the originality of his imaginative system. An analysis of a number of poems allows the author of the article to assert that M. Atabaev’s lyrics are a kind of diary of the soul, a “novel in verse”, which traces the vicissitudes of a real love drama. This initially private story, being comprehended by the poet and expanded within its boundaries, acquires a generally significant artistic value and weight.