FOLK TRADITIONS IN THE “LITERARY LULLABY”: M. Yu. LERMONTOV “COSSACK LULLABY SONG”

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to consider the role of folklore tradition in the author’s art world. The subject of the study is chronotope, motivic, complex, narrative. The singing of the mother in the space of the house as the main structural elements of a folk song by Lermontov serve as the basis for creating a visual image of an epic space that has its own and another hostile world. The father in him is a defender, a warrior. In the folklore lullaby, the motif of the child’s aggrandizement contains a wish for a rich future life. Lermontov’s Cossack mother wants to see her son become a hero. The epic image of the hero is visualized using attributes (stirrup, weapon, saddle). Lermontov’s lullaby motif of rocking a child is combined with a narrative about the future and with the development of a prayer motif. There is a Christian symbolism of the birth of a beautiful baby, a mother’s prayer for her son, the teaching of protective prayer, a visualized iconographic image. Keeping in touch with the genre of folk lullaby, Lermontov.