CONNECTED STRUCTURED CYCLES OF EDUCATIONAL CHARACTER: POETICS AND DIDACTICS

Abstract

Poetic cycles addressed to a little child, such as the poetic alphabet, poetic counting, etc., whose components-poems differ in a predetermined number and are arranged according to the logic of the alphabet, the calendar, the order sequence of numbers-have a unique educational value. However, studies of these cycles are rather scattered in the scientific literature. The paper is the first attempt to consider these cycles as an integral category of “connected structured poetic cycle of educational character”, taking into account their features at the formal and content levels. The study of the poetics of cycles of this kind is conducted in the work, in particular, special attention is paid to the analysis of sound writing, anthropomorphism techniques, comparative research, etc., used by the poets. It is revealed that the cycles are characterized in the light of associative projections linking unfamiliar letters, numbers, sounds, words, etc. with objects and phenomena familiar to the child. The analysis reveals didactic functions of the cycles in teaching the child to read and write, in preparing him to counting, in memorizing images and sound voicing of letters and numbers, in acquainting him with lexical wealth of the native language and also with the surrounding world.