THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN THE LYRICS OF P.S. KOMAROV

Abstract

The article explores the originality of the work of the Soviet Far Eastern poet P.S. Komarov (1911 – 1949). The feature of his lyrics of the period of the Great Patriotic War is traced. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to study regional literature, as part of all-Russian literature, and the importance of understanding the specifics of P.S. Komarova. The article identifies three thematic groups of poems related to the reflection of the war: 1) reflection of the war on the western front of Russia; 2) a look at the war from the Far Eastern rear; 3) the image of the war with militaristic Japan. The article draws the idea of the dependence of the nature of the poetic picture of the world on the degree of personal involvement of the author in the events described. It has been observed that the imagery of poems of “Western subjects” is being built based on the traditions of folklore and Old Russian literature. The leading poetic constants of the figuratively motive system are revealed: “land”, “people”, “Motherland”, “enemy”, “Moscow”, “heart”. Using a series of poems as an example, it is shown that a feature of the poetic chronotope is the emphasis on the unity of the front and the Far East. The poems of the Manchurian Notebook series glorify the courage of a Russian soldier; and a poetic image of the nature and culture of China was created. The article highlights various facets of Komarov’s poetic manner: compositional harmony of verses, laconicism, national and landscape color. The material presented in the article made it possible to get an idea of the peculiarities of the poetic manner of P. Komarov; the final conclusion is the idea of the poet’s attraction to historiosophical artistic thinking.