EROTIC MYTH OF FLAME SPRING OF FAR EASTERN EMIGRANT POET SERGEI ALYMOV

Abstract

. The article continues to analyze the theme of carnal love and eroticism in the work of the Far Eastern modernist poet S.Ya. Alymov. The subject of the research is the poetry collection “The Tenderness Kiosk”, published by the author in Harbin in 1920. The presented piece of work made it possible to formulate the following conclusion. As a result of the representation of this topic, S. Alymov noted quite traditional motives of passion, attraction, lust, fleshly joys, also the author addresses the poetic singing of the sexual energy of the natural – Dionysian – elements (sexual pantheism, ecstatic motifs). However, the erotic world of copyright fantasies is original. So, the author’s metaphor of the ever-awakening spring as an erotically charged force that gives birth and fertilizes, is combined by S. Alymov with the poetic theory of the mighty coming from Russian symbolists, as well as the hedonistic pleasure motive, coupled with an appeal to the images of ancient mythology borrowed from the Gallant era. The motive for sexual enjoyment in implementing the flesh-erotic theme includes a regional component: a version is being put forward about the possible translation into poetry of an emigrant of artistic impressions from a meeting with Japanese pornographic painting. The genre of erotic engravings “shunga” (spring pictures), which achieved popularity in the art of European and Russian Art Nouveau, could receive verbal expression in translations of ancient Japanese poetry made by S. Alymov, as well as copyright stylizations.