STYLISTIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL-AESTHETIC DOMINANTS OF V. KUCHERYAVKIN’S POETRY

Abstract

The researcher considers stylistic and philosophical-aesthetic dominants of the lyrics of a modern Russian poet Vladimir Kucheryavkin (born 1948). The following features of the poet’s idiostyle are consistently identified and analytically described: stylistic diversity within the local speech context; abundance of present tense verbs; tropes that allow conjugating semantically “distant” concepts; syllabo-tonic metrics, which involves the use of different foot sizes, often turning into a tonic. In addition, the most important philosophical-aesthetic parameters of the author’s poetic world are outlined in detail and supported by representative examples: aesthetics of primitivism; use of surrealistic code; idyll as a predominant lyrical genre; exceptionally elevated and life-affirming emotional tone of the statement. It is proved that all the named features of poetics work in the lyrics of V. Kucheravkin to create a syncretic picture of the world, the establishment of the key parameters of which allows us to fit the poet’s work into the literary context of the second half of the 20th – first decades of the 21st century.