ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Linguistics |
Patroeva N. V. | Petrozavodsk State University |
Keywords: landscape lyrics syntactics of image northern theme in Russian poetry Finnish and Karelian motifs northern landscape |
Summary: The poems of E. Baratynsky, P. Viazemsky, A. Pushkin, A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, V. Benediktov, N. Yazykov, N. Konshin, F. Glinka,
which are analyzed in this article, have a “Northern” theme and include the features of “ossianic” landscape, motifs of memories, rich
metaphorics and wide intertextual links. The image of Finland in the Russian poetic consciousness of the romantic era is primarily associated
with the motifs of the stormy sea, granite rocks, eternal and unchanging calm, as well as the heroic epics of the skalds and the
exploits of the heroes of the “midnight country”, that is, the special northern “Ossian” mythopoetics. The landscape sketches of rocks
and forests over the lake, the image of the waterfall prevail in the works devoted to the Karelian theme. The tradition of mentioning
Peter's transformations in connection with the northern theme of the romantic lyrics almost completely disappears. As a consequence,
the image of Karelia, but of Finland doesn’t turn out to be richer in cultural and historical associations in the romantic poetry. The
development of the “Finnish” and “Karelian” themes also differs in the syntactics (construction) of the images of the two northern
regions: when describing Finland, poets often use the model of the minimal context of the attributive-nominal word combination, an
easy poetic tradition that is assimilated as cliché formulas, while the depiction of the Karelian expanses is built primarily using the predicative models, by introducing not the individual details or mentioning the exotic phenomena, but by the lengthy descriptions with a whole range of landscape situations. Besides, such architectonics of the images of Finland and Karelia seems to be aimed at emphasizing panchronism and immutability in the depiction of the Finnish world (frozen mythical antiquity) and, on the contrary, the life of the Karelian nature occurring in front of the lyric hero “here” and “now”. |
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