Patroeva, N. V. IMAGES OF FINLAND AND KARELIA IN RUSSIAN ROMANTIC LYRICS: FORMATION OF POETIC TRADITION AND SYNTAX OF TROPE CONTEXTS // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 5 (182). P. 37–42. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.349


Linguistics

IMAGES OF FINLAND AND KARELIA IN RUSSIAN ROMANTIC LYRICS: FORMATION OF POETIC TRADITION AND SYNTAX OF TROPE CONTEXTS

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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