G. V. Kosiakov
Omsk Humanitarian Academy, Omsk, Russian Federation
Abstract:
The research is devoted to the study of artistic ontology and anthropology of the lyric poetry by M. Yu. Lermontov, to the concept of the immortal soul in the context of the main antithesis between the earthly and heavenly worlds and the desire to overcome it. The purpose of the work is a comprehensive study of different variants of the soul flight motif being a significant structural component of the narratives, the concept of the Universe in Lermontov’s poems. The research is based on Lermontov’s poems, on historical-literary, cultural-historical, historical-genetic methods, technologies of holistic and mythopoetic analysis.
The results consist in revealing Lermontov’s innovation in the development of the soul flight motif, in its connection with the motif complexes of unrequited love, the Aeolian harp, the motif of the descent into the grave. The paper studies the originality of the composition, narratives, and chronotopes in Lermontov’s lyrical texts, the lexical and syntactic embodiment of the spiritual flight motif.
It is concluded that the motif of the soul’s flight reveals Lermontov’s individual artistic understanding of archaic mythological and Christian ideas about spiritual substance. The motif of the soul’s flight in the poems by Russian romanticist reveals his ideas about the ethical values of faith, hope, love and freedom, about the absolute ideal of fullness of Life.
Keywords:
narrative, motif, concept, chronotope, mythopoetics, religiosity, romanticism, soul.
Paper submitted:
May 11, 2020
For citation:
Kosiakov G. V. (2020). The motif of a soul’s flight in the poems by M. Yu. Lermontov. The Science of Person: Humanitarian Researches, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 6–12. DOI: 10.17238/issn1998-5320.2020.14.2.1
