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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Harmash, Liudmyla

Titel

The genesis of a poetic title: Georgy Ivanov's poetry collection The Roses

Ist Teil von

• Agathos : an international review of the humanities and social sciences, 2024-01, Vol.15 (1), p.183-198

Ort / Verlag

Iasi: Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iasi

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

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• The article is devoted to a poetry collection, The Roses, by Georgy Ivanov. The purpose is to analyze the meaning of its title. The genesis of the image of the rose is revealed. Having considered the evolution of the rose as a poetic concept in Russian poetry of the 18th-20th centuries, we found that the concept of the rose and cross was borrowed from medieval Europe, the poetic rhyme 'rose and frost' and the pair 'rose and nightingale,' which came from Eastern poetry, were very popular in Russian literature. The last two semantic complexes are actualized in the poetry of Georgy Ivanov. The transformation of the original meanings was caused by the change in the political situation in Russia after the October Revolution (1917). Emigration transformed Ivanov's poetic world, splitting it into two parts: the beautiful past, preserved only in memory but becoming more and more ghostly, and the present, which the poet did not want to accept. Therefore, Ivanov's texts actualize the tragic connotations originally inherent in the rose as a poetic symbol but are traditionally balanced by the meanings associated with the images of youth, beauty, blossoming, and love.