THE POETOLOGICAL QUILL / FLUTE METAPHOR AS A WAY TO REPRESENT METALYRICS

The modern theory of metalyrics, as one of the manifestations of literary self-reflection, embraces a vast range of poetological metaphors, the metaphors of inspiration included. The German medievalist, F. Ohly, describes one of them as a written act of God, who created the world with the help of his reed pen. At the same time, the poet is portrayed not only as a writing instrument (Schreibrohr), but also as a flute. In medieval Persian poetry the theory of verse became the theme of this very verse, so that the technique and tasks of poetic activity were revealed through artistic form rather than with the use of special terms. Persian poets pay particular attention to such a metaphor of poetic writing as “writing / sounding reed”. In the final part of the article, the author analyzes texts by Goethe, and the Russian modernist poets, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, and Mandelstam as samples of metalyrics connected by the traditional medieval metaphor “reed pen / flute”.