YEARNING – HOMELAND – ROWAN... (ATTEMPT OF INTERPRETATION M. TSVETAEVA’S POEM “HOMESICKNESS...”)

The article is an attempt of interpretation of M. Tsvetaeva’s poem “Homesickness! Long ago…”. The aim of the article is to justify homesickness as the fundamental spiritual attunement to the world and the core of life activity. The author concludes that, the poet yearns for the fullness of being, for the true, full-blown in each moment life that reaches not only this world, but also the other one. In the act of poeticizing the poet falls out of impersonal and indifferent daily routine into a value-meaningful, personal hourly, minuteby-minute existence. Poeticizing is a cardinal linguistic shift, determined by the inner experience: distancing from any national language, or a cardinal defamiliarization of the language in the constitutive centres of its conventional symbolic coordination, recognizing it every time and, accordingly, recognizing, renaming, defamiliarizing of the world. It presupposes selfimmersion, solitude, concentrating, gathering oneself, finding the inner home.The poet’s true homeland expands into the infinite universe where each thing is present in its own unique meaning. Staying outside the homeland and homeland-speaking milieu does not mean a total loss of homeland and a meaningless destruction in a foreign land, but serves as an indispensable basis for regaining of the homeland in spirit. More than anybody else poets are immersed into the word, in search for the names, in giving meanings to things; they constantly have an inner yearning to language as the House of Being, the dwelling of all things. That is the field where the desired homeland is found.