Open AccessHÖLDERLIN WOULD EXPLAIN: THE POETICAL THINKING OF FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN AND ITS RECEPTION BY BORIS POPLAVSKY
Author(s) -
Dmitry Victorovich Tokarev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russkaâ literatura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0131-6095
DOI - 10.31860/0131-6095-2021-2-194-210
Subject(s) - elegy , stanza , literature , art , poetry , imitation , german , philosophy , linguistics , psychology , social psychology
The article focuses on the two notions recurrent in Boris Poplavsky’s late-period oeuvre, namely the «Paradise and Kingdom of friends» and the «Republic of the Sun». These are linked to Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetical philosophy, which solicited vivid interest among the German and French poets of the 1910–1930s. It is assumed that the semantic aura of the image of the fl ag, one of the most frequent in Poplavsky, might have been formed in a «dialogue» with Hölderlin’s key poem Hälfte des Lebens. Besides, the poem Quietly the City Rustles, which holds a place of prominence in his posthumous collection Snowy Hour (1936), seems to be an imitation of the fi rst stanza of Hölderlin’s famous elegy Brot und Wein.