Open AccessTHE POEM «IN MEMORIAM...» AS AN INDEPENDENT GENRE FORM IN THE POETRY OF JOSEPH BRODSKY
Author(s) -
Sergey V. Zhilyakov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik kostromskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta imeni n.a. nekrasova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1998-0817
DOI - 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-1-154-159
Subject(s) - poetry , poetics , literature , metaphor , relation (database) , philosophy , connection (principal bundle) , semiotics , epitaph , content (measure theory) , narrative , mnemonic , history , art , linguistics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , database , computer science , structural engineering , engineering
The article deals with the poetics of the poem «In Memoriam...» in the works of Joseph Brodsky in terms of works of the same name. It is established that the genre-forming factor in it are elements of compositional and content unity, such as the title, thematic refl ection, the status of the author’s «I», archetypal images of water and related connotatives that make up the internal chronotope and locus indices, which are associated with the metaphor «to recur to memory» and which in Brodsky have the form of mythopoesis, defi ned by autobiographical and semiotic meanings. It is revealed that works of the type «InMemoriam...», although they have genealogical connections, are different from the epitaph, poems to commemorate death of certain persons, that the typological connection brings them closer to the dedicatory tradition. In this connection, it isconcluded that in relation to the desired genre that combines the poems «In Memoriam...», one can use the original name that separates it, or consider it a poetic mnemonic dedication.