«That Limit of Depth…»: Rhythm and Meaning in the Poem «I Was Killed near Rzhev» («Ya Ubit podo Rzhevom») (To the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of A. T. Tvardovsky)
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-3-70-78
Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis and interpretation of A. Tvardovsky’s poem «I Was Killed Near Rzhev» («Ya Ubit podo Rzhevom») in the unity of its form and content. The analysis was carried out using the methods of prosody and text philological analysis, techniques of decoding stylistics, text reading «under the linguistic microscope», commentary, rhetorical analysis. The authors come to the conclusion that the imagery stylistic system of the poem is based on the affective contradiction – a collision of despair connected with an atheistic understanding of death as a total destruction of an individual and craving for faith. Polyphony and polysemantics of the poem’s text, a repeated change of communicative and rhythmic registers against the background of the author’s image integrity personified in the poem are viewed upon as iconic signs transmitting the idea of conciliarism of the Russian people as an integrated-divided unity.
About the Authors
B. G. Bobylev
Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. of Sci. (Ped.), Cand. of Sci. (Philol.),
Orel
P. A. Kovalev
Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. of Sci. (Philol.), Professor, Department of Russian Literature of the XX–XXI Century and the History of Foreign Literature, Institute of Philology,
41, bldg. 3 Komsomolskaya str., Orel, 302026
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For citations:
Bobylev B.G., Kovalev P.A. «That Limit of Depth…»: Rhythm and Meaning in the Poem «I Was Killed near Rzhev» («Ya Ubit podo Rzhevom») (To the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of A. T. Tvardovsky). Russian language at school. 2020;81(3):70-78. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-3-70-78
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