Afanasy Fet’s Poem «Rainy Summer» («Dozhdlivoe Leto»): Rhythm and Meaning (To the 200th Anniversary of the Birth)
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-6-48-56
Abstract
The study was set out to analyse the poem «Rainy Summer» by Afanasy Fet. The applied methodology involves poetry and linguistic aesthetic analyses of the text, linguistic commenting, line-by-line analysis and slow reading. The peculiarities of the text size, rhyme and rhythm are considered in the background of the traditions of Russian poetry. The study reveals certain principles of the figurative-thematic structure of the poem, defines its phonics, stylistics and, in part, syntax. In the paper special attention is paid to the aesthetic function of Fet’s grammatical anomalies. The symbolic meaning of verbal-figurative details and the entire poem is clarified. It is indicated that harmony in the rhythm, style, and music of the Fet’s poem plays the role of an iconic sign of the Creator.
About the Authors
B. G. BobylevRussian Federation
Boris G. Bobylev, Dr. of Sci. (Ped.), Cand. of Sci. (Philol.)
P. A. Kovalev
Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pyotr A. Kovalev, 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, Russia
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Bobylev B.G., Kovalev P.A. Afanasy Fet’s Poem «Rainy Summer» («Dozhdlivoe Leto»): Rhythm and Meaning (To the 200th Anniversary of the Birth). Russian language at school. 2020;81(6):48-56. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-6-48-56
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