I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

poem, mythologism, author, poetics, artistic world, image, Arshuri (wood spirit), N. Izhendey

The article considers mythological images, motives, details employed in the works of the Chuvash poet Nikolay Izhendey (Petrov). The aim of the work is to determine the role and significance of the poetics of myth in the poem “Shuralmanachasassi” (“The voice of the unborn child”). Through the poetics of the myth, the poet creates a new version of the myth of the origin of Arshuri (wood spirit), bases on the idea of the people of good and evil principles, the afterlife, the spirits of ancestors, the description of the rituals associated with the birth of a child. The unstable situation in society leads to the generation gap. Against this background, the author examines the problem of the fate of the Chuvash language, the future of the nation; warns us against possible tragic consequences by depicting the death of an unborn child. Mythological images and details allowed the poet to convey the specifics of the vague, transitional period in the development of the history of the country and the people. Mythologism contributes to the deepening of the semantic space of the literary text, adds tragedy to what was said. The semantic meaning of the mythological images used by the poet is typical for other authors of the Chuvash literature. At the end of the article, the author concludes that the poet uses the poetics of myth to create a kind of artistic world, to describe the pressing problems of our time.

Софронова Ирина Владимировна – кандидат филологических наук, доцент кафедры чувашской филологии и культуры Чувашского государственного университета имени И. Н. Ульянова, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: muxtar2@yandex.ru

Артемьев Юрий Михайлович – доктор филологических наук, профессор кафедры русского языка и литературы Чувашского государственного университета имени И. Н. Ульянова, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: yumartemyev@yandex.ru

Исаев Юрий Николаевич – доктор филологических наук, ректор Чувашского республиканского института образования, г. Чебоксары, Россия; e-mail: isaev2828@yandex.ru