Abasheva D. V., Zhabina E. M.

“Collective emotionality” in folklorist lyrics of late 19th — early 20th century Р.115 -121.

UDC 821.161.3-1.09«18/19»

DOI: 10.37724/RSU.2023.79.2.011

Abstract. Folk lyrics traditionally reflect interaction of the human world with the world of the natural environment, which occurs at the pragmatic and poetic levels. Following folklore traditions in depicting and understanding pictures of wildlife, poets and artists do not just describe a landscape, but try to convey the feelings and moods that it evokes. This supports A. N. Veselovsky’s remark that the lyric genre stands outside choral songs as an expression of “collective emotionality.” That is why the scholar pays great attention to psychological parallelism, which first appeared in folk culture, and then developed in individual authored poems. Describing the experiences, sufferings, searches, longings of a typified hero, the folk song, through persistent parallelisms, shows the semantic diversity of sensory images. Later on, this found continuation, expression and development in authored lyric. This article is devoted to the manifestation of “collective emotionality” in the lyrics of late XIX — early XX centuries, namely by K. D. Balmont and N. S. Gumilev.

Keywords: folklore, folklorism, literary tradition, Russian folk song, semantics, “collective emotionality”, song tradition, art synthesis, K. D. Balmont, N. S. Gumilev.

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