Fedoseyeva T. V.

About Christian Aspects of  S. A. Yesenin’s Ethnopoetics in the 1910s P. 103-116.

UDC 281.93:39::821.161.1-1.09«191»

DOI 10.37724/RSU.2021.70.1.011

Abstract. The article investigates the issue of poetic manifestations of Christian worldview in S. A. Yesenin’s poetry in the 1910s. The analysis of selected poems is performed by means of ethnopoetics relevant for modern literary studies. The author of the article investigates the theoretical treatise  “Maria’s Keys” as a work characteristic of the aforementioned period and of the poet’s creative method. The article treats the influence of religious folk poetry on the content and form of Yesenin’s verse. It investigates the way folk tales, legends and spiritual songs influenced Yesenin’s poetry. The article shows that Yesenin’s poems abound in such concepts as generosity, benevolence to the poor, belief in the reality of miracles. The lyrical hero of Yesenin’s poems is described through the prism of such concepts as pilgrimage, sin, repentance. The spatial, temporal, and thematic characteristics of Yesenin’s poems of the aforementioned period are mystery-related. Yesenin’s poems of 1918–1919 abound in motifs of death and resurrection. The author of the article maintains that it is not only feasible but also necessary to further investigate the motifs of folk Christianity characteristic of Yesenin’s works of the 1910s.

Keywords: sin, indulgence, purgatory, Reformation, Holy Scriptur “Maria’s Keys”, S. A. Yesenin’s poetry of the 1910s, mysterious plot, mythopoetics, folk Christianity, ethnopoetics.

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