2017-№4 (57) Article 13

Fedoseeva T.V.

The Ontology of Love in J.P. Polonsky’s Early Verse. P.97- 113.

UDC 821.161.1-14.09«20»

The paper analyzes the ontology of love in J.P. Polonsky’s early verse (1840s – early 1850s), an issue which has never been researched before. The paper analyzes the verse collections “Scales” (1844), “Verses of 1845” (1846), “Sazandar” (1849), “A Few Verses by J.P. Polonsky” (1851) to research into the peculiarities of transforming life impressions into artistic images rich in routine and ontological sense. Both J.P. Polonsky and his lyrical character treat love as an eternal and temporal, transient and imperishable entity, an issue as important as life and death. Romantic love is expressed through classical literary motifs and images (“Night Shadows”, “Diamea”,  “Hero”, “Old Sazandar”). Analyzing the plot of an unfinished cycle (“Farewell”, “Beacon”, “The Last Conversation”, “A Letter”, “A Loss”), the author singles out motifs of unexpressed feelings, unattainable happiness, unrevealed love. In J.P. Polonsky’s verse, romantic love is opposed to selfish love (“Don’t Wait”, “Agbar”, “Tamara and her poet Shot Rustaveli”, “Leaving the Caucasus”). The analysis of J.P. Polonsky’s verse shows that his understanding of love is close to Christian self-denial. The verse “The Inner Voice” is based on Gospel motifs. The ontological analysis of some poems focuses on such categories as humanism, acceptance of everyday life, spiritualization of life. The author maintains that in his early poems, J.P. Polonsky focuses on the spiritual search for ideal absolute harmony.

 

J.P. Polonsky, early works, verse collections, the 1840s – the early 1850s, lyrical motifs and plots, ontology of love.

 

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