Abstract
To make an idea of the work of a poet more complete, it is often necessary to think about his certain works in detail. And Balmont’s work is not an exception. This article is devoted to a line-up philological analysis of his poem "The Drop." The interpretation of this work is carried out in the context of symbolist poetry. The interpretation is built on the anticipation, retroreflection, associative analysis of the name; analysis of symbolic significance of images and motifs, analysis of symbolic language of the work. This article fully analyzes the image of a drop as an ideal entity; bearer of beauty; simultaneously ontological, gnoseological and axiological category. The image of the well is observed as a source of true knowledge of the world - the transcendent world of symbols. The image of the lyrical hero is interpreted as an image of the poet-mystic, intuitively knowing the irreal world and creating of mystical night the true reality in special conditions, embodied in the form of a poetry work - a story, a song. The article analyzes symbolic color, multigenerance of words, reveals antonyms: Top - Bottom, Sky - Earth, Dark - Light, Fire - Water, Air - Ground, Small - Great, Microcosm - Macrocosm, Inner - Outer; the musicality of the poem is revealed, features of rhyme, grammar, artistic techniques (metaphors, anaphors, lexical repeats, gradation, inversions, alliteration, assonance) are described. This poem is studied at the lessons of literary reading in primary school, and in practice primary school teachers experience difficulties in preparing for lessons devoted to the study of works of "adult" literature with deep philosophical and aesthetic meaning by junior students. Basing on this analysis a teacher will understand the philosophical and aesthetic content of the poem written in the key of symbolist poetry, it will help him, depending on the set educational tasks, to choose the necessary methodological techniques and adequately, without distortions, to dip young schoolchildren into the magical world of symbols of K.D. Balmont, and, as a result, to remove difficulties in understanding the read poem.
Keywords: Balmont, poetics of symbolism, poem "The Drop," interpretation, cotetual approach, lyrical hero, artistic reception, philosophical-aesthetic meaning.
Author:
Natalja V. Kozhushkova, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogical Education and Document Management, Institute of Humanitarian Education, Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University (NMSTU), Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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For citation
Kozhushkova N. V. Beauty of Word, Image, World in a Poem «A Dewdrop» by K. D. Balmont, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2020, vol. 4, no 1, pp. 45–53.