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The Poem “we Read the Block Until Morning...” by Boris Ryzhy: a Poetics of Quotation and Lyrical Eventfulness

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines the poetics “We read Blok until morning...” (1997) by B. Ryzhy as the embodiment of the poet’s existential worldview. The combination of intertextual and structural-semiotic approaches to the study of a literary text makes it possible to understand the event vector of the self-determination of B. Ryzhy’s lyrical “the self” and to determine the relationship between vital and mortal principles, the problematization of which forms the value-semantic center of the poet’s creative reflection. The analysis of the poem shows that this poetic text, revealing explicit and implicit layers of intertextuality, demonstrates the poet’s existential immersion in the existential processes of anthropological self-actualization on the verge of life and death. The ontological tension of the artistic world represented by the poet consists of the quotation interaction of the lyrical systems of A. Blok and G. Ivanov, who, presenting themselves as a single axiological center, form an eventful introduction to the world of death through the poetics of quotation. The mortal meanings of the poet B. Ryzhy’s self-determination, a rmed in the poetics of his poem and ontologically overcome by the memory of the value acceptance of being, are revealed through vital familiarization with the awakening earthly world order. The triad “morning, youth, fatigue” appears as the formula of being in which the lyrical subject of B. Ryzhy. It is concluded that the quotation tension between Blok’s and Ivanov’s existential worldview and the lyrical worldview proper reveals the ultimate existential tension of life and death, which is constantly and inevitably of interest to the poet B. Ryzhy.
DOI: 10.47475/1999-5407-2025-70-1-75-83
Language: English
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407969441
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