The North as a mythological space in the lyrics by Nikolai Gumilyov
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The scientific novelty and relevance of the article are determined by understanding the problem of the north as a mythological space in the lyrics by Nikolai Gumilyov as quite ambiguous, not fitting into the framework of solely acmeist aesthetics and poetics, and at the same time fundamentally important for determining the evolution of the poet's work. The dynamics of the poet's work was determined by the evolution of the author's ideas from symbolism to acmeism. The article clarifies the idea of Gumilyov's mythopoetics: for the poet's early lyrics of 1905-1907, it is characteristic to consider the northern theme in the context of archaic heroism: the north as a place of heroic trials. The poetic image of the north in Gumilyov's late poetry of 1917-1918 outgrows the folklore interpretation, it translates the deep mythological semantics of mother earth as a sacred source of Russian self-consciousness. The artistic result of Gumilyov's appeal to the northern theme is the creation of poems that go back to deep mythological semantics. The article mainly uses an immanent analysis of the artistic text.
Source: Issues of national literature
Authors: A. I. Oschepkova, M. N. Afanasyeva
Institution: North-Eastern Federal University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408939830