Smykovskaya T.E.

The Great Patriotic War in poetry of the Amour region. Pp.108-116.

UDC 821.161.1-1.09″19″

DOI 10.37724/RSU.2025.87.2.010

 

Abstract. The article investigates the problematic and image-motive complex of the poetry of the Amur region associated with the theme of the Great Patriotic War. Despite the amount of this content layer in the Far Eastern lyrics, it has not yet been subjected to literary analysis. This defines the novelty of the current material. In addition, the theme of the Great Patriotic War in the works of the poets of the Amur region is for the first time revealed comprehensively. The article considers the main types of content, dominant images and motifs associated with the depiction of the Great Patriotic War in the artistic world of Amur lyricists. The theme under study is shown in evolution, as we trace its chronological and artistic development. The article deals with three generations of authors who created the image of war in their work. The first group were participants of military events, revealing the specifics of artistic reception as eyewitnesses, people who fought at the front and in the rear. The second group were those born in the 1930s–1940s, who were not involved in the battles due to their age, but who absorbed the grief of the war since childhood, and therefore conceptualized it (often subjectively), linking it to the experience of personal comprehension. The third generation of poets were born after the war and reflected on it through memoirs. Recreating images of the war through genetic memory, they reveal the archetypal nature of the image, which is indeed eternal in Russian poetry of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

 

Keywords: poetry of the Amour River region, the Great Patriotic War, generation, image of the Soviet warrior, image of the enemy, image of a veteran teacher, motif of childhood, motif of memory.

 

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