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Sizemskaya, I. N..
Philosophical Sense of Lermontov’s Poetry
// Philology: scientific researches. – 2014. – ¹ 4.
– P. 346-353.
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Abstract: In this article poetry of Lermontov is considered from the view point behind imaginative philosophical
meanings, many of which remain a mystery to this day. Drawing attention to the fact that the debate on the past and continuing today, the author shows the diversity of the poetic heritage of the poet, identifying its unique feature – the
inexorable force of the impact of metaphysical ideas about life and death, freedom and necessity, the spiritual and the
corporeal, the sublime and the low-lying, the divine and the human. The default setting is the author’s analysis – all the
poetry of Lermontov’s romanticized perception of the world, who gave his own version of the national culture romantic
personalism. The author traces how in the poet’s poetic images are reproduced through the state of the human soul
tossing between perfect and evil, between good and evil in search of agreement not only with yourself but also with
Heaven. Sizemskaya believes the antithesis of the earth and the sky as the two polar elements of human existence to
be the cross-cutting issue of poetic heritage Lermontov . The article shows that Lermontov in native spiritual culture
according to a new understanding of the divine in which the poles of God and man come together in divinely that the
recognition of this new dimension of the world poet eliminates fatality split between the Demon and God as between
heresy and truth, introducing poetry in new semantic space. Lermontov, the author believes, the nation’s first spiritual
culture was an attempt to translate the sacred from the «beyond» in the «worldly.» Through the image of the Demon,
who determined the emotional and vector semantic searches across Lermontov’s poetry, the question whether it is
possible harmony, harmony in relations between heaven and earth. The author concludes that the deeper meaning of
Demon’s searches is metaphysical: it is not directed against specific conflicts, and against the «fundamental untruth of
life on earth,» which the poet and his hero is associated with God justified restriction of freedom for personal expression.
At the heart of these quests rebellion personality requiring the right to personal choice of the method and way of life,
happiness and love.
Keywords: philosophical poetry, Lermontov, lyric personalism, freedom, fate, God, Demon, the antithesis of «heaven and earth», other-worldly, worldly, good, evil, divine-human.
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