“Well: live long, black earth” (Nu, zdravstvuy, chernozem…): “I” of the author in the “chernozem” poetic “nest” of O. Mandelstam

Abstract

The article explores the variety of voices of an author in the group of “black earth” (“chernozem”) poems written by O.E. Mandelstam in 1935, the character of relations among them, polyvalency of the key image of “soil – black earth – vegetable garden”. The author analyzes the peciliarities of rythmic patterns, specific character of a metaphor, the character of associative links in poetry of the later years of Osip Mandelstam.

Keywords

• "voronezh notebooks", mandelstam's poertry of 1930-s, "chernozem" poems of o. mandelstam, poetic "nest", polyvalency of an image, voices of an author in lyrics, polyphony of voices in a lyric text