SYMBOLISTS ANDREY BELY AND GEORGE BACOVIA: COMPARISON OF LOVE POEMS

Abstract

The article discusses artistic features of the lyrical poems by A. Bely and G. Bacovia. The author also traces the features of symbolist poetics characteristic of both lyricists – the outstanding representatives of Russian and Romanian symbolism. The author compares the poems “The flying forest sings...” by A. Bely and “Pastel” by G. Bacovia, dedicated to the parting of lyrical characters, to love that is going away. These works reveal the main levels of artistic unity: image system, space-time continuum, lyrical situation, features of poetics and melody. An attempt has been made to translate the poem “Pastel” by G. Bacovia into the Russian language. The relevance of the research is determined by the lack of works devoted to the comparative analysis of Russian and Romanian symbolism, in particular, the lyrics of Andrei Bely and George Bacovia. The creativity of these poets finds its origins in French symbolism and at the same time has a bright individual character. The purpose of the article is to reveal the artistic originality of the worldview of two outstanding representatives of European symbolism, to trace the specific features of covering the theme of love in their works, taking the comparative analysis of A. Bely’s poem “The flying forest sings” and G. Bacovia’s poem “Pastel” as an example. The comparative analysis is the main method of research, it allowed to make a conclusion about the dramatic but bright nature of love in A. Bely’s poem and its pessimistic embodiment in G. Bacovia’s poem. Some conclusions are drawn about the similarities and differences in the image of the lyrical situation, the system of images, the space-time plan, colour values, composition, the ideological content, as well as the melody, rhythmic structure and meter.

Keywords

• symbolism
• comparative analysis
• image system
• chronotope
• lyrical action
• poetics
• melodica