Понятие варварства в русской и литовской поэзии: анализ одного мотива
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LT |
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2012 |
The article focuses on the theme of barbarism in Lithuanian and Russian poetry analyzing three poems under the same title «Scytians» by three different authors: Alexander Blok, Albinas Bernotas, and Vytautas Bloze, The themes of history, relations between different nations, their survival and extinction and some other things are discussed in all the three texts. The connection of the past and present, the relationship of Russia and West European countries at the end of World War I were described by Alexander Blok. In Albinas Bernotas' poem history is being presented as the space for war, fighting and death, in which the Scythians were only the element of history. Vytautas Bloze portrays the Scythians as the invaders from the East, who destroyed his parents' house. There has always been great cultural and political tension between Lithuanians and Russians which determines different approach to the understanding of the barbarian and barbarism.