APPEAL TO BIBLICAL REMINISCENCES AS A BASIS FOR BUILDING EXISTENTIAL REFLECTION IN LYRICS
The research aims to determine the optimal possibility from the point of view of reliability of A.S. Pushkin's appeal to Psalm 38 and the reception of this psalm in the poem «Do I wander along noisy streets ...». Pushkin's name among the interpreters of the psalms helps to expand the list of authors who tend to biblical reminiscences, and to identify some of their characteristic ideas and intuitions, primarily dictated by the content of this religious text. The novelty of the research is determined by the matter that rarely came into the field of view of researchers. The work analyzes the interpretations of the psalm translations made by S. Ternovsky and E. Zigaben, that made it possible to observe the author's strategies in mastering the existential topic. All of them show different degrees of cooperation with church tradition and poetic tradition, once again emphasizing Pushkin's worldview.