THE MOTIVES OF THE POETRYOF RUSLAN SEMENOV AND NIKOLAI RUBTSOV<i>On the 50th anniversary of the death of Semenov</i>
This article is the first attempt to make a comparative analysis of the poetic creativity of famous artists of the poetic word: the Kabardian poet Ruslan Semenov and the Russian poet Nikolai Rubtsov. The purpose of this article is to identify the general and the particular, the lines of intersection in creative thinking and in displaying the poetic picture of the world of both poets. The general characteristic of the poets ‘ creativity, the theoretical understanding of their heritage at the present time is given. The author notes that both poets have a lot in common, and they lived in the same stagnant time of the Soviet period: 70-80-ies.XX century. There are many similar motives in the work of poets, for example, the motive of death. And also the fact that both poets passed away very early. A comprehensive analysis of individual poems is carried out, common and similar motifs of poems by two artists of the word are found by acomparative-comparative method. The paper sets important tasks related to poetic creativity, including: identifying stylistic features in the content, as well as establishing common and similar poetic techniques that allow them to be expressed by means of language; determining some poetic principles of the authors, revealing their artistic individuality and specific features of poetry. The study and analysis of individual poems of these authors allows us to clarify the ideas about the picture of the world of poets and make some important conclusions. And also to enrich the history of the formation and development of modern Russian and Kabardino-Circassian literature.