IVAN ELAGIN POETIC LANGUAGE: THROUGH TRADITION TO “NEON AGE”
The purpose of this article is to consider the Ivan Elagin poetic language, a representative of the second wave of Russian literary emigration, from the standpoint of refracting in it the traditions of the Silver Age in their complex relationship. His lyrics reveal the influence of acmeism, to which the poet came through an appeal to the St. Petersburg text, as well as futurism, that was largely inherited from his father, the futurist Venedikt Mart. Elagin “reconciles” the opposing flows of his time, becoming a peculiarity of his poetics. For a poet far from his homeland, it is fundamentally important to declare his inseparable connection with the literature of the metropolis. Unlike many of his fellow emigrants, Elagin turned out to be successful and popular abroad, but, nevertheless, it was crucial for him to define his poetic genealogy and to demonstrate the continuity of the traditions of great Russian literature, which remained unshaken for the poet who stepped into the “neon age”.