The system of cycle-forming bonds in the book of poetry "Songs and Ballads" by A. Tsvetkova
The article is devoted to the recent book of verse by the contemporary Russian poet Aleksey Tsvetkov «Songs and Ballads» (2014). The poems are regarded integrally as an art object based on the complex system of cycle-forming bonds that embodies the specific model of the World. The research decomposes the system into particular details: genre reflection, metaplot and key motifs. The intentional deviation from the genre canon in the works of Tsvetkov reveals the fundamental ontological and ethical shift: even the most basic values and beliefs are turned over in the world of «Song and Ballads». Reconstructed metaplot is intended to demonstrate the emerging anomalies: the main story line of the book is the fate of the Nation under attack of unknown invaders; eventually destruction threatens all humanity and its place in the world should be taken by ‘chipmunks and wise germs'. The essential motifs are characterized as metapoetic and related to author's understanding of art as a way to overcome death - at least as a temporary one. A detailed analysis of the poem «in the cyclical mode of a typhoid dream» allows to read «Songs and Ballads» as a kind of realization of this idea. Tsvetkov creates an illusion of “not lifelike” world, which grows up and dies in front of the reader.