ARTISTIC PERSONALITY "FRONT" LYRICS OF B. SHAKHOVSKY
This article analyzes the corpus of lyric poems by B. Shakhovsky, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. According to the observations of the authors of the study, the poet's «war» poems are works with a narrative-prose organization of the text. The article proves that they are characterized by plot and factual nature. It is concluded that this feature is explained by the general trends in the development of Soviet poetry in the 1940-1960s, as well as by the fact that the heroics of the time dictated the need to appeal not to the individual, but to the mass consciousness, requiring an expansion of the spectrum of psychologically effective artistic forms. This study shows the mechanisms of epization of the lyrics, analyzes the syncretic forms of the lyric epic. The authors of the article conclude that the style of «military» poems by B. Shakhovsky is expressive, aphoristic, declarative, rhetorical.