Music concept in collection of poetry "Embarcation for Cythera" by Georgy Ivanov in the lights of Russian classic poetry tradition
The artistic concept of music developed in verses of the collection of poetry “Embarcation for Cythera” (1937) by Georgy Ivanov, that allows to understand the author’s outlook more deeply, is considered in the article. Its evolution is traced. It is proved that the concept of music in Georgy Ivanov’s collection of poetry originates in creative experience of many Russian poets (Gavrila Derzhavin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Mikhail Lermontov, Innokenty Annensky and others). It is shown that what is is connected with the concept of music of Georgy Ivanov, is reconsideration of steady images of the Russian classical literature - the sea, the moon, the candle, the boat, the carriage-and-three - built in a certain associative array in “Embarcation for Cythera”. It is emphasised that Georgy Ivanov actively connects the Russian romanticism and symbolism traditions when forming the concept of music. Special attention in the article is paid to poetic dialogue of Georgy Ivanov with Alexander Blok which turns into a lyrical-philosophical dispute on “music” as elements which own the world. A conclusion that “music” in the said Georgy Ivanov’s poetry collection is presented in the different figurative embodiments - in sounds and scratches, song, tune, violin music, ukulele music, jingle-bells, howling winds - is made. The category of music of the collection of poetry “Embarcation for Cythera” is a link between life and death, good and evil, lyrical hero’s past and present. It becomes clear that lack of motif of “music” in poems is a symbol itself: it means emptiness, death of the hero’s soul far from the homeland.