Metaphysics of death in Nekrasov''s early lyric poetry
The article is dedicated to the death in Nekrasov's lyric poetry, being one of topical issues in modern Nekrasov studies. The article analyzes the death in the early works by the poet (Dreams and Sounds collection), coming to conclusion that they reflect Christian concepts of the death typical for Russian romantic poetry of the 1830s. Nekrasov depicts the material world as final, sinful, vicious and striving for death and destruction. Numerous thanatological images and motifs embody idea of a death-striving world. The vale of tears is opposed to the other world, which, in the context of the collection, is perceived as the paradise, Kingdom. The narrator suffers in the human world comparing it to staying in a grave or fetters. In some poems, Nekrasov personifies the death as a good anthropomorphic being or angel. Thus, he understands the death in two ways: on the one hand, dying is a state of the material world, and on the other one, the death is a desired border between the material and heavenly worlds, and a key to eternal bliss. The orientation of some mythopoetic images to Pushkin's, Lermontov's and Aibulat's samples is also investigated in the article.