THE COMPOSITION OF THOUGHT IN Poetic MESSENGERS A.K. TOLSTOY
Poetic messages of the second half of the XIX century significantly differ from the previous tradition of this genre. They practically do not contain cliched components, conditioned by canons of literary direction, type of addressee and so on. Their main content is the transfer of ideological content, as a rule, socially conditioned and meaningful. In the article four poetic messages of A.K. Tolstoy, referring to the mature stage of his work - from 1855 to 1870. They are not of a satirical character, therefore they stand out among the lyrics in the poetic heritage of A.K. Tolstoy.