Bugorskaia V. —
Literary Concept of Love in Mikhail Lermontov's Early Poems (Demon, Azrail and Angel of Death)
// Litera. – 2019. – ¹ 4.
– P. 195 - 204.
DOI: 10.25136/2409-8698.2019.4.30331
URL: https://en.e-notabene.ru/fil/article_30331.html
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Abstract:
The matter under research is the phenomenon of love between immortal spirit and human in Lermontov's poetry. The situation when these two meet and interact is a sense-making motive for Lermontov's concept of love. Speaking of it, the researcher focuses on three poems and gives these poems different conceptual reflextions: Demon (I-IV versions), Azrail and Angel of Death. The central image is the figure of Demon and literary variants of Demon (Azrail and Angel of Death). In this research the author of the article uses historico-literary and hermeneutical methods that give a system view of Lermontov's early poems. The researcher concludes that Lermontov speaks of the phenomenon of love between an immortal creature and human by involvement of human in an infernal world, attempt of a mortal human to accept immortality and attempt of an immortal creature to understand human existence. This is the first research to analyze Lermontov's poems from this point of view.