Article

Name: Iliya Kormiltsev’s Poetry of Disaster

Authors: Grigorii D. Drobinin

Primakov School Razdory village, Moscow region, Odintsovo district, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The ways to create “catastrophic” plots in the poetry of I. V. Kormiltsev and their attribution are the subject of this research. The author analyzes the specific metaphor, types of disaster, the characters, the attributive, frame and canvas methods of plot development. In various forms and plots, the poetry of I. V. Kormiltsev represents a specific worldview, close to modernist poetry of the early twentieth century and the modernist perception of Christianity. In this regard, the catastrophic plot in Kormiltsev’s poetry is not considered out of connection with biblical plot and imagery. Most of the biblical images and plots in Kormiltsev’s poetry are removed from the traditional interpretive model, remodeled and placed in a fundamentally different context. The heroes talk in the poems about the prospects for salvation for various people and opportunities to overcome the catastrophe. Blindness and deafness of people in front of the disaster is caused by value disorientation and immersion in small ordinary contexts. Often the poet counts the most part of humanity as living dead. The hero, together with selected people and readers, can see and feel an approaching catastrophe. This position of the hero gives Kormiltsev’s poetry a specific existential pathos. The most common types of disasters are flooding and freezing. It connects with the common “water” metaphor of Kormiltsev’s poetry. The most part of texts illustrating the course and results of the analysis are the lyrics of the musical group “Nautilus Pompilius”.

Keywords: Russian rock, Nautilus Pompilius, Kormiltsev, rock-poetry, apocalypse

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