The poetics of Varvara Potapova: the specifics of the formation of the ‘female text’ (analysis of the poem “The Dream of the birch Tree”)

The article is devoted to the consideration of the features of the poetics of the work of the first Yakut poetess V.N. Potapova (1946-1979). The problem of adaptation of female somatic perception in the literary context is considered not sufficiently studied layer of modern literary criticism, especially from the point of view of poetics. The relevance of the research is justified by the need to study the features of the poetics of the individual author’s style of V. Potapova as the main formative features of the ‘female’ type of text in the literature of Yakutia. The novelty is determined by the possibility to identify the specific parameters of the construction of a separate poetic text of the author as a vivid example of the interpretation of the female worldview in the literary context. The purpose and objectives are focused on the “internal” immanent analysis of the lyrical text, the identification of its basic structuring principles. As a local field of philological analysis, the textbook work of the poetess “The Dream of the Birch Tree” was chosen.  As a result of the research, the fact about the initial transformative stages of the process of adapting female self-consciousness into poetic speech is recorded. It is proved that the types of sound organization, combining and varying with other levels of the text (subject, syntactic, metric, lexical, space-time, etc.) create samples of poetic speech with an original functioning type of subject – female. The conclusion is substantiated about the works of V. Potapova as texts of the classical canon, which are fixed in the context of national literature as solid, stable, well-established from the point of view of formal and substantive aspects. The work of the first Yakut poetess V. Potapova is an interesting and productive research material that requires a comprehensive literary analysis, the implementation of new methods and approaches in revealing the features of individual style. 

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