Motive of duplicity in Eduard Mizhit’s poetry

In Eduard Mizhit’s philosophical reflections the poetics of uncertainty becomes the universal beginning of his search for the meaning of life. The search is associated with movement towards the unknown, which may be incomprehensible either. The hero realizes himself as the projection of both himself and an unknown other. The central motif of loneliness is the consequence of the projection of himself in different role embodiments: the second «I», soul, and shadow. His identity is split in his split world. The world split into such oppositional couples, as life and death, eternity and moment, creates the duality of the hero’s consciousness. More peculiar to the poetry of Mizhit appear to be the internal duality and discrepancy, which are characteristic for the modernist picture of the world. «The poetry is the perception and feeling of one’s own existence» (Proust), and Eduard Mizhit's book is his attitude to himself and to the world.

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