Genre semantics of the eclogue in the cycle «Verses on love» by T. Kibirov

The paper is devoted to the analysis of two eclogues from the cycle «Verses on Love» by T. Kibirov. The regular return of the eclogue and idyll to the Russian poetry, the use of the eclogue in the Russian poetry of the 1980s (eclogues by I. Brodsky, V. Tuchkov, T. Kibirov) raise the question of the reasons for updating the genre semantics in the new time. The aim of the paper is to examine the nature and significance of the transformation of the genre semantics of the eclogue in T. Kibirov’s poems. The central hero of Kibirov's eclogues is not a character distanced from the consciousness of the author; it is a lyrical hero who is not conventional so this element of the genre semantics is shown in other ways. The amoebaean structure and the element of drama are reduced, though not removed for good. The description of household details and that of the nature as part of an idyllic lyrical plot in Kibirov’s eclogues are most developed and the closest to the antique genre. An essential structure-forming element of the eclogue genre in T. Kibirov’s poem is the special mood, which is characterized by the lack of concern. The event providing the emergence of this mood, which in a special way clarifies and highlights the visible world, is love.

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