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Burastan S. Zulumyan
Buraistan S. Zulumyan, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article is devoted to the cycle of sonnets “Cypress Country” (1908) by Tiran Chrakyan (pseudonym Intra, 1875–1921), one of the outstanding representatives of the brilliant galaxy of Western Armenian poets of the early 20th century, the author of the famous lyric-mystical prose poem “The Inner World”. The aesthetics of the symbolist worldview underlies the poetics of the cycle, it consists of forty poems, internally united in the development of the lyrical plot. In the center is the image of cypresses, the symbolism of which allows the author to connect the earthly and the higher world, where their peaks are directed, to talk about the vices and shortcomings of civilization, the beauty of the world and nature, about the loneliness of the individual and the search for perfection.