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Abstract:

Many poetic works devoted to the Great Patriotic War, which later became immortal poems-songs, are the common property of those peoples who value the Great Victory over absolute evil — European nazism born in Hitler’s Germany. In many verses of poets — representatives of the literatures of different peoples — the lyrical hero acts as an integral part of a single entity (people, society). At the same time, the individuality does not dissolve, but, on the contrary, asserts itself within the framework of the “whole”. It should be noted that in the poetry of the Great Patriotic War, saturated with heroic pathos, the maximum coincidence of the author and human being, the empirical “I” (author-poet) and the lyrical hero, “we”, is found. Poems of the war could be divided into 4 groups: poems-appeals, poems of propagandistic nature; lyrical works, especially created by the poets who fought at the front; poems devoted to the unknown soldier; poems devoted to Victory Day. The lyrical hero reflects on his Moherland, the fate of the people and the country, life and death, the tragedy of losing friends and fellow soldiers, his beloved girl, with thoughts of whom he endures the hardships of life at the front and performs heroic deeds, his home hearth. In our time, in the conditions of the struggle of the peoples of Russian Federation with the resurrected Nazism and fascism, Donbass poetry was born, which continued the traditions of poetry of the Great Patriotic War.

Keywords: war poetry, lyrical hero, patriotic worldview, historical memory, Donbass poetry, continuity of generations.