Marina Tsvetayeva’s influence on Ilsiyar Iksanova’s poetry

Abstract

This article analyzes philosophical and romantic motifs in the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva and Ilsiyar Iksanova. The poetry of Ilsiyar Iksanova, a representative of the romantic trend in modern Tatar poetry, is an understudied topic today. The purpose of our study is to identify the originality of philosophical motifs and symbols in I. Iksanova’s works against the background of the work by M. Tsvetaeva. In her early lyrical poetry, referring to the work by the Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva, Ilsiyar Iksanova determined the vector of her poetry. The article analyzes the intimate lyrical works by the modern Tatar poetess, revealing the features of the existential picture of the world in the work of M. Tsvetaeva and I. Iksanova. Scientific research indicates that the existential concept of the world is recreated in the works of I. Iksanova through the motifs of fate, love, death and loneliness. The conclusion is made about the influence of M. Tsvetaeva’s creative work on I. Iksanov’s poetry. These existential motifs in the works of the poetesses, belonging to different literatures and periods, are consonant, but not identical. In M. Tsvetaeva’s work, loneliness is an opportunity to get to know oneself. I. Iksanova, purposefully using existential motifs, comes to a refutation of loneliness and death, her lyrical heroine comes to the knowledge of the truth through love and humility. Philosophical motifs in the work of the poetesses have tied Russian and Tatar poetry of different periods together.