The dynamic poetics of Mikhail Lermontov's poem The cliff (1841)

The article analyzes the changes in the poetics of the poem by M. Yu. Lermontov The Cliff (1841) in the creative history of text. Based on the comparison of the draft and the faire copy of the poem, the poet’s path to creating an artistic image of value is reconstructed. A special place in the analysis of the dynamic poetics of The Cliff is given to the capture of changes in the details of space through which the poet joins the feelings of the natural world with human ones, thereby creating a projection of his own spiritual world. The motives for meetings, breakups, loneliness, anxiety and game occupy an important place in the evolution of the text from the draft to the fair copy. The article reveals the epistemological meaning of their manifestation in the text at different stages of its creation. The meaning of the personification in the poem The Cliff is to reveal the existential paradox associated with the fact that the ideal of a perfect person is a combination of a sensitive soul, understanding of the truth of heavenly dispassion and longing for the unity of earth and sky. “The Poetics of the Visible” is one of the signs of the Lermontian style and represents the spiritual world in natural images.