“Twilight. To Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin, to His Village Zvanka” by Anna Bunina: the Reading Version (Article Second)

The second article analyzes and interprets the Ⅱ−Ⅴ stanzas of the poem, the eventful content of which is the visionary, in a detached perception, meeting of Bunina ʼs lyrical heroine with Derzhavin in his Zvanka as the embodiment of the dream she stated in the prologue. The main focus is on the authorʼs presentation of the poet. The article identifi es the poetic sources of the depicted realities and the inhabitants of the estate, and highlights the mythological and fl oral images that contribute to the creation of the poetʼs image, which are characteristic of classicism and borrowed from Derzhavinʼs works. The poet is presented in three aspects of his personality in relation to the genre forms of their embodiment in his work: enthusiastic (ode), angry (satire), and aff ectionate (anacreontics). The genres corresponding to the three tiers of Derzhavinʼs poetic worldview (hymn for the cosmos, ode and satire for contemporary history, and idyll for country life) are identifi ed, as well as the axiological boundary between the ‟oneʼs ownˮ and ‟othersʼˮ characters in his works. The article defi nes the contemplative and refl ective functions of Buninaʼs lyrical heroine, which are realized in the compositional alternation of visual descriptions of what is happening and comments on them, as well as her continuous, stylistically expressed, modality in her attitude towards Derzhavin as an ideal poet. The article analyzes the poetics of paraphrasing Derzhavinʼs texts and notes the semantic editing of some of them. The interpretation of the text is based on biographical context and historical and literary material from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.