ELEMENTS OF ZOROASTRIANISM AND FIRE MYTHOLOGEMS IN VIKTOR TSOI'S ROCK POETRY
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v23.6079Keywords:
Image of Fire, Mythopoetic, Rock Poetry, Viktor Tsoi, Zoroastrianism, Iranian Culture, InteractionsAbstract
Fire seems to be a special sign in literature: on the one hand, it is characterized by inconsistency, on the other hand, by mythology in its embodiment. In the era of postmodernism, the mythopoetic principle becomes even more intense. You can see a whole complex of connections with different mythologies and religions of the world in one creative element. Russian rock poetry is song poetry within the framework of postmodern poetics. In the rock poetry of Viktor Tsoi, the image of fire is endowed with similarities to the image presented in the Iranian culture of Zoroastrianism. In this study, only the lexeme itself is analyzed - “fire”, although other words are associated with this image, but due to the volume of the work, only one element is considered so far. In the poet’s early work, this is an internal fire, which he talks about in songs dedicated to a sensual worldview and the expression of love. In Zoroastrianism, people are also endowed with inner fire. In the subsequent period, in the song “In Our Eyes,” the poet creates the image of a living fire, which is endowed with the human property of death. Viktor Tsoi also addresses the problem of choice in this context, which also brings his concept closer to Zoroastrianism, while at the same time he continues to develop the theme of the inner world - the spiritual fire inside a person. In later work, in the work “Try to Sing with Me,” the image becomes more complex and is endowed with divine meaning - it acts as a special symbol together with the image of water, encouraging action, struggle and movement. In the song “Cuckoo (kukushka)” the image of fire is endowed with the property of strength, a sign of help that can open up opportunities to overcome the catastrophic problems of the existence. Thus, in the rock poetry of Viktor Tsoi, the image of fire has similarities with a similar image of Iranian culture, but at the same time, the author also puts his own individual aspects into its embodiment.
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