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Dwie lub trzy Kasandry i co o nich wiem. Kilka uwag

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Wesołowska E.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

2014

issue 4(7)

35-46

Cassandra is a peculiar female character in ancient mythology and literature. She appears as early as Homer’s epic, and then incidentally in Aeneid. A would-be lover of Apollo, seer, doomed to disbelief, concubine of Agamemnon, and killed with him on their arrival to Mycenae, she is tragic and it is the tragedy, where she is presented most fully, i.e. in plays by Aeschylus, Euripidesand Seneca. However, her personality traits are so poorly determined that it leaves room for the authors’ actions organising her profile anew. Andso, in Aeschyluss he is a prophetess of her impending death, but she does not try to defend herself. In Seneca, she relates what is covered from spectators’ eyes. She happens to be the symbol of reconciliation, but in Euripides’ Helen she personifies the element of revenge. She is Apollo’s medium, and at the same time she apparently discredits his prophetic power since she was able to cheat him on some occasions. Her attitude towards Agamemnon is vague, because she bemoans his death the same way Helen, whom she hates, mourns Hector’s death. Only the Greek Troades provides an opinion on the beauty of the prophetess. Afterall, Helenand Cassandra’s fatesare mysteriously intertwined. We have the right to suppose that Clytaemestra’s calling Cassandraa female swan is not accidental, although it formally seems to refer to her stage “muteness”.

«Старый рок», «Согдлядатай суровый», «Сержант Командоров». Трансформации образа Командора в русской поэзии первой половины XX века

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Szymańska A.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica

2016

issue 9

73-84

The aim of this article is to analyze the narrative poem Don Juan by Nikolai Otsup – a poet of the first wave of Russian emigration. Otsup’s work is being compared with the poem The Commander’s Footsteps by Aleksandr Blok and the narrative poem Komandorov’s Footsteps by David Samoilov. The author pays attention to the similarities in poetic images, sound and colouristic symbols. Thanks to the contextualization of Otsup’s narrative poem, the author discovers a common tendency in creating the poetic image of the Commander and in the motif of revenge in the Russian poetry of the first half of the 20th century.

Предметом интереса в данной статье является поэма Дон Жуан Николая Оцупа – поэта первой волны русской эмиграции. Поэма подвергается сравнительному анализу со стихотворением Александра Блока Шаги Командора и с поэмой Давида Самойлова Шаги Командорова. Автором делается ряд замечаний по поводу общих для поэтов образов, символов, звуковых и цветовых характеристик. Анализ выбранных стихотворений приводит автора к раскрытию общей тенденции изображения Командора и разработки мотива расплаты в русской поэзии первой половины XX столетия.

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«Старый рок», «Согдлядатай суровый», «Сержант Командоров». Трансформации образа Командора в русской поэзии первой половины XX века