The creative refraction of Pushkin\s motif of poetic immortality in the
dialogic «reflection poetics» of I. Annensky

The article reveals the functioning of the Pushkin motif of poetic
immortality in the work of I. Annensky and his influence on the design of the
dialogical «reflection poetics». A special role in the aesthetic accents placed by
Annensky is played by the second stanza of Pushkin\s poem «I erected a monument to myself that was not made by hands...», thanks to which the motive of
reciprocity of poets on different sides of life – life and death – is psychologically
convincingly embodied. Such an interaction is the basis for the renewal of the
Pushkin\s «formula» of poetic immortality, since in the work of Annensky not
only the cutting edge of modernity is taken into account, but all the time flow
that encompasses through the poetic tradition not only the past, but, according to
Pushkin\s poems, the future: «in the sublunary Peace / There will be at least one
poet». Thanks to the Pushkin\s pretext understood in the work of Annensky, art
is understood not only as a sign of eternity in the temporal flow, but also as
a time imprinting in its dynamics in the semantic structure of the poem through
the reflection in the figurative rows of the soul of their creator, as presented
in the essay «The Problem of Hamlet». Thus, thanks to the creative rethinking
of Pushkin\s motive of poetic immortality, the transfer of the properties of time
to the nature of the poetic text is carried out, whereby the identity between the
world of nature and culture is established. But what, at first glance, seems to be
a polemic with the ancient statement of the phenomenology of art: «Life is
short – art is eternal», according to the laws of romantic irony, due to the reaccentuation
of the Pushkin formula, becomes the experience of time not only as
a movement towards death on an existential level, as a form of realization of
a person in history, providing her with immortality in the sphere of culture.
So thanks to the poetic dialogue through the centuries and times, the action
in the sphere of art and the laws of eternity remains, which turns around in
Annensky in the light of the Pushkin tradition by a new understanding of poetic
immortality. It is possible not so much as the erection of the temporal to the
eternal in the process of creating a work, how much is realized precisely from
within the temporal flow thanks to the incarnation of the poet in him as the
voice of his generation and era. Similarly, the expanding circles of depersonalization,
naturally, in the light of the «higher humor of creation», turn into the
acquisition of a unique author\s self in the incessant and ever renewed, thanks to
the laws of time, the dialogue of poets, facilitated by the «poetics of reflections»
arising from the meeting of «one\s own» verse with «another’s» whereby the
poetic Shadow is condensed to an immortal Name.