Forms of Expression of Author’s Position in Lermontov’s Poem “Sashka”

Abstract

The principles of organization of author’s narrative in the ironic poem by M. Yu. Lermontov “Sashka” are examined. In the spotlight - combination of dissimilar poetic forms (stylistic and axiological) genetically ascending to the burlesque in Lermontov’s narrative. The author shows that in the poem “Sashka” a special intonation of the author’s manner of narration is created, which is characterized by the conspicuous switch from lyricism to irony, the clash of sublimely romantic and domestic, “physiological” or ironic plans, comic and serious, game with the reader, organizing the readers’ perception and stimulating his creative processes. Common in the poem by M. Yu. Lermontov methods of enhancing the artistic imagination of the reader and the organization of the reader’s perception are described, such as reasoning about the rules of narrative and written text; appeal to opinion and personal experience of the reader; mapping of personal experience and judgements of the narrator with the reader’s experience and common assessments; predicting a reader’s response; ironic dramatization of the epic moralizing; plot’s default and omissions. Thus in an ironic poem M. Yu. Lermontov creates the tone of the active author, whose opinion is offered to the reader in motion, in “unfinished” form.