Belarusian Language Poetry by Mira Luksha: Intentions of Artistic Consciousness

Abstract

The article considers the speciicities of the author's artistic consciousness intentionality in the example of Belarusian-language lyrics by Mira Luksha. It underlines that fear in a variety of versions is the most important engine of the character's lyrical feelings. She demonstrates passionarity in defending her patriotic and moral values. Particular attention is paid to understanding the physicality and its functions in the poetic text: touching the perception mode as the main method of the lyrical character’s reality exploration; concentration on the human body destructiveness as the way to identify internal pain; the suitability of body images for the disclosure of philosophical and religious-philosophical problems. Understanding loneliness as the inevitable inale of any human story (love, struggle, or even existence in general), the poetess consciously chooses loneliness for her lyrical heroine and at the same time declares the exceptional importance of love for a man. Corporeality is one of the clear intentions of M. Luksha's artistic consciousness in combination with the idea of identity, kinship and unity of the living and inanimate world, anthropomorphism forms the main principle of interaction of the lyrical heroine with the surrounding reality – tactile. Her bodily sensations are characterized by intensity and acuteness. The main features of M. Luksha’s style are also highlighted. They were a result from the intentions mentioned above: conciseness, paradoxicalness, the picture graphicness, emotional economy, and aphoristic nature.