Poetry of Adam Asnyk in the Context of the Belarusian Cultural and Historical Paradigm

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the artistic features of the lyrics of Adam Asnyk, analyse the ideological and aesthetic foundations of his creative method and poetic style, as well as scientific understanding of the place and role of this outstanding representative of Polish literature within the Belarusian cultural and historical paradigm. To achieve this goal, on the example of individual poems, the methods of artistic interpretation by the poet of a number of issues that worried both him and Polish society in the era of post-romanticism were shown. It should be noted that A. Asnyk was a native of the so-called „Russian” Poland – those regions that, after the partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, together with the lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Belarusian lands), became part of the Russian Empire. This fact becomes not only one of the main factors that influenced the formation of the creative consciousness of A. Asnyk himself, but also the key to explaining how and why his poetry found a response from Belarusian writers – Yanka Luchina, Yanka Kupala, Zoska Veras, Yanka Bryl. Also, the genuine interest of Belarusians in the Polish author is explained by common cultural and historical values and traditions, a similar orientation towards representatives of the previous era (Adam Mitskevich, Juliush Slovatsky, Andrzej Toviansky) with simultaneous rejection of some principles of romantic art.