The poem “Homage to Girolamo Marcello” by J. Brodsky as a narrative “epitaph” to being
Annotation
The paper examines the narrative poetics of “Homage to Girolamo Marcello” by J. Brodsky. The analysis of the text makes it possible to understand the “epitaphic” nature of the lyrical narrative. It is concluded that the meanings of “the epitaph” in this poetic text are associated with the lyrical subject’s understanding of his own existence. For the subjective “the self” of J. Brodsky this lyrical narrative turns out to be a lament for the Venetian past in the perspective of an all-consuming future, and therefore becomes the poet’s “epitaph” statement about being doomed to be absorbed by time.
Keywords
J. Brodsky, Venice, time, lyrical narrative, symbolics of water, artistic ontology, epitaph.
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