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«Лена и люди» Елены Фанайловой: к социологии и поэтике русского верлибра
The connection of the poetic form with the content is investigated. The free verse, developed by W. Whitman in the second half of the 19th century, took root in the USSR with difficulty. In modern Russian poetry, the free verse, while preserving the aura of Western poetic culture, often combines gender and political meanings, broadcasting the painful experience of the author, his protest worldview. An example is Elena Fanailova’s free verse “Lena and the People” as a way of speaking directly, preserving a nonconformist message. At the same time, the relevance of free verse is moti-
vated by aesthetic reasons: the dynamic change of subjects of speech, stylistic registers, modalities, the use of techniques for constructing epic and dramatic text (plot, conflict, dialogue, etc.), the involvement or imitation of elements of non-artistic discourse, the introduction of the widest information flows into poetic speech.