Dautova, Rosa A.
Kavkaz Forum. 2022. Issue 10.

Abstract:
People’s poet of Bashkortostan Ravil Tukhvatovich Bikbaev (1938–2019)
played a prominent role in the development of Bashkir literature in the late XXth
and early XXIst centuries. The purpose of this article is to analyze the genre and
ideological and artistic features of one of the leading genres of narrative lyrics -
the ballad in the poetic work of R.T. Bikbaev. Brief information about the poet’s
work is given, the evolution of the ballad genre in Bashkir literature is considered.
The article analyzes the ballads “Song” (“Yyr”), “Gallows Birch” (“Dar
ҡaiyn”), “Land and Sea” (“Er һәm dingeҙ”) by R. Bikbaev. R.T. Bikbaer’s ballads
are characterized by nationality, realism and emotional coloring. The poet not
only narrates the historical events, but also expresses his own thoughts and
experiences, and also assesses everything that happens around him through the
eyes of his heroes. The ballads clearly express the national color and mentality of
the Bashkir people, the specifics of the national character, the peculiarities of the
ethnic worldview, which is why they are a literary source for studying the relevant
aspects of the national spiritual culture. In the plots of R.T. Bikbaev’s ballads,
folklore elements are found, namely fairy-tale images and motifs.
The language of R.T. Bikbaev’s works is distinguished by the fact that the
author masterfully combines narrative with a monologue and dialogic form
of presentation, using, first of all, such figurative and expressive means as
personification, hyperbole, epithet and metaphor. The use of various stylistic
devices, in particular the repetition characteristic of the ballad canon as a whole,
adds a special flavouring and expressiveness to the lines.

Keywords: poetry, genre, narrative lyrics, ballad, lyric-epic genres

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