FEATURES OF INTERPRETATION OF BIBLICAL FEMALE IMAGES IN LYRICS BY ANNA AKHMATOVA

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of biblical female characters in Anna Akhmatov’s works and examines the features of their artistic interpretation in the cycle of Biblical Poems. The focus of the study is the Old Testament images of Lot’s wife, Rachel, Michola, which are significant for Akhmatov’s creativity. Their special aspects are conditioned by historical and autobiographical context of the poetess’s work. Having got through the civil war and revolution like many poets of the Silver Age, she correlated them, firstly, with the events described in the human eternal book, secondly, she passed them through the prism of her own experiences, which allows us to talk about the gender dimension of her reception of biblical female characters. This is evidenced by the architectonics of the cycle and the author’s re-emphasis in the transmission of biblical plots and characters that essentially disputes the biblical interpretation.