THE FORMULA “THE CHERRY ORCHARD” IN ROMAN TYAGUNOV’S POEM“NOBODY IS GUILTY OF ANYTHING...”: ON CULTURAL CLICHES IN ARTISTIC CONTEXTS

The article examines the title formula “the cherry orchard” in Roman Tyagunov’s poem “Nobody is guilty of anything…”, which goes back to Chekhov’s last play. Like many formulas of this kind, formulas taken from the titles of classical literary texts, this formula has largely lost its semantic connection with the source text - Chekhov’s comedy - but has become an independent formulaic text in subsequent culture, a cultural cliché with its own meanings, which often depend on the contexts where the classical formula falls. In Tyagunov’s poem, the formula “the cherry orchard” is associated with the interaction of the subject (who, given that the poem in question is part of the cycle “Poetry of Suicide. Farewell Verses”, can be designated as a role-playing subject) and the addressee. The grammatical forms of their explication allow us to conclude that the subject is a man and the addressee is a woman; and their relationship is based on the fact that the cherry orchard donated by the addressee is destroyed by the subject; or the addressee gives a new cherry orchard to the subject in exchange for the cut down one. But in any case, the conclusion suggests itself about the special role of the cherry orchard in structuring subject-address relations; the formula under consideration acts in the poem as a motive thatforms the lyrical plot, which, as is known, is built on the interaction of the chorotope and the subject structure. In culture, the formula “cherry orchard” is a nomination of a place associated with a happy past that is gone forever, that is, it acts as a strictly chronotopic motive. In Tyagunov’s poem, this cultural cliché, being realized in the relations between the subject and the addressee, forms the artistic transmission of the author’s emotion, which is based on saying goodbye to life of one’s own free will.