«Grammar of Love» in New Donbass and Military Poetry

The article discusses the lyrics of poets writing about military actions in the Donbass, in whose texts the theme of love occupies an important place. With varying degrees of coverage, the object of attention was the work of D. Artis, A. Dolgareva, E. Zaslavskaya, V. Pekova, A. Revyakina, D. Filippov. It is concluded that, the so-called “love lyrics” of the era of the Donbass conflict, on the one hand, continues the traditions of the “love lyrics” of the time of the Great Patriotic War, realizing the same problem-philosophical and emotional range, first of all, in the “male” development of a love theme in the texts of D. Artis and D. Filippov. On the other hand, the military love lyrics receives a new resolution in modern poetry in the “female” poetry of A. Dolgareva and E. Zaslavskaya, who gave to the love experience an unprecedented sound and embodied it not only in the traditional form of a lyrical poem, but also in the genre of the lyrical poem (A. Dolgareva) or even the mystery poem (E. Zaslavskaya). The dialogical aspect of the above theme and its intertextual potential are discussed separately (using the example of A. Revyakina’s poem “Miner’s Daughter” and V. Pekov’s poem “I Stand and Smoke by the Fence”), allowing us to see and compare the changes that the plots and images of love underwent within the boundaries of the military discourse of the Russian culture.