PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ONTOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE LYRICS OF VAHID ITAEV

Abstract. The relevance of the article is due to the insufficient degree of literary interpretation of the works of the Chechen writer and poet Vakhid Itaev, as well as the scientific significance of the study of original and significant phenomena in modern national poetry. The purpose of the work is to scientifically characterize and systematize the ideological, thematic, genre and artistic features of Itaev's poetry. In terms of style, the ana-lyzed works, according to the identified criteria, belong to a complex direction of philosophical lyrics, which has traditions in world and Russian literature. In Chechen literature, this direction has not received full devel-opment, but manifested itself as a trend in the works of individual authors, which allows us to consider the po-etic creativity of V. Itaev as an innovative literary phenomenon. In terms of genre, an appeal to the free verse form has been revealed, which, in turn, also represents a new trend in national poetry. The appeal to free verse is characterized as a conscious technique for reflecting the author's consciousness. The author notes the pro-nounced intertextuality of Itaev’s works, which allows us to speak about the cross-cultural orientation and in-tellectualism of the poet’s texts. In thematic terms, a number of basic motifs consonant with the searches of philosophical lyrics are defined: the theme of the destiny of man and the poet; the theme of life and death, the meaning of life; understanding of a special continuum that unites the higher and earthly worlds in their unity and opposition. The role of heavenly and cosmogonic symbolism, creating a “psychological landscape”, in re-flecting the author’s worldview and revealing the most important ontological problems is revealed. The study is based on the methodology of a comprehensive analysis of the lyrical text. As a result, conclusions are made about the direction of the writer’s artistic method, the features of his idiostyle and genre priorities. Typologi-cal connections between Itaev's poetry and the lyrics of the Silver Age and the artistic quests of Western Euro-pean romanticism, as well as Japanese lyrics, in particular, sedoka, are revealed.