Formation of female identity in M. Shkapskaya's poetic practice (based on the collection "Mater Dolorosa")

This article is devoted to rethinking the poetics of the poems of M. Shkapskaya in the compilation “Mater Dolorosa” from the point of view of the formation of a gender-marked identity in it. One of the tasks set by the author of this article is to consider the work of Shkapskaya in connection with the aesthetics of the Silver Age era. For this purpose, the article describes the ideas and constructs of female identity characteristic of the transitional period. Such authors as M. Moravskaya, M. Shaginyan discussed these ideas. The second task of this article should be understood as the consideration of an individual lyrical subject in Shkapskaya’s poetry in relation to the emerging images of female authorship, among which appear: “the Warrior Maiden”, “androgynous”, “Amazon”, the idea of “eternal femininity”. Despite the fact that images associated with taboo themes and the “gynecological” figurativeness appear in the poetics of her works, the identity of the poetess goes back to the conservative idea of the role of women in the world order. An experiment with form and content appears in her poetry, and the traditional mother-wife model itself is not yet subject to reflection.