Universal Human Values in Kazakh Poetry of the Late Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Centuries

Abstract The purpose of this study is to reveal the topic of universal human values through the prism of artistic searches of Kazakhstan's poets of the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries. The scientific work was conducted using the methods of system analysis, cultural-historical analysis and hermeneutics. In the course of the research, the authors came to conclusions about the special place of Kazakhstan's national poetry in the country's axiological discourse. It has been revealed that national poetry is an artistically meaningful carrier of the moral and ethical categories of the Kazakh people. The programme of spiritual modernisation of Kazakhstan, ‘Rukhani Zhangyru’, is evidence of this. The theme of the axiological potential of citizens occupies far from the last place in this programme.