THE FIGURE OF THE POET IN THE POETRY OF STANISLAV VINAVER AND VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV: A CASE STUDY OF THE POEMS 'THE LONELY ACTOR' AND 'THE LANDSCAPE GATHERER

In the very titles of these autopoetic poems (The Lonely Actor and The Harvester of Landscapes), the immanent poetics of the poetry of these two authors is reflected. For Khlebnikov, the poet is a sower of eyes, for Vinaver, a harvester of landscapes. Such views on the poet correspond to the explicit poetics of poetry expressed in the essays of the two authors. The understanding of the poet is closely connected with the understanding of language, as the main character for the poet is the language, just as the main character for the language is the poet. The paper analyzes the relationship between the poet and the language, and the language and the poet. It attempts to answer the question of what a poet, poetic language, and poetry are for Stanislav Vinaver and Velimir Khlebnikov, using the example of these two poems. One of the starting points for interpretation is given by the New Testament parable of the sower and the seed, in which we find an interpretation of the (theo)logical poetics of language. Interpreting Khlebnikov`s poem The Lonely Actor and Vinaver`s The Harvester of Landscapes we found that dialog with tradition led this poets to their immanent poetics and their understanding of language.