Tradition and Innovation in Modern Kazakh Poetry

Abstract

The article examines the work of a group of young poets who combined modern Kazakh poetry with artistic and stylistic research. In order to show the continuity of the pattern established in national poetry, the content and diversity of innovation, the young poets analyzed the poetic works of Duysinali Alimakyn, Baurzhan Alikozhi, Batyrkhan Sarsenkhan, Baurzhan Maitai, Tursynbek Bashar, Tolkyn Nursaule, Aidana Kaysarbekovina, Asylbek Zhanbyrbai. Since the works of these poets have not entered scientific circulation, it is possible to evaluate the achievements of modern Kazakh poetry by highlighting artistic research in their works. The fact that young poets continue the continuity of style in broad epic poems along with short lyrics in Kazakh poetry was determined by real works. In the work of any poet you can find many poems about the homeland, native land. If the lyrics of love for the Motherland, native land, parents, beloved spouse in the works of young poets shows the continuity of tradition, then in modern poetry fresh images and new images can be seen in the depiction of landscape, comparison, parallelism, contrast. Postmodernism, which is one of the main trends in the literature of the 21st century, has established itself in world literature, as evidenced by the works of T. Bashar, B. Maytayuly, as well as many examples of blank verse by Batyrkhan Sarsenkhan. The scientific and practical significance of the study is evident from the fact that it can be widely used in the subjects “Kazakh literature” and “Modern Kazakh literature” in secondary schools and higher educational institutions, gives a lot of information to the scientific community and the reader about artistic research of Kazakh poetry and opens the way for further research into modern Kazakh poetry.

Key words: poetry, lyrics, verse structure, blank verse, parallelism, comparison, landscape, intertext, tradition and innovation.