Structural- Narratological Study of Modern Free Verse: Comparative Analysis of Besik Kharanauli’s and Charles Bukowski’s Poems
Structural- Narratological Study of Modern Free Verse: Comparative Analysis of Besik Kharanauli’s and Charles Bukowski’s Poems

Summary/Abstract: The work is devoted to the structural- narratological research of free verse in the texsts of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) and Besik Kharanauli (1939-...). A large part of the work of the two mentioned poets is genre-wise (in this case, the genre is understood as an internal literary context) free verse, which shows the following main characteristics: it does not have a metric, rhyme appears sporadically, the lines are unordered. The history of free verse begins with the French Symbolists of the nineteenth century, spreads to the United States and is revealed in the poetry of Walt Whitman. At the beginning of the twentieth century, modernists, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and other authors often wrote free verse. In this regard, Paolo Iashvili’s “Europe”, Galaktion Tabidze’s “Rustle of Curtains” and later Shota Chantladze’s poetry are noteworthy works in Georgian literature. It seems that in the first half of the 20th century Georgian authors did not/could not sympathize with this genre, because it was subject to a kind of censorship (it was considered a western, bourgeois manifestation). In 1977-1978 a newspaper polemic was held between Shota Nishnianidze and Mamuka Tsiklauri on the issue of whether free verse was poetry or not. However, the main thing is that the authors did not give up on this genre.

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