Poetic Games of Scientist Men: Vanity and Circulation from the Book of Ecclesiastes in Archil’s ‘Verse Rotating Like Grinding Wheel’ Cover Image

სწავლულ კაცთა პოეტური თამაშები: ეკლესიასტესეული ამაოება და წრებრუნვა არჩილის „ჩარხებრმბრუნავ ლექსში“
Poetic Games of Scientist Men: Vanity and Circulation from the Book of Ecclesiastes in Archil’s ‘Verse Rotating Like Grinding Wheel’

Author(s): Maia Nachkebia
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Georgian literature
Published by: ლიტერატურის ინსტიტუტის გამომცემლობა
Keywords: Archil II; Verse rotating like grinding wheel; Vanity; Baroque; Pattern poetry;

Summary/Abstract: Literary heritage of Archil II Bagrationi (1647-1713) is extremely rich and diverse. The article is dedicated to the absolutely distinct by its form and content verse among poetic searches of Archil. This is a the ‘Verse Rotating Like Grinding Wheel’ introduced by the King-poet. Discussed verse is consisting of single line _ “This is based on a parable about Vanity” and in ten-strophe verse this one line is repeated 40 times with different order of the words in the line. Attention of the author of the present article was drawn by original inner structure of the verse and extremely witty combination with its content.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 184-208
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Georgian