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Abstract: The article presents a method for a holistic analysis of poetic works by contemporary Russian poets, aimed at preparing senior secondary school students and college undergraduates to complete tasks in interpretation of lyric texts. The main aim of the study is to identify the key principles and stages of independent literary analysis of a text and to define a minimal set of analytical tools that allow readers to effectively comprehend complex texts, particularly those used in the Russian National School Olympiad in Literature. The relevance of the suggested approach stems from the increasing complexity of modern poetic discourse, the rejection of stable rhetorical models and genres, and the need for a flexible and personalized analytical strategy. The focus is on the preparation of the reader-researcher to work with a multi-layered text, in which it is important to be able to distinguish both internal (contextual) and external (intertextual and cultural) associations. The method combines elements of immanent, intertextual, and linguistic analysis. The key actions include: fixation of the points of readerly surprise, selection and comparison of representative fragments, analysis of repetitions, rhetorical figures, prosodic elements, syntactic deviations, and interpretation of semantic regularities. Special attention is given to the definition of the subject organization of the poetic text. Using the poems by Boris Ryzhy and Yulia Pikalova as practical research material, the article demonstrates various strategies for beginning analysis and describes the potential of the readers’ reflection as a driving force of interpretation. The author concludes that a deliberate and adaptive combination of literary analytical tools with the reader’s individual experience facilitates not only successful completion of analytical tasks, but also the development of the mature analytical competence and the ability to perceive the poetic text as a system of intricate aesthetic codes. Interpretation of a poetic text based on the identified patterns of composition of both the “inner world” and the literary text requires the ability to isolate, compare, and correlate poetic text elements, to reflect and generalize the observations obtained, and to demonstrate the skill to express the necessary meaning without going into unimportant detail.

About the author(s) :

Oksana V. Dreifeld

Kemerovo State Medical University (Kemerovo, Russia)

ODCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3612-0237

Publication Timeline:

Date of receipt: 23.05.2025; date of publication: 31.10.2025

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