Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019): XIII International Symposium Contemporary Issues of Literary Studies : Political Events of 1980-1990s and Literary Discourse
Politics and Literature - Ambivalent Integrity

The Structure of Classic Georgian Verse – a Spiritual Shelter in Besik Kharanauli’s Poetry in the 1990s

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  • Tamar Barbakadze
Tamar Barbakadze
Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2019-12-20

Keywords

  • Besik Kharanauli,
  • Free Verse,
  • Classical Metres

Abstract

Besik Kharanauli is a classic of Georgian free verse. In the verses of the 90s, Besik Kharanauli begins to bemoan himself using classical metres (isosyllabic: with symmetric ten syllab-les, „low shairi“ and heterosylabic meters), the strophe composed of broken lines, rhyme.

The lullaby „nana, saqartvelos miwav!“ performed with high shairi is tragic. The civil war broke out in the 1990s arises in our mind with high shairi, rhyme and monostrophe.

It is noteworthy that in the collection published in 2015 „qvavi xis wverze isaghamoebs“ (The crow settles in the treetop) Besik Kharanauri again chooses free verse as a form of self-expression.

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