“Ode on Visiting the Belosaraisk Spit on the Sea of Azov” by Ilia Kutik. Mythopoetics, metamorphoses of the space and the function of metabole

Abstract

In this article the author analyses “Ode on Visiting the Belosaraisk Spit on the Sea of Azov” by Ilia Kutik. There is a special mythopoetic in this text, reassembling the vegetative version of the mythological plot through the transformation of the monstrous fish into the Belosaraisk spit. At the same time, the image of that fish is not reduced to the usual outlines of a mythical character or monster, since it is based on a rethinking of the resurrection motive contained in the structure of the vegetative composition. The key episode of “Ode...”, the birth of the Belosaraisk spit, is represented by synthesis, where one detail is layered on another, and space is always in dynamics, which speaks of another feature of the poem, constant metamorphoses of space. The crossing of myth and technology in the language of the work creates both specific coordinates and the special functioning of the metabole. The mythopoetic basis provides the cumulative structure of the metabole. Cumulations synthesizing the semantic fields of physical phenomena and physicality, the natural and technological form the basis of the synthetic trope. Such functioning of the metabole organizes the mutual involvement of various details in the universe, characteristic of the metarealistic expressing. In that sense, “Ode...” by Kutik is built as a kind of reassembling Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” through the odic canon and the metabolic language of metarealism.