ԱՒԵՏԻՍԵԱՆ ԼՈՒՍԻՆԷ AVETISYAN LUSINE 
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Արուեստ գրաբար քերթութեան Ալիշանի
Alishan's poetic art 


Bazmavep 2021 / 1-2, pp. 87-109

Alishan is an exceptional and phenomenal writer, whose lyric poetry can and should become the subject of interdisciplinary research, linguistic and literary studies at the same time, because it allows comparing the displays of two linguistic thoughts of the same person, and also makes it possible to see the advantages and disadvantages of classical and temporarily literary languages, in relation to language toolkits.

Since the poetic art of any writer is a collection of original, specific, expressive, impressive elements of his work, the first feature and originality of Alishan's poetry is the classical language, which only by itself fully reveals its own encoded meanings. His poems written in grabar cannot be translated into modern Armenian without semantic, sound and image losses. Carefully selected epithets, abundantly used alliterations, by not simple antonymic words depicted contrasts reveal Alishan's refined, penetrating look and subtle ear and his deep perception of the picturesque and musicality of the world.