ТРЕТЬЯ ГЛАВА РОМАНА А. С. ПУШКИНА «ЕВГЕНИЙ ОНЕГИН»: ПИСЬМО ТАТЬЯНЫ ЛАРИНОЙ В РИТМИКО-СМЫСЛОВОМ ОСВЕЩЕНИИ
CHAPTER 3 IN PUSHKIN’S NOVEL EUGENE ONEGIN: RHYTHM AND SENSE IN TATIANA LARINA’S LETTER

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the issues of emotional and notional perception of Tatiana Larina’s letter in Chapter 3 of the novel Eugene Onegin. This letter is considered to be one of the best examples of Russian lyrics. It is written in iambic tetrameter, which differs from the rest poetic form of the novel written in Onegin stanza, and it is a remarkable example of a particular ‘embedded’ text of Pushkin’s narrative. The Tatiana’s text of confessing love to Onegin had already been written by Pushkin when he just started writing Chapter 3, however, it was eventually added to the last part of the chapter, just after stanza XXXI. According to experts on Pushkin’s works, when Pushkin finished writing stanza V, it took him almost a month to think over the further plot line of the novel, and finally he decided not to let the hearts of the main characters ‘meet’. These facts create a particular cognitive-literary intrigue in the first thirty stanzas of the chapter since the poet while knowing the main plot line of the narration did not hasten to present the reader with the central fragment of this chapter. Taking into account harmonious and at the same time retrospective analysis of the poetic text, the mentioned circumstances confirm the need of dynamic study of large text fragments that could lead to its evaluation in the framework of general context of the plot development. This study aims to analyse historical and literary facts in the light of unanimous rhythm and meaning of the poetical text; also, the article discusses the peculiarities of structural and rhythmic-dynamic harmony of Tatiana Larina’s text-letter. Moreover, the study indicates the capacity of harmonious (aesthetic and formal) verse creating methods which reveal certain points in the rising action in the plot taking into consideration its retrospective analysis. The obtained results show the possibility of broadening well known statements used in literary criticism about the ways and means of forming real ‘rising points’ (of plot development) in poetical texts by Pushkin

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