Ցածր աշխարհի էլեգիկ մոդելը (մեղեդին և լռությունը Վահան Տերյանի պոեզիայում)

<jats:p>The article examines the two compositional planes of Vahan Terian’s poetry – the psycho-intellectual, or the “upper world,” and the lower, the “world of things.” Their mutual assimilation, interpenetration, and opposition, when expressed in language through a dual semantic principle, create within the poetic text a symbolist “reality” in which the boundaries between “here” (the sphere of lived experience) and “there” (the sphere of memory or metaphysical origin) disappear due to their reciprocal completion of one another. At the foundation of this poetic concept lies the melodic level of language, which dominates the semantic level of the word, bringing it closer to the “musical spirit” of language. According to the symbolist worldview, melody, by overcoming the material –object layer of the world, approaches its inner secret realm – what may be described as the fading, dissolution, or “death” of the object-bound meaning of words into an inner dimension, where the inner substance of the word comes to the foreground. This is, inevitably, connected with “silence,” with the unveiling of the inner world of words, which means that the word aspires toward the upper world – present in language as an “aspect of silence</jats:p>