Concepts “good” and “evil” in the Russian poetry of the Silver age

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis and the review of the attitutude to the basic categories of morality among the Russian poets of the Silver Age. The structural analysis of the poems published in 1916 showed a variety of views on the problem under discussion and creative methods of implementation that provide an effective and emotionally tense view of the author’s position. The explosion of poetic creation which had reflected the dialectic of the happening changes, their multifaceted and contradictory character in vision of the geniuses who judged the ongoing changes from essentially different points of view, boldly represented the attitude to the concept of “good” and “evil”. Noteworthy is the relevance of 100 years old texts to the situations of today.