Albina Mazgarovna Sayapova,
Kazan Federal University,
18 Kremlovskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russia,
sayapova@list.ru.
The article discusses the lyrics by Dardmend, the Tatar poet of the early 20th century. His symbol bearing images enable the researcher to interpret them in the context of philosophical and aesthetic thought of the East and the West both at the level of tradition and modernity. Such an interpretation of Dardmend’s creativity expands the idea of Dardmend as a poet. His creativity falls beyond the framework of romanticism or realism. The philosophy of existentialism, initially focused on the man, provides much for the interpretation of the world and man within it. The content of the article is further evidence of close relationship between philosophy and literature: on the one hand, the origins of the philosophical comprehension of many thinkers can largely be traced back to the philosophical significance of the artistic experience of literature, and on the other hand, philosophy itself has much to offer for understanding the artistic experience of literature.
Key words: philosophy, existentialism, poetry, the problem of the man, image, symbol, Oriental poetry, Sufism, the Word, the Silence.