“On Stone, Iron and Gold...”: Maxim Tank’s poetry as a conceptual and artistic phenomenon

The creative path of Maxim Tank as well as the ideological and artistic specificity and system-modular foundations of his poetry are analyzed in the article. The author notes the appeal of the early M. Tank to the principles of the original folk worldview, the so-called participatory thinking, the folklore-demonological experience of the individual, peasant pedagogy with its subtle and hard agricultural calendar, emphasizes the philosophical and analytical nature, humanistic content and socio-patriotic pathos of his mature work period.

The article reveals the dominant characteristics of the national genetic code of M. Tank’s creativity, comprehends the problem of poetization of the great attraction of the primordial earthly foundations of human existence, unflagging ties with the Motherland, its spiritual and material traditions and values. The author emphasizes the socio-moral content and spiritual and philosophical integrity of the poet’s lyrical hero, who deeply revealed a sense of national and human dignity and was characterized by inner nobility and spiritual and human beauty.

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