A MOTHER OF A DEAD CHILD IN FOLK AND FICTION ("A POEM OF A TIGER AND A NIGHT", "A DREAM OF ZARZMA")

Abstract

The face of a mother of a dead child is quite common in Georgian literature. However, a parent who can express her condolences to another mother or cry like her own child is quite rare. In this regard, we selected the ideal-themed aspects of the texts of two works: the folk ballad “A Poem of a Tiger and a Night" and Grigol Abashidze's poem "A Dream of Zarzma".

The paper discusses the second part of the ballad, which includes the feelings of the mother of a dead child. The feelings in the fiction text ­of Gr. Abashidze's poem "A Dream of Zarzma” found a different solution:  imaginary placement of one mother in another unknown mourning mother and mourning of an unknown soldier.

Such a solution to the poem story is more or less related to the topic of those soldiers who were returning home at the end of World War II. The opinion of the researchers on this issue is quite scarce, so on the contrary of the rather "odious" assessment of Soviet literary scholars, we tried to study what links the excerpt from the folk ballad to Gr. Abashidze's poem "A Dream of Zarzma”.

Key words: A knight, a tiger, a mother of a dead child, a dream, mourning, Goletian.