POEMS IN PROSE IN THE OSSETIAN LITERATURE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XX CENTURY: GENRE IDENTIFICATION

The article makes an attempt to determine the genre of the works of Ossetian writers, which they rank as prose poems. The presence of a small volume, lyrical beginning, as well as the characteristic compositional completeness, dynamism and emotionality of the narrative make it possible to attribute most of the analyzed works to the genre in question. A structural analysis of works of art showed that some of them gravitated more towards parables or fables, since they contained a didactic aspect (Ts. Gadiev). Other analyzed works of art are close in content to landscape sketches (S. Gadiev), a meditation poem (Ts. Gadiev), lyric miniatures (Dz. Gatuev, Niger (I. Dzhanaev), a message poem (H. Kaloev), a poem - confession (H. Kaloev), a farewell poem (H. Kaloev), a mandate poem (H. Kaloev). In the first-person narrative, the lyrical beginning of prose poems is manifested. The combination of lyricism with a prosaic way of conveying artistic reality is also characteristic of the creative method of Ossetian authors. The article also analyzes the pictorial and expressive aspect of the works, which plays an important role in revealing the ideological meaning of poems; emphasizes the identification of the figurative system with the inner world of the lyric hero. The lexical and syntactic means of artistic expression used reflect the deep feelings and thoughts of the lyrical hero, assess the depicted. The formal features of the analyzed prose poems are most often represented by simple sentences that give the narration a special dynamism.