Poetics of abaza lyrics of the post-war time

The article, based on extensive empirical material, examines the expressive elements of Abaza poetry of the late 1940s and 1950s. It presents in detail the functions of the epithets “tlash” (strong, powerful), “lashara” (bright), “tsri” (native), elements of color painting (“golden ray”, “white spring”, “blue May”), comparative phrases (“soul-like”, “eye-like”, correlation of various phenomena of Soviet reality with steel), tracings of Russian poetic formulas and phraseological units (“iron horse”, “steppe ship”, “guiding star”, “dove of peace”, “warmongers”), metaphors with ideological and political underpinnings, hyperbole as one of the main instruments of artistic re-creation of the world, the semantic image of the red banner, motives for building communism and the struggle for peace; Neologisms were identified (“arkъagIagIvchva” - those who make blossom; “nasyprkhardzhyyrta” – production of happiness; “amshpkhadzagIv” – calendar, “Abazashta” - Abazinia), examples of figurative parallelism, lexical ring, aesthetic functions of various interjections. All observations are supported by pertinent scientific comments and conclude with general conclusions.