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VOLUME
Vol.05 Issue05 2025
PAGE NO.
148-150
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Reflection of
The Lyrical Hero’s Personality
in Abdulla
Oripov’s Poems
on The Theme of Mother
Uljon Boboqulovа Suvonovna
PhD student Alisher Navo’i Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Liteature, Uzbekistan
Received:
18 March 2025;
Accepted:
14 April 2025;
Published:
16 May 2025
Abstract:
This article analyzes the poet's poems that reflect his prolonged state of depression and melancholy.
The tragic event that occurred in the poet's life found its artistic expression in the poems "Mother Dear" and "On
My Mother's Death." In these poems, the poet and the poetic image achieve harmony, as real events are
transformed into artistic reality. The truth of life is elevated to the level of poetic truth. Along with the image of
the mother, the article also examines the nature of the lyrical hero.
Keywords:
Mother's image, psychobiographical analysis, poet's personality, lyrical tragedy, death, regret, longing.
Introduction:
In poetry, themes are not chosen or
sought after. They are born. And when born, they come
with such pain that one must write about them. Their
father is inspiration, their mother is the heart, their
midwife is the pen, and their cradle is white paper. The
poet gently takes this newborn, searches for a name for
its nameless pain, whispers a divine word in its ear,
sometimes... True lyricism is born in this way and
experiences its own destiny. Indeed, as poet Abdulla
Oripov put it: "Inspiration is both anguish and tragedy.
What stirs the soul can be called both anguish and
tragedy; it cuts through a person's soul and throws
them off balance."[1] One of the works born as a result
of such inspiration and sealed for eternity is Abdulla
Oripov's poem "Mother."
Literature review
"When can the sky of poetry shine? Only after a
thunderstorm, after a sharp conflict"[2], says Johannes
Becher. In 1742, the wife and adopted daughter of
Edward Young, a representative of English sentimental
literature, passed away. After this, he fell into a
completely despondent mood. Naturally, this mood
began to be reflected in his work. The poem "Night
Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality," written by
the poet between 1742 and 1745, is a product of this
very mood. Similarly, Dante Alighieri, the founder of
European Renaissance literature, after the death of his
pure love Beatrice, immersed himself entirely in
philosophy, and this state is reflected in his later works.
A similar phenomenon can be observed in the work of
Josef Schilling: after the death of his beautiful beloved
Augusta Beler from an infectious disease, Schilling,
deeply grieved by this loss, channeled all his pain into
creativity and produced his famous research. In the
article "Interpretations of Regret" by Professor Uzoq
Jurakulov on this topic, the poem "Mother" was studied
from the point of view of the analysis of the motifs of
longing and regret (2005). The scholar Adiba Davlatova
presented her scientific views on this topic in her
dissertation "The Evolution of Poetic Thinking in
Abdulla Oripov's Poetry," prepared for the degree of
Doctor of Philological Sciences (DSc) (2021).
METHODOLOGY
The article analyzes poet Abdulla Oripov's poems
"Mother" and "On my mother's death" in connection
with the poet's personality. The nature of the lyrical
hero and the image of the mother are examined from
psychobiographical and linguistic perspectives. The
poet's biography is studied as a means of revealing the
key characteristics of the mother figure portrayed in
the poems.
RESULTS
The poem "Mother" by Abdulla Oripov, which we are
analyzing, was also born, in Becher's words, after such
a powerful "thunderstorm," and perhaps it would not
be an exaggeration to say it emerged from "traces left
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by the thunderstorm. "The poem was first published in
the 7th issue of "Saodat" magazine in 1968, at the
initiative of Zulfiyakhanum (Appendix 1). The story
behind the creation of the poet's "Mother" poem
involuntarily reminds us of the tragic circumstances
that led to the writing of Rasul Hamzatov's poem
"Protect the mothers" "I wrote this (the poem
'Mother') over a long period. I don't need to describe
my emotional state on that day. Unfortunately, no
household is immune to such misfortune. Of course, in
time, such an event will happen with either the father
or mother of every person. Therefore, one should not
think that this grief is unique to oneself"[3], Abdulla
Oripov said in one of his conversations. Indeed, the
grief of death affects everyone equally. The grief of
death became a source of spiritual anguish and
inspiration for poets. In our opinion, this poem can be
called an elegy. As Ozod Sharafiddinov acknowledged,
the elegy ranks among Mozart's "Requiem" in terms of
its power to influence the human psyche and
consciousness. Elegies dedicated to mothers are even
more elevated - mixed with divine longing.
You are nowhere to be found, where shall I search
for you now?
To whom shall I express my lament, to whom shall I
speak of you?
I once cried out in mourning for others,
For you, oh my forlorn one, I shall weep from the
depths of my soul.[4]
In the above quatrain, the profound anguish of a young
man who has lost his mother flows through the stream
of consciousness. The word " unfortunate" in the
"Explanatory Dictionary of the Uzbek Language"[5] is
defined as helpless, lonely, traveler, poor, unattractive,
and so on. In the "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Religious
Studies"[6], it is given as a type of verse or hadith,
meaning "far from those close to you." A hadith states,
"One day, the Messenger of Allah placed his blessed
hands on Ibn Umar's (r.a.) shoulder and said: 'Live in
this world either as a stranger or as a traveler'"[7]. In
this hadith, it is also used to mean being far from loved
ones - a traveler. The poet's skill is evident in how he
addresses his deceased mother with the epithet "my
stranger," implying she is now far from her loved ones.
When the word "bo'zlamoq" - meaning "to cry loudly,
wail, lament, weep bitterly" - is used in the first person
"I," it reflects the intensely agonizing and tragic state of
the lyrical hero in a specific reality.
Abdulla Oripov's poem "Onajon" (Dear Mother),
written under the influence of such a tragic situation, is
considered a complete compositional poem with
separate plot lines, consisting of three sections (each
section composed of ten stanzas). In each section, the
biographical, psychological, and everyday situations of
the lyrical hero and the image of the mother in a
specific reality are distinct from each other while
simultaneously achieving a higher unity. In the first
stanzas of all sections, the poet's tragic memories and
regrets of the past (a recent dream-like event and the
state of his mother's illness before her death) are fully
described, while the subsequent stanzas relate to the
poet's sweet memories and dreams of the future. The
first part begins as follows:
For days I've had no peace
I cannot come to my senses.
My dear mother, at night
Comes and goes in my dreams
In the dream motif, "white fan," "moonlight," "cradle,"
and "coffin" serve as the main symbolic details. Artistic
elements such as the "white fan" and "moonlight" act
as harbingers of paradise and possess symbolic
characteristics. White symbolizes purity and clean
dreams, while the fan represents a means of
protection. The moon, from a mythological
perspective, symbolizes a virgin girl[8], whereas in
modern literature, it serves as a symbol of women.
Dreams are an inherited phenomenon from Adam
(peace be upon him). When Eve was being created,
Adam (peace be upon him) was asleep, and this is
considered the first instance of dreaming. Allah
bestowed upon Yusuf (peace be upon him) the ability
to correctly interpret dreams. When Yusuf (peace be
upon him) recounted his dreams to his father Ya'qub
(peace be upon him), his father replied: "Just as (you
saw in your dream), your Lord will choose you and
teach you the interpretation of narratives (dreams or
divine scriptures)..." [Surah Yusuf, verse 6]. In our
opinion, the true essence of his mother bringing a
cradle in his dream is the manifestation of the
unfulfilled wishes and desires of a mother who has
departed from the eternal realm to this mortal world.
Regarding the coffin, there are certain events related to
the poet's biography that seem impossible not to
mention. Rukhsora Oripova, the daughter of poet
Abdulla Oripov, recalls: "After hearing about my
grandmother's (his mother's) illness, my father
(Abdulla Oripov) took a two-day leave and went to the
village. After spending two days with his sick mother,
he had to return to Tashkent due to unavoidable work
commitments. On his way back to Tashkent, he had a
dream on the train: in his dream, my grandmother (his
mother) was sailing away somewhere on a ship.
Remarkably, as soon as my father got off the train,
news arrived that his mother had passed away. After
this, he immediately returned to Kashkadarya - to the
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village. When he arrived, everything was prepared;
they were just waiting for father: they wanted him to
say his final goodbyes. After that, my late grandmother
was suddenly placed in the coffin"[9]. Critic Adiba
Davlatova, analyzing the poem "Remembrance of the
Departed," writes: "A ship is essentially a means of
transport from one destination to another. However,
the scholar emphasizes, "When the poet openly writes
that its waves leap not to the shore, but to the blue sky,
he alludes to it being a ship of death"[10]. The lines
"The coffin is handed to my arms" can be explained by
that event.
CONCLUSION
In summary, it can be said that the painful events that
occurred in the poet's life, which have not yet been
forgotten, continue to wander in his consciousness and
are not yet ready to retreat to the subconscious. This
difficult mental state manifests itself repeatedly in
various forms through both conscious and unconscious
experiences, as well as in dreams that blur the line
between sleep and wakefulness. We can assert that
this has caused the poet's suffering to intensify further.
Indeed, since "Lyric poetry is a verbal expression of a
person's inner world," the poet depicts his specific
state and spiritual image at a particular moment in time
in each of his poems. If we say that a person's life path
consists of a collection of countless points, then a poem
is the linguistic seal of a single point. That's why many
poets, when writing their biographies, conclude by
saying, "You'll find the rest in my poems." After all, the
poet's true biography is in his poems"[11].
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