Abstract:
The Eternal Face with its high artistry, spirituality, ability to transcend
the boundaries of epochs and national cultures and function for a long
time, with its polyvalence, content capacity, inexhaustibility of thought and
meaning, eternal topicality, capacity to blend in the changing environment
and still preserve its authentic identity, the ability to be employed in other
forms of art, the wide area of its spread, with its interpretive tradition,
marking and many other features is a unique phenomenon.
The Eternal Face may have a mythological, folk, religious, legendary,
historical and literary origin. The Eternal faces are involved in numerous
social practices including those that are far removed from artistic creation.
However, their special charm is attributed to art and literature.
To prove how fruitfully they function, how they display their epoch
or cultural-aesthetic values, how they maintain relevance, how easily they
move from epoch to epoch, from country to country, how flexible, polyvalent
the Eternal Faces are, we will use the Eternal Faces of Shakespearean
Ophelia and Hamlet in two poems: Galaktion Tabidze’s “Hamlet with the
Lyre” and Anna Akhmatova “Reading Hamlet”.
Galaktion’s poem paraphrases Shakespeare’s famous work. The feelings
and tragedy of the lyrical hero are conveyed in a highly artistic form.
Anna Akhmatova masterfully, but at the same time, with a poetic simplicity
presented the Shakespearean motif and simultaneously generalized her
personal pain.