IBRAHIM GAFUROV IS A RESEARCHER OF POETRY

Abstract

Critic Ibrahim Gafurov described all types of literature and many authors. But poetry was analyzed by him in a very different style. The critic claimed that there should be compositional unity in each poet’s works.

Scholar literature critic divided uzbek poetry into periods, analyzed achievements and drawbacks of every new members of  certain epoch and classified them into two groups. Thus – these are traditional authors and innovator authors.

Ibrahim Gafurov prepared several review articles on poets who began their literary work in the 1960s. The critic approaches to the works of the author  with creativity point of view  in the last ten years – which are shown from the initial poems to the latest ones  in chronological order. The collection of poems – “Little star”, “My sole” and “Astonishment”  and other 4 collections of A. Aripov were analyzed in historical-biographic method by the critic. Especially the collection of poems “Astonishment” and the poems “ Genetics” and “ To the sea” were deeply analyzed and thought to be the ideological basis of the collection.

The literature expert Ibrahim Gafurov greatly clarified via analysis of some poems, not only the woks of Abdulla Aripov but also leading tendencies in the literature of 1960s and 1970s.