LOVE STANZAS IN SOGI’S POEM

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the work of Iyo Soga, the author of “connected stanzas” (renga). The ways of presenting love lyrics in the poem Sogi dokugin nanihito hyakuin (One hundred stanzas of the poet Sogi, 1499) are highlighted. The issues of the influence of the previous classical literature on the poet’s work, the specifics of intra-literary continuity in the history of medieval Japanese verse are discussed. The implicit meanings of love stanzas are revealed. Precedent texts with which the stanzas of the poem establish associative links are found. Intertextuality acts as the meaning-forming beginning of renga poetry.