Fairy tail topics in Abay Kunanbayev’s poems

Abstract

One of the great figures of literature of the XIX century Kazakh people was Abay Kunanbayev. The master who created a civilization in the life of the people tried to move them off the aul culture, brought enlightenment into the aul life and struggled for the sake of this purpose along his all life. Abay described the events from the social life of his people, and saw the progress of the nation in science and education.
The poet using the sources of creativity paid great attention to the thinking of the people. If the one side of this source was linked to the national memory of the Kazakh people, the other side was originated in the oriental literature. The poet who referred to the memory code saved the belief, religions, life, legends and stories reflected early views of primitive human in the process of understanding the world in his mind, and then attracted the attention of his readers. The folklore samples which were attached to the genetic memory of the poet allowed him to use them in his creativity. Abay having deep genetic memory created fundamental works by using continuous transmission function of genetic code. His poems with a plot remain in memory with folklore motives.

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