Singing heart of the Kazakh people

Abstract

The creative activity of Abai Kunanbayev, a famous representative of Kazakh literature and a thinker-poet of the Turkish world, is discussed in this article The exceptional poet's contributions to the development of Azerbaijan-Kazakh literary ties, the formation of excellent Abai studies in Azerbaijan in the XX century, and the parallels between the two brother nations' literatures are also explored. The perfect science of Abai studies in Azerbaijan developed in the XX century. According to that science, Abai mostly wrote in folk poetry genre. Abai’s writing style has deep poetics and aesthetics. Especially, the main content of his works is about the East, as well as love, affection in the Turkish literature. Abai Kunanbayev glorifies the love being the greatest feeling gifted by God to the man in a sincere, meaningful way. Some lines written by Abai are laconic and pithy and sound like aphorism. For all these merits, Abai Kunanbayev achieved to be thinker-poet of Kazakhstan and whole Turkish world, a singing heart of the Kazakh people and all Turks.

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