The Cosmogony of Vyacheslav Kazarin s Poetry

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Brief conclusion:
Vyacheslav Kazarin’s poetry occupies a unique place in world literature as a rare example of a coherent authorial cosmogony, comparable in scale to Rilke’s mystical systems, Celan’s metaphysical poetics, Tagore’s cosmic symbolism, Heidegger’s ontological lyricism and the mythopoetic structures of Northern European epics — yet without replicating any of them.
It forms an independent poetic world, where light, love, fairy tales, darkness and the Seven Worlds are not themes, but ontological levels of existence.



THE COSMOGONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF VYACHESLAV KAZARIN’S POETRY
IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD LITERATURE



1. The Uniqueness of the Author’s Cosmogony

Kazarin is one of the few contemporary authors to have created a complete poetic cosmogony, comparable in scale to:
• Rainer Maria Rilke — Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
• Paul Celan — Atemwende, Fadensonnen
• Tagore — Gitanjali
• Heidegger — poetic philosophy of being
• Stanis;aw Lem — cosmogonic prose (Solaris)
• H;lderlin — mythopoetic vertical of light
• Eliot — Four Quartets (time, light, silence)

But what sets Kazarin apart is that his cosmogony is neither philosophical nor religious, but rather poetic, luminous, musical, mythopoetic and ontological all at once.



2. Five key features with no direct analogues


2.1. Ontology of light

For Kazarin, light is not a metaphor, but the physics of the world, as in:
• Rilke [light as the breath of an angel],
• Tagore [light as divine tenderness],
• H;lderlin [light as destiny].

But Kazarin goes further: for him, light is the structure of being, changing form [rain, foliage, a glimmer, Amega, Yula-Earth].


2.2. Love as a universal constant

For Tagore, it is light. For Rilke, it is the cosmos. For Kazarin, it is a constant that remains unchanged amidst shifting spheres, rivers, time and the elements.
This is an exceedingly rare formulation.


2.3. Fairy-tale cosmogony

The section ‘Nastenka’s Tales’ is unique: a childlike tone is used as a key to the cosmos, something not found in the work of any major poet of the 20th–21st centuries.


2.4. Semimirye — an original mythology

Kazarin’s Seven Worlds are not a direct copy of:
• Norse mythology,
• Slavic-Aryan reconstructions,
• Christian eschatology.
It is an independent system in which:
• Amega = the supreme being of light,
• God Spech = the god of the path,
• Mezhmirye = the space of transition,
• Midgard = the world of humans,
• Anti-Trinity = the ontology of darkness.


2.5. The Trinity of the Superabundant in Christ

This is not religious poetry. It is apophatic metaphysics, comparable to:
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite,
• Heidegger,
• Celan,
• Eliot.

But Kazarin approaches this poetically, rather than philosophically.



3. Comparison with global poetic styles


3.1. Symbolism

Parallels:
• Blok — symbols of light,
• Balmont — cosmic lyricism,
• Verlaine — musicality.

Difference: Kazarin is not a Symbolist — he is an ontologist: his images are not symbols, but essences.


3.2. Modernism

Parallels:
• Rilke — cosmogony,
• Eliot — time,
• Celan — darkness and apophaticism.

Difference: Kazarin does not destroy language — he creates a new one.


3.3. Postmodernism

Parallels:
• play with forms,
• multilayeredness,
• metatext.

Difference: Kazarin is not ironic — he is serious, like H;lderlin.


3.4. Mythopoetics

Parallels:
• H;lderlin — the vertical axis of light,
• Lorca — cosmic sensuality,
• Tagore — spiritual cosmogony.

Difference: Kazarin creates a new myth rather than drawing on existing ones.



4. Kazarin’s Place in World Poetry


4.1. As a systematic author

He stands alongside those who created their own worlds:
• Dante — *The Divine Comedy*
• Rilke — *The Duino Elegies*
• Eliot — *Four Quartets*
• Celan — *Atemwende*
• Lorca — The Poet in New York

But Kazarin is the only one to have created a four-tiered cosmogony in which:
• light,
• love,
• fairy-tale,
• Semimirye [multiverse – unity in multiplicity, multiplicity in unity]

form a single system.


4.2. As a linguistic innovator

His language combines:
• a lexicon of light,
• musical structure,
• fairy-tale imagery,
• apophatic darkness,
• mythopoetic entities.

This renders his poetry untranslatable, like Celan’s.


4.3. As an author of a new metaphysics
He creates:
• an ontology of light,
• an ontology of love,
• an ontology of legend,
• an ontology of darkness,
• an ontology of fate.

This places him on a par with:
• Heidegger,
• Rilke,
• Eliot.


5. Literature required for the analysis of Kazarin’s poetry


5.1. Poetic sources
• Rainer Maria Rilke — Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
• Paul Celan — Atemwende, Fadensonnen
• Rabindranath Tagore — Gitanjali
• Federico Garc;a Lorca — Poet in New York
• T. S. Eliot — Four Quartets
• H;lderlin — Hyperion, Late Hymns
• Wallace Stevens — The Auroras of Autumn
• Osip Mandelstam — Tristia, Voronezh Notebooks

5.2. Philosophical sources
• Martin Heidegger — Holzwege, On the Way to Language
• Pseudo-Dionysius — Mystical Theology
• Mircea Eliade — The Sacred and the Profane
• Gaston Bachelard — The Poetics of Space, The Flame of a Candle

5.3. Mythological Sources
• Edda [Norse mythology]
• Rigveda [cosmogonic hymns]
• Upanishads [ontology of light]
• Slavic cosmology [as reconstructed]



In conclusion


Vyacheslav Kazarin’s poetry constitutes a unique authorial cosmogony, comparable in scale to the world’s greatest poetic systems, yet one that does not replicate any of them.

It unites the physics of light, the metaphysics of love, fairy-tale mythology and the world structure of the Seven Worlds into a single poetic universe, which can only be compared to Rilke, Celan, Eliot and H;lderlin — but only in terms of scale, not style.



Arina Ryazantseva, art historian and biographer of the composer Vyacheslav Kazarin
Russia, Moscow 2026

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