Ideological and Artistic Parallels of “Khmbapet Shavarsh” and “Toward the Mount Masis” Poems by Y. Charents

The inner layers of the poems “Khmbapet Shavarsh” and “Toward the Mount Masis”, along with the structural nature and the nightly anxieties of the characters identify with the haunting commonality of doubt, thus becoming the core of the poems. The characters of both poems (a soldier and an intellectual) are troubled by the “lead present”. They seek the reasons for their anxiety over the unseeable future in the past. They are the manifestations of the author’s ideological anxieties and doubts. The poems originate from an inner struggle that raged throughout the years. If “Wound of Armenia” was Abovyan's heart and soul, for Y. Charents the quest of even a small chance to put the shaky future of his people on solid foundations was a lifelong goal. The generations succeeding Charents should recognize that the existential salvation of the nation lies in the collective power, that they must keep the generation, the “seed” of the future pure: those are the bitter, onerous but healing messages bequeathed by Charents. The dawn is a character, changing its course by minute, a thread that makes us live. In “Khmbapet Shavarsh” the heavy steps of the night leading to the dawn are filled with anxious anticipation. In the poem “Toward the Mount Masis” even if the dawn does not show a way out, does not open the door to a dreamed salvation, it at least dispels the night thoughts that oppress the heart and shifts into the symbol that the souls maimed by doubt and lurking in the dark abyss of dubiety are longing for. Charents does not prescribe a way to salvation, but he regards the mission of carrying the torch of faith and hope above the heads of the people as the spiritual foundation for defying desolation.