"UGRO": the specificity of the lyrical hero in the poetry of Oleg Grigoryev for adults

The aim of this work is to resolve a scholarly dispute regarding the applicability of the concept of "lyrical hero" to the poetry of Oleg Grigoryev for adults, using the analysis of a specific work as an example. Alternatively, it asks whether the author's creative output consists solely of masks of role-based lyricism. The subject of the research is primarily the structure of the illustrative poem "UGRO." This research is then related to a broad context of other texts by the author, which allows for an assessment of general patterns in Grigoryev's poetry. This enables the identification of a set of characteristics typical of the central heroes in those works of Grigoryev's adult poetry where the distance between the speaking subject and the implicit author is minimal. The analysis is based on the practice of "slow reading," examining the poem "UGRO" in terms of stylistics, motif systems, intertextual connections, composition, and semantic dynamics. To place the book in the context of other poems, a comparative analysis of the compositional and plot structure and the imagery of the central heroes is employed. The novelty of the research lies, first, in the fact that there have previously been no works dedicated to Grigoryev's poetry conducted in the traditional scholarly genre of "analysis of a single work," and second, in addressing the methodological problem faced by earlier researchers. The main conclusions of the research can be formulated as follows: the use of the concept of "lyrical hero" is quite justified, but only for a certain portion of Grigoryev's works. The main trait of such a hero, which aligns them with the implicit author, is the creative principle, which manifests in both the peculiarities of worldview and in the construction of speech. Identifying within the body of the author's adult poetry a number of poems with such a hero allows for a refinement of the understanding of the poet's artistic world: even within a reality filled with violence and absurdity of the "adult" world, there are rare instances where one can maintain a childlike, creative perspective—the main value of human existence.