The article aims to compare two classic poems in Russian poetry under the same name - «The Prophet» by A.S.Pushkin (1826) and «The Prophet» by M.Yu. Lermontov (1841). The author agrees with the point of view that Ler- montov's poem mainly represents a continuation and development of the intellectual and spiritual essence of Pushkin's artistic ideas. Pushkin's poem endues the Poet with the role of Mediator conveying God's will to the Man, and God calls up the new Prophet to «burn human hearts» with His fiery words. The author objects against the traditional interpreta- tion of Lermontov's lyrical hero image as a mocked Prophet , asserting that the very idea in the poem is based on the paradigm false prophecy - returning to the Origin.
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