Keyword: «requiem»

The article describes the development of the requiem genre in music and literature. The relevance of the study is determined by the increasing role of military poetry in the formation of personality morals. The purpose of the study is to trace the stylistic and compositional patterns of the of the requiem genre realization in military lyrics using cultural-historical and comparative approaches on the example of the poem by Yu. V. Drunina “Zinka”. The requiem genre is a synthetic genre of music and poetic art, but literary figures applied the term “requiem” to their works. The features of the non-canonical funeral Mass, identified in the poem by Yu. V. Drunina “Zinka”, allow us to conclude about the peculiar form of the requiem genre in literature, apart from the musical work accompanying, according to tradition, the text of the prayer. The theoretical significance of the study consists in describing the peculiarities of the genre, as well as the degree of its implementation in a particular work. The practical significance of the article lies in the literary analysis of the poem by Yu. V. Drunina “Zinka” from the point of view of its assignment to the genre of requiem.