The Marsiya Genre in New Uzbek Poetry

This paper will provide an analysis of the formation, evolution and aesthetic features o f the marsīya (elegy) in modern Uzbek poetry. Marsiya, in the Indian subcontinent, is a poem written to commemorate the death of a great and eminent person. Based on text and comparative or contrastive method, the article studies how personal grief, social fact and national consciousness can be expressed in elegiac poems. Of particular note are the elegies of Cho‘lpon and Shuhrat, which show how the genre moved from classical lamentation to a modern literary vehicle charged with symbolic resonance, emotional depth, and social significance. The study shows that the structure of mourning and lamentation in new Uzbek poetry breathed life into marsiya turning it into an interpretative possibility to be engaged at a more complex level, as vehicle for philosophical thought, social critic, guardian of the cultural memor.