Summary
Tovmas G. Poghosyan
Jivani refers to the questions concerning the liberation of the Armenian people not only in allegoric form typical for the ashug poetry, for example as the famous song which begins with the words “The unlucky days…”, but he also wrote a series of works dedicated to the heroes of liberation struggle in the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century and Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Transcaucasia in 1905-1906.,
The above-mentioned works’ structure is based on national-political generalizations expressed in poetical compositions. Conditioned by this circumstance, Jivani’s works have on one hand important literary-social meaning and on the other hand, they have some value of documents and historical primary sources put in poetical form, as they have some information about events and social figures of that time.
Jivani refers to the questions concerning the liberation of the Armenian people not only in allegoric form typical for the ashug poetry, for example as the famous song which begins with the words “The unlucky days…”, but he also wrote a series of works dedicated to the heroes of liberation struggle in the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century and Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Transcaucasia.
The above-mentioned works’ structure is based on national-political generalizations expressed in poetical compositions. Conditioned by this circumstance, Jivani’s works have on one hand important literary-social meaning and on the other hand, they have some value of documents and historical primary sources put in poetical form, as they have some information about events and social figures of that time.