SEARCH FOR THE LOST PARADISE AND AKAKI’S SULIKO

Abstract

This paper presents a new interpretation of the research of a well-known poem “Suliko” by genius Georgian poet Akaki Tsereteli. When working on the report I used hermeneutic and comparative research methods, in addition with text analysis and synthesis. My conclusion is the continuation of Akaki Bakradze’s and Amiran Gomarteli’s literary-critical dialectic line, however, looking deeper into the text, I also noticed different contexts. I believe that in Suliko, the main line is based on the Kingdom of the Lord, “the Lost Paradise” and search for and finding it. The beloved is the Lord and his grave is the Eden closed and buried for the humankind. As for the literary and Christian Orthodox Trinity of Star- Rose-Nightingale, I believe, these symbols should not be construed as unambiguous and linear; that it is either a blasphemy or deeply religious text? My answer is that none of those. Akaki is a great poet, with all his high aesthetic feelings and full of subconscious, illogical, Hadesian emotions of writing. His Suliko is associated with the spirituality, soul, Lord, universe and cognition of the Lord in the universe.