The first chapter of the dissertation analyzes the novelty of Shakarim’s poetry. The second chapter deals with his poetical world. The third chapter discloses the role of spiritual values Shakarim’s poetry. The analysis of Shakarim’s creative activity makes up the most significant part (the core) of the research.
The second chapter of the dissertation is devoted to Shakarim’s poetical world. His verses, poems, edifications have created a new trend and distinctive style in Kazakh poetry. The research shows poetic skill, literary beauty, the depth of the poet’s creative philosophical thought. These qualities are depicted in most of his works as a unity. Shakarim’s poetic peculiarity includes the harmonious combination of the Eastern and Western schools and samples with the traditional school of Kazakh poetry.
The ideas, contents and poetic expressive means used in Shakarim’s poetry meet the requirements of Abai’s poetical school. Shakarim’s outlook, his views are the logical continuation of Abai’s poetry. At the same time Kazakh poetical art is enriched with new forms, word combinations and song patterns. The versatile beauty of Kazakh poetry is exposed in Shakarim’s creative activity in full.
The third chapter deals with the role of spiritual values in Shakarim’s poetry. The poet-thinker solves the problem of relations between the man society and God, Creator in his own way. They are depicted trough the use of new nations, new systems of thinking, terms, literary devices and figures of speech.
Solving the problem of life and death, soul and body, knowledge and morality in his own way Shakarim demonstrates the creation of a new philosophically - religious and socially-moral poetry. It is deep in meaning. There are a lot of symbols and categories, one can find the mystery of aims and intentions.
Shakarim writes a lot about the role of “love” in personal life.
Love and generosity of a righteous man, a true man are measured by his love for the Creator (Жаратушы) . It is this sincere love that proves to be the moral and spiritual force which makes both the personality and the whole society as well as the nation noble.
The theme of a man and personality is a priority theme in Shakarim’s poetry. Kindness and compassion, aspiration for activity and good knowledge, for creative actions can be cultivated in the poet’s opinion, on the basis of such categories as “honor” (ap), “intellect” (aқыл), “good will” (ақ ниет), “conscience” (ынсап), “kindness” (рақым), “contentment”(қанағат), “labor” (еңбек), “open-heartedness” (ақ жүрек). Just these traits help to form “the righteous man”, “the person of full value”. The most important problem on the planet of person socialization is solved by Shakarim through the beauty of Kazakh poetry. The poet achieves deep psychologism in the depiction of relations between the man and the nature.
Striving for God, knowledge and labor, a man becomes a bearer of morality and humaneness. Shakarim tackles profound problems of world comprehension and world perception by using different poetical forms and devices.
The concluding part sums up the results of the research work and gives conclusions on the problems under study. Distinctive features, peculiarities of Shakarim’s poetry are analyzed from the position of contemporary literature study.
The results of the dissertation can be used in the university courses of Kazakh literature and scientific investigation of poetry.