Artistic features of folklore traditions in the works of the Bashkir poets-enlighteners of the 19th century M. Akmulla and M. Umetbaev

The relevance of the problem under consideration in the article is the analysis of the creative peculiarities of the Bashkir poets-educators of the 19th century Miftikhetdin Akmulla and Mukhametsalim Umetbaev, who turned to the folk traditions. With their progressive activities and bright poetic works, they brought light to people, called on them to master knowledge and become an advanced man of their people.
The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze folklore traditions in the work of these poets, for which the task is solved: using the case of poems to demonstrate the features of the artistic use of the folklore traditions identified in their work. The research method was comparative, analytical methods of analysis.
As a result, it was found that Akmulla and M. Umetbaev enriched their poems, appeals, messages – hitaps – with the traditions of Bashkir oral folk art, wrote in their native Bashkir language, which made them closer to common people. By this, their works were of the folk nature and expressed the dreams, hopes and aspirations of people. As a conclusion, it was found, in particular, that in their work poets most often turned to proverbs and sayings, which were often gleaned not only from the lips of the people, but also created by them; they turned to the ritual folklore of the Bashkirs and described one of the most colorful scenes of the national wedding in the poetic form. The study of the work of Bashkir poets and writers in this vein will allow in the future to reveal more deeply the poetic originality of their works, in which folklore traditions were used for certain artistic purposes.

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