FRIK, Armenian poet,  was born in 1230s. The main themes of his poems are national and social problems. His poems are singled out by social criticism..  The poems “Against Fate”, “About Arghun Khan and Buqa”, “About Frik's book” (“Complaint”), “About Daleh and Bourj” are the literary reflections of Mongolian reign. Frik considered “falak” (fate) to be not fair that makes ignorant, bad, stupid people rich and wise people unhappy. In his poem “Complaint” he disputes with God and notes that social deep contradictions betweenStatue of Frik in front of the Matenadaran. Architect-Suren Nazaryan. classes and living conditions are according to his will. However, at the end Frik accepts God’s will. Those 4 poems mentioned above makes Frik not only medieval but also one of the outstanding writers of the world literature. Thoughts of melancholy, religious and moral themes became dominant in his last poems. He praised the divine creation, speak about the conflict of soul and body, life in this World and the Next, atonement for sins, Doomsday. 

Frik’s poems are spontaneous, are singled out with the diversity of themes and expressive means, with beautiful and unique images, with the usage of folklore elements. He mainly used “hayren” versification. Frik died in 1310s.

Most of Frik’s poems were found, gathered and the critical originals were prepared for edition by Tirayr Vardapet. 

 

Source - "Who is Who. The Armenians" Encyclopedia, Volume I, chief-editor Hovh. Ayvazyan, Yerevan, 2007.

 

 

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