Abstract: Yevgeny Onegin,as a classical narrative pattern of Russian literature,has always been a key research object in academia.However,there were few studies analyzing such pattern from the viewpoint of mythopoeia.According to the theory of contradiction analysis and mythological archetypes,the author figures out the“unchanged”mythological thinking and the“changing”narrative plot of the love story in Yevgeny Onegin accord with the law of unity and struggle of opposites,which constitutes a paradoxical archetype.The author observes that such archetype of contradiction in Yevgeny Onegin is reflected in 20th century narrative of love stories.In addition,in accordance with the Northrop Frye’ theory of myths,the general evolution of narratives of Russian love stories in the 19th and 20th centuries follows the law of cyclic evolution of myths,that is,the cycle of the seasons,which reflects the changes in the Russian nation’s cognition of love in the above two centuries,which conforms to the evolution law of love narrative from the golden age to the silver age,the bronze age to the black iron age,and is also a process of changes in the humanistic connotation embodied behind national love.Therefore, the changeable Russian nation’s constant love cultural thinking can be grasped from the perspective of mythological poetics.

Key words: love narrative, paradoxical archetype, mythological poetics, cultural thinking, humanistic connotation