FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING OF THE LEXEME ИКОНА (ICON) IN POETRY OF THE SILVER AGE

Abstract

The objective of the article is to analyze the functional and semantic features of the lexeme икона in the poetic texts of the Silver Age. The author refers to texts of A.A. Akhmatova, K.S. Balmont, A.A. Blok, V.Ya. Bryusov, M. Voloshin, Z. Gippius, S.M. Gorodetsky, M.A. Zenkevich, O.J. Mandelstam, D.S. Merezhkovsky, V.I. Narbut, I. Severyanin, F.K. Sologub, M.I. Tsvetaeva. The study uses general linguistic and stylistic methods. The analysis of poetic texts shows that the lexeme икона can realize a nominative meaning, can be semantically and aesthetically complicated, and also function figuratively (for example, realizing a metaphorical meaning). Semantic and aesthetic complication, as a rule, is caused by the aesthetic tasks of the authors. The most common way to complicate the lexeme икона in Silver Age poetry is to increment a temporal or spatial seme in a nuclear meaning, so the icon becomes a specific reference point in space and time.