THE COMPLEX OF “WATER” IMAGES AND MOTIVES IN THE M.A. VOLOSHIN’S POETIC CYCLE “CIMMERIAN SPRING”

Abstract

The article presents the main results of the researching of the architectonics of the natural landscape in the poetic cycle of M.A. Voloshin “Cimmerian Spring”. A significant part of this publication is the work on the interpretation of poetry. It is found that the natural elements that construct the landscape are included in the image of the world through indirect attributes, and their fundamental properties are not realized. The focus of this publication is on aquatic imagery and motives. It has been also found that water in Voloshin’s Cimmerian texts in the process of artistic meaning formation has lost the property of liquidity, but acquired qualities inherent in other natural elements. Among the poetic works of the cycle “Cimmerian Spring”, such texts were selected where deformations in the structure of water images and motives are most fully realized. The natural landscape in Cimmerian texts is researched both as an image of space, and as a detailed metaphor for various non-material structures – such is, for example, the image of time. The construction of the landscape by means of “deformed” components has become a way of translating complex emotional states of the lyrical subject.