This article is devoted to the lexical and semantic analysis of floral imagery in the poetry of the famous 16th-century French poet Pierre de Ronsard. The work applies a historical approach to the analysis of poems, taking into account the era in which the works were created and the events of that time. The poetic legacy of the famous 16th-century French poet Pierre de Ronsard is dominated by themes of the transience of time, farewell to youth, and the withering of the human body. These themes further develop Horace's carpe diem motif. Images of flowers, especially roses, are of exceptional importance in revealing the poet's state of mind. In his literary work, Pierre de Ronsard uses the lexeme ‘rose’ and its derivatives more than seven hundred times. However, from a rhetorical point of view, this repeated use does not constitute an extended metaphor. Rather, it is an antanaclasis, since in Ronsard's poetic text the word ‘rose’ has many different meanings. The analysis shows that in Ronsard's poetry, images of flowers have a high semantic load. In Ronsard's poetic world, the rose is often endowed with anthropomorphic features. 145 Sometimes the images of the girl and the rose merge and are contrasted with the lyrical hero. The rose metaphor also creates a magical world around the poet's beloved. The rose metaphor also appears in the context of the theme of Spring and conveys the process of the birth of love. At the same time, it coexists with the theme of death, reflecting the relationship between the state of the soul and body of the poet in love. In some of the poet's works, the symbol of the rose often signifies not physical death, but rather the ‘death of feeling,’ when the lover ceases to strive for the object of his love. Pierre de Ronsard's works, in which images of roses appear, reflect the Renaissance's characteristic focus on the themes of the inexorable passage of time, the transience of beauty, and the inevitability of human death.
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