THE SEMANTICS OF ORNITHOLOGICAL IMAGES IN RUSSIAN POETRY OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY |
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| 2026 |
| scientific article | 821.161.1 | ||
| 72-83 | русская поэзия, поэтическая семантика, птица – alter ego поэта, Пушкин, лирика, образ орла., Russian poetry, poetic semantics, bird – the poet, ', s alter ego, Pushkin, lyrics, image of the eagle. |
| The significance of the eagle image as an alter ego of the poet in Pushkin's poetry has been repeatedly noted, but without considering the images of the eagle and other birds in Russian poetry of his time. This article explores the semantics of comparing a poet to a bird and the transformation of the eagle image in late 18th and early 19th-century poetry. The article shows that the image of the eagle in the Russian ceremonial ode was a symbol of the Russian state, Russian government and Russian soldiers. It had a similar meaing in the works of some authors of the first third of the 19th century (for example, V.N. Grigoriev, A.S. Khomyakov, N.V. Kukolnik). It was used in the same sense by Pushkin in his early poems and in the "The Caucasian Prisoner". The article substantiates the thesis that for a long time, the poet was compared not to an eagle, but to a swan, a nightingale, and a lark. It is revealed that although the bird has traditionally been a symbol of freedom, this motif is not mentioned in the examined comparisons. It is argued that Pushkin was the first to explicitly compare the poet to an eagle as a symbol of freedom and self-will. The significance of this symbol for understanding the poet's artistic worldview is discussed. |
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