«Landscape of the Soul» (Analysis of the Poem by D. S. Merezhkovsky «In This Hot, Dumb and Languid Evening...») (To the 155th Anniversary of the Birth)
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-4-58-63
Abstract
The article analyzes one of the early poems of D. S. Merezhkovsky, which refers to the so-called landscape lyrics. Sustained consistently in the third person and drawing a very realistic picture of nature before a thunderstorm, this poem becomes a kind of «landscape of the soul» of the lyrical hero from the very beginning. This is created primarily with the help of lexical-semantic means, in particular, the polysemy of most words in the text. At the same time, the parallelism «nature – a human being», traditional for Russian poetry, receives a peculiar embodiment here. Based on the analysis of the dictionary of the poem, the author determines the main images and motives, identifies the style-forming dominants of the text, and characterizes the features of the functioning of units of the lexical-semantic level.
About the Author
E. A. Panova
Institute of Philology, Moscow Pedagogical State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. of Sci. (Philol.), Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language
1/1 M. Pirogovskaya str., Moscow, 119435, Russia
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Review
For citations:
Panova E.A. «Landscape of the Soul» (Analysis of the Poem by D. S. Merezhkovsky «In This Hot, Dumb and Languid Evening...») (To the 155th Anniversary of the Birth). Russian language at school. 2020;81(4):58-63. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-4-58-63
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