THE WORD-IMAGE “TIME” IN POETIC THEME OF S.Ya. MARShAK’s PHILOSOPHICAL POETRY
The article analyzes the word-image “time” in poetic formulae of S.Ya. Marshak’s philosophical poetry. Being artistic and esthetic units poetic formulae are regarded as creative and imaginative statements of the author, the ones that were achieved through suffering of the writer’s 70 year life’s journey. These statements include polished thoughts, conceptual didactic and moral evaluation of the author’s worldview. Having emerged in the earliest days of the Old Russian writing poetic formulae turned into individual background and accomplishments of the author supported by their situation awareness and justified by their frequency in literature and speech. Preserving semantic features of the keyword “time” poetic formulae of S.Ya. Marshak’s philosophical poetry were enriched with new esthetic messages and emotions thus transforming into “word-image poetic theme”. It included both author’s and mental sense bearing system accumulated by national consciousness and cultural traditions of the Russian people.