Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Mar 2024)
INTERPRETATION OF "NIGHTINGALE" AND "ROSE" ORIENTAL IMAGES IN RUSSIAN POETIC ART OF THE "AGE OF TIMELESSNESS"
Abstract
Russian poetry of the “age of timelessness” shows significant interest in the Muslim East poetic art images. Among the authors of fine de siècle we observe a tendency towards transformation and added complexity of the semantics of Sufi images-symbols, among which the ornithonym “nightingale” and the phytonym “rose” come to the fore in terms of frequency of use. In the works of M. Lokhvitskaya, D. Merezhkovsky, S.Nadson, A. Fet, K. Fofanov and others, the nightingale and the rose are given an oriental context. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how oriental images are interpreted and function in Russian poetic texts of the late 19th century. The result of the study is the provisions on the semantic content and poetic embodiment of central Sufi images in poems of the 1880s–1890s.
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