METAPHORIC PARAGONS IN THE MYTHOLOGICAL AND POETIC CONSCIOUSNESS (ILLISTRATED BY PARAGONS WITH THE STAR TOKEN)

Abstract

This article presents the comparison of metaphoric paragon with the star token in mythology (based on the three-volume edition by A. N. Afanasyev ‘The Poetic Outlook on Nature by the Slavs’) and in Russian lyric poetry of the XVIII-XXI centuries. Both texts of famous poets and those authors whose work forms the literary process are involved. There has been made a conclusion about the general features of mythological and poetic consciousness in this article, since all the paragons listed in the work of A. N. Afanasyev (star/stars-fire, eyes, book, clothing, precious stones, silver, peas, bees, flocks, scrofulous rash, etc.) are presented mostly unchanged in Russian poetry. A shared outlook and ideas of different historical epochs testifies to the common basis of these two types of consciousness, which is mainly poetic in its nature.

Keywords

• mythological and poetic consciousness
• russian poetry of the xviii-xxi centuries
• мифологическое и поэтическое сознание
• русская поэзия xviii–xxi вв