The content and instruments of representation of the concept “love” in Zabolotsky’s lyrics of different years

The concept of love is one of the key concepts in N. A. Zabolotsky’s lyrics. Outstanding manifestation of the concept of love researches noticed in the late poet’s lyrics, however, in the early period of creation, in the cycles “City columns” and “Mixed Columns” the concept of “love” is also in the picture but used for the main writer’s idea to show the spiritless and spoiled world of NEP, that’s why it acquires unusual forms of verbalization and peculiar content. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the content and ways of representing the concept of “love” at the early and late periods of N. A. Zabolotsky’s creativity. The article represents the results of the analysis of N. A. Zabolotsky’s poems of different years, including the concept of “love”. Biographical, semantic-stylistic, contextual, comparative, as well as conceptual methods are used, which allow revealing the features of the content, representation and perception of the concept of “love” in N. A. Zabolotsky’s lyrics by the reader. The analysis of the poems made it possible to identify and formulate the features of the content and structure of the concept of “love” in the lyrics of N. A. Zabolotsky. The difficult period of New Economic Policy had an affect at his creativity: in his first cycles “City Columns” and “Mixed Columns”, author creates an inverted, “turned inside out” world in which love exists only as animal passion and immorality. There is no woman as an object of love in this world, there are only “either sirens, or girls” and “women”. In the later period, due to N. A. Zabolotsky’s passion for philosophical ideas, the concept of “love” was modified both in terms of content and in methods of representation. In the later period, due to N. A. Zabolotsky’s passion for philosophical ideas, the concept of “love” was modified both in terms of content and in methods of representation. A woman and a wife comes to the first level as an object of love, and feeling becomes deep and pure. The analysis of stylistic, linguistic and artistic features of N. A. Zabolotsky’s lyrics of different years allowed us to formulate the peculiarities of the transformation of the concept of “love” relative to the early and late periods of creativity.

concept, art concept, language element, associative-semantic area, stylistic method