Linguo-cultural features of sky metaphorization and celestial light in russian poetic discourse

Abstract

The article is devoted to the linguistic and cultural peculiarities of the metaphorization of the sky and
the heavenly bodies in the discourse of Russian poetry. Based on the analysis of the associative-semantic
and emotional-aesthetic components of metaphorization, its linguocultural features are determined. The
figurative and symbolic meaning of the tokens «sky», «heaven», «moon», «sun», «clouds», «stars» is determined. Metaphorization of the sky and the heavenly bodies in poetic discourse testifies to the duality
of perception of the sky and the heavenly bodies by the Russian language consciousness. The sky and
the stars are associated not only with light, brilliance and beauty, but also with cold, emptiness, indifference and lifelessness. The linguo-cultural peculiarity of the metaphorization of the Moon is based on
traditional mythopoetic views. In the Russian language consciousness and in the poetic works of Russian
poets, Heaven and the Moon are contrasted on the basis of «male-female». The emotional metaphorization of the lexeme «Moon» is built on this conceptual antithesis: the moon is a separation, sadness
about a dream, a night without the moon. The article notes that the metaphorization of the sky and the
heavenly bodies in Russian poetry reflects not only the artistic individual author’s vision, but also the
national-cultural one.