"Floral" symbolism in the lyrics of Arseny Tarkovsky

The subject of this article is the "floral" symbolism involved in the lyrics of Arseny Tarkovsky (a poet belonging to the "secondary current" of the Silver Age). In particular, the symbolism of roses and lilacs in his works is especially closely examined. The object of painstaking analysis are selected poems by Arseny Tarkovsky, Taffy and Igor Severyanin. The intertextual connections of A. Tarkovsky's lyrics with individual poems by Taffy and I. Severyanin (poets who are dissimilar, but united by the era of modernism in which they had to live and create) are noted. The purpose of this study is to find certain patterns in the references to floral symbols by Arseny Tarkovsky and other poets of the Silver Age, to establish intertextual links between them, and to study individual features characteristic of the mentality of this period. In this article, which explores the "floral" symbolism of Arseny Tarkovsky's lyrics, comparative historical, intertextual and motivic research methods are used. The novelty of the research lies in the establishment of intertextual links between the lyrics of A. Tarkovsky, which mention "floral" symbolism, with the poems of Taffy and I. Severyanin. It is concluded that Tarkovsky's poetry frequently mentions roses and lilacs. They are mentioned in connection with the phenomenon of recollection, sometimes even "false" recollection, traditionally expressing feelings of a loving nature. Roses are usually a symbol of earthly and heavenly love, fullness of life, very rarely witnessing the last farewell of the lyrical hero with his beloved. Lilac by A. Tarkovsky and I. Severyanin is also a guide to the chronotope of the past, while remaining a very specific sensual image, which is revealed in all its splendor, in all its tangibility, as well as a symbol of first love. Among other things, lilac has unexpectedly similar "light" associations in A. Tarkovsky and Taffy. The "floral" references to roses and lilacs have a dual nature in all these authors art: palpably sensual, acmeistic and symbolic.