Abstract. The article is devoted to the analysis of death motive in the structure of war chronotop on the material of the English poetry of the XXth-XXIst centuries based on the heroic eposes of different peoples, English medieval ballads and war eyewitnesses' accounts. Within the framework of death motive as a component of war landscape three aspects are considered: the motive of element mortality, the representation of war through the metaphor of agricultural labour and the image of bird-scavenger <file:///E:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Анна\Local%20Settings\Temp\Word_0>.
Key words and phrases: мотив смерти, хронотоп войны, англоязычная поэзия XX-XXI вв., героический эпос, смертоносность стихий, земледельческий труд, птица-падальщик, death motive, war chronotop, English poetry of the XXth-XXIst centuries, heroic epos, element mortality, agricultural labour, bird-scavenger
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