SYMBOLIC MEANING OF ANIMALS’ IMAGES IN RELIGIOUS AND MYSTIC POETRY OF H. HESSE AND I. BUNIN
Bolovina Anastasiya Igorevna
St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University
Abstract. The article examines animals’ images, occurred in the religious and mystic poetry of H. Hesse and I. Bunin before World War I, the symbolic meaning of these images is revealed. The common feature for the creative work of H. Hesse and I. Bunin is the reflection of their search for an absolute above religion truth in their poems, which had its influence on animals’ images too. The analysis of their symbolic meaning allows following the route of these searches, the interlacing of ideas and images of different cultures in the poets’ consciousness.
Key words and phrases: образы животных, символ, религиозно-мистическая поэзия, христианство, ислам, индийские учения, народные верования, animals’ images, symbol, religious and mystic poetry, Christianity, Islam, Indian beliefs, folk beliefs
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