“Was he really a crow”: J. Brodsky’s poetic avifauna

Annotation

The article analyzes the most frequent of the entire bird collection of the image of a crow in the poetry of J. Brodsky. In synchrony, a variety of contextual meanings of the crow, original images along with traditional ones are revealed. In the diachrony, the development of the lyrical plot is traced, in which the image of the poet correlates with the image of the crow. Along the way, the interaction of crows and hawks is considered.

Keywords

J. Brodsky, poetic world, images of birds, the image of a crow, the poet’s theme.

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This study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation
No. 22–28–01671, https://rscf.ru/project/22–28–01671/; Russian Christian Humanitarian
Academy named after F. M. Dostoevsky.