THE APOLLONIAN AND THE DIONYSIAN IN M. TSVETAEVA’s CYCLE “POEMS ABOUT MOSCOW”

Abstract

The article considers figurative and semantic functions of the Apollo - Dionysus mythologeme in M. Tsvetaeva’s cycle “Poems about Moscow”. The relevance of this problem is determined by the deficient extent of the knowledge between the Apollonian and Dionysian principles in the contexts of the works included in the cycle. In spite the fact that the most of literary critics consider the Dionysian code to be dominant for M. Tsvetaeva’s poetics, an analysis of a variety of poems from this cycle detects that Apollonian symbolism and associated with it motivic complexes play a primary role. This attitude conditioned to the scientific novelty of the article and its main position. This attitude explains the scientific novelty of the article and its main position. The conclusion is made that the Apollonian and the Dionysian are manifested in the literary worlds of the poems in various forms of relationships primarily as ambivalent principles of unity-opposites, illustrating the dialectical harmony of the cosmized reality in which the mind of a lyrical heroine is located.