THE MOTIVE OF «CREATIVE FIRE» IN THE POETRY OF K.D.BALMONT

Abstract

The article examines the language of epiphanies in the poetry of K. D. Balmont: the manifestation of divine will in the world created by God, the convergence of artistic creativity with Christian sacraments. The motives of world communion and “creative fire” are emphasized. The specificity and place of epiphanic motifs at different stages of the poet’s career are determined. The connections between the symbolist poet and the search for Russian religious and philosophical thought are made. The author traces the formation of the “creative fire” motive in the poetry of K. D. Balmont, associated with the disclosure of the theme of the world mystery and the understanding of the poet as an accomplice of Divine creation, and also emphasizes the way this motive would dominate in the final poetry book of the 1920s. “In the extended distance. Poem about Russia”.