PARODY CAPABILITY OF GOETHE'S "ERL-KING" IMAGE IN THE GERMAN SATIRICAL DISCOURSE AND INTERNET POETRY

The author of this article addresses the comparison problem of mythological and rational components of modern culture, in particular German satire and Internet poetry. The relations between the mythology and modern satirical poetry are examined in the article; the comparative analysis of the allusions of images and the storyline of the ballad Goethe's "Erl-King" and poetic parodies on this ballad in the German Internet is carried out.