THE MOTIF OF ASPIRATION FOR PEACE IN YAKOV POLONSKY'S LYRIC POETRY

The article examines semantics of "peace" as one of the main motifs of Yakov Polonsky's poetry. Peace is the birth of faith in a man's soul, lowly acceptance of God's grace, striving for the balance between the earthly and the heavenly, renewal of wholeness of the Soul, transfiguration. It is asserted that a person's transfiguration is possible if the human heart keeps faith in the ideal and ability to sympathize. Intonation and the melodies of the poems reveal the person's mental and spiritual pursuit of peace (eupathy). The article discovers the meaning of metaphors, which become symbols in Polonsky's poems, and the symbolism of color, which is associated with icon painting.