Keyword: «interpretation»

The general features uniting various philosophical teachings into a single representation of the concept «Fire» are exposed in the article; the peculiarities of various teachings about the physical agents of fire are revealed, some semantic and figurative features of the phenomenon under study are also analyzed here.

The article describes the interpretative (associative-figurative, connotative) potential of verbal-figurative means. They represent the value-semantic opposition “we – you” in I. Brodsky’s poem “Devoted to the Independence of Ukraine”. The content of this opposition is relevant to the “historical moments” depicted in the text; it is largely determined by the influence of meanings emanating from the archetypal concept of “betrayal” and is actualized by the preceding texts (compositions by Pushkin, Shevchenko, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Solzhenitsyn, etc.).