Keyword: «mnemonic-symbolic code»

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.).