Keyword: «patriotism»

The study of the role of phytonymic vocabulary in expressing the national picture of the world has become one of the principal areas of linguistics at the present stage of development. The use of phytonyms in poetry makes it possible to understand the peculiarities of the linguistic picture of the poets' world, the nominations of plants are the means of its representation. Phytonyms in Russian lyrics of the second half of the 20th century reflect traditional ethnocultural traditions based on the positive and negative components of meaning. In the lyrics of the studied period there is a close connection between the linguistic picture of the poets' world and the culture and spiritual world of the Soviet people.