Keyword: «phytonyms»

The article deals with symbolic functions of flower names in A. A. Akhmatova and N. S. Gumilev poetry. In the course of the study, there were found stable associations connected with the names of flowers in the poetic individual styles of two authors. Identified associations were classified according to the types of literary meanings in linguopoetics. The authors find that emotional function of phytonyms in individual styles of A. A. Akhmatova and N. S. Gumilev's is associated with the symbolic expression of various love feeling shades, with the expression of symbolic meanings that characterize the inner world of the lyric hero: love confusion, solitude, sadness and the rebirth of the soul. In the poetry of N. S. Gumilev, the substantial function of flowers designations serves for creation details of literary images: ideal world, sea element, abstract entities (perfection, unattainability of the ideal, etc.).

Phytonymic vocabulary reflects the life experience of any person, the results of his observations of the world around him. That is why, the names of plants make it possible to see the specific features of the cultural and historical traditions of the people. The whole number of differential signs or motivems was highlighted to identify and associate patterns and assign names to plants both in Latin and Russian. As a result of the investigation of Latin and Russian phytonyms we have found out firstly – the signs and properties of the denotate reflect the experience of native speakers; secondly – they are transmitted descriptively or by metaphorical comparison with other objects with the same meaning.