Keyword: «romanticism»

The article discusses the symbolism of the moon image in the short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The functions of the moon image-symbol in the stories structure, in psychological hero portrait creation, in the romantic landscape are defined. The symbol of the moon is analyzed in its connection with other images: sea, ship, music. The authors emphasize the interaction between symbolic and impressionistic principles in Fitzgerald’s poetics.

The article is devoted to the Rashian romantic poetry, poetical imagination, romantic poetics in the A. Polezhaev‘ s work; to the peculiarities of his interptretation of traditional symbols, their functioning and assimilation in the rashian elegie.