The image of spring in the works of K. D. Balmont

The article examines the image of spring as presented in the works of K. D. Balmont. The purpose of the research is to identify the features of the poetic embodiment and symbolic content of the image of spring in the author's works. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the schematic representation of the image of spring and its transformation in the works of K. D. Balmont, and the understanding of the image as a symbol of rebirth, harmony, and humility in cyclical life. The paper analyzes the poems "Spring," "Festival of Spring," "Infatuation," "Gray Dandelion," "Wisdom of Spring," and "Russia." The dynamics of the image of spring are traced from poem to poem, and it is noted that it is not the chronological variability of the image, but its logical maturation and complication in poems of different years. The result is an understanding of spring as a companion of Russia: the symbolism of the image resonates with ideas of happiness, infatuation, cyclical life, unity with nature and the native land. Emphasis is placed on the possibility of applying the obtained material in philological disciplines and in the module "Fundamentals of Russian Statehood." As a result of the research, companion images are established that contribute to the disclosure of the image of spring – birches, larks, April, dandelion, forest, Russia. In each poem, processualism is revealed as a feature of the description, removing the static nature of the picture: calling, transformation, flowering and fading, unity. Spring in the works of K. D. Balmont personifies the ideas of harmony, humility, and expectation of a bright future.