The image of autumn in Russian poetry: linguopoetic realization of national-cultural specificity

The aim of the research is to substantiate the linguopoetic regularities of the realization of the national-cultural specificity of the image of autumn in Russian poetry. The article applies methods of corpus linguistics and theoretical principles of linguistic poetics for a comprehensive study of the image of autumn in three aspects: lexico-semantic dominants, syntactic functions of the lexeme “autumn”, and emotional-evaluative characteristics of poetic texts. The scientific novelty of the research lies in expanding R. Jakobson’s analytical approach through the application of corpus methods, which make it possible to identify stable linguistic models on extensive poetic material (452 poems). As a result, it was established that the image of autumn in Russian poetry is a holistic artistic system with a pronounced national specificity, where negative emotional connotations dominate while maintaining aesthetic ambivalence. Linguopoetic analysis reveals stable models of the transformation of autumn from a natural phenomenon into a multifaceted poetic image, reflecting the characteristics of national mentality and aesthetic perception. It is proven that natural-landscape, temporal, and existential-psychological components are synthesized in this image, forming a unique aesthetic paradigm characteristic of the Russian poetic tradition.