GREEN COLOR IN THE POEMS BY A. TARKOVSKY AND YU. LEVITANSKY (“THERE WAS A HOUSE WITH THREE WINDOWS...” AND “SEPTEMBER. A HOLIDAY OF GREEN COLOR”)

The paper considers the poetics of the green color in two poems written around the same time “There was a house with three windows…” by Arseny Tarkovsky (1976) and “September. A holiday of green color” by Yuri Levitansky (1981). The poems are constructed around the green color, which turns out to be the representation of the unusual and miraculous. It is notable that both poems correlate visual and auditory images, with music and singing serving as a unifying element. In Tarkovsky’s poem, auditory images are represented by music and singing, whereas in Levitansky’s, they are manifested as the sounds of thunderstorms and rain. The article firstly sets forth a methodology for the analysis of color in the context of a lyric poem and secondly subjects the poem to analysis on the basis of that methodology