Poetic representation of the image of Siberia in Nikolai Khonichev' poetry: A perceptual aspect

The relevance of the research is determined by the attention to the emotional and perceptual component in the process of formation of the Siberian regional identity and the active research of "Siberian texts" in the context of the cultural heritage of Russia. The aim of the article is to analyze the poetic representation of the image of Siberia in the poetry of the Tomsk writer Nikolai Khonichev. The material is 195 poems from collections of different years. The main research methods are structural and semantic analysis of language units of different text levels and linguostylistic analysis of the text. The structure of the article is determined by one of the main tasks - identifying the role of the perceptual component in the process of forming the image of Siberia in Khonichev's poetry. A certain duality is characteristic of the "Siberian texts", reflecting the "interaction" of the national and regional components in the formation of the individual author's image of the world. In modern regional literature, a predominantly positive perception of the space of Siberia is constructed; a bright emotional attachment of the authors to their small homeland, love for Siberian nature, a pride and respect for the history of the region and cultural traditions are traced. The research showed that the image of Siberia can be defmed as a "macro-image" that includes a wide range of "micro-images" formed on the basis of different types of perception (visual, auditory, tactile, etc.). The texts emphasize the beauty of Siberian nature (the aroma of green meadows, the music of the forest, the crying of birches, the trembling of needles, the bells of rowan trees, the pearls ofpoplars, etc.). The perception of the natural and cultural aspects of the image of Siberia are presented in their inseparable unity (poetry is scattered in the forest, a forest museum, etc.). Siberia is described as a place with its own unique nature, original culture and values. As a result of the analysis of N.V. Khonichev's poetic texts, it was revealed that plant images (taiga, forest, pine, cedar, rowan, birch and poplar, etc.) occupy an important place in the description of Siberia as a natural phenomenon; their linguistic representation is related to all-Russian cultural traditions. The perceptual component of the meaning is constantly updated: linguistic units with the semantics of visual perception dominate at the lexical and syntactic levels of the text. A significant part of the pictorial and expressive means (metaphors, comparisons, personifications) are modeled on the basis of synesthesia (multicolored smell, aromas call, etc.). Sunlight, music, aroma, greenery in the analyzed poems are perceptual dominants that determine the author's perception of Siberia. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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