The article deals with transformations of biblical images in the poetry of symbolism, wishing to break into the sphere of theology. Mythological poetry of M. Voloshin is in the center of the article. The image of the great religions of the world, the Last Judgment is analyzed. The main attention is focused on the stages and methods of analyzing the image of tradition in the poetry of the Silver...

the influence of persian poetry on american literature is one of the discussions that have been reviewed to a lesser degree by those, who have done research in the field of comparative literature. the subject of the current article is to examine the influence of hafez of shiraz on the romantic poet and the transcendentalist philosopher, ralph waldo emerson. the given research first gives a shor...

Toward the end of the 1770s, a poet writing at the request of a powerful Buddhist monk on the island we now know as Sri Lanka juxtaposed four images of Lankan Buddhist life. The first, with which he described the time before his patron’s monastic order came into being, was an image of darkness, hypocrisy, and delusion. It described a time in which, according to the poet, Buddhist monks betrayed...