Symbolic meanings of "The Sun" in the Russian chidren’s poetry

Abstract

The paper analyses the semantics of traditional Slavic symbols "The Sun" on the material of Russian poetic texts for children. Traditional and author’s symbolic meanings of the symbols are studied from linguistic point of view, linguoculturological approach is in priority. To define these symbolic semantics mythological level and archetypes are analysed. As studies prove some "negative" meanings are not expressed in children’s poetry, associative bounds with a human being, different types of behaviour and so on are emphasised in the texts.