DOIAbstract
The article on the example of poems by Boris Pasternak You in the wind, a branch sampling (1919) and Joseph Brodsky Illustration (L. Cranach’s “Venus with Apple”) (1964) discusses the changing of the use of myth in the poetry of the twentieth century. Both poets turned to the myth of Adonis, but in the Pasternak’s poem myth presented by the image of an anemone, and in Brodsky’s by the images of a boar and Venus. It is shown that the poems of Pasternak and Brodsky demonstrate the process of the reduction of myth in the literature of the twentieth century and its gradual transformation into “ready” word of the culture. Modernism as any transitional epoch carries out the compression of the preceding culture, translating her quest and achievem...
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