Studying the poetry of Yuri Shevchuk at school

Earlier the school analysis of the lyrics was mainly focused on the ideological and thematic complex of the work, its problematics and genre specificity. Today one of the current approaches to the development of lyrics in school is the analysis of the formal components of the text. This approach is most appropriate for studying unconventional, avant-garde poetry, focused on a formal experiment. This article proposes a variant of the school analysis of a modern avant-garde lyric text from the point of view of its symbolism. The material was the lyrics of Yuri Shevchuk, one of the most prominent representatives of Russian rock poetry. Considered such images-symbols, as the path, the sky, the garden, the star. Their semantics and connection with the poetic heritage of the Russian poetry of the XIX-XX centuries are defined.