Motif "youth / old age" in the poetic speech of Ivan Bunin

The article considers the ways of verbal signification of the motif «youth / old age» in the poetic speech of Ivan Bunin. It is noted that the artist’s personality structures a special sensory-mental space in the text, where through the description of the human world and the relationship of a person to the world, the author’s model of attitude to reality, expressed by verbal means, is formed.