Animal images in Georg Trackl's poetry

The article analyzes the images of animals in lyrical works of the famous Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl. Animals are the representatives of the biological kingdom of the same name. The images of mammals, as well as the images of insects, birds, and a worm are sequentially considered. There are twelve representatives. The images of animals are analyzed as elements of the artistic world of the works of the poet, which determines the novelty of the conclusions of this article. Each of the animals, according to the hypothesis, has a symbolic meaning, and the meaning is very stable, it moves from one poetic work to another. The symbolic meanings of the images of the animal kingdom in the poems of Georg Trakl are generally consistent with those established in common European culture, as evidenced by reference to the dictionaries of symbols (four authoritative sources are used). The authors reveal the semantic content of the image of each animal in specific texts, and compare it with the interpretation of its symbolic meaning in culture. As a result, conclusions are drawn about the coincidence of the full or partial semantic meaning of images in European culture (literature) and in Trakl's poems.