“The mother of all grass…” (folkloric-ethnographical commentary on the image of willow-herb in the poetry of A.Block and N.Klyuev)

The article considers the image of "plakun-grass" in folklore and in the poetry of A. Blok and N. Klyuev, which is a sacred symbol, the embodiment of death, an attribute of funeral rites. In folk-poetic representations of "plakun-grass" attributed to the ability to give consolation to the mourners, protect the line between worlds, earthly and otherworldly, between life and death, momentary and eternal.