Мотив огня в творчестве Марины Цветаевой

Again and again, would Tsvetaeva return to the images of fire: it appears in her early poetry, intensively exploited throughout the 1920s, then periodically occurs in her prose. Analysis of the entire body of poetry texts allows to observe five main lanes in her perception of fire: the fire as a metaphor for the state of the surrounding world; the fire as a metaphor for the inner state of man; the fire as a destructive force directed toward the destruction of the external; the fire as a metaphor for gift, talent; the fiery process of trans