Мотив воды в творчестве Марины Цветаевой

This article is devoted to the analysis of the water motifs in the works of Marina Tsvetaeva. The research task is an attempt to trace how the concrete and simple lexeme "water" participates in the meaning-generating poetic process, to prove the special significance of this motifs as an important sign of her creative thinking, worldview and creative personality in general. The article uses extensive material (about 630 examples) taken from poetic and prose texts to consider the main meanings of the water motifs and their functional features in the individual author's viewpoint. Water, without losing its natural concreteness, becomes one of the important tools for metaphorizing the processes and phenomena of not only the physical, but also the spiritual world of the poet.