The image of the “Far Eastern frontier” in P. S. Komarov’s lyrical poetry

The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the spatial and geographical image of the Far East in P. S. Komarov’s poetry from the perspective of the “frontier” vision. The paper substantiates the productivity of using the “frontier spectrum” for the analysis of regional lyrical poetry and provides an overview of the leading works in this field. Main attention is paid to the identification and analysis of the forms of artistic representation of the image of the Far East in Komarov’s lyrical poetry. The paper is novel in that it is the first to consider the author’s poetic world from the perspective of “frontier imagery”, to substantiate the role of extra-textual (geographical and historical-cultural) realia for the formation of the image of the frontier. As a result of the study, it has been found that the image of the Far East as a frontier territory of Russia is created by means of landscape, ethnopoetics, mythopoetics, toponymy, spatial markers (“east – west”, distance, “top – bottom”, etc.). The paper argues that the “frontier image” in Komarov’s lyrical poetry has a “double content”, combining the poetic vision of the region as a “Russian borderland” and at the same time as an inseparable part of the “Russian land”; it is shown that in relation to the image of the persona, “frontier characteristics” are associated with the theme of land development and border protection.