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The present work is devoted to the phenomenon of cognitive metaphor and its role in shaping the emotional basis of Joseph Brodsky’s poetry. Cognitive metaphor in the poem Six years later is considered as an element of a complex mental space (the area of sensory or social experience). The phrases map the system of cognitive mechanisms in Russian consciousness, the metaphorical complex of representation of concepts such as Russian culture purity, humility, depression/ lack of freedom, despair and openness. In the poem these concepts create a kind of metaphorical coordinate system, which is based on the archetypal associations.