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The article states the text value of the author modality in S. Esenin’s poetic texts as a means of expression of S. Esenin’s axiological paradigm, the most important text-forming component of which is love to motherland; determines the plane of content and the plane of expression of the given axiological category; reveals the specifics of Esenin’s awareness of the motherland and analyzes the most frequent means of its realization in the poet’s lyric texts, including colour- nominators and explicators of situational modality.