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Symbols of a girl in the S.A. Jesienin poetry Abstract The subject of nature in the S.A. Jesienin poetry belongs to the most leading, and concept of birch – to the most numerous among many symbols of plants in S.A. Jesienin lyrics. Analysis of birch concept as symbol of a girl was carried out comperatively with poetry of predecessors and present-day poets, and also with Russian folk culture. It was stated that the symbol of a girl-birch depends on the season and the day, personal (mental) mood, period of creativity, changes in homeland. Birch in S.A. Jesienin poems is identified with a girl and homeland. In the article was proved that Jesienin lyrics helped to preserve the concept of birch as the symbol of a girl and introduced new symbols (woman, fiancee, queen of snow), broadening in this way symbol of described concept. Key words: poetry, symbolism, semantics, lyrics, concept of birch.