Pushkin's image is simple and at the same time inexhaustible. Its simplicity is immediately noticed, its inexhaustibility often goes unnoticed. This often happens when the Pushkin word is based on folklore ideas - but not in the form of a quote, but in a transformed, Pushkin-like image, as, for example, in the poem "Winter Morning", to which almost every work about Pushkin's lyrics pays attention. And yet something important in the poetics of this work remains unaccounted for. Thus, after quoting the opening lines of a poem depicting a sunny winter landscape, the famous Pushkin scholar S. M. Bondi notes that "after all these wonderful poetic comparisons and metaphors, the poet introduces the most everyday words and images into his poems: "The flooded furnace is cracking" (Bondi S. M. Articles and Research, Moscow, 1983, p. 137). Quoting the poet, the researcher omits the beginning of the phrase-half of the previous verse; after all, in Pushkin: "A flooded furnace cracks with a cheerful crack." This is a single poetic image that has deep roots in folk speech and folk poetry. If, as S. M. Bondi does, the beginning of the phrase is omitted, then only the everyday reality remains. page 108 V. I. Dahl cites a proverb that captures the ordinariness of this fact: "Where it burns, there it cracks" (V. I. Dahl Explanatory Dictionary of the living Great Russian language, Moscow, 1955, vol. 4, p. 429). In Pushkin, both parts of the sentence are components of the same image initially, as evidenced by the stages of the birth of this phrase captured in the draft. First draft: the beginning of the verse ("And fun") and, after a space, the end of it ("crackles") are fixed. The search started with two keywords - " fun "and"crackling". In subsequent versions, the phrases vary, but the two reference words found at once remain unchanged, the basis of the image that creates the sound background of the entire poem (Pushkin A. S. Poln. sobr. op.: In 16 vols. Moscow - L., 1949. Vol. Ill / ... Read more