Abstract
The purpose of the study is to describe one of the most important literary concepts of K. M. Simonov’s wartime poetry - the concept “courage” representing the moral and ethical conceptual idea of life and death in the work “The Artilleryman’s Son”. Scientific novelty of the study lies in the researcher’s approach to analysing the work, in an attempt to identify the individual author’s content of the concept “courage” in “The Artilleryman’s Son”. The attained results have shown that the concept “courage” organises conceptual space of the work, being axiological dominant of the author’s literary world. Various manifestations of courage embodied in the characters’ fates form its ideal correlated with “constants of national consciousness”; points pivotal to the poet are emphasised through the system of oppositions. The concept “courage” is realised primarily as a moral imperative: courage is an internal need formed by high ideas of honour and duty, devotion, loyalty, service to the people, self-sacrifice.
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