Abstract
The article presents a literary analysis of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Leda" from several positions. The sonnet is considered as a modernist work created under the influence of Auguste Rodin, having the characteristics of a literary work of a synthetic type and representing the so-called "poem-thing". The presence of a hidden meaning in the poem is proved, which makes the whole work a metaphor for poetic creativity. The ideological influence of the mythological source of the poem is substantiated, which is artistically expressed in the interpretation of the image of the Swan as a Dionysian principle, and not completely Apollinarian. The artistic form of the sonnet is considered and its inherent, in this case, ornamentation in the arrangement of lexical material is proved, which emphasizes the modernist nature of Rilke's work. The conclusion is made about the continuity inherent in the poem, both in the use of mythical personification and poetic form.
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