Bird symbolism in the poetry of Onaigul Turzhan

This article examines the poetic, mythopoetic, and psychological dimensions of bird symbolism in the poetry of Onaigul Turzhan, one of the distinctive voices of contemporary Kazakh literature. In Turkic cultural tradition, the image of the bird has long been associated with such concepts as freedom, spiritual purity, destiny, the transience of life, and the relationship between soul and body. In…