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The article presents the results of a study of the antinomic poetics of V.I. Ivanov’s “Wreath of Sonnets” and M.A. Voloshin’s “Corona Astralis” from 1909. The purpose of the study is to identify and compare the key antinomic structures in the sonnet wreaths using the linguistic text analysis methodology developed by L.A. Gogotishvili. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the interpretation of the results of a comparative analysis of the key semantic antinomies in the “cosmic” wreaths, which demonstrates the commonality of the linguistic strategy employed by the Symbolist poets (the use of non-nominative reference). The study confirms the high effectiveness of using the method of antinomic analysis of texts in such a complex genre-strophic form as a wreath of sonnets, and also expands the scope of application of this research strategy. The analyzed wreaths reveal key semantic antinomies: the earth and the sky (the merciless and compassionate attitude of the sky towards people), death and resurrection, the divine and demonic nature of love between a man and a woman, love and death, darkness and light (earthly life and the “life” of the soul after death), duality and uniqueness in V.I. Ivanov, love and infidelity, reality and dreams, blindness and “sight”, darkness and light, life and death in M.A. Voloshin. The research findings deepen our understanding of the specifics of Symbolist poetics, as well as the mechanism of “unfolding” antinomic structures into a myth and examining all the mythologems that form the semantic structure of the wreath. The study reveals not only the genre but also the conceptual kinship of the works, demonstrating the unity of antinomic thinking and the commonality of the creative methods of two prominent early 20th-century poets.