The article deals with semantics of “red” and “yellow” color in V.V. Mayakovsky’s poetics. A lot has been written about “red” color; this color is associated with the revolutionary ideas and symbols, and it is often used in Mayakovsky’s early works. However, “yellow” color is used along with “red” one and, in our opinion, it has more complicated semantics. This color is important for the poet himself and his creative life (Mayakovsky’s yellow blouse), and for his early poems where we see the clothing elements of this color. According to folkloric ideas, it is the very color which is ambivalent; it correlates with the sun and a new life, and is attributed to mourning ritual symbolism. Folklore commentary to some details in the poems “A Cloud in Trousers”, “A Man” and “Fifth International” allows us better understanding the poet’s figurative and metaphorical system.

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The article deals with the concept of "apophaticism" which is relevant not only for theology but also for philosophical and philological knowledge. The linguists are interested in apophaticism of the language, which primarily refer to vocabulary. During the last decades of hermeneutics development, the literary scholars also actively referred to apophatic tradition. The need to develop the idea of Russian poetry as an apophatic one is long overdue and it requires new approaches and works. The object of this article is the Soviet times and the thaw period with its binary formations; and the song "Moscow Nights" by M. Matusovsky is in the center of linguistic and philosophical research. Much attention is paid to text fragments with verbal negation.