The article traces the transformation of the corporeal imagery in the poetry of the thirteen key war-veteran poets, who started writing in the war years and continued to create during the Thaw: O. Berggolts, S. Gudsenko, Yu. Drunina, Yu. Levitansky, A. Mezhirov, B. Okudzhava, N. Panchenko, D. Samoylov, I. Selvinsky, K. Simonov, B. Slutsky, Ya. Smelyakov, A. Tvardovsky. In the course of the analysis six types of corporeal images are revealed in the works of the authors under study: sensor, morbual, mortal, mnemonic, age and gender oriented.
