
A Cumulative Principle in the Figurative Structure of the Lyric Poetry of Leonid Aronzon and Joseph Brodsky
Author(s) -
Aleksey S. Bokarev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
problemy istoričeskoj poètiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-4642
pISSN - 1026-9479
DOI - 10.15393/j9.art.2020.7103
Subject(s) - literal and figurative language , poetry , literature , poetics , art , philosophy , linguistics
The study defines the tendency of modern poetry to gravitate towards enumeration and registers as an attempt to “restore” the cumulative figurative language, which has not a conditionally poetic, but mythologically real status. From the standpoint of historical poetics, such a language is interpreted as a series of outwardly heterogeneous, but semantically identical phenomena, rooted in the archaic consciousness. The specifics of the worldview in the lyrics of L. Aronzon and J. Brodsky, namely, a complex of motifs represented with the help of cumulative structures, is the subject of study. The study asserts that, having a stable “semantic halo” (extensive assimilation of reality as a set of equivalent elements), accumulation performs a wide range of tasks, forming bundles with different, if not opposite, motifs (“unity and magnificence” of the world — Aronzon; discreteness of being and its overcoming — Brodsky). A detailed analysis of both authors’ poems allows to identify both invariant (historically determined) and variative (individual creative) features of the cumulative figurative language.