Лексичні опозиції в поетичному ідіолекті В. Базилевського

Abstract

The article analyzes the lexical oppositions in V. Bazilevsky’s poetic dictionary. The productivity of antonymic pairs, the components of which represent the religious ideas of a person: soul – body, spirit – body, and heaven – hell, is traced. Individual authorial genitive metaphors typical for the artist’s idiostyle, based on semantically opposed lexemes, which testify to the originality of the poetic perception of the world, have been identified. The poetic contexts, in which the direct and figurative meanings of antonymic polysemes are realized, are described. With the help of the parallel use of direct and figurative meanings of contrasting lexemes, the author achieves a specific sensory image. Individually authored antonymic phrases for common sayings (black world – white world, angel of existence – angel of death, room of laughter – room of tears) that enrich the poetic language have been identified. Syntactic and stylistic constructions that enhance the expressiveness of linguistic contrast are characterized: 1) parcellation; 2) identification of depicted contrasting phenomena; 3) denial of depicted contrasting phenomena; 4) chiasm; 5) refrain; 6) anepiphora; 7) constructions based on double opposition. The analysis of the actual material proved that antitheses in the studied texts are a productive means of creating contrasting characteristics of characters, conveying polar emotions, emphasizing the contrast of depicted objects and phenomena of objective reality, etc. Productivity in the poetic idiolect of V. Bazilevsky of oppositions, which ensure the creation of polar images and pictures of the surrounding world, testifies to antithetical thinking, a multifaceted idea of the complexity and contradictions of human life, a sharpened author’s perception of reality, and a tendency to reflection.