LANGUAGE AESTHETICS OF CONCEPT “CITY” IN POETIC TEXTS BY B.-I. ANTONYCH

Abstract

The theme of the city is not the main one, but it is important for B.-I. Antonych’s lyrics. Author’s reflections on the theme of the city are important fragment of the individual artistic picture of the world. In view of this, the article offers an analysis of the means of linguistic and aesthetic representation of the concept of city in poetic texts by B.-I. Antonych. The specifics of the individual-author’s picture of the world in this thematic segment are demonstrated. It is emphasized that B.-I. Antonych’s individual style has already been sufficiently studied from the point of literary criticism. Instead, linguistic research on the peculiarities of author’s artistic language should be intensified. It was found that in B.-I. Antonych’s poetic interpretation concept of the city appears simultaneously in several dimensions: both as a geographical object with a characteristic set of realities, and as an industrial and socio-cultural environment. In these conditions a new socio-psychological type of personality is formed. The article identifies productive lexical and semantic models of city description. It has been established that the contextual uses of the nomination city and its poetic concretizers are mostly related to the direct lexical meaning “large settlement, administrative, industrial, trade and cultural center” recorded in common dictionaries. At the same time as a carrier of cultural and aesthetic information, the city nomination is also often reconsidered, forming new lexical and associative connections due to the individual experience of the author, his personal creative and aesthetic preferences. It was revealed that epithet phrases have text-forming significance in the creation of the linguistic image of the city. Around the concept of the city in the poetry of B.-I. Antonych grouped definitions that testify to his anthropomorphization, natural morphization, and also verbalize different types of evaluation – neutral, positive and negative. The development of the image of the city is often based on its logical and associative connections with the realities that detail its space, its social and cultural infrastructure – square, square, street, lane, park, square, town hall, lantern, limousine. In the structure of poetic expression, they realize the direct lexical meaning recorded in common dictionaries, and sometimes they are also expressions of occasional individual-author associations. A separate aspect of the author’s perception and display of the city is its opposition to the world nature. Nature in the poetic picture of B.-I. Antonych’s world is presented as a harmonious, living space, while the city has an unnatural, standardized, schematic nature. In general, the image in the poetry by B.-I. Antonych reflects the objective structure of the city, its social, architectural and cultural specifics. The perspective of the proposed study is the possibility of drawing parallels between the poetry by B.-I. Antonych and the lyrics of European modernist poets, in particular P. Verharn and R.-M. Rilke.