The use of personal pronouns in lyrical poetry

Abstract

The article presents separate formulae that fix the morphological means of expressing the subject and subject-object relations in lyrical poetry. These formulae include personal pronouns with different grammatical characteristics (here the categories of person, number, and case are meant). The author performs a linguo-stylistic analysis of texts written by A. S. Pushkin, M. Yu. Lermontov, S. A. Esenin, B. L. Pasternak relying on the experience of studying the ways personal pronouns are semanticised in lyrical poetry. The paper concludes that the lyrical text does not exist outside the pronominal formula which facilitates the disclosure of the subject of enunciation’s life philosophy (psychological state). The article highlights the sequence of personal pronouns or their case forms within the poetic text. In the author’s opinion, the variety of pronominal formulae is indicative of the lyrical structure flexibility as it tolerates different variants of pronominal expression of the subject of enunciation and those objects to which he expresses his attitudes.