Poetic Discourse Research Articles

Compositional and Semantic Meaning of Non-Equivalent Vocabulary in a Poetic Text (Original and Translation)

The article addresses the theoretical and practical issues related to the translation of non-equivalent vocabulary (NV) in poetic texts, focusing on its compositional and semantic role in the original and translated versions. Non-equivalent vocabulary often appears in the strong positions (SP) of a text, such as titles, rhyme elements, and key metaphors, which are critical for maintaining the semantic integrity and artistic essence of the work. The presence of NV in these positions creates a unique challenge for translators, as the loss or replacement of such vocabulary can lead to significant semantic distortions, affecting the stylistic unity and cultural flavor of the text. By examining examples from German poetry by Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as their Ukrainian translations, this paper highlights the diverse strategies used by translators to recreate NV in a target language context. The study also explores the theoretical approaches of renowned scholars shedding light on the impact of NV on the semantic structure and ethno-linguistic worldview conveyed through poetic texts. The aim is to analyze how NV functions as a strong position in poetic discourse, influencing the overall compositional hierarchy and meaning of the text. The research concludes that the transmission of NV in poetic translation requires a careful balance between preserving the original’s national identity and adapting it to the stylistic and cultural norms of the target language. The study underscores that inadequately rendered NV can disrupt the semantic unity of a poem, thereby altering its cultural context and reader reception.

PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS REPRESENTING COSMIC CHRONOTOPE IN THE RUSSIAN POETIC WORLDVIEW (including the materials from the dictionary „Phraseological units in the Russian poetry of the 19th – 21st centuries“)

This article is devoted to the study of phraseological units that represent the cosmic chronotope in the Russian poetic world view in the poetry discourse of the 19th – 21st centuries, based on the conceptual paradigm “human – globe – space”. The article considers the peculiarities of the system organisation, the originality of the concept-forming and style-forming functioning of the main components of the conceptual paradigm within the context of some particular poetry and within a certain poetic discourse, presented by a number of poems of the 19th – early 21st centuries in the dictionary “Phraseological Units in Russian Poetry”. The choice of poetry is determined by a descriptive and philosophically generalised expression of the concept. The biggest attention is paid to the way the main ideas, that are figuratively reflected in this poetic discourse, are realised. The considered phraseological units are grouped around the following ideas – anthropocentrism, immortality and life in eternity, posthumously reward for a person’s lifetime exploits, ascetic nature of inspiration.

Sargūn Būluṣ: Writing Iraq baʿd al-qiyāmah

Abstract This paper explores how the poetry of the late Iraqi poet, Sargūn Būluṣ (1944–2007), responds to the material and epistemic violence inflicted on Iraq and Iraqis in recent decades. While Būluṣ was vehemently against podium poetry, he was never detached from politics. He believed that poetry could shelter the voices of those displaced and wounded by history. By reading several representative poems, this paper identifies the configuration of the aesthetic and the political in his poetic discourse. It explores the following questions: What are the strategies and tropes the poet deploys to mark and mourn the destruction and disintegration of a home/land? How does he do so without eliding the foundational violence of the nation-state or resorting to nationalisms? Which of the many Iraqs, real and imagined, does Būluṣ mourn, and how does he excavate the country’s history?

RHYME IN CONTEMPORARY POETIC DISCOURSE: COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC CHARACTERISTICS

The article is dedicated to exploring the role of rhyme in the English poetic discourse of the XXI century. Rhyme, being the central element of most poetic genres, has unique pragmatic effect both when it is present (in classical verse) and absent (in verse libre). The role of rhyme ranges from ensuring memorization to broader communicative and cognitive influences, as justified by the studies reviewed in the article. The aim of the article is to contrast practices of using and omitting rhyme in contemporary English poetry and to reveal the pragmatic potential of rhyme. For this purpose, works of contemporary poets are scrutinized via methods of comparison and contrast, pragmatic analysis and stylistic analysis. Our findings show that rhyme, whenever present, serves not only for text memorization or embellishment, but also has deeper relations with the core of the poem. In case of verse libre or blank verse, the absence of rhyme (especially when paired with the graphic element of ignoring capital letters) turns a poem into a dynamic work, an unfinished process. An increasing tendency of ignoring rhyme in contemporary English poetry might be linked to the graphic character of poetry itself. Whenever rhyme is absent, there is an “extra” element which fills its place, and usually those elements are either graphical additions or peculiarities of punctuation. The scientific novelty of the article lies in revealing the pragmatic role of rhyme and justifying that this role is fulfilled even when rhyme is absent. The theoretical and practical significance of the article lies in exploring the role of rhyme considering pragmatics, stylistics, and cognitive poetics.

EASSESSING ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING’S DIALOGUE WITH FRIEDRICH SCHILLER IN “THE DEAD PAN”

Widely interpreted as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s justification for incorporating Christian themes within poetic discourse, “The Dead Pan” offers a Christian perspective in response to Friedrich Schiller’s favourable portrayal of Ancient Greek paganism in “Gods of Greece.” The poem epitomises Victorian pietism, exemplifying the period’s religious fervour and advocating for the synthesis of Christian content in poetry to enrich the literary canon. This advocacy originates from Browning’s belief that Christianity offers superior truths and values compared to Greek paganism. However, this study proposes a reassessment of Barrett Browning’s interpretation of Schiller’s work, suggesting that she may have misconstrued his allusions to Greek mythology as a straightforward endorsement of paganism. It is crucial to recognise that Schiller’s critique of Christianity primarily condemns the exploitation of the faith by religious and secular authorities to oppress and control the populace, rather than an outright denunciation of the religion itself. By examining the genesis of “The Dead Pan” through Barrett Browning’s personal correspondence, this study illuminates her specific objectives and her responses to Schiller’s perspectives. Additionally, by contextualising “Gods of Greece” within its socio-political and theological framework, this paper demonstrates that while Browning and Schiller have divergent approaches to Ancient Greek culture and Christianity, Barrett Browning overlooks Schiller’s nuanced criticism of the misuse of religion by religious and secular authorities.

The news and structural style in the poem of Ibn Zurayq Al-Baghdadi (La Taathleh)

This research deals with the two styles of news and composition in Ibn Zuraiq Al-Baghdadi’s poem (Do not torture him); These two styles are the pillars of Arabic speech and the basis of its discourse, and each of them has linguistic, grammatical, stylistic, and rhetorical characteristics that distinguish it from the other. In this research, we will discuss the definition of the two styles in language and terminology, and provide a brief overview of the poet mentioned in our research. Then we will move on to mention the declarative places, as well as the constructional ones, and how Ibn Zuraiq al-Baghdadi used them in each place, and the reasons for his use of each style. And exploring the aesthetics of all of the above to conclude a set of results in which we mention the aesthetics of each style in poetic discourse, and the extent of this poet’s ability to employ methods to attract the recipient’s attention towards what he presented. The aim of the study is to highlight the stylistic and rhetorical features of the two styles as well, and to work on analyzing the aforementioned verses, including predicates or constructions. It should be noted that there are verses that contain both styles, so we will analyze the style in which we see the appropriate or strongest significance, even though we have analyzed the two styles in a way that we hope to It will be enough. After that comes the list of sources and references that we have adopted in this research. They are diverse sources and references, including traditional, rhetorical, grammatical, and contextual sources, as well as the books of hadith scholars due to their importance in rhetorical and contextual studies.

Linguistic means of “new ethical” principles representation in modern German poetic discourse

Linguistic means of “new ethical” principles representation in modern German poetic discourse

Repetition in discourses across languages and genres

Abstract Despite the fact that various functions of repetition in discourse have been studied, we have decided to continue our exploration of the role of phonetic and lexical repetitions in the pragmatics and cognition of text and discourse focusing our attention on the epic texts and modern literary discourses across languages. The reason why we have decided to analyze both epic texts and modern literary discourses across languages is our intention to reveal the pragmatic nature of intersubjective behaviors regardless of time and place. In addition, phonetic and lexical repetitions play a crucial role in the cognition of these texts and discourses as they cause associations by stimulating knowledge in the human mind. Thus, our article’s goal is to analyze the ways why and how the sender uses these very important explicit linguistic devices to produce pragmatic and cognitive effects on the audience of the epic texts, as well as on the participants of modern fictional discourses in English, Azerbaijani, and Russian. Throughout the history, phonetic and lexical repetitions have gradually become key devices in producing pragmatic and cognitive effects in literary discourses across languages. The examples from Beowulf, The Book of Dede Korkut, as well as from modern fictional and poetic discourses in Azerbaijani and English clearly demonstrate this trend. We can draw a conclusion that as human’s life experience and his/her intellectual level gradually develops, the functions of these repetitions in discourse expand and gain a new meaning. Repetition is a choice made by the sender of any text, first of all, based on his/her subjective individual rather than social preferences. That is why the use of repetition in discourse motivates intersubjective behaviors regardless of time and place.

ORAL POETIC SUBCORPUS: PROSODIC FEATURES OF POETIC DISCOURSE

ORAL POETIC SUBCORPUS: PROSODIC FEATURES OF POETIC DISCOURSE

THE POETIC NATURE OF INTERNET-TEXTS AS A NATIONAL CHARACTER TRAIT

The article analyzes texts produced through poetic tactics – one of the linguocultural units that reflects the national specifics of Kazakhstani Internet texts located in the virtual space. The Internet has also made it possible to develop poetic discourse, the authors of which can be any Internet user. Elements of poetic tactics used in the communications of Internet users model manifestations of national consciousness. Today, in the works of native speakers in the virtual space, it is common to find texts in the poetic form of the communicants’ own work or poetic texts that are not their own works, but partially or fully quoted from other sources, for example, from popular songs, poems of great folk poets, akyns. The goal is to consider the established concepts of poetic tactics in modern linguistics and study poetic texts that reflect the national characteristics of the Internet space. In the process of writing a work, methods of description, narration, and elements of linguocultural analysis techniques are used. They reveal the meaning of the poetic nature of communicants common in a certain folk culture, create the opportunity to determine their originality, and differentiate their functions. The choice of such tactics depends on the temperament, mentality, and values of a particular linguistic personality. As a result of linguoculturological and linguopersonological analysis of texts, it is concluded that poetic tactics in Internet texts depict ideas, the spirit of the people based on the national image of the world and form the text generation of the Kazakh virtual linguistic personality. Key words: poetic tactics, Internet text, communication, Internet commentary, picture of the world, virtual space.

ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ОБРАЗОВ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ КАРТИНЫ МИРА В ПОЭЗИИ ОЛЖАСА СУЛЕЙМЕНОВА

The article is devoted to the study of such topical issue as ethnic distinctness of works written by translingual authors in the context of the value paradigm of the national view of the world. The notion of “national view of the world” is characterized from the point of view of traditionalism and dynamism of its content. The article considers peculiarities of transculturalism and translingualism and pays special attention to the problem of bilingual and multilingual creative personality’s ethnic self-identification. The author also analyzes the notion “image of linguoculture” and studies the significance of Kazakh linguocultural images in the process of transferring the national content of life and its axiological meanings. The study is based on the material of the poetic discourse of Olzhas Suleymenov. As a result of contextual analysis of the poetic texts of the Kazakh poet, linguistic and cultural images reflecting fragments of the Kazakh national picture of the world were revealed. The article presents objectified images of the Kazakh linguistic culture in lyrical texts, which reflect national customs and traditions, images of the historical past of the Kazakh steppes, traditional images of Kazakh folklore and literature, proper names, objects of national life, cuisine, clothing, crafts of the Kazakhs. As the analysis showed, the translingual poetic creativity of the classic of modern Kazakh literature contributes to the formation of the paradigm of cultural values of the Kazakh national worldview

The Poetic Discourse on “Serendib” in Modern Arabic Literature: Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi as a Model

This article examines the impacts of Sri Lanka on the poetry of Mahmoud Sami Al-Baroudi, who was exiled there for more than seventeen years (1882-1899 AD). While no study has been done to reveal the extent to which the poet’s derivation from the Sri Lankan environment in his poetry, this research will attempt to clarify the poet’s approach in introducing Sri Lanka, showing the aspects of its nature, and then to discuss his poems about the Sri Lankan people. In order to accomplish these goals, the inductive method was used to track the verses and poems that addressed topics related to Sri Lanka, and then the analytical approach was employed to study and analyse those verses and poems. The study discovered that the poet followed the approach of ancient poets in defining Sri Lanka by using the name “Serendib”, which the Arabs called it in the past, rather than “Ceylon”, which was an official name at the time. Similarly, the poet’s admiration for Sri Lankan nature emerged, particularly the nature of “Kandy,” where he lived for nearly ten years of his life, and from which he derived imagery and ideas for his poetic production, that is, in some of the poems in which he is nostalgic for Egypt, as well as in two independent poems. Concerning the Sri Lankan people, the researcher discovered only some poetic verses in which the poet criticised the negative aspects of some of the people’s customs and cultures, as well as some of their moral and physical nature

Unveiling Wordsworth's Daffodils: A Semiotic Tapestry of Signs and Symbols

This research aims to identify and analyze signs and symbols in William Wordsworth’s poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. This study employs a descriptive qualitative research design through a semiotic approach to investigate the function of signs and symbols in poetic discourse. The data in this research was collected from Wordsworth’s. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud as the primary data source, while the secondary data sources are books, articles, and other online sources that support the primary data. The obtained data were analyzed using Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotic model, which consists of an icon, index, and symbol. The data analysis was conducted in three stages: classification, display, and verification. The result of this research shows that the poem employs various phrases, which can be categorized as icons, indexes, and symbols. The signs function to surpass linguistic barriers and convey significant insights about the human spirit and its connection to the natural world. These can also serve as a reminder that even the most basic words, when skillfully composed and infused with symbolic significance, can have a lasting effect on readers, encouraging them to delve into their feelings and establish a stronger bond with the world.

Portrayal of Ecological Crisis with Interventions in North East India: An Analytical Study from Nagaland Poetic Perspectives

ABSTRACT Ecological concerns and crises are the priorities in the 21st century throughout the world, Asian countries, and India respectively. This research study investigates the portrayal of environmental and ecological problems and issues in North East India through an analytical lens and perspectives rooted in the poetic descriptions and expressions of the North East Region. By nature, Northeast India is characterized by its unique cultural heritage and rich biodiversity confronting various ecological challenges. Some of the challenges range from habitat loss and deforestation to climate change influences and loss of tribal ecosystems, indigenous knowledge traditional practices, and so on. In this article, the researcher through an analytical examination of poems from North East Indian poets particularly from Nagaland highlights the intricate connections between ecological literature and traditional identity, shedding light on the North Eastern region's ecological concerns and the ways in artistically expressed through poetic discourse. In this study, the following Naga poetic expressions Monalisa Changkija, Temsula Ao, Nini Lungalang, and Easterine Kire are considered. Throughout this paper, the scholar examines how the poets from the Nagaland region try to understand, perceive, interpret, and respond to environmental problems portraying the role of literature in promoting ecological awareness, lobbying, advocacy, and stewardship.

Alcances teológicos de la filología

A series of texts written by poets and critics is analyzed, from Matthew Arnold to Antonio Colinas, who have seen in poetry the possibility of finding a means of spiritual comfort or even a transcendent sense. The purpose is understanding how a discourse linking poetic words and the experience of transcendence has developed over time to open up the bases for a dialog between philology and theology. The text focuses, more than on theories and strictly theological terms, on showing, by means of the authors' literary reflections, those aspects of their discourse pointing out the existence of a trascendental phenomenon in poetry. In this way, the approach to a literary phenomenon so heterogeneous and determined for creating the poetical discourse of some of the most remarkable poets of the 20th and 21st centuries could be developed on the basis of greater theological and literary assurance.

DISRUPTION IN POETIC DISCOURSE: CONCEPTUAL CONTENT

DISRUPTION IN POETIC DISCOURSE: CONCEPTUAL CONTENT

Qualitative Characteristics of Life in the Poetic Discourse of M.I. Tsvetaeva

The work is aimed at studying the semantics of the concept of life in Russian poetic discourse. The purpose of this article is to identify the features of the semantic content of the lexical representative life within the group of qualitative
 characteristics based on the work of M.I. Tsvetaeva.
 The study identifies, confirms with examples and analyzes from a semantic point of view the following main subgroups of the qualitative characteristics of life: 1) «belonging»; 2) «duration»; 3) «correlation with the present moment»; 4) «direct assessment»; 5) «togetherness»; 6) «closeness to the standard»; 7) «taste sensations»; 8) «personalized quality»; 9) «degree of wealth, opportunities»; 10) «the elements»; 11) «simple – complex»; 12) «color».
 The conclusions reflect the following features of M.I. Tsvetaeva’s poetic discourse: 1) the prevalence of qualitative characteristics and the diversity of sectors of figurative comprehension of life; 2) expansion of the semantics of epithets due to interaction with the immediate context; 3) the opportunity to be close to
 the object of love as an indicator of quality of life; 4) a shift in semantic poles within the evaluative category «good – bad»; 5) variability in assessing quality of life in chronological terms.
 The results of the study can be used in research and teaching activitiesrelated to the study of Russian poetic discourse.

A Nominalist Reading of the Ending of Malory’s Morte Darthur: Ockham’s Notion of the Metaphysical Freedom of the Will and Earthly Emotions

: Unlike the romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, which portray heroes who display exemplary characters, Malory’s Morte Darthur is marked by its depiction of heroes who surrender to their extreme love, grief or anger. Yet, this shift towards the portrayal of faulty characters who experience imperfect emotions is not abrupt, but rather a result of the gradual development of the medieval poetic discourse of emotion over the centuries. This paper proposes that the bleak sentiment which characterises the ending of Morte Darthur can be better understood if read within the cultural context that contributed to the shaping of the period’s discourse of emotions. The paper suggests that Malory’s choice to conclude his book in this way cannot be viewed in isolation from the text’s immediate political context represented by the turbulence that accompanied the Wars of the Roses, and which resulted in the spread of a utilitarian, humanist sentiment that revolves around the individual’s basic human needs. The paper, accordingly, suggests a correspondence between the nominalist discourse of emotions and the text’s decadent discourse of emotions.

Making a Case for Poetry in Action-oriented Foreign Language Courses

"The present article describes a small-scale poetry project intended to foster culturally responsive learning in the C1-level university language course. The instructor of this course had the opportunity to invite an aspiring poet, Ivan Bio from Sierra Leone, to a reading of three of his poems to be performed during one of the sessions. Designed as an extension activity for one of the course units, the project required students to complete a set of tasks to prepare for the poetry reading as well as engage in follow-up activities to reflect on the experience. By describing and analyzing the implementation of this reading session, the authors aim to explore the potential benefits of poetic discourse for language courses based on action-oriented, learner-centered approaches. Against the background of the CEFR descriptors relating to the reception of creative/literary language and the mediation of texts, the authors intend to show that the interpretation and analysis of poetic texts can help students not only to increase their sensitivity to and awareness of the ambivalence of language, but also to in turn expand their communicative language competences, most notably their mediation skills. To achieve these goals, students were asked not only to analyze and explain the poems to their peers, but also to formulate personal responses to the texts. A striking observation was that the context of remote learning where students communicated in a Zoom meeting did not seem to interfere with their willingness and ability to express their attitudes and even their emotions. This made the meeting an emotionally profound experience for everybody involved, and the authors will argue that not only the range but also the intensity of the language learning experience can be greatly enhanced by integrating poetry in the foreign language classroom. The article intends to demonstrate that the CEFR with its Companion Volume (CEFR/CV) and their operationalization in action-oriented approaches form a perfect basis for expanding learners’ language competences through poetry. "

Технологическая метафора и коммуникативные модели в новейшей русскоязычной поэзии

The article investigates the functioning of technological metaphor and communication models in poetic discourse. The aim of the study is to explore contemporary Russian poetry in its relation to digital technologies, employing cognitive-discursive and media-cognitive ap­proaches. Technological metaphor is an implicit property inherent in both technical objects and poetic texts, which manifests itself on two levels: lexical-semantic and cognitive-communicative. The article proposes an approach to the study of technological metaphor in three aspects: the examination of a technical object as containing its own metaphorical sub­strate, the thematization of a technical object in a poetic text and metaphorization strategies, and the implicit functioning of a technological metaphor at the level of the whole text, which affects the communication structure of poetic discourse. The key parameters of the new com­munication models in poetic discourse include the transformation of the prototypical space of the poetic text, changes in the principles of poetic framing, semantic and syntactic compres­sion, multiple integration of mental spaces, referential uncertainty, the functioning of com­puter terms as metaphors in poetic discourse, and their secondary metaphorization/deme­ta­pho­rization. The active interaction of poetry and technology leads to the creation of communi­cation aesthetics, with a key parameter being the formation of hybrid cognitive-communi­ca­tive zones in poetic discourse.