Lexical oppositions in Volodymyr Sosyura’s poetic works
Journal Title: Мова і міжкультурна комунікація - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
This article researches lexical oppositions as one of the forms of artistic reflection of the outside world in Volodymyr Sosyura’s poetic style. Productive functional and semantic groups of antonymic pairs in poet’s language were analyzed. Antonymic and synonymic paradigms of the axiologically marked nomens which reflect human feelings, as well as oppositions which express temporal and location characteristics and represent opposite abstract concepts were described. The article makes it clear that Volodymyr Sosyura’s poetic style is characterized by using temporal opposition day – night not only to name opposite parts of twenty-four hours, but in order to oppose symbolically progressive and reactionary periods of human society, peace and war, happiness and misfortune, gladness and sorrow. Symbolical character of the constituents of antonymic pair day –night in the poetic language of the author also can be based on the poet’s individual transformations which reflect his individual world outlook. The productive temporal opposition spring – autumn in V. Sosyura’s artistic picture of the world was described. The constituents of this opposition express polar symbolic evaluation. Words combinations of lexical antonyms which are typical for poetic discourse and form personified characters are described. The author used personification in order to describe inner state of lyrical character, his / her feelings, emotional experience as well as positive state of lyrical character who shares his/her experience with the world. Predicative oxymoron syntagms creating connection between nomens of polar emotions, feelings, character’s emotional experience caused by a certain event or phenomenon were represented. It has been proved that imagery in the analyzed texts can be created by means of using one of the opposition’s constituent in denotative meaning and the other one in connotative meaning. The analysis confirmed that antonyms pairs and oxymoron syntagms in the poetry had the stylistic functions for creating contrast characteristics of characters, for expressing polar emotions and feelings of lyrical character, for underlining the contrast described objects and phenomenon of the reality.
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Nadiia Mykolaivna Bobukh
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