Artistic and Expressive Means in the Language and Poetic Palette of the Ahatanhel Krymsky: Typology and Functions

Abstract

In the offered article it is noted that one of the most important problems of the Ukrainian linguistic stylistics – revealing of features of realization of language units in works of art, in particular and in poetic. A. Krymskyi’s poetry is full of stylistic figures that express the artist’s opinion embodied in verse. These stylistic devices provided a background sound image that brightened the depicted pictures of nature or images from the life of society, portrait descriptions or inner experiences of the lyrical hero. Stylistic and syntactic expanses of A. Krymskyi’s poetry are distinguished by sophistication and diversity. The author resorts to homeothelium, gradation, polysyndeton, parallelism, anaphora, epistrophe. The article considers the stylistic figures realized in the poetic works of Ahatanhel Krymskyi. The expediency of the analysis confirms that the linguistic and poetic practice of this artist has been overlooked by researchers so far. The author of the article concludes that in the structural-compositional and semantic organization of poetic works of the important role is played by means of sound recording (assonance, alliteration, equiphony, metaphony, onomatopoeia), lexical and grammatical techniques units of linguistic and artistic expression (parallelism, anaphora, homeoteleut, gradation, polysyndeton, inversion, chiasm). The characterized pictorial and expressive means rhythmize the poetic system, shade the hidden meanings, harmonize the content of the work in accordance with the author’s intentions. From the above it is concluded that in the structural-compositional and semantic organization of the poetic works of Ahatanhel Krymskyi play an important role stylistic figures, which are based on different levels of language units. Selected and described pictorial and expressive means rhythmize the poetic system, shade the hidden meanings, harmonize the content of the work in accordance with the author’s intentions.