"MY LIFE IS CINEMATOGRAPHY": METHODS OF METAPHORIZATION IN THE POETRY OF YURIY LEVITANSKY
The article deals with the ways of metaphorizing lexical units in the poems of Yuri Davidovich Levitansky, a famous Russian poet of the last third of the twentieth century. His works are a result of profound philosophical reflections about human life and art, about past, present and future as categories of being. As a result of a linguistic analysis, we revealed that by consistently developing the same images and techniques the author unifies his artistic space. The metaphor and various metaphorical constructions play an important role in constructing a poetic text. We established that the use of basic metaphors (the text referents, such as “life - cinema”) is a fundamental constructive device for the semantic organization of the text. Systemic metaphors can be repeated in different fragments of the poem. A stylistic device is often accompanied by the allegory when used for the transition from reality to metaphor with further semantic development in the text. The author uses predicative, nominal and adjective constructions where linguistic (nominative) metaphors receive individual author's meanings. Lexical units of one semantic field are often involved in the metaphorization process. Due to this process, basic metaphors acquire a special conceptual meaning and create a complex literary image.