THE METAPHOR OF SEMANTIC CLASS "THE INANIMATE WORLD" OF SELVINSKY''S POETRY (BASED ON THE POETIC ESSAY "A JOURNEY ACROSS KAMCHATKA")
The article deals with a method of systematic description and detailed listing of metaphoric patterns in various types of discourse. Imagery of speech involves both linguistic and aesthetic aspects. The analysis involves using the poetic essay “A Journey across Kamchatka” (1932) of Russian and soviet author Ilya L. Selvinsky (1899 - 1968) and “The Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language (1935 - 1940) edited by Dmitry N. Ushakov”. This dictionary reflects the time period of the common-literary language development synchronous with the creation of Selvinsky’s essay. Semantic features of metaphors are studied within six semantic classes embracing the sum total of human experience. Of special interest is a question of how the meaning in metaphor is switched from one denotation to another either in the same or in a different semantic class. One can trace the ways of aesthetic and artistic meaning augmentation in the essay’s context. Owing to this, an abstract or a material object in a personified metaphor is interpreted as a human being so that the reader (listener) may perceive inanimate objects of the world around in terms of human motivations, features, activities.