"Oh, Metaphor Mania!": Stylistic Features of Metaphors in V.A. Sosnora's Book "The Virgin-Fish"
The article tackles the stylistic features of metaphors in V.A. Sosnora's poetry. The research borrows from the book «The Virgin-Fish» to focus on the multistage metaphor as the most typical one structurizing both the semantics and the poetic language composition. The findings contribute to formulating the functions of the latter as well as its role in creating the internal form of the literary work.