SOME FEATURES OF V. MAYAKOVSKY’S POETIC LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to an analysis of innovative principles of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetic language formation. The main thesis is that Mayakovsky, starting from the futuristic practice of “de-aestheticization”, developed a unique system that brings book and spoken language closer together. The author explores in detail the key mechanisms of this language renewal: the polemically pointed use of symbolic words through personification and reinterpretation in a new context; the systematic incorporation of low street vocabulary into high tragic or satirical pathos, often using puns; mixing of high and colloquial vocabulary, including the special pronunciation of archaisms, and the syntax of colloquial speech to enhance expression and modernity of sound; active word-making, mainly the creation of “potential words”, the roots of which lie in the living conversational element and serve expression, outrage and doubling of semantic energy. It is concluded that Mayakovsky’s goal was to create a new realistic poetic language based on a revision of the relationship between book and spoken elements, and the formation of an oratorical, journalistic style, where the poetic word performs primarily a communicative function, while remaining highly expressive.