THE POST MODERNISM ELEMENTS IN VYSOTSKY’S POEMS

Abstract

In the article the problem of the connection between the poetry of Vladimir Vysotsky and postmodernism is presented. Vysotsky was active in the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, which happened to be the period when postmodernism literature thoughts surged all over the world, and also the stage of underground development of postmodernism literature in USSR. Although Vysotsky was not dubbed the title of “postmodernist poet”, the creative postmodernism elements have been reflected in his poems, including intertextuality, center deconstruction, language game, etc. First of all, Vysotsky used the parody in the intertextual technique to deconstruct the inherent concepts, stimulate readers’ reading expectations, and increase the interest and tension of the poems. Secondly, the poet used “argot” as a means to restore a more real teenage world, and dispelled the central phenomenon of mainstream Soviet literature; finally, the poet used methods such as “neologism” and “calembours” to make the absurd irony of the poetry language more vividly.