ANALYSIS OF POETIC STYLE OF JOHN ASHBERY’S POEM

Abstract

The article considers a poem by the American poet John Ashbery (1927-2017), a prominent representative of the New York School of Poetry. The purpose of the research is to identify stylistic means and devices that constitute the basis of the unique poetic language of the famous American poet with reference to his poem “Breezeway” from his penultimate collection of poems (2015). The research methods include linguistic commentary, stylistic analysis, semantic analysis, and a continuous sampling method. The results of the study allow to conclude that this poetic work has such means and devices of stylistic semaciology as a play of words, irony, anthropomorphic metaphor, belonging to the figures of quality – metaphorical group; stylistic syntax, based on the absence of logically indispensible elements: zeugma, as well as rhetorical questions, emphatic constructions and intertextual elements.