STYLE-FORMING PRINCIPLES OF CREATIVITY OF V. MAYAKOVSKY AND S. YESENIN

Abstract

The article examines style-forming principles of creativity of V. Mayakovsky and S. Yesenin. The researcher’s attention is focused on identifying and comparing the paronymic attraction in the poetry of the poets, the ratio of the content and sound principles is determined. The special attitude of poets to the word and its sound allows to determine the phenomena of paronymic attraction, the difference and similarity of individual styles of poets. The indicated approach to the study of sound and style-forming features of artistic texts by V. Mayakovsky and S. Yesenin allows to conclude that the specific functioning of language units leaves an imprint on the creativity of poets and creates special, distinct characteristics of poetic speech. Using a comparative analysis of texts, the author of the article discovers similarities and differences in the stylistic nature of the poets’ language.