scholarly journals EMOTIVES OF SURPRISE IN MODERN ENGLISH POETRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Y. Khvostenko ◽  
I. Redka
Keyword(s):  
English Poetry ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
Expectancy Effect ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units

The paper focuses on linguistic manifestation of emotion of surprise in modern English poetic texts. The study is guided by the statement that emotions – psychosomatic processes – can be fixed in fictional texts (including the poetic ones) in the form of emotives – the linguistic units that manifest emotions and/or feelings of the addresser. The emotion of surprise differs from other basic emotions of a person due to its ambivalence and specific prerequisites to emergence. As surprise comes forth unexpectedly, the study looks for basic situations in the context of poetic texts when emotives of surprise appear. To study the phenomenon, the concept of emotional situation is employed. It marks the circumstances under which the persona experiences the emotion of surprise. The results obtained from the analysis of modern English poems distinguish several emotional situations in which emotives of surprise appear. They occur at the junction of image-bearing spaces of 1) dream and reality; 2) reality and fantasy; 3) expectations and their fulfilment; 4) two contrasting situations in reality. These image-bearing spaces may have either contrasting or complementing features. The defeated expectancy effect that occurs due their interaction manifests itself verbally via the emotives of surprise.

scholarly journals Formation of the Cultural Code of a Generation: Keywords of Poetic Texts in Elementary School (Russian Empire — USSR)

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
N. A. Afanasyeva ◽  
L. P. Afanasyeva
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units

The question of the possibility of analyzing texts to identify their axiological content based on keywords is considered. It is argued that linguistic units characterized by high frequency denote axiologically important concepts and form cultural attitudes in the reader. The characteristic features of the common cultural code for the nation and its unique features in a particular era are determined. The poetic texts of anthologies on literature of the 19th — early 20th centuries that have survived many editions, as well as textbooks of the 1930 — 1940s and 1970-1980s for primary school are analyzed. The research showed that the keywords of the lexical-semantic groups “Nature” (forest, land, field, sea) became common for the poetic texts studied in the elementary grades; “Light” (light, sun, day), “People” (person, child, people, country); that is, these are the words that are leading in the formation of the cultural code of the Russian people of the XIX—XX centuries. The “key words of the era” for the Russian Empire are the words soul, tsar, god; for the 1920s — labor; 1930s — song, Stalin; 1970s — mother, spring. The relevance of the study lies in its focus on identifying the basic concepts, meanings and values that form the cultural code of the nation, as well as on describing the dynamics of the cultural code in different historical eras.

scholarly journals Verbalization of the Native Land Concept in Oleksii Dovhiy's Poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Strokal
Keyword(s):  
General Concept ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Landscape Elements ◽  
Native Land ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Current Stage ◽  
The Ideal

The article deals with the peculiarities of the linguistic expression of the NATIVE LAND concept in Oleksii Dovhiy's poetry. The study found that the current stage of linguistics is characterized by an understandingof the concept as a general concept and complex of culturally determined perceptions of the subject. The concept itself is a designated element of the ideal that represents the reality of the speaker through the prism of his culture. The article argues that the individual's ideas about the subject are realized in the artistic text through a figurative system. The image is considered as the main means of artistic generalization of reality, as a sign of the objective correlate of human experiences and as a special form of social consciousness.In Oleksii Dovhiy's poetic texts the image of the native land is one of the most vividly presented. For the poet's lyrical hero, this image serves as a special place, a sacred locus, the beginning of all things. This vision of the lyrical hero is expressed in the nominations for the designation of landscape elements, natural phenomena and their characteristics. Supplements the analyzed locus introduced by the author image of the Big Father, expressed by the respective linguistic units. The author's poetic language presents linguistic constructions that explicate the image of the native land as the beginning of all things a place in which the memory of the heroic past and the difficult tests are stored at the same time.

scholarly journals Metaphor as a Means of Pessimism in English Poetry

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ayed Ibrahim Ayassrah ◽  
Ali Odeh Alidmat
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
World War ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
The World ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Poetic Texts

The present study attempts to investigate using metaphor as a powerful tool of pessimism in poetic texts with special emphasis on T.S Eliot’s Waste Land. Eliot’s Waste Land which is heavily pregnant of metaphors is a great epic poetic story summarizes the gloomy circumstances of the European life after the World War I where a complexity of sad feelings dominates the whole five parts of the poem. Eliot vividly used metaphor as an effective means in transferring the real degradation of the European life after the Great War.This study includes an introduction, significance of the study, choosing the metaphorical pessimistic expressions in Eliot’s Waste Land, questions of the study, objectives of the study, methodology, what is metaphor? functions of metaphor, what is pessimism? The Waste Land, Eliot’s life, why was Eliot pessimist in his great Waste Land? the analysis session, the answers of the study questions and the references.

scholarly journals Versification and authorship attribution. A pilot study on Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Plecháč ◽  
Klemens Bobenhausen ◽  
Benjamin Hammerich
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Authorship Attribution ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
The Common ◽  
Poetic Texts

This article describes pilot experiments performed as one part of a longterm project examining the possibilities for using versification analysis to determine the authorships of poetic texts. Since we are addressing this article to both stylometry experts and experts in the study of verse, we first introduce in detail the common classifiers used in contemporary stylometry (Burrows’ Delta, Argamon’s Quadratic Delta, Smith-Aldridge’s Cosine Delta, and the Support Vector Machine) and explain how they work via graphic examples. We then provide an evaluation of these classifiers’ performance when used with the versification features found in Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry. We conclude that versification is a reasonable stylometric marker, the strength of which is comparable to the other markers traditionally used in stylometry (such as the frequencies of the most frequent words and the frequencies of the most frequent character n-grams).

scholarly journals Poetic image of Kuzbass in the verses of regional authors

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00126
Author(s):  
Dmitry Kuznetsov ◽  
Nadezda Rabkina ◽  
Olga Valko
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Spatial Vision ◽  
Poetic Image ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Significant Motif ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units ◽  
Time Description

This research features the phenomenon of the so-called literature of space, namely amateur and professional poetic texts that together constitute a cultural supertext devoted to the Siberian coal mining region of Kuzbass. The article employed a multifaceted approach (statistical, pragmatic, textual and temporal/spatial vision analysis) to reconstruct the image of the region in the naïve worldview. Statistical analysis identified the key words and semantic models. The cognitive analysis reveals the basic cognitive structures, while the textual analysis makes it possible to reconstruct narrative and perception. The pragmatic analysis determines the communication role model and the predominant speech acts. The study exposes extended thematic nets of geographical, natural and meteorological terms, time description, and coal mining realia. The predominating cognitive models represent Kuzbass as a territory / a living being / treasure trove / home / family, while the most significant motif for professional oeuvre is legitimizing the peripheral area as an inseparable part of the Russian domain and history. Introspection, simultaneity, and strong modality appears to be the most significant text characteristics. Thus, the image of Kuzbass proves to be a complex comprehensive multitiered phenomenon based on different linguistic units and reflecting the results of the evaluative perception and processing.

Old English poetic diction not in Old English verse or prose – and the curious case of Aldhelm's five athletes

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 99-131
Author(s):  
Mark Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Old English ◽  
Educational Development ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Old English Poetry ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
English Verse ◽  
Poetic Diction ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Significant Discovery

AbstractThree contexts characterized by the occasional appearance of Old English poetic diction outside of Old English poetry — debased verse, rhythmical prose, and prose passages with rhetorical heightening — have been surveyed by previous scholars, but no serious consideration has been given to the use of poetic lexis to be found in the surviving glosses and glossaries. The article first looks at some examples in these non-poetic texts of poetic words used as markers of the heroic, the elegiac, the sublime, the exotic and the monstrous, before moving on to a detailed analysis of a significant discovery. The glosses and glossary batches to Aldhelm's extended simile in De Virginitate comparing the educational development of Christian nuns to the exertions of various athletes display (when taken together) a unique cluster of poetic diction, comparable in density (and perhaps also in motivation) to that found only in the most enriched passages of traditional heroic poetry.

Old English poetry, verse by verse

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 95-130
Author(s):  
Eric Weiskott
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Half Line ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Old English Poetry ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
State Of Affairs

AbstractCertain syntactical ambiguities in Old English poetry have been the focus of debate among students of metre and syntax. Proponents of intentional ambiguity must demonstrate that the passages in question exhibit, not an absence of syntactical clarity, but a presence of syntactical ambiguity. This article attempts such a demonstration. It does so by shifting the terms of the debate, from clauses to verses and from a spatial to a temporal understanding of syntax. The article proposes a new interpretation of many problematic passages that opens onto a new way of parsing and punctuating Old English poetry.In this essay in the history of poetic style, I demonstrate that the sequence in time of Old English half-lines sometimes necessitates retrospective syntactical reanalysis, a state of affairs which modern punctuation is ill-equipped to capture, but in which Anglo-Saxon readers and listeners would have recognized specific literary effects. In the second section, I extrapolate two larger syntactical units, the half-line sequence and the verse paragraph, which differ in important ways from the clauses and sentences that modern editors impose on Old English poetic texts. Along the way, I improve the descriptive accuracy of Kuhn's Laws by reinterpreting them as governing half-line sequences rather than clauses. I conclude with a call for unpunctuated or minimally punctuated critical editions of Old English verse texts.

scholarly journals Translation Pragmatics of Phonic Expressive Means in English Poetic Texts

2022 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1050
Author(s):  
N. A. Kurakina ◽  
I. S. Achinovich
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Research Area ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Original Poems ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Relationship

Phono-stylistics is a promising research area. Expressive power of a text depends on its phonetic imagery. The research objective was to identify the pragmatic features of phonic expressive means in translations of contemporary English poetry. The methods included a comparative analysis, phono-semantic and phono-stylistic interpretation of the original poems and their translations, and O. N. Tynyanov's law of versification. The method of sound counting developed by E. V. Elkina and L. S. Yudina was used to calculate the frequency of sounds in the context of phono-semantic analysis in the Russian translations. The method of sound counting designed by Tsoi Vi Chuen Thomas was used to calculate the frequency of sounds in the original English texts. The theoretical foundation of the research was formed by the works by M. A. Balash, G. V. Vekshin, Z. S. Dotmurzieva, V. N. Elkina, A. P. Zhuravlev, L. V. Laenko, F. Miko, L. P. Prokofyeva, E. A. Titov, etc. The study featured the phonics and pragmatics of S. Dugdale’s poem Zaitz and its three translations made by E. Tretyakova, A. Shchetinina, and M. Vinogradova, and C. E. Duffy’s Anne Hathaway translated by Yu. Fokina. The author compared the pragmatics of sound imagery in the English originals and their Russian translations. The research made it possible to define the role of sound imagery in the poetic discourse, as well as the relationship between the sound organization of poetic speech and the pragmatic value at the phonographic level. The results can be used in courses of translation, stylistics, and phonetics.

scholarly journals A Comparative Analysis of Temporal Structure of English Poetic Texts for Adults and Children

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Nataliya Denisova ◽  
Dinara Yusipova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
Poetic Texts

Poetry has always been under the focus of scholars’ attention, though the problem of performing a comparative analysis of children’s and adults’ poetry has not received enough attention yet. The study undertaken is aimed to fill in this gap and provide the analysis of English poetry for adults and children with the attempt to identify some grammatical peculiarities of the corresponding poetic texts. The scope of the texts for examination is limited to English poetry of the nineteenth – twentieth centuries focused on the animal theme. The analysis of the temporal structure of the texts selected was based on the method elaborated by Ludmila Nozdrina in her work “Poetics of grammar categories” (2004). The results of the study have proved the hypothesis stated: there are some differences in temporal structuring of the nineteenth–twentieth century poetic English texts focused on the animal theme. The main difference lies in targeting the poem: whether it appeals to adults or children. The current study contains quantitative information on the usage of certain grammatical phenomena within the texts analyzed, and the attempts of their interpretations. Consequently, the study might be of particular interest for those scholars who do research on differentiating grammatical peculiarities of poetry in general and drawing differences between children’s and adults’ poetry, in particular.

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