"МЕТАМОРФОЗЫ” ЗАБОЛОЦКОГО (ОПЫТ РЕКОНСТРУКЦИИ ПОЭТИЧЕСКОГО ЯЗЫКА)
ZABOLOTSKY’S ‘METAMORPHOSES’ РОЕМ (AN ATTEMPT AT RECONSTRUCTION OF THE POETIC LANGUAGE)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to reconstruct the foundations and to define the most important features of Zabolotsky’s language. By a ‘poetic language’ the author understands a set of possibilities and restrictions imposed on specific poetic expressions by a particular poet. B y the set of possibilities and restrictions, in turn, the author means a set of consequences resulting from the individual attitude to world (conception of the world) and a characteristic attitude to words (verbal communication). This is the reason for which the author has analysed the poem ‘Metamorphoses’. Resulting from this analysis are the following conclusions. 1) The world is changeable - it forms a dynamic structure that assumes the form of a continuous stream of variants. The individual variants do not contradict each other. The reality according to this conception is the whole of a paradigm with all the variants occuring at the same time. Opposite this conception is the reasoning which identifies the individual variants with the whole of the world. 2) Words (verbal communication) are understood here as an inadequate expression of reality. Verbal communication requires the occurence of variant only and for this reason words are inadmissable in this case. In the subsequent parts of the article the author aim s at reconstructing a model of reality on more specific levels; the model that would conform to the given conception. At the same time he confronts theoretical requirements with the solutions put forward by Zabolotsky him self. The problems connected with a particular attitude toward words have been but mentioned in the paper; a m ore detailed stu dy w ould b y beyond the scope o f this essay.

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