LANGUAGE AESTHETICS OF CONCEPT “CITY” IN POETIC TEXTS BY B.-I. ANTONYCH

The theme of the city is not main one, but it important for B.-I. Antonych’s lyrics. Author’s reflections on are fragment individual artistic picture world. In view this, article offers an analysis means linguistic and aesthetic representation concept in poetic texts by Antonych. specifics individual-author’s world this thematic segment demonstrated. It emphasized that style has already been sufficiently studied from point literary criticism. Instead, research peculiarities author’s language should be intensified. was found interpretation appears simultaneously several dimensions: both as a geographical object with characteristic set realities, industrial socio-cultural environment. these conditions new socio-psychological type personality formed. identifies productive lexical semantic models description. established contextual uses nomination its concretizers mostly related to direct meaning “large settlement, administrative, industrial, trade cultural center” recorded common dictionaries. At same time carrier information, also often reconsidered, forming associative connections due experience author, his personal creative preferences. revealed epithet phrases have text-forming significance creation image city. Around poetry Antonych grouped definitions testify anthropomorphization, natural morphization, verbalize different types evaluation – neutral, positive negative. development based logical realities detail space, social infrastructure square, street, lane, park, town hall, lantern, limousine. structure expression, they realize dictionaries, sometimes expressions occasional individual-author associations. A separate aspect perception display opposition nature. Nature presented harmonious, living while unnatural, standardized, schematic general, reflects objective city, social, architectural specifics. perspective proposed study possibility drawing parallels between lyrics European modernist poets, particular P. Verharn R.-M. Rilke.