«The city is quiet, silvery, swaying in the cradle of vision» (epithet characteristics of the city in the Ukrainian poetic language of ХХ century)

The noun city is an actively epithetized image of Ukrainian poetry the twentieth century. Around it are definitions with direct, descriptive meaning (autological) and figurative, figurative-evaluative (metalogical). Autologous include characteristics size (large, giant, small), age (new, old, ancient, eternal, young), location relative to administrative center (central, provincial), distance from lyrical hero. close), time (morning, evening, night). Also traditional for poetic language use nomination specific names cities epithets beautiful, abandoned, unfamiliar, possessive pronouns my, our. In many material-subject plan inferior emotional-expressive, metaphorical, associative-figurative word usage prevails over nominative. semantic structure such constructions dominated by seven ‘visual perception’, ‘audio ‘psychological ‘historical assessment’. Among artistic sema perception’ most branched color-epithet series – white, yellow, green, blue, gray, black, gold. Carriers a color sign (golden-topped, silver-haired, white-winged) carriers complicated semantics value. aesthetics dominant family (suffering, torn, exhausted, tired, tragic, etc.) determined their imagery emotional coloring. Anthropomorphic transfer signs psycho-emotional states (fatigue, suffering), character traits (pride, tenderness, kindness, insecurity), morality or immorality (innocence, sinfulness), as well external portrait human physical condition. Characteristic epithet microparadigms develop realities that space, specify its social cultural infrastructure. general, epithetization reflects both realistic figurative-symbolic, philosophical-generalized city. It geographical object aestheticized space in which heroes self-identify. Such complex nature opens up prospects broad interpretation.