About some features of the poetic language of Elena Schwartz

Abstract

The article analyses some features of the way Elena Schwarz, a representative of Leningrad uncensored poetry, used the means of poetic language. In her texts, most often written in compliance with all the norms of traditional syllabic tonics, she actively practiced form and word – creation, invented new words and sentences without a semantic layer, introduced foreign borrowings, ready-made quotes from other literary works and abusive language. In some cases, she could also conduct experiments with non-standard graphic presentation of text, trying to achieve ideal symmetry. Studying the uniqueness of the poetic idiolect (language means regularly repeated in texts, new verbal constructions, whole words or forms of words, syntactic constructions) of one of the “uncensored” Leningrad authors helps the reader to better understand how her artistic world was created.