About some features of the poetic language of Sergei Stratanovsky

Abstract

The article considers some features of the use of poetic language by Sergei Stratanovsky, the St. Petersburg underground writer. The author’s texts, even despite his adherence to all the canons of traditional syllabic-tonic versification, represent a synthesis of archaic layers of vocabulary, stable ideological clichés of the Soviet period, common speech, strong language and original neologisms. Studying the originality of the poetic idiolect (language means regularly repeated in texts, new verbal constructions, whole words or forms of words, syntactic constructions) «uncensored» by the author helps the reader to better understand how his artistic world was created.