Idem-forma, metabola, identity. Image stucture of the poem by Vladimir Aristov “The Dolphinarium”

Abstract

In the article, the author accomplishes analyzing the poem “Dolphinarium” by Vladimir Aristov, in which the poet expresses his search for “the space of general likeness” and a common language, a common corporality. He denominated the work in that vein a concept of “idem-forma”, which means and a way of worldview and a special technique of creating poems and a method in analyzing artistic texts. Such a concept correlates with the concept of metabola, which was introduced by M.N. Epstein for analysis of the metarealism image structure and its poetic language. In V. Aristov’s poetics metabola is one of the elements of idem-forma, which expresses relationships of syncretism, synthesis, and identity at the trope level. While the poet only proposes the term “idem-forma” in the early 21st century, the image structure of the poem “The Dolphinarium” shows us that V. Aristov searches on that count all his literary way. The specific features of that technique usage in the poem are the synthesis at the chronotope and focalization levels, the subject neo-syncretism and the images-metabolas, expressing both the re-semantisation of details in the Soviet life, and the synthesis of worlds – the human and natural, the bodily and linguistic.