SUBSTANTIVE METAPHORICAL PHRASE AS A MEANS OF CREATING CITYSCAPE IN THE POETRY OF SILVER AGE

Abstract

The author of the article focuses on the substantive metaphorical phrases used as a means of creating cityscape in the poetry of Silver Age. The ob-ject of the study were general linguistic, prevailing, and individual-author metaphors, their semantic models and dominant features in the text. The analysis of linguis-tic material led to the following conclusions: the origi-nal, author's metaphorical phrases dominate over the prevailing (common language, or universal poetical); images of the cityscape in the poetry of the Silver Age are, as a rule, «colorless» (color metaphors are rare) or sharply contrasting (in the landscape involved two dif-ferent colors); metaphors that shape the cityscape per-form major - graphic, encoding, covering, text-forming - functions.