Semantics of colours in O.E. Mandelstam's poetry

Abstract

This article is devoted to the colour picture of the world of O.E. Mandelstam representing the individual poet’s idea of the colour through the system of colour meanings. The analysis of the language expression of the poet’s colour attitude is carried out on the example of the colouratives of black tone which are dominant in his lyric poetry.
The analysed ways of the verbalization of author's meanings at the level of contact and distant connections allow revealing cognitive, mental and emotional spheres of the consciousness of the poet as well as allow interpreting the phenomenon of Mandelstam’s Universum as a difficult phenomenon defining his unique character and originality in the Russian literature. It is noted that the text realization of words in the conditions of the poetic discourse leads to the integration of various aspects of reality and reproduces the author's perception of the world based on the indissoluble, interpenetrating unity of the objective and the subjective, the logical and the sensual, the rational and the emotional.
The research is done on the synthesis of traditional and modern methods of the analysis of the realization of a poetic word: component, discourse and text analysis of names as well as the cognitive and hermeneutical analysis of the text that allowed to reveal the correspondence between text units, the information coded by them and mental structures or their elements presenting by this information by means of studying of the nature of connections between them.