THE SYSTEM OF COMPARATIVE TROPES IN S. A. YESENIN’S POETIC TEXTS CORPUS

The paper presents an analysis of metaphors and similes in the corpus of S. A. Yesenin’s poetic texts with the purpose of revealing the peculiarities of the poetic world and explication of author’s consciousness. The research method implies a consistent description of vehicles and tenors in all selected comparative tropes. The key thesis of the research is that modeling the system of tenors and vehicles helps to identify the dominants of S. A. Yesenin’s individual style and to reveal his figurative worldview. The analysis demonstrated that vehicles of metaphors and similes mostly belong to the classes “Human beings” and “Animals”, whereas the majority of words denoting animals are nominations of domestic animals, foremost of the horses. The further semantic classes used as vehicles are “Plants”, “Fabrics”, “Metals”, “Stones”. The tenors of comparative tropes belong in the first line to the class “Nature objects”, and in S. A. Yesenin’s poetic world the images of sky space prevail. All this testifi es that anything related to the Russian rural landscape represents the constants of the author’s consciousness. A perspective of the approach used in this study lies in the field of lexicography and may result in the creation of S. A. Yesenin’s individual style dominants dictionary organized according to the ideographic principle.