Phonaesthetics in the beginning of XXI century

Lukanina Tatyana Aleksandrovna

This article is devoted to the analysis of phonaesthetics peculiarities in the modern Russian poetry. The source material for the article is taken from the poetry of T. Kibirov, D. Bykov, B. Polozkova, I. Kabysh, who are well-known poets. Their works are popular among Russian readers and represent all the features of the modern Russian poetry as a whole. Not only are means of euphony chosen as an object of analysis in this article, but also means of prosody. This is determined by the idea that the harmony of a poem is formed by a whole range of means: rhythm and meter, intonation (made by the means of different syntactic devices), rhyme, means of euphony (alliteration, assonance). There is a close interaction between form and substance in the poetry, that cause the form to enrich the substance. Both traditional and modern means of phonaesthetics can be find in the poems of the poets specified above, these means interact with Russian poetic tradition and enrich it in the same time.

Keywords:Phonaesthetics, euphony, rhythm, meter, intonation, alliteration, rhyme, masculine and feminine rhyme, phonaesthetics means, modern Russian poetry.