Maria Buraia, Olga Bogdanova, Anton Azarenkov, Elizabeth Vlasova
The poem “I was only what” as the semantic centre of Brodsky’s supertextual unityAd Alta: Journal of interdisciplinary research, Journal №.: 12/01 (Volume 12, Issue 1), June, 2022. – рр. 38-44.
ISSN 1804-7890, ISSN 2464-6733 (online) (WoS)
This article presents a hypothesis about the functioning of a peculiar unconventional supertextual unity with lyrical metaplot of initiation, cognition and hero’s creation by love in I. Brodsky’s work. The poem “I was only what” is seen as the semantic centre of this unity: a work that embodies in concentrated form all the main features of the whole cycle. The content and poetic peculiarities of the poem are studied: lyrical plot and subject system, imagological and thematic structure, chronotopical wholeness, intertextual level.
Keywords: Brodsky, cyclisation in poetry, initiation plot, semantic centre.