THE ORGANIZATION OF SUBJECT SPHERE IN THE POETIC TEXT OF JOSEPH BRODSKY WITH INFINITIVE DOMINANT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FRAGMENTS OF THE POEM “SHESTVIE” [THE PROCESSION])

This paper is focused on studying the organization of subject sphere and determining of the features ofexpression of the category of person in the poetic text with infinitive dominant. The research is based on material of twofragments of the poem “Shestvie” [The procession] (1961) by Joseph Brodsky, which present a series of independent and dependent infinitives that determine the criteria for the interaction of two types of subject - the subject of dictum and the subject of modus. In the result of this research by functional-grammatical, semantic and contextual analysin the spheres (areas) of the different types of subjects were found out, lexical and grammatical methods of their expres-sion were determined and specific features of the organization of the subject sphere in the poetic text with constructswith infinitives, such as meta-subjectivity, subjective egocentricity and autocommunication, are revealed. The researchof this language material should, therefore, take into account not only semantic-grammatical aspect, but also situational (pragmatic) context. That explains, according to the author, the complexity of the identification of the category of person in infinitive poetry of the 20th century.