A.S. Pushkin’s poems “I loved you” and “On the hills of Georgia” in the context of linguistic analysis of a literary text

IMPORTANCE. The relevance of a comparative analysis of A.S. Pushkin’s poems “I loved you” and “On the hills of Georgia” lies in the methodology application of linguistic analysis of literary text. This approach is inherently comprehensive, enabling the most effective reflection of interdisciplinary connections and knowledge within the framework of a multi-level language system. The aim of the research is to use linguistic analysis to demonstrate the potential for interpreting Pushkin’s texts, taking into account their thematic and genre proximity, specifics of compositional structure, and imagery. Special attention is paid to the functional sentence perspective (actual division), which is often not considered a component of linguistic analysis of literary text.
MATERIALS AND METHODS. The texts of A.S. Pushkin are presented as linguistic material. Descriptive and textual methods are used.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Research results confirm scholars’ conclusions about the simplicity of language in Pushkin’s texts as a characteristic feature of the poet’s individual style during his late creative period. The most significant trait, playing a considerable role in creating the overall imagery, is inversion, which exhibits proximity to colloquial literary speech. The study has identified semantic loads of grammatical components within utterances, demonstrating varying relationships with functional sentence perspective (actual division). Consequently, it has been established that functional sentence perspective facilitates the semantic development of the text, structures meaningful connections between utterances, and ultimately ensures a holistic comprehension of the text through their unity.
CONCLUSION. The analysis of A.S. Pushkin’s poems has demonstrated the necessity of incorporating into the linguistic analysis of literary text not only its traditionally recognized components (the text’s history of creation, its themes and genre, imagery, and figurative-expressive devices) but also such an element as functional sentence perspective (actual division). This component is systematically essential for understanding the text as a whole and enables the unity comprehension between linguistics and literary studies in the reader’s perception of a literary text as an aesthetic object.