PERIPHRASIS IN A POETIC TEXT ABOUT THE MOON: W. Stevens “Lunar Paraphrase”

Abstract

Based on the material of the poetic text of the poem by Wallace Stevens “Lunar Paraphrase” we establish that the periphrasis has a nominative character, has the replacing function, replacing the word “moon”, has metaphorical in relation to the replaced word, a descriptive and allegorical character, a unique individual author's metaphoricity. We prove that the peripheral education formation is provided by the cognitive abilities of a person, among which are such as the choice of the object of observation, sensory perception, attention, proper mental operations. There is a process of profiling, as a result of which focuses the attention of a person on a certain conceptual feature, highlighting a specific area and forming a paremic education. The appearance of periphrasis closely linked to a reflection on our perception of reality in language, which is governed by the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms. Periphrasis “mother of pity and pathos”, “mother of pathos and compassion”, “mother of sorrow and compassion”, “mother of pity and sadness” reflect the principle of variability in the interpretation of the MOON by different statements, which, of course, reflect the text subjective perception by the translator. The phenomenon of periphrasis in the Russian language determines the semantic and formal structure of the descriptive structure. It is assumed that we can talk about the coexistence of individual author’s peripherals.