Poetics and Language of Poems From the Novel "Doctor Zhivago" by B. Pasternak

The study discusses the distinguishing lexical characteristics of Poems by Yuri Zhivago from the last chapter of the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Though the cycle’s poetics has been thoroughly studied in the historical context of the novel taking into the account its plot as well, the language and the stylistics of the poems have never been in the focus of attentions as complex system. Lexico-phraseological analysis of texts marked with dense usage of vocabulary of lower layers (including idioms, colloquialisms, professional jargon and vulgarisms) reveals a number of consistent lexis patterns in the poems. Despite the fact that the author sought to separate himself from the protagonist, the stylistic eclecticism of Zhivago’s cycle appears to be the reflection of his own artistic method that manifested the inseparability of every "high" and "low" aspect of the human and world existence. The thesis aims to provide a profound description of major vocabulary patterns in Zhivago’s poems and reveal their correspondence on imaginary level with Pasternak’s poetic vision and literary tradition in general represented by the major poets who also might have influenced the poetic language of the cycle.