Lyrical I in Poetic Discourse of Carl Sandburg: A Linguo-Cognitive Approach

Abstract

The article deals with the linguo-cognitive analysis of the expression of the lyrical I in the poetic discourse of the prominent representative of the epoch of American modernism—Carl Sandburg.
 
 The lyrical I is understood as a poet’s imagery in which the image of a lyrical hero and the image of the author are united in a syncretic way and which represents a three-fold linguo-cognitive construct that incorporates a conceptual, pragmatic and verbal embodiments.
 
 Based on the analysis made in the research, the authors arrived at the conclusion that Carl Sandburg’s lyrical I describes a man of labor, depicts a difficult life of a man in an industrial city, shows the author’s appeal in support of a man’s fighting for his rights, for peace and freedom. In the poetic discourse of Carl Sandburg, the lyrical I is represented with the help of an urban figurativeness, a newspaper style of the language, a perfect skill of use of a blank verse resembling a song folklore, and a wide use of local expressions and dialectal words, colloquial language and prosaisms.

The Influence of the National-Cultural Image of the World on the Construction of Metaphors in the Poetic Discourse

“…According to researchers rightly points out that the birth of a metaphor is associated with the conceptual system of native speakers, with their standard ideas about the world, with a system of assessments that exist in the world by themselves and are only verbalized in the language. Hence the conclusion: a metaphor is a model of inferential knowledge, a model of hypothesis (15,16,17,21). That is, we need it not just so that, having found a name for a fact, phenomenon or event, we can bring our thoughts to the attention of others.…”