The cognitive-pragmatic program of the J. Brodsky's lingual personality: the system of self-identifying sets

This article considers the system of J. Brodsky’s poetry self-identifying cognitive-pragmatic sets (CPS) within the original theory of cognitive-pragmatic programs (CPP). The key purpose of the article is to signify and raise the scientific description of supporting “autopsychological” images that closely connected to the leading creative personality sets. The J. Brodsky’s creative life is characterized by the purity of cognitive-pragmatic program of the poet’s synthetic lingual personality, the scale and philosophic nature of his gift, rapidness of his poetic development and the globality of the initially set tasks. Borrowed from the arsenal of culture in the early, “elegiac” stage of the traditional subjective models (lyrical masks) of the romantic-modernist plan varying ideas of alienation, skepticism, severity towards oneself and the world, confrontation, marginalism, isolation, wandering, hopelessness, chosenness, etc..., are transformed into generalizations of certain lyrical motifs. The through motive “the worse the better” (variation of the romantic-modernist choice) gradually gives the lyrical subject a kind of optimism; there is a “relocation” of the hopeless mortal from the world of loss and evil into the emptiness of death, memory, path, poetry. The appearing incarnations of the lyrical character (ILC) primarily refer to the characteristics of human destiny, so the early ILC does not disappear, but is brought to the aphoristic formulae. In the mature work of Brodsky, the ILC are conditionally personified motifs denoting the inevitable fate of a man-poet hero.