Organization of subject sphere in the poetic text of Joseph Brodsky with infinitive dominant (illustrated by the poem “Shestvie” (The procession))

This paper is focused on studying the organization of subject sphere and determining the features of expression of the category of person in the poetic text with infinitive dominant. The research is based on the material of two fragments of the poem “Shestvie” (The Procession, 1961) by Joseph Brodsky, which present a series of independent and dependent infinitives that determine the criteria for the interaction of two types of subject - the subject of dictum and the subject of modus. Functional grammatical, semantic and contextual analysis resulted in identifying the spheres of the different types of subjects, lexical and grammatical methods of their expression, and specific features of the subject sphere organization in the poetic text with infinitive constructions, such as meta-subjectivity, subjective egocentricity and autocommunication. The research of this language material should, therefore, take into account not only semantic and grammatical aspect, but also situational (pragmatic) context. This explains, according to the author, the complexity of identifying the category of person in infinitive poetry of the XX century.