Specific features of using stylistic devices in Old English poetry on the basis of an Old English written poetic monument Beowulf

Statement of the problem.Learning the canons of the Old German art of poetry is the main instrument for forming the skills of poetic syllable as a source of new cultural information for the specialists in the field of the history of the Old English language and German Philology in general. The object for the analysis is the mythological praising epos with its strictly limited lexical models and metric rules. The Old English metrics is considered as a result of a linguistic experiment absolutizing the principal of conditional stylistic figures as language signs. Extraordinary stylistic devices such as hending, scothending, aldahending, and kenning present a great interest for understanding the opportunities in the old English poetry and demand a thorough textual analysis. The purpose of this articleis to consider the canons of the old English poetry in the aspect of comparative historical language study for overcoming intercultural dissonance in the cognitive perception of the epos by a modern reader. The methodology of study is based on comprising the materials of the old English epos using the comparative historical method and the method of the purposeful search of examples of stylistic devices which are not typical for present day poetry. The method of their etymological analysis corrects the notion of the poetic form used in the literary creation. Research results. The textual material of the old English epos researched by the authors leads to the conclusion that a poetic form is shown in the diachronic interaction of a poetic word and old English culture. Conclusion. The methodology of the study allowed pointing out the main directions of using metric rules on the phonetic level and lexical patterns on the level of language usage. The research of extraordinary stylistic devices contributes to the development of methods for studying old English and old German poetry in general.