Poetic metaphor in the XX century (study upon the data taken from the poetic essay by I. Selvinsky «A Journey round Kamchatka»

The paper examined a figurative meaning in the course of emerging in the poetry piece by the Russian and Soviet writer Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968). The study traced how some increments of figurative and expressive connotations to the meaning occur (altering the meaning) in the wording of a poetic essay by I. Selvinsky «A Journey round Kamchatka» (1932). The figurative language by I. Selvinsky was rooted in a rethinking of the world. Use of figures of speech may emphasize some shades of meaning that do not only refer to similarities between events or things, but either to difference between them as well, what the writer wanted to attract the reader’s attention to. The writer endowed inanimate nature with the features appropriate to the animate one, while the physical world in a whole acquired some human features in his vision.