Combinatorial repetitions of somatisms in the poetry of Andrei Bely

The article summarizes some results of the study of the names of human body parts (somatisms) in the poetry of Andrei Bely. The analysis carried out in the work revealed Bely’s complex aesthetic system, where intertextual figurative connections are established by re-including the names of human body parts with certain realities or events of reality (112 contexts; about 10 % of all the constructions including a somatic lexeme). The article substantiates the idea that in the poetic works of Andrei Bely repetitive combinations of somatisms with the same components, introduced by the poet throughout his creative journey into different poetic works to depict diverse poetic pictures and images, characters and details, link his poems into a “single text”, reflecting the aesthetic tasks of the author and the integrity of his original creative impulse. The work focuses on the grammatical aspect of combinatorial repetitions of somatisms in Bely’s poetry, which are used not only as a means of getting to know the parts of human body in the process of naming them by a poet, but also as a linguistic technique for analyzing the somatic sphere in figurative and conceptual relationships and its place in the poetic world of Andrei Bely, as well as for characterizing the poet’s idiostyle. The supporting illustrative material shows that in Bely’s various poetic works written in different years a) he more often uses repetitive combinations of somatisms with verbs, and less often - with nouns and adjectives; b) his favorite verb lexemes, with which he repeatedly syntactically combines the same somatic lexemes, usually referring to the upper part of human body (face, head, nose), are the verbs from the lexico-semantic group of “body position change”. The results of this research may be interesting for literary scholars and critics exploring the works of Andrei Bely, and can be used for compiling his poetic dictionary.