VERBAL SYNAESTHESIA IN A LITERARY POETIC TEXT

Abstract

Synaesthesia is a genuine perceptual phenomenon and may provide a window into perception, thought and language. In the paper an attempt is made to show, that verbal synaesthesia in poetic text is understood as co-experience of a reader with the author based on the inner-sensitive associations of multi-sensible verbal units (words, phoneme, rhyme, alliteration, etc.). The paper focuses on the aspect of verbal synaesthesia in E.A.Poe’s poems. The complex analysis of textual associative connections, that were stimulated with the help of phonetic structure of the Poe’s poetic text, revealed that synaesthesia is closely connected with the specific character of the author’s idiostyle.