Poetic Word in the Light of L.A. Novikov's Teaching on Aesthetic Perception

The subject of the study is the poetic word as a special kind of aesthetic instrument. The aesthetics is the universal relation of a person to the world, to himself, to art in general, and to the poetic text in particular. The purpose of the research is to establish the relationship between tradition and new ideas in L.A. Novikov's concept of language as art; to identify the specifics of the implementation of the aesthetic function of language in poetic texts. The methodological basis was the works of L.A. Novikov, M. Gasparov, R.O. Yakobson, and M.M. Bakhtin. Poetic texts of classical and modern authors were chosen as the material for the study. The research shows that the aesthetic meanings in the poetic text go beyond the meanings of the words used in the poem. On the examples of the poetry of M. Tsvetaeva and modern poets E.K. Olshanskaya and D.M. Burago we demonstrate a non-linear vision of the world, which provides an aesthetic effect. L.A. Novikov’s theory of the ornamental field and the theory of the aesthetic in language helps to understand the mysterious poetic meanings (connotations, subtexts, with the help of which the reader completes or transforms the author’s poetic image). The conducted research allowed us to draw the following conclusions: language is an object of aesthetics and a means of creating by the author a multidimensional reality, which is cultural; a full-fledged aesthetic perception of poetry is provided by the personality of the author himself, the phenomenon of the text (its motives, the palette of language means and techniques), the personality of the reader, the type of culture, etc.).