Poetic discourse as a authors’ supertemporal dialogue: Equinox by Mandelstam and The Only Days by Pasternak

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This article is a scholarly research based on contrastive comparison of two poems created at various times by two Russian Silver Age poets. The objectives set forth were to reveal and juxtapose the expressive stylistic means and devices of both texts employed as discursive guides for a resulting poetic dialogue. The principal method was descriptive based on comparison, systematization and contrasting formal and semantic features of the two texts. Purely linguistic methods included contextual and stylistic analysis and gradual complex, primarily expressive stylistic interpretation of the texts’ split-level components. It is concluded that there exist some certain segments within the national poetic discourse, which in their totality and continuity may be rightfully qualified as a supertemporal interpersonal creative discourse of a dialogue type. Numerous instances of the above kind can be found within other national cultures, as well as in the world cross-cultural communicative space.