The Esthetic Possibilities of Onomatopoeias in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry

Abstract

The artistic imagery of a poetic work synthesizes the visual and audible component in its intonation dimension. This will significantly enlarge the volume of esthetic information, together with the speaker’s emotional attitude which is able to suggest an image expressed in a poem to a reader. To reach the proper acoustic effect, poets use the ideophones (or onomatopoeias) and puns connected with them to create either overt or latent metaphors, constructing the image of a sounding thing or entity. This way the poet can concentrate any audible element to ‘a point within an idiom,’ activating the imagination and artistic thinking of a poem’s addressee.