Mimesis and communicative action in poetic text

The article is concerned with Plato’s main charge towards poets
who are occupied with imitation (mimesis). They create visibility, ghosts, no
concern with true being, and mislead listeners. Plato’s concept of poetry and
other verbal activity is closely connected with the spontaneously stated «wordthought
» concept. The direct connecting of a word with a certain value is emphasized.
Hence, any verbal material becomes an imitation of an idea (or the
reflection of a value), whereas the communicant makes actions in the imaginable
communicative space during the natural communication process. The poetic
text is not an exception. To use a verbal cliché (a word or a word combination) –
means to force the addressee’s consciousness to change the state due to calling
the memory of the situations in which these changes are usually reached. Aleksei Kruсhenykh’s poetic experiment (dyr bul schyl…) shows the total absence
of imitation (an image of reality in its forms) as well as the obvious presence
of communicative action. Therefore, a specific character of poetry is a specific
character of the communicative action.