Article

Name: Position of biblical and ancient onomastics in J. Brodsky poetry

Authors: G. M. Miropolsky

Independent researcher

Abstract: The frequency of J. Brodsky use of biblical onomastics indicates the personal religious drama of the poet. The main intensity of the latter came in the beginning of 1980. The semantic space of antiquity appears as a competitor of the semantics of Christianity. The peak of the antique onomastics appearance in J. Brodsky\s work was exactly at the time of the significant drop of the biblical onomastics in his work. We observe it in the (false) utterance «Изо рта, сказавшего все, кроме “Боже мой”...». Around that period, in the beginning of 1980, J. Brodsky renounces the use of platonic writing names-concepts (Time, Human, Immortality, and so on). However the use of the biblical onomastics never disappears completely, it occurs as a constant lexical background during the whole poet\s life. Within the context of J. Brodsky work, the frequency of the use of biblical names is, in fact, directly related to the use of iambus. For the poet, iambus arises as the metre that bears ideological and even «spiritual» meaning. A crucial part\s drop of iambus in J. Brodsky poetry comes in the end of 1970 at the same period of the significant drop of the biblical onomastics appearance.

Keywords: onomastics, J. Brodsky, bible, antiquity, religion, intersyllabic pauses

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