REPRESENTATION OF NATURAL AND SPATIAL CONCEPTSIN PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY’S POETRY

Анотація

The article reveals the peculiarities of imagery representation of spatial and natural concepts in poetic
discourse of Percy Bysshe Shelley through the analysis of author’s individual stylistic preferences, manner and
regularities of imagery patterns, motives, and compositional lines development. It defi nes the systemic ways
and principles of symbolic and associative parallelism development between natural elements and versatile
aspects of existential notions and phenomena. The achieved results allow establishing the most conspicuous
features of author’s poetics, typical metaphoric models, in which natural elements and phenomena constitute
source and target domains of metaphorization, and the spectrum of their symbolic meanings. Reconstruction
of author’s artistic conceptual model is based on the assumption about the essential feature of poetic language,
its imagery-symbolic and lexical semantic potential as the main means of literary concepts verbalization,
their cognitive, aesthetic and emotional-expressive embodiment.
Key words: poetry, Romanticism, Percy Bysshe Shelley, literary concept, literary discourse.