LEXICAL PATTERNING IN ABAI’S POEM ‘WINTER’ Samal Aubakir is a PhD candidate at the Department of Foreign Philology, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University Aigul Bizhkenova is Doctor of Philology, Professor, at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University Abstract. This paper is about how the lexicalization make the poetic texts so distinctive from
other modes of language. It first deals with the characterization of poetic discourse and then
investigates the nature of lexical relations. Among all linguistic elements illustrating special
patterning in poetic texts, this study focuses on the way the lexical diversity leads the reader to
negotiate a meaning which requires more processing time, effort and attention; consequently,
rendering it more enjoyable in nature and hence of aesthetically higher value. In order to achieve
this goal, the extracts from Abai’s poem ‘Winter’ are analyzed in terms of lexical items and their
relationships to one another.
Keywords. Abai, poetic discourse, lexical density, poetry interpretation
Introduction The poetic lexicon, as a rule, differs from the lexicon of everyday speech, and this difference
can be expressed in different ways at different times. Differences in poetry from other types of
speech are largely due to the fact that in poetry, words do not work quite the way we are used to.
Unusual can be the choice of a single word or expression, or the entire set of words in the poet's
dictionary or a direction that does not coincide not only with the everyday dictionary, but even
with the dictionary of fictional prose of the era.
In general, words in a language are formed in different ways (in different models), and some
methods are used much more often more than others (Bizhkenova, 2017).
In poetry, new meanings arise not in words separately, but in their combinations with each
other. Poetry expands the meanings of words, allows you to perceive them in all their diversity.
This is due to the fact that words in poetry are more free than in common language, less
connected by stable combinations, and clichés. This is a consequence of the fact that one of the
main tasks of poetry is to see the unusual in the familiar, to reveal the true possibilities of
language and the richness of the world (Aubakir, 2019).
Striving for accuracy and brightness of expressions, the poet can create his own words
(Neology), and can use common words, but not in the way everyone does. This applies to
individual words and their combinations. As in poetry, everything can be combined with
everything, and only the author himself is entitled to limit himself, who can at the same time
proceed from his preferences or from what is accepted in a particular epoch or within a