THE CONCEIT OF COLOR HEARING IN LITERARY STUDIES OF A SONG TEXT

Abstract

The article represents the results of stylistic and literary analysis of The Wild Wild Sea, a song lyric by Sting. There was shown that the contemporary critical studies of any literary work may involve the elements of other scientific paradigms to create the new vision of an artistic phenomenon. Particularly, the conceits of so-called ‘color hearing’ proved by several prominent scholars and artists seem now productive to analyze the text of a song as a synthesis of verbal and musical means to express the writer’s emotions and worldview.