REPEATITION AS A STYLISTIC DEVICE OF EXPRESSION IN E. PO POETIC SPEECH

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INTRODUCTION The work of the American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe is of great interest to literary scholars and translators around the world. His contribution to world literature is unquestionable; his ideas still influence world culture. The iconic figure of world literature, the series of new genres founder, the first professional writer of America, a master who incomprehensibly combined poetic genius and mathematical harmony, a knight of logic, wandering in the labyrinths of the unconscious, a man whose work occupied little contemporaries and will forever remain in the memory of his descendants. World fame and recognition, which Poe received, alas, already after death, give rise to a misleading view of him as a prolific author. Meanwhile, he wrote quite a bit. The poetic canon of Po includes a little more than fifty works, among which we find only two relatively long poems – “Tamerlan” and “Al Aaraaf”. The rest are relatively small lyric poems of various denominations. Thomas Eliot once remarked that of all the poetic works of Edgar Allan Poe, “only half a dozen were truly successful. However, not a single poem, not a single poem in the world had a wider circle of readers and settled so firmly in people’s memory than these few poems by Po” 1 . His “Philosophy of Composition” (1846) confirms that in his poetry, when creating images and the entire artistic structure of the poetic work, E. Poe proceeded not from fiction, but based on reality, theoretically substantiating the need for a romantic expression of the beauty of life. One of the main aesthetic theses, which he constantly adhered E. Po to is the statement that: “If the first phrase does not contribute to the achievement of a single effect, it means that the writer failed from the very beginning. According to his opinion there should not be a single word in the entire work that would not directly or indirectly lead to a single purpose conceived. So, carefully and skillfully, finally, a picture is created