LITERARY MANIFESTATION OF GRECO-ROMAN LINGUISTIC LAYERS IN THE
POEM “CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE” BY G. G. BYRON AND THEIR
TRANSLATION INTO ARMENIAN
https://doi.org/10.59982/18294359-25.2-hh-14
Abstract
In the vocabulary of every language there are layers, which penetrated into the language during different epochs. They can be long-lived or short-lived depending on their stability. Based on the political, cultural, and educational level of the period, such linguistic units acquire new shades of meaning, sometimes new intonations. As far as Byron is concerned, it should be noted, that in his works, especially in the poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” mythologems are used widely. Basically, they refer to the Greco-Roman events. There are also mythologems of Biblical-Christian character. These mythologems express the real character of life of that time and exert a considerable influence on the language, culture, and the social life. The availability and abundance of mythologems in the poetry of Byron is explained by the fact that myths do not belong to a definite period of time, they embrace quite a wide period of time and, naturally, they find their manifestation in the works of various authors, various times and countries. Of course, Byron could not be an exception. One can surely state that the myhologems of Greco-Roman origin are stable or free word combinations, which acquire new meanings in Byron’s poetry, very often as metaphors, metonymies, epithets, oxymorons, and so on, which in their turn contribute to the formation of phraseological units.
Keywords: Language layer, artistic expression, ancient times, linguistic identity, mythologeme, national consciousness, spiritual orientation.
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