MELANCHOLIC ORIENTATION OF THE POETRY “NEUTRAL TONES” BY THOMAS HARDY

A large number of scientific works are devoted to the interpretation aesthetic ideas poetry collection “Wessex Poems and Other Verses” (1898), less attention is paid each poem separately. The relevance study due small in Ukrainian foreign literature on linguostylistic analysis lyrics “Neutral Tones” by Thomas Hardy with further substantiation late Victorian English features. Therefore, aim this work dynamics imagery art embodiment ideological artistic artist phonics, stylistically coloured vocabulary, complex syntactic structures etc. methodological basis literary-critical peculiarities literary text researchers who investigated poetic T. through prism poet’s private life. method synthesis, comparison, generalization identification, historical-literary system-functional methods were used paper. This showed that Hardy’s has a gloomy tone contrasts hope. characteristic feature realistic texts. Feelings melancholy sadness embodied depiction theme separation unhappy love. Within technique experiments size, feet, rhyme line length. At phonological level, phenomena alliteration assonance influence melody structure appeal recipient’s sensory perception. conveys meaning descriptions, taking into account denotative connotative word, as he uses different stylistic devices. stanza basically sentence subjunctive, conjunctive and/or incoherent connections, where there game structural elements. In way, we highlighted main features poetics tropics which characterize individual style.