METAPHOR IN MODERN POETRY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH

Language is the most important means of depicting artistic life in literature. Literary images and all works of art consist of verbal images, that is, individual words, combinations of words, paragraphs, strophes, parts of a literary work or even a whole work of art, as a unique organized element of poetical speech.Metaphor is one of the most common artistic tropes in literature. It is based on the similarity of objects or phenomena in a variety of features and also arises from the comparison, comparison of a new subject with already well-known and the allocation of their common features. In poetry metaphor plays a huge role. There is no author who would not use metaphorical transfer to describe in bright colors the various phenomena and actions. This is especially true of modern poetry, in which all images are metaphorical and full.Today, metaphor is a popular trope in poetry and in various novels and works. However, despite the popularity of metaphor in poetry, the comparison and functioning of metaphor in Spanish and English are not sufficiently studied. This is what determines the topicality of this article.The objective of the study is the comparison of the functioning of metaphors in modern poetry in English and Spanish.Many linguists studied both metaphor and poetry. Poetry interested in such scholars as Martin A., Rizel E. G., Smirnitsky A. I., and others. Contemporary poetry studied such linguists as Polozkova V. N., Astakhov I. A., Borodin E. A., Dorofeeva, and others. The study of metaphors involved linguists such as Harutyunova N. D, Bessorabova N. D, Efimov A. I., Chudinov A. P., Kharchenko V. K. and others. We took their research as a basis of the theoretical part of the article.The experimental basis was served by the poems of the English poets Robert Service "A song of success" and Robert Pinsky "To Television" and Spanish poets Elvira Sastre "Camino de huída y Vuelta" and David Huerta "El peso de una chispa".Practical and theoretical significance of the work. Within the framework of the presented work, the task was to carry out a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the poems of English and Spanish modern poets.The theoretical significance of the presented work is that this study allows to develop and expand the methodological and empirical base of a little developed in domestic and foreign science direction. The presented study is aimed at solving a significant scientific problem that will make a significant contribution to the development of modern issues of development and study of poetry.During conduction of the presented study were used general scientific methods, which included the analysis of the data on the research topic, the synthesis of individual intermediate conclusions on the presented components of the study, generalization and formulation of the final conclusions on the work, and private scientific methods .The introduction shows the topicality of the article, objectives, theoretical and methodological foundations and the importance of both theoretical and practical significance.In the first part of the article there is an overview of the metaphor in modern poetry.The second part of the article is a practical part, which consists concrete examples based on modern poems in English and Spanish, similarities and differences of metaphor in English and Spanish in modern poetry.In results and discussion there are findings, based on the work with foreign literature.References consist of main scientific works from different authors that were used in the formation of the article.