Occasional words with colorative semantics in the poetry of Igor Severyanin

INTRODUCTION. One of the famous poets of the 20th century is the founder of egofuturism, Igor Severyanin, whose work is distinguished by its outrageousness and tendency to novelty. Igor Severyanin’s colorful vocabulary immerses you in an atmosphere of enigma and mystery. The purpose of the study is to describe and interpret the semantic field of color vocabulary as a special component that forms the specifics of the author’s color vision reflected in the poetic picture of the world by Igor Severyanin. It seems advisable to comprehend corporate occasionalisms in the poet’s lyrics, which is insufficiently represented in the scientific literature.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The method of linguistic description, continuous sampling, the method of the author’s card file is used, methods of classification and systematization of colorative lexemes are used.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. It is established that the vocabulary with the meaning of color in the work of Igor Severyanin is not episodic, but is one of the characteristic features of his poetics and reflects the author’s worldview, the concept of being and emotional connotations using occasional adjectives.CONCLUSION. The dominant colors (purple and lilac) and the specificity of the meanings of the author’s own characteristics of the color vocabulary, representing the poetic color vision and handwriting of the Russian poet, are revealed; partial color meanings (adjective, noun, verb, adverb), among which complex adjectives occupy a special place. The occasional color lexemes of Igor Severyanin form special semantic fields objectifying the idiosyncrasy of the Russian poet.