POETICS OF COMICAL IN THE ROALD DAHL’S MOCKERY WORKS

Abstract

The article analyzes the features of Roald Dahl’s parody on the basis of his poetic collection of children's poems "Revolting Rhymes". The author of the article summarizes the information relating to the genre of parody, traces the development of story lines. The place of parody occupies an important place in the Roald Dahl’s works. All researched works are characterized by a comic style, for which words are not only the means of expressing content, but also a way of new poetic speech aimed at "their" reader. However, in addition to entertaining benefits, these works carry a serious meaning. The author hides the objective world under a parody mask that becomes fantastically naturalistic. The mock poetry of the British writer Roald Dahl represents unusual plot lines that are combined with folklore material. The main characters have been familiar to us since our childhood. The text of poetic tales serves as a means of impact on the reader, synthesizing the modern achievements of mass culture. Various verbal and artistic codes are intermingled, forming a kind of semantic discourse. The characteristic features of Roald Dahl's parody are the genre evolution of poetic fairy tales, the violation of taboo topics. One can trace the intensity of intrigue, the mystery of the content in the compositional structure of his rhymes. All Dahl's verses differ in modern details and the language of the main characters. Turning to fairy-tale motifs, R. Dahl transformed them, introduced modern things, household trifles. The comicality of R. Dahl's texts is realized with the help of linguistic means of creation situational humor: epithets, metaphors, similes, hyperbole. The work acquires an ironic color due to the use of slang and vulgarisms. The perception of messages by both the characters within the text and the reader is determined by the degree of awareness of each of them. R. Dahl's individual style is characterized by the widespread use of print expressiveness: various fonts, italics, brackets and capitalization. Roald Dahl's language is characterized by simplicity and conciseness, which is achieved through the selection of words that ensure the accuracy of the opinion.