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Abstract
The Expressive Potential of Poetic Language: A Linguopoetic Analysis of the Works of Elizabeth Bishop and Halima Khudoyberdiyeva Linguopoetics[1], bridging linguistic analysis and poetic interpretation, offers a most appropriate embedded framework for addressing the way that language produces aesthetic and signifying systems in poetry. This is a study of phonics, a semiotics of poetic meaning, involving the entanglement of lexeme, syntax, figures, and phonemics. The paper reveals both universal and culture-specific mechanisms of poetic expressiveness by comparing two poets from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The results show that poetic language expresses its poetic power through a systematic engagement of distinct linguistic levels in the text rather than through isolated stylistic devices. This article thus contributes to comparative linguopoetic studies by exposing the ways in which poetic individuality and cultural context interact to determine the expressive potential of a language.