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many years. The subject matter of this research will be a poem Новые стансы к Августе from the collection of the same title. Thanks to cognitive methods, the analysis of loneliness that is carrying out in it by Brodsky underlines paradoxical variety of his poetry. According literature should be treated as a set of linguistic phenomena that has cognitive basis. The authoress of the present research is focusing on the figure-ground organization which is considered by Peter Stockwell to be notably useful for interpretation of the issues if literary criticism.