Two Types of Visuality in Russian Avant-Garde Poetry: Vladimir Majakovskij and Boris Pasternak

In this article two contrasting types of visuality, embodied in the poetry of Vladimir Maiakovskii and Boris Pasternak, are analysed. The principle of visuality is primarily regarded as a specific form of artistic sensitivity, organically linked with the translatability of verbal signs into the language of visual images. Between Maiakovskii's and Pasternak's poetic worlds there are essential differences, but a number of points of contact as well.