Metaphors in Vitezlav Nezval's prewar poetry

The article is concerned with a semantic analysis of the metaphors of Vitezslav Nezval. These metaphors were made relevant by crossing the semantic boundary. Though something similar occurs in the verse of Otokar Brezina, in Nezval's verse the magical manipulation with words leads not to a mystical interpretation of the world but constitutes instead an artistic performative statement. The suggested equivalence of the components is stretched by a confrontation of heterogeneous words with an illegible relationship. The multiplicity of the metaphor models the dream and delirium, and is also an instrument of the lyrical. Nezval's metaphors are most often an analogy of the action, of metamorphosis and of effect.