Abstract:

 The styles of different literary genres result in changing distances between the narrator and the author in a text. Poetic texts are different from nonpoetic ones in that readers of poetry are influenced by two factors in their interpretative efforts. For one thing, it is often the case where the poet and his readers regard the “I” in the text as the poet himself although the poet has in fact created his variants wearing different masks. For another, the poet is nonetheless able to control the readers’ interpretation of his poetry and displays his alternative images by means of poetic rhetoric, internal restructuring, and paratextual devices like introductory remarks and authorial notes.

Key words: author, rhetoric; , readers reception, narrator,  lyric poem