Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe in detail the function of the personal pronouns when composing the artistic, especially poetic text. As a material for the udertaken analysis selected parts of poems of V.
V. Mayakovsky were chosen.
The function of the pronouns is analyzed with respect to their functional vicinity and always in concrete contextual frame. From the analysis it follows that pronouns cannot be thought about only in terms of linguistic substitution, but that it is necessary to admite their own function in the text.