Abstract <p>The paper analyzes a fragment of the metaphorical system in the language of Russian poetry from the 19th to 21st century. Specifically, the analysis focuses on personifying metaphors related to the semantic class “Language and Speech” and the lexical-semantic group “Information Search and Receipt”. The study aims to determine the functioning of these lexical units in Russian poetry, to identify the semantic classes of personification objects they are combined with, and to establish their role in the organization of the poetic text and connection with the poet’s worldview. The research uses the Poetic Subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus as its material and employs corpus, semantic field, and structural-functional analysis methods. The results show a higher frequency of words meaning “Information Receipt” than “Information Search” as personifiers and with varying distribution over the comparison of 'question-answer' images. The analyzed figurative language introduces dialogism into the text, particularly through question-answer constructions with imperative and address, direct and indirect speech, creating unity and increasing dialogicity. The role of such constructions in organizing the internal dialogue and formulating the poet’s worldview attitudes is identified.</p>