TARAS SHEVCHENKO'S PERSON IN LINA KOSTENKO’S PERCEPTION: FROM POETICS TO WORLD VIEW

Abstract

Introduction. Despite the fact that Lina Kostenko's poetic Shevchenkiana has already attracted the attention of scientists, today it is not described fully enough: firstly, because not all of Kostenko's poems about Taras Shevchenko were taken into account, and secondly, because the poetics of these works (especially their verse specificity) were studied episodically.

The purpose of the article is 1) to reveal the peculiarities of the poetic reception of Shevchenko’s person in the lyrics of L. Kostenko, taking into account the poetics of her Shevchenkiana motivated by the artistic idea; 2) get additional information about L. Kostenko's ethical and aesthetic beliefs.

Methods. The article applies a complex approach to the analysis of the material using comparative-historical, comparative-typological, structural-semantic methods, scientific provisions of M. Bakhtin's dialogical doctrine, theories of intertextuality and intermediality.

The results. Due to the fact that Shevchenko is a kind of moral tuning fork for Kostenko, in most of her Shevchenko's works, Taras acts either as an explicit addressee, on the appeals of which the poem is built, or as a role hero, whose speech forms the basis of poetry. Hence the peculiar poetics of dialogue in the poems about Shevchenko: specific graphics, syntax, vocabulary, which are designed to create the illusion of conversational speech, moreover, often stylized according to Shevchenko's "voice". In Kostenko's Shevchenkiana, poetics also plays an important role of metrical-rhythmic, graphic, sound, syntactic italics, clarifying the main concepts, images, motifs of the works, and sometimes acting as a means of stylizing Shevchenko's "voice".

Conclusion. Kostenko, in fact, consistently implements Shevchenko's principle of thoughtful, insightful and lyrical perception of the world, when the aesthetics of the work does not dominate, but is subordinated to the author's thought. Contemplating her life creed through the prism of Shevchenko's worldview foundations, the poetess finds a lot in common with them. But at the same time,  Kostenko represents her unique, exquisite poetic style with a wide range of her favorite artistic techniques, always inspired by the tendency to deepen the content of her poems.

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