«DIVINE PROPORTIONS» TARAS SHEVCHENKA'S POEMS OF LAST YEARS

Abstract

The article reveals the concept of the golden ratio (golden section, divine proportion) as a universal principle of harmony and the peculiarities of its application in poetic texts, where the linearity of verse lines is easily amenable to various mathematical measurements. The article analyses the works of Taras Shevchenko of the last years, in which the phenomenal properties of the golden ratio or divine proportion are observed as a subconscious, intuitive division of the poem into two uneven segments (≈ 0.62 and 0.38), which indicate the culmination of the lyrical experience or outline the leading motif. It has been found that in many of the poet's lyrical and lyric-epic works, the divine proportion denotes characteristic amplitude in the ideological and aesthetic field of the poetic text, highlights lines that are hardly noticeable to researchers and in which multiple meanings are encoded. Convincing examples are given from poems where the golden section distinguishes aphoristic expressions, serves as a kind of compositional marker, an antithesis to the previous lines, clearly delineates diverse parts, enhances the dominant of the poem, dramatically changes its rhythm, stanza and metrics, fixes shifts in the structures of time and points of view, etc. In conclusion, the article emphasizes that reading Taras Shevchenko's works through the prism of the golden ratio (divine proportion) is only one of the possible newest ways of structural analysis of poetic texts, which allows us to penetrate their depths, reveal hidden secret meanings, unexpected angles, and approach the eternal mystery of harmony inherent not only in living and inanimate nature, but also in brilliant artists of words.

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