СИМВОЛІЗМ У ПОЕЗІЇ ОЛЕКСАНДРА ОЛЕСЯ І ТВОРЧОСТІ ПОЛЬСЬКИХ МОДЕРНІСТІВ

Abstract

This article has investigated the development of Ukrainian symbolism, argued the reception of the aesthetic and conceptual foundations of the Polish symbolists in Oleksandr Oles’s works. Oleksandr Oles, as well as Polish symbolists, was affected with emotionally unstable atmosphere of national and revo- lutionary renaissance, which explains the pessimism, feeling of weakness and helplessness in their philosophy – on one hand, and vital, extremely optimistic point of view – on the other. This article is devoted to analyze an aesthetic heritage of European symbolists and it’s reflection in Oleksandr Oles’ s individual interpretation. Reaching of this research goal demands a comparative study of poetry of Oleksandr Oles and rep- resentatives of Polish symbolism – in particular, the analysis of symbolic concepts formed in Western European tradition. The changes of scientific paradigm in modern philology, free choices of tools lets us to delineate the tasks of the research – among them are to describe the mechanisms of establishment of Oleksandr Oles’s symbolic outlook, which determined his adapta- tions of artistic and stylistic features of this aesthetic model. The new generation of artist who came instead of the apologists has noted the disadvantages of social involvement of literature. The views of European symbolists have been transformed on Ukrainian national ground and undergone the modifications caused by specific social and political contradictions over the history of society. It has directly determined the way of Ukrainian symbolism basing it on artistic dialogue between the new ideas in European literature and the national background. The influences of Polish symbolic poetry, in particular works of Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, can be noted in Oleksandr Oles’s – „Ukrainian Heine’s”, as Khrystia Alchevska called him – artistic mindset.