КОНЦЕПТ НОЧІ У СТРУКТУРІ ПОЕТИЧНОГО МИСЛЕННЯ ОСТАПА ТАРНАВСЬКОГО

Abstract

The article deals with the poetical legacy of the Ukrainian writer in Exile Ostap Tarnawsky from the point of view of his philosophic vision. The main attention is drawn to the poetic and semantic representation of the artistic image of the Night, which is revealing its evolution from symbolically-allegorical to philosophically universal meaning. Poet’s lyric is analyzed in the key of the hermeneutical methodology with the dominant aspect of the intermedial sphere in the meaning of interrelation of the verbal and musical arts. It is stressed that the theme of night travelling is one of the dominant in the works of Ukrainian writers in Exile at large. A person is viewed in the poetical works of the Ukrainian emigrants as a nomad at the eternal way of life. Thus it touches the problems of human being and reveals them in existential focus (namely in the aspects of the human destiny, suffering, death etc.). Poetic of the lyrics is analyzed at the different text levels such as nigh landscapes, phonic figures (alliteration, as- sonance, and dissonance), personification etc. Imagery level is out viewed from the position of its connection with folk- lore imagery as well as the old Ukrainian literature (“The Tale of Igor`s Campaign”) and world masterpieces (“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, “The Drunken Boat” by Arthur Rimbaud, poems by T.S.Eliot and others). Much attention is paid to the main colours of the O.Tarnawsky’s artistic world with its subjective understanding where the contrary to the black is blue. The author of the paper comes to conclusion that the lyrics of O.Tarnawsky is deeply philosophic and reveals the main concept of the poet about the Myth of death and immortality of human being. The most vivid this concept is embodied in the poems “Ballad about the Myth of the Death”, “Ballad about the Black Night”, “Ballad about Eternal Guard”, “Universe of the Heart”, “Under the Window of Eternity”, “Phantoms in the Emptiness” and others. Symbolic theme of the night way according to the words of Bertrand Russell “The life of Man is a long march through the night” is extended in O.Tarnawsky’s poetry to the concept of the generation succession as the death march of the whole nation with existential questions (Who will lead us to eternity? Will silent sky speak to us? etc.). Nocturnal world out view was formed by his emigrant destiny and understanding of historical injustice of his nation. And in that aspect O.Tarnawsky is the most representative poet among the Ukrainian writers in Exile in the second half of the 20th century.