Образ матері в піснях Михайла Ткача

Abstract

M. Tkach is seen as a poet with a lyrical type of worldview, with a lyrical voice that remained unchanged even after political transformations. His literary heritage contains the big layer of wonderful intimate poems, some of which became songs and even folk songs. The book «Song for you» which could be called M. Tkach’s swan song (it was published in 2002, to the poet's 70th birthday) represents pretty accurate his entire song poetry in its thematic and image variety. This book includes patriotic and intimate lyrics, and love songs make the major part of the second group. But there is the one more part which claims to have a separate significant place within intimate lyrics. We mean the songs about mother. The purpose of this article is to analyse them. The characteristic features of M. Tkach’s image of mother (such as sacrality, melancholy, didactism, etc.) are highlighted in this article and it is also proved that the image of mother is the axis of rotation of so-called «mother’s world» – one of the main concepts of M. Tkach’s poetry. M. Tkach traced the origins of the idea of Ukrainian patriotism from parents’ house. But it must be noted that the image of father is rare in M. Tkach’s poetry, as well as the generalized image of parents, in contrast to the image of the parents’ doorstep, for example. All the life ways lead Tkach’s lyrical hero from home, in other words – from mother (the images of home and mother are often superimposed), or back home, into mother’s world. The «mother’s world» metaphor is poet’s true imaginative achievement. It is hard to find more appropriate image to describe the completeness of patriotic feelings of lyrical hero. On the one hand, the poet often compares Ukraine with mother, on the other – mother is the most important part of the inner life of lyrical hero. This part is in the centre, the most precious memories of lyrical hero (of his native village and his childhood) are structured around it. They are mother-centred, so the lullaby is called mother’s and the house is called mother’s and the well too. M. Tkach presents the native land as the place unique in different meanings (geographical, cultural, personal, etc.). In such a way he talks about mother, what is emphasized by using the construction «only mother» and others like that. But the main thing we must admit is the uniqueness of M. Tkach’s songs about mother as the literary and musical phenomenon.