NARRATIVE AND VERSE FORMS OF DISPLAYING THE AUTHOR’S CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE LYRIC POETRY OF ULIANA KRAVCHENKO

Abstract

The paper dwells on the study of narrative and verse forms of displaying the author’s consciousness in the lyric poetry of Uliana Kravchenko. The aim of the paper is to define and describe the rhythmic and strophic structure of Ms Kravchenko’s lyric poetry. Methods. The study employs a system of biographical, hermeneutical, cultural-historical and poetic methods, which is determined by the specific nature of the survey, its subject of inquiry. Results. The paper argues that the poetess’s worldview is also influenced by the exceptional significance of the Ukrainian nation experience, which finds its embodiment in the rhythmic and strophic structure of her poetry, where, alongside the usual stanzas and syllabic-tonic meters, folk forms of the knee verse are frequent. Moreover, the poetess’s choice of canonised stanzas in the poems written on behalf of the lyrical “author proper” testifies to the dominance of the synthesising thought operation in the writer’s cognitive sphere. Academic novelty. The writer’s thought process is considered – the generation by the medium of the writer’s consciousness of the corresponding artistic system of the work and each of its elements, in particular at the levels of subjects of presentation, metrics and rhythm. The analysis of the key vectors of the poetess’s self-expression revealed such a feature of her poetic narrative as a reference of the reader to the level of author’s consciousness, which convinces in the prevalence of the instances of the lyrical hero and the “author proper” among all types of subjects of narration. Practical consequence. The findings of the study can serve as a reference for term papers and diploma theses.