MUSIC AND MUSICAL ELEMENT SHAPES IN OLEKSANDR OLES’ LYRIC POETRY AND POLISH SYMBOLISTS

Abstract

The article deals with the symbolism of music and musical elements image in the poetic systems of Ukrainian lyricist and polish symbolists. Music and musical elements images are figurative and symbolic art equivalent of poetic in Oleksandr Oles’ autoreceptive discourse. In a variety of forms musical element is not only constant attribute of shape series thematic paradigm of Oleksandr Oles’ poems, but a powerful jet of vivid artistic symbolism, which in different variations, with subtle neuenswander of its different semantic and stylistic color shades, is transformed into a permanent symbolic leitmotif that accompanies all the works of the poet.

Semantic and poetical features of artistic symbolism individual style of Olexander Oles sare performed in the proposed study. Attention is focused on the image of music and musical elements in the Ukrainian lyricist poetic systems.

In the poetic work of Olexander Oles his numerous musical allusions, for which analogies are established between semantics and poetics, as well as the range of subjects of the poetic text with the performers and the specifics of the artistic element of the musical work, are constant.

Among the musical definitions which are most often used by Alexander Oles, emphasizing the organic kinship of the poetic and musical elements, in his work there are symbolic images of song, singing or strings. Musical resonance in the soul of the poet is extremely often caused by the sounds of the natural environ- ment, especially birds singing.

The image of the “winged song”, which is similar to winged birds, becomes a leitmotif image-symbol that defines the semantic dominant of autoreceptive singing reflections of the elements of musical/poetic in the lyrics of Olexander Oles.

Walkthrough for the lyrics of Olexander Oles is the image of “broken strings”, which symbolize a wide range of poet’s emotional reactions to the significant events of different periods of his life, associated mainly with the motives of unsuccessful love relationships; misunderstanding; disappointment caused by the inability or unwillingness of compatriots to stand up for a decisive defense of their political rights and freedoms; creative fatigue of the poet, due to the processes of inevitable aging.