Dialogue with the Bible in the Poetry of Lesya Ukrainka (based on the collection "Thoughts and Dreams"

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to interpret the deep meanings of a number of ideas in the poetry of Lesya Ukrainka, which appeared as a result of the author's dialogue with the text of the Holy Scriptures. To achieve the goal, the research used a hermeneutic approach, which involves the interpretation of biblical contexts in Lesya Ukrainka's works within the cultural, historical and philosophical context. It is noted that in the poetic collection "Thoughts and Dreams" the writer rethinks the events of Old Testament history; focuses on the motives of wandering, sin, sacrifice; biblical images of the prophet, the desert, angels; Gospel images of thorns and crowns of thorns; she is interested in the essence of the relationship between light and darkness, form and chaos, love and hate. It is noted that the antithetical nature of a number of motives of Lesya Ukrainka's lyrics gives grounds to speak about the dualistic nature of the poet's worldview. It is proved that the lyrical heroine of the poem "Sinner", whose position is close to the author, is prone to "rational" belief in a number of social ideas, the leading place among which belongs to the idea of freedom. It is noted that, rethinking the Old Testament events in the poetry "In the Desert" and drawing a parallel between the history of Israel and Ukraine, the author is talking not only about national enslavement. The work also deals with such fundamental problems of human existence as guilt, fear, despair, helplessness, which arise in "borderline situations" and contribute to fateful decisions, conscious choice of freedom. An attempt is made to investigate the sources of the motive of the victim in the poetry of Lesya Ukrainka and the motive of love and hate. It is noted that the writer's interest in the topic of sacrifice has a psychological basis, and, at the same time, is related to the original source - the Bible.

Having analyzed the poems of Lesya Ukrainka, which make up the collection "Thoughts and Dreams", we can conclude that the main way of realizing the dialogue with the Book of Books in the lyrics of Lesya Ukrainka is the transformation of plots and images, the source of which is the Bible, as well as the inclusion of biblical quotations, allusions, reminiscences Therefore, the writer's appeal to the text of the Holy Scripture appears as a way of rethinking important philosophical, ethical and emotional-psychological problems.