Philosophical constants of dissident poetry (on the example of the existential lyrics of Vasyl Stus and Тaras Мelnychuk)

Abstract

The purpose of the investigation is an attempt to investigate a complex problem related to the figurative embodiment of philosophical constants, absolutes, inherent in the poetic thinking of prisoners of conscience, which are based on historical and psychological oppositions, which is perhaps the most vividly manifested in the poetry of Vasyl Stus and Taras Melnychuk.

Research methods and techniques – descriptive method, observation, hermeneutics and psychohistory of Ukrainian literature, which allow to trace the perception of facts of national history and culture as unique, as well as to interpret dramatic, deeply
personal experiences as an incentive to fear of external aggression and expansion , which is determined by the imposed inferiority.

Research results: the article substantiates the creation of original lyrical moral and ethical constants, which are actually not traditional for Ukrainian poetry of the second half of the 20th century, appeared in the poetry of dissidents based on the
reinterpretation of the exotic Hutsul region. in time and space, in the phenomenality of Carpathian culture, mythology, on the experience of national history, liberation gains and defeats of Ukraine, personal participation in the fight against totalitarianism, spontaneity of resistance and worldview.

Conclusions. Writers-fighters, participants of the resistance movement, prisoners of conscience based on the derivation of philosophical constants transparently hinted through images-symbols about the urgent need to continue the struggle for a unique homeland, pointing to the dramatic conditioning of the age-old struggle of Ukrainians by the permanent geopolitical situation and the need for psychological preparation to understand the permanent protection of state and individual borders against hybridized threats.