Shevchenko Studies by Vasyl Stus.

Abstract

The article discusses the poetry of Vasyl Stus, which contains both the visualization of the image of Shevchenko and appeals, citac, allusions to his work. The palette of Vasyl Stus’s “Shevchenkiana” is quite wide: from visualization the image of the poet (verses “In Prohorovka dreams are like a river”) to the numerous allusions to Taras’s word of pathetic rhetoric – to the complex imagery.The creative heritage of V. Stus contains a number of poems dedicated to Taras Shevchenko (eg., “Taras’s exile”, “Shevchenko. The road to Orsk”) – they openly labeled with the poet’s name and their factuality directly refer to Shevchenko. Affinity of mood of the named verses creates a conditional diptych structure – despite the fact that in such a composite version these works have never been published. Following Yu. Sherekh, author believes Shevchenko's poetry is pretext for creativity by Vasyl Stus. The author substantiates the thesis according to which V. Stus was always immersed in verbal elements of Shevchenko’s words that also proves his epistolary, reflections on the psychology of creativity of Shevchenko’s period of exile. Stus is close to Shevchenko in their common experience of solitude, suffering reinforced by difficulties of life. Leading Ukrainian literary critics widely present views on this aspect of Stus’s creativity. The author emphasizes that in the creation in captivity for both Shevchenko and Stus motive of sleep appears equally important. The author states, that V. Stus in his thinking about the present and future of Ukrainian poetry keenly denied primitive imitation and actualization of traditional verse, the desire to keep by all means so-called “Shevchenko’s jacket”.