Open AccessFLORISTIC SYMBOLICS OF LINA KOSTENKO POETRY
Author(s) -
Оlena Mykhailova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vìsnik. lìteraturoznavstvo. movoznavstvo. folʹkloristika/vìsnik kiïvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì tarasa ševčenka. lìteraturoznavstvo. movoznavstvo. folʹkloristika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-8494
pISSN - 1728-2659
DOI - 10.17721/1728-2659.2021.29.5
Subject(s) - cosmogony , poetry , mythology , literature , meaning (existential) , floristics , literal and figurative language , philosophy , history , art , linguistics , epistemology , ecology , biology , species richness
The article considers floristic vocabulary of Lina Kostenko poetry in the linguocultulorogical aspect; mythological semantics and symbolic of floristic names were determined in the poetry collection "Three hundred verses"; the link between symbolic meaning of flowers with totemic beliefs, between chthonic semantics of vegetation, solar myths were studied, peculiar traits of poetic arrangement were analyzed. Conclusions were drawn on the original poetic model of the mythic space that unites the worlds of heavens and the earth, rich in floristic images, enrooted in ancient totemic beliefs. The harmonic synergy of a man and the nature envisages the author's interpretation of universal floristic symbols in the limits of paradigm "flowers" – "myth" – "poet", wherein the flowers acquire symbolic meaning of the eternity of life born in the cosmogony depths of mythological archaic. In the poetry of Lina Kostenko an amazing unification of the internal world of a man with the realities of the world of nature takes place, the natural elements turn into cosmogony forces that create the renewed mythical space, wherein the flowers are the symbols of time, live signs of times of year, and the color symbolizes life milestones of the poetess herself. Archaic mythological symbolic as an integral part of poetic text obtains a new meaning due to which an ancient past unites with modern times, floristic names are transformed into universal poetic symbols, disclose figurative world of poetry. The origins of floristic symbolic are enrooted into vegetation totemism, when the people respected different types of flowers and animals as prime ancestors, bestowed them with magic traits, chthonic semantics, considered them amulets and used separate types of plants as medicines or bloodless sacrifices in the gods' cults. A particular type of solar-floristic metaphor can be considered as a revelation of totemism, built on the grounds of metonymy, the majority of "floristic" lexemes, used by Lina Kostenko, stand as names for typical Ukrainian decorative plants, but the author's poetic arrangement makes every floristic composition of the poetess unparalleled.