Metaphysical mode of recreation of the city topos: interpretation of the city space of Petersburg in the poem «Dream» («Every man has his own destiny…») by T. Shevchenko

The article reveals the metaphysical mode of the recreation of Petersburg in the poem «The Dream» («Every man has his own destiny…») by T. Shevchenko. The author selects a phenomenological and structural-semiotic methodology of analysis of the spatial structure of the topos, locus and other spatial images of the city. The semantics of space at the beginning of the work has an unclear connotation of the recreation of the city’s locus. The topos of Petersburg appears as a metaphysical incarnation of the imperial evil and the calamity of the average man-worker. It was found out that the city’s topos implements a single spatial-temporal world, which is fixed by the life cogito of the lyrical subject. The semiotic aspects of the image of the «center» and «periphery» of the city are represented. It was outlined the question of the detailing and specifics of the identification of the topos, its structural elements as sense-creating components for the multi aspect interpretation of the city’s space. The layout contains an analysis of the specifics of the artistic and autobiographical vision of the recreation of the city’s topos, and also it was found the features of the reception of the city attributes by the lyrical subject.