Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years

The article under studies reveals the ties between Pavlo Tychyna’s first (distinctly multiformat by the poetic writing technique) poem collections “The Clarinets of the Sun (1918) and “The Plow” (1920), which reflect the tragedy of the historical boundary of epochs. Despite the fact that the biograp...

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Main Author: Olha Chervinska
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Language:Russian
Published: Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University 2018-12-01
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Online Access:http://pytlit.chnu.edu.ua/article/view/154740
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description The article under studies reveals the ties between Pavlo Tychyna’s first (distinctly multiformat by the poetic writing technique) poem collections “The Clarinets of the Sun (1918) and “The Plow” (1920), which reflect the tragedy of the historical boundary of epochs. Despite the fact that the biographical path of this genius poet has been more than efficiently investigated, many scholars estimated him rather ambiguously. He was referred to in numerous ways: as a poet of exaggerated fame (V. Hadzinskyi), as a farm Orpheus (V. Barka), as a clarinetist (Yu. Lavrynenko), as a talent corrosion (M. Kotsiubynska), as a genius-victim on the Calvary of Glory (V. Stus), as eternally young (S. Telniuk) and as three times dead. His “uniform dressing” (from a shy and, at the same time, a too gifted village boy-hypodiacon to an academician and the Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR) prevents him from being perceived in a fair and unbiased manner. The poetics and the contents of his first collection “The Clarinets of the Sun” (1918), which contained the verses of 1913–1918, have marked the emergence (according to H. Hrabovych) of a “resonating ego” of the personality that stands on the existential edge between the terrestrial and the divine. The collection cannot be considered as consonant with Tychyna’s next work “The Plow”, which, in fact, contained the poem “On the Square” (also 1918). The article under discussion interprets the text of the verse as a peculiar, essential “chain” that fastens together almost drastically heterogeneous (by their pathos and poetics) collections “The Clarinets of the Sun” and “The Plow”. P. Tychyna’s first collections, at the intersection of the poem “On the Square”, appeal to the notion of “metalyrics” (poetic self-reflection). Today, the latter term expands the area of its meanings, although is still mostly interpreted in the context of Theurgy (“created art”). The above feature, so peculiar for modernism, is very distinct in the first collections by P. Tychyna, which is reflected in the poetics of their titles. The second collection seems to contrast “The Clarinets of the Sun” due its pathos: the clarinet and the plow are the tools that can in no way go together. This imagological contradiction is presented as a solid proof of the integrity violation (bifurcation) of the poetic world perception. However, it only looks so at first sight. The analysis of the poem “On the Square”, in the aspect of consonant peculiarities of both collections, confirms their deep unity.
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spelling doaj.art-59fad53f9a11414a98e17e60df7476202022-12-22T01:41:07ZrusYuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityPitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva2306-29082018-12-01098234010.31861/pytlit2018.98.023154740Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred YearsOlha Chervinska0Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National UniversityThe article under studies reveals the ties between Pavlo Tychyna’s first (distinctly multiformat by the poetic writing technique) poem collections “The Clarinets of the Sun (1918) and “The Plow” (1920), which reflect the tragedy of the historical boundary of epochs. Despite the fact that the biographical path of this genius poet has been more than efficiently investigated, many scholars estimated him rather ambiguously. He was referred to in numerous ways: as a poet of exaggerated fame (V. Hadzinskyi), as a farm Orpheus (V. Barka), as a clarinetist (Yu. Lavrynenko), as a talent corrosion (M. Kotsiubynska), as a genius-victim on the Calvary of Glory (V. Stus), as eternally young (S. Telniuk) and as three times dead. His “uniform dressing” (from a shy and, at the same time, a too gifted village boy-hypodiacon to an academician and the Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR) prevents him from being perceived in a fair and unbiased manner. The poetics and the contents of his first collection “The Clarinets of the Sun” (1918), which contained the verses of 1913–1918, have marked the emergence (according to H. Hrabovych) of a “resonating ego” of the personality that stands on the existential edge between the terrestrial and the divine. The collection cannot be considered as consonant with Tychyna’s next work “The Plow”, which, in fact, contained the poem “On the Square” (also 1918). The article under discussion interprets the text of the verse as a peculiar, essential “chain” that fastens together almost drastically heterogeneous (by their pathos and poetics) collections “The Clarinets of the Sun” and “The Plow”. P. Tychyna’s first collections, at the intersection of the poem “On the Square”, appeal to the notion of “metalyrics” (poetic self-reflection). Today, the latter term expands the area of its meanings, although is still mostly interpreted in the context of Theurgy (“created art”). The above feature, so peculiar for modernism, is very distinct in the first collections by P. Tychyna, which is reflected in the poetics of their titles. The second collection seems to contrast “The Clarinets of the Sun” due its pathos: the clarinet and the plow are the tools that can in no way go together. This imagological contradiction is presented as a solid proof of the integrity violation (bifurcation) of the poetic world perception. However, it only looks so at first sight. The analysis of the poem “On the Square”, in the aspect of consonant peculiarities of both collections, confirms their deep unity.http://pytlit.chnu.edu.ua/article/view/154740reception, the collection “The Clarinets of the Sun”poetics of the titlethe collection “The Plow”metalyricsmetaphor of farmingpoem “On the Square”Pavlo Tychyna
spellingShingle Olha Chervinska
Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years
Pitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva
reception, the collection “The Clarinets of the Sun”
poetics of the title
the collection “The Plow”
metalyrics
metaphor of farming
poem “On the Square”
Pavlo Tychyna
title Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years
title_full Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years
title_fullStr Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years
title_full_unstemmed Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years
title_short Creativity of Uncertainty: A Poetic Text in One Hundred Years
title_sort creativity of uncertainty a poetic text in one hundred years
topic reception, the collection “The Clarinets of the Sun”
poetics of the title
the collection “The Plow”
metalyrics
metaphor of farming
poem “On the Square”
Pavlo Tychyna
url http://pytlit.chnu.edu.ua/article/view/154740
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