Motives of Loneliness in Volodymyr Zabashtansky's Poetry

Abstract

The article outlines loneliness as the artistic dominant of Volodymyr Zabashtansky's creative work. Its vital basis is clarified, in particular, the emphasis is placed on the tragic episode when, at the age of eighteen, he lost his hands and lost his sight as a young boy. As a result, he could not fully comprehend the world, and creativity became an opportunity to communicate with it. During the period of youthful maximalism and socialist realist discourse, its complete negation was traced in the poetry of the artist of the word. It is noted that in mature creativity, the motives of loneliness acquire a clearer illumination and appear as an existential-creative given, a fact, a constant. It is noted that loneliness in the poetry of V. Zabashtansky has the ability to deepen, to acquire the features of a key motif, and therefore, a limiting situation of artistically transformed existence, which is difficult for a lyrical hero to overcome, since spiritual and volitional factors are not always able to fully manifest themselves. It manifests itself not only in the external factor of limiting human capabilities in the minimal space of a geometric form, but also in the statics of inner freedom, which is an exceptional value of human authenticity. The lyrical hero experiences a corresponding state, and therefore tries to go beyond it with the help of memories, to immerse himself in memories full of bright visions of childhood and youth, when life was turbulent, filled with different colors and tones. Thus, attention is drawn to the transcendence that occurs in the inner world of a blind person, and it can be defined as being-beyond-the-world, an attempt to escape from being-in-the-world (solitude), which burdens, destroys, is the negation of everyday life, since here weakness, isolation, and uselessness become especially tangible. Escape into memories, an attempt to concentrate on helping others, an active civic position enable the lyrical hero to rise above his loneliness, at least for a certain period, but to overcome it.