Oneiric motifs in the poetry of Viktor Krupka

Abstract

The article analyzes the oneiric motifs in Viktor Krupka's poems from the poetry collections «SON TSE» («This Is a Dream»), «Viss» («Axis»), and «Bereznevi svity» («March Worlds»). Literary dreams in poetic texts are considered as an element of the artistic picture of the world. Markers of oneiric space are revealed by the author on implicit and explicit levels. Dreams in the artist's poems express whimsicality, phantasmagoria, mysticism, sacredness, and the combination of macrocosm and microcosm. In reflecting dream visions, the poet appeals to the collective unconscious, personal subconscious, and mythical thinking. Attention is drawn to the psychoanalytic component of dreams and its expression in Viktor Krupka's literary work. The role of oneiric motifs in the transcendental representation of chronotope, the distortion of temporal and spatial modes, the synthesis of empirical experience and unreal existence, and metaphysical meanings has been established. A number of artistic devices used by the poet to express oneiric motifs have been identified, including unexpected epithets and comparisons, extended metaphorical constructions, personification of all possible phenomena, antithesis, anaphora, repetitions, litotes, synesthesia as a trope of the metaphorical type, etc. Attention is drawn to the connection between the oneiric space in Viktor Krupka's poems and traditional Ukrainian mythology and biblical motifs.