SHEVCHENKO’S POETRY IN THE INTERPRETATION OF VASYL SHCHURAT

Abstract

Today, the achievements of Vasyl Shchurat (1871–1948) have been studied in fragments, and his works on Shevchenko’s work are still not properly appreciated. Therefore, the urgency of the study is the need for a comprehensive understanding of the artist’s poetry by scientists, to prove its connection with the cultural and historical school of national science. The purpose of the work is to investigate the reception of specific Shevchenko’s works by V. Shchurat. The realization of this goal involves the use of historical-comparative and philological methods in the article. The novelty of exploration lies in the literary analysis of the works of V. Shchurat, who tried to interpret the themes and issues, motive, plot and figurative structure of individual poems of the artist and join the scientific study of works initiated by critics in the late 19th – early 20th century. A thorough consideration of the scholarly poems “Haidamaky”, “Tarasova Niсh”, “Ivan Pidkova”, which formed the basis of the historiosophical thought of Shevchenko, is outlined. It is emphasized that a detailed study of the messages “Gogoliu” and “I mertvym, i zhyvym…” prompted critics to read them in an original and new way. It was found that in the context of the defeat of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood by the Russian authorities, the scholar discussed the poems “Chernets” and “U Boha za dvermy lezhala sokyra…” and tried to reveal the creative and psychological state of Shevchenko after his arrest in 1847 and during exile. Schuratov’s classification of specific means of intertextuality in “Davydovi psalmy” and “Podrazhaniia” is analyzed. It is established that the researcher studied the genesis of the poems “Podrazhaniie Eduardu Sovi” and “Oi dibrovo – temnyi haiu!..”, pointing to their prototexts. We believe that the studies of Vasyl Shchurat expanded the horizons of the artist’s poetry in the first third of the twentieth century. and fit perfectly into modern academic Shevchenko studies. In the future, the results of the study will be used in the preparation of a monograph on the latest trends and problems in the development of science about Shevchenko in the first third of the twentieth century.