Makovey A. Love Lyrics as a Spiritual Phenomenon (Male and Female Discourses)

The dissertation focuses on the analysis of love lyrics as a spiritual phenomenon. The research studies male and female discourses on the material of love lyrics of D.Pavlychko and L.Kostenko. Love lyrics is viewed as а means of establishing humanistic values. The peculiarities of male and female love comprehension are defined. Lyrical characters' age and sex dynamics of feelings, reflected in the poetic word, is examined. The aspects of rational-emotional and erotic-moral correlation are revealed through the prism of objectively existing oppositions. Artistic peculiarities of lyrical subjects' and love objects' images creation are unfolded. The paper considers philosophical aspects of instability of intimate feelings. Lyrical characters' inner world is proved to be integral. It is established that both D.Pavlychko's and L.Kostenko's love lyrics reflects the peculiar combination of two main life opposites within one personality. At the same time bright predominance of masculine features in Pavlychko'spoetry and feminine ones in Kostenko's lyrics can be observed.