Prokofyev I. Leonid Talalay's Poetics.

L. Talalay's poetics is investigated in the dissertation within the context of Ukrainian and world literature. The main distinctive features of the writer's unique artistic universe are established, its most characteristic aspect being unity of the meaning and form of his works. It is further discovered that the poet's works are also characterized by modernism permeating them as well as synthesis of the author's own esthetic ideas and achievements of various literary trends, schools and individual writers. The paper analyzes the functions of the local metaphor used in L. Talalay's discourse. The researcher establishes new, hitherto unknown to literary science ways of image transference and suggests the term 'demiugrization' to describe them. The paper puts special emphasis on the poetical peculiarities of the writer's poems-comparisons, poems-allegories, poems-symbols which are undeniably marked by integrity of meaning and form. The investigator construes L. Talalay's preference of these forms as evidence of his gravitation towards structural and semantic unity of the latter's works. The role of autological elements is studied separately, with special emphasis put on their relation to the meditative character of the poet's lyrical works. The writer's successful endevours to enhance the artistic value of the word through generative interaction of metaphorics and autology are demonstrated as well as the fact that L. Talalay's discource is noted for its intertextual character. The dissertation also reveals the role of different kinds of interaction designed to create extensive multi-layer subtexts. Association is established as one of the conceptual features of the investigated artistic system. Its intensity is brought to the fore by the scale of L. Talalay's imaginative thought, his talent to perceive the world as a whole. The researcher points out the differences observed between the 'stream of consciuosness' of the Ukrainian poet's lyrical protagonist and that offered by the texts of J. Joyce and T. S. Ellyot. The problem of internal harmony of L. Talalay's works is elucidated in the paper, as well as his skillful technique based in part on intentional weakening of expressive power of certain imagery components in order to strengthen others. The researcher argues that L. Talalay stands out among the contemporary poets due to the depth of his artistic vision of the world. The poet's masterly use of impessionist and symbolist techniques reflects the crucial stage in his artistic evolution. His creative works started to gravitate towards modernist esthetics from the early 70-s. The main signs of L. Talalay modernistic attempts are revealed in the dissertation. At the basis of the analyzed work lies the artistic investigation of the existential continuum against the microcosmic and macrocosmic backgrounds, attendant historical processes, the inner world of our contemporary, the problems of the individual's own time, his intuitive existential source. In the 1970-80-s L.Talalay succeeded in a serious aesthetic penetration of the sphere of memory, the realm of the subconscious and superconscious, successfully embodying an infinite number of inimitable instants of spiritual momentum in artistic images. The paper establishes the harmonic unity of the emotive and intellectual beginnings, whereas presence of key images goes to prove the systemic character of the author's unique poetic qualities, helps reveal the peculiarities of L. Talalay's artistic stance, his vision of the problems of social engagement and socially unengaged literature.