The systematic, complex analysis of the first quarter of the twentieth century modernist poet Mykola Voronyi’s artistic creativity has been carried out in the dissertation. The object of the research is the most representative lyric of the Ukrainian writer, modeled in the aspect of modern style. This style contrasted itself with traditions and demonstrated new means of artistic reality reproduction. The scientific novelty of the thesis is that being based on the analysis of Mykola Vorony’s literary works in the context of modernist discourse, the basic components of the artistic world modeling are characterized and distinguished: the aesthetic value of poetic texts, the author’s original artistic finds in the context of the modern artwork of the early twentieth century have been substantiated. The sources of Mykola Voronyi’s artistic outlook, aesthetic and cultural foundations of creativity have been found. The literary-critical reception of Mykola Voronyi's creativity as a scientific problem has been revealed. The system of symbols in the writer's poetry has been explored. Based on the analysis of M. Voronyi's epistolary and journalistic heritage, social and psychological dominants have been found, which were the bases of structural, semantic and stylistic specificity of the poetic components of writer’s artistry.
The perceptive symbols synthesize intellectual reflection, the inner world of the lyrical hero, and, of course, are closely related to the inner world of the poet, since the voice of the lyrical hero is at the same time the voice of the author, the embodiment of the creative idea. It is proved that Mykola Voronyi’s poetry is bright, emotionally inspired by deep meaningfulness, imagery, Christianity and pre-Christian mysticism embodied in symbols. The latter demonstrate the signs of the modernist, which are the inner essence of a particular work, as well as the author’s view is accepted. The diversity of the symbolic names system testifies to the poet’s knowledge of mythology, folk art, as well as the extraordinary creative thinking, immersion in the world of fantasy.
Analyzing the theatrical performance, Mykola Voronyi constantly pointed out the role of actors in modeling a work of art by means of clear expression and action of characters. It is revealed that in the course of correspondence there is a communicative-narrative strategy that reveals author’s image, his inner culture, understanding and perception of the world as it is, and also postulates the formation of the literary ideological and artistic perspectives. The latter are attributed to the letters, which testify the attraction of the addressee to modernism, although the author did not abandon to write works, are prone to populist tradition. The literary-artistic and journalistic works of the master of the word are uncovered in terms of the author’s ideological and artistic views, his creative approach to the modeling of tradition and innovation. It is proved that the writer considered Ukrainian culture as a part of foreign culture, and the closest to our state – the culture of Western Europe.
It has been found out that the figure of a poet, one of the first apologists of modernist aesthetics, differs among other poets of early Ukrainian modernism, primarily by a kind of artistic talent and a leading literary position. The disclosure of the problem of writer’s genre-style innovation made it possible to trace the process of the emergence of the key motives and moods in writer’s creative mind, as well as – in his life principles and beliefs. Genre and stylistic innovation of the Ukrainian modern poetry initiator has been analyzed in the context of his prevailing philosophical culture, interest in the latest European literature. It is revealed that Voronyi’s poetry is written with a bias on the best examples of Western European literature of the late XIX – early XX century. Being captured by the philosophy of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, getting to know in Vienna and Poland a new culture, he introduced a new jet into Ukrainian poetic versioning, updated text-based elements in terms of genre and stylistic modifications, peculiarities of the plot composition, speech structure, means of fiction, and stylistic polyphony. The poet showed a tendency to the classical clarity of the expression, canonized forms, fully revealing the European education.
Key words: genre, modernism, symbolism, style, outlook, lyric, composition, epistolary, journalism.
