Dissertation is devoted to the analysis of Danylo Bratkowski’s Polish-language collection of poetry, in particular its Baroque conceptosphere which developed against the European background and was in line with the literary trends of Polish literature of the end of the XVII century beginning of XVIII century.
Peculiarities of emblematic and iconic types of rhetorical presentation in Polish-language poetry of mature Baroque are analyzed, attention is paid to their transformation in accordance with sociopolitical and literary needs.
It is proved that the peculiarities of Baroque conceptism (so called metaphysical poetry) of the Ukrainian-Polish border, represented by artists of several nations, were in line with the European Baroque tendencies of concept development and contributed to them valuable assets related to the national artistic heritage, historical events and ideological aspirations of the age.
The sarmatian dimention of Bratkowski’s poetry is comprehended against the background of Polish and Roxolian sarmatism within which the ideas of the Cossacks and “golden freedom” developed. It’s the basis of national identity of the writer who in the society of Rich Pospolyta was an expression of the needs and aspirations of the Ukrainian nobility.
Features of Bratkowski’s satire are analyzed within the framework of two main motives – religious and anthropological. Attention is drawn to the conditionality of division between the Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity in the late Baroque literary discourse. It is revealed that the author ridiculed the moral transgressions of all, without exception, Christians of his environment, pointing them to the path of complete purification through ascetic practice and return to the main biblical principles.
The image of a nobleman in D. Bratkowski’s work is characterized in comparison with the representation of this lyrical character in Baroque Polish poetry. Attention is paid to two types of the nobility, the author of the works belonged to one of them – the impoverished Ukrainian nobility. It is traced how this image developed in the representation of different social classes and people of many professions, different age categories, different levels of affluence. It is noted that the negative images of false sarmatians are significantly detailed looked at the conceptual play of each artistic detail of the work.
The development of the image of the sarmatian knight from the antihero to the idealized representation of the author who identified himself with the lyrical hero is traced. His basic attributes include military valor, the mission of defender of the motherland and public order, a confessor of freedom and equality of privileges and the special role of the poet as a prophet and preacher.
In parallel the system of female education was studied in view of the novelty of the Baroque representation of the female principle and its typological features that organically fit into the anthropological dimension of conceptual structures. The concept of a woman as a guardian of the family, consonant with the Baroque dominant of the Mother of God who is seen in Bratkowski’s poems through the prism of satirical proof from the opposite – through the negation of women lewd, greedy, insidious, drinking and infidel, far from Christian morality. The innovation in the introduction of concept of the “man-death” into the literary discourse is noted.
The dynamics of the author’s conceptosphere is traced that on the basis of typical or individual images entered the space of allegory and associations where the primacy is given to universals. This group includes personalized in the form of a literary map of Polish cities. Attention is drawn to the fact that the concept of wisdom was the culmination of allegories.
The concepts of life and death as a dual unity are analyzed that points to the transformation of tanatic motives in the poetry of mature and late Baroque – from the meaninglessness of death and fear of it to the victory of eternity over transience and sacrifice over social indifference.
The main ways of expressing the sacred symbolism of Polish-language poetry of mature and late Baroque are determined: acronyms, sacred metaphor, biblical maxims and sophisms of word games, personification, hyperbole, metonymy etc.
All these types of sacralization of the word are present in Bratkowski’s poems, but acquired exclusively individual forms given the general process of secularization of society in the late XVII century.
