Tsurkan I. The lyrical poetry by Oleksandr Oles’: poetics of symbolism.

The thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of poetics and problematics of Oleksandr Oles’ creative work in the context of its comparison with basic tendencies of the development of European poetic symbolism and its artistic interaction with the national traditions of the domestic art, conducted in Ukrainian literary studies for the first time. The theoretical findings of Oles’ creative work previously accumulated by Ukrainian literary studies, which concern the research of the main aspects of stylistic originality, poetics, and problematics of Oleksandr Oles’ lyrical poetry, the typology of his poetic symbolic images have been specified and made more profound. The thesis has defined the role and significance of Oleksandr Oles’ creative work as an important connecting link between the development of Ukrainian poetic traditions and the latest achievements of European literature; it has considered some debatable issues of the contemporary literary studies concerning the definition of ideological and aesthetic principles in the context of which Ukrainian modernism coexisted with the European one, as well as the assessment of the role played by Oleksandr Oles’ work in the processes of their interaction. The author has analyzed a problematic atmosphere of ideological and aesthetic search of European and Ukrainian artists of the modernist era, in the context of which the artistic orientations of the early Oleksandr Oles’ poetry were shaped. It has been stated that modernism, as the newest ideological and aesthetic system at the turn of the century, touching upon all cultural sectors, arose in the process of denying the previous aesthetic and philosophical dominants.