Aesthetic aspects of civil creative personal content in V. Lastovsky’s lyric poetry Cover Image

Эстэтычная праблематыка грамадзянскага, творчага, асабовага зместу ў лiрыцы Вацлава Ластоўскага
Aesthetic aspects of civil creative personal content in V. Lastovsky’s lyric poetry

Author(s): Aleś Makarewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: lyric poetry; content of literary work; poetic concept; civil creative personal sphere; patriotism

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the analysis of the figurative and expressive means, subject matter and conceptual content of V. Lastovsky’s lyric poetry where the author’s view of the civic consciousness, creativity and personal sphere are rendered. Special attention is drawn to the reflection of such aesthetic issues as the national ideal of a citizen, content of literary work, the poet’s aesthetic values, personal aesthetic choice, etc. The article proves that the poetic conception of the analyzed works is the manifestation of the opinions and beliefs which become more specific, more elaborated and extended in every subsequent works (their chronology is taken into consideration). The sense-shaping components of this conception are defined and described including motherland, its defenders and foes, past, present and future life of homeland and its sons, the way to the liberation of motherland, subject and its manifestation in literary work, prerequisites to construct convincing artistic images, the author’s civic attitude, his solitude, rejection; patterns of figurative topical stability of a literary work etc.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 35-63
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Belarusian