THE CONCEPT OF CAPTIVITY IN TARAS MELNYCHYK’S POETRY

Abstract

In the article, the different representations of captivity as our space deprivation are analyzed. The folklore motives and images, and even mythic worldview in Taras Melnychuk’s poetry are treated as tools for the conceptualization of fragmentariness, perversity, and disharmony of the world. The folklore language overpasses the deficiency of words, fills in verbal lacunas which have been formed as breaks
in the tissue of being, induced by violation. The concept of captivity in Melnychuk’s poetry is described in mythic terms of the death world; therefore, the opposition of mobility / immobility is conceptualized as significant. In his poetry, Taras Melnychuk has established the well-defined hierarchical correspondence that allows correlating between different levels of my space. Therefore, the adequacy of the outer space
and body as the inner space which is placed into it depends on the corporeal authenticity which can be conceptualized as the very first level of space ordering.