ARTISTIC SYMBOLICS AND ELEGIAC PLOT IN THE POEM “AUTUMN IN THE PARK” BY BORIS RYZHY

The article examines the poetics of Boris Ryzhy’s poem “Autumn in the Park”, which clearly shows the key features of the poet’s creative thinking. The reflexive understanding of the dichotomy of life and death and the elegiac perception of contemporary reality, which appear as peculiar constants of his lyrics, reveal various ways and forms of their verbal actualization. One of such conceptually significant embodiments of B. Ryzhy’s poetic “elegism” is his reflection on the “autumn-park” realities projected into the microcosm of the lyrical hero. The structural-semiotic and phenomenological approaches used to study the poetic text help to clarify the verbalization of elegy in the poet’s work. An analytical review of the poem “Autumn in the Park” testifies to the semantic unity of artistic symbolism and plot structure of the text. This work demonstrates the lyrical hero’s immersion in a reflexive understanding of death as a marker of the progressive abolition of existential vitality. Regret for the passing of life produces the elegiac character of reflexive comprehension of the ontological presence of man in the world. The system of artistic signs (“autumn”, “par”, “angel”, “pond”, “hand”, “eyes”, “roses”) actualized in the structure of the poem determines the logic of the reflexive self-determination of thelyrical hero. The elegiac plot, set at the beginning of the text and consistently implemented in the process of textual structure, explicates the desire of B. Ryzhy’s poetic “the self” for the value conjugation of life and death through stoic acceptance of the natural laws of the macrocosm and anthropological (creative) elevation above the inevitability of their impact on the human microcosm.