M. Rylsky's article "A word about Lesya Ukrainka" as a source of studying the poet's biography

Abstract

The article considers the role of literary and artistic criticism in studying the life and career of Lesya Ukrainka; a review of a critical article by M. Rylsky about the writer. The purpose of the article is to prove the effectiveness of attracting literary and critical works in the process of studying the life and creative path of Lesya Ukrainka. Biographical, comparative and receptive methods were used in the study. It is shown that in the article "A word about Lesya Ukrainka" the critic pays great attention to the biography and worldview of the poet, emphasizing the love of freedom of her family, trying to find out the origins of freedom and captivity, protection of the oppressed and disadvantaged, whom she sought to protect with his poetic words. The critic draws attention to the versatility of poetry, the use of folk poetic elements, pointing to kinship with Taras Shevchenko, symbolism, Prometheanism, musicality, flexibility and diversity of the poetic word, emphasizing the thoughts with abundant quotations. M. Rylsky presents the creative history of the drama extravaganza "Forest Song", in which the poet showed an insatiable daughter's love for Ukrainian nature and native Volhynia, and this idea will go through all stages of studying the life and career of Lesya Ukrainka. The article offers methodical recommendations on the use of M. Rylsky's article in the process of studying the biography of Lesya Ukrainka. Given the important methodological, ideological and artistic significance, it can be used at any stage of studying the work of Lesya Ukrainka: acquaintance with the biography, clarification of issues and ideological and artistic features of software works.