CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POETIC SYNTAX OF MYKHAILO KAMENIUK'S WORKS
Authors:   Communal Higher Education Institution", Pokhyliuk Olena ,   Vinnytsia Humanities Pedagogical College"
Published: November 2024

By examining the syntactic structure of poetry, we may comprehend and characterise the current level of linguistic thought as well as the manner in which different writers use it. This linguistic research will provide useful information for analysing syntactic phenomena in language reality. The object of the research is a collection of poems by Mykhailo Kameniuk "Songs of a Gentle Vagabond", and the subject of analysis is the syntactic features of the poems presented in the publication. The purpose of the article is to identify and characterize the specifics of the syntactic organization of Mykhailo Kameniuk’s poetry collection "Songs of a Gentle Vagabond", to establish specific methods of organizing artistic imagery at the syntactic level, to select illustrative material that would reveal the poet’s linguistic manner of writing. Research methodology. The general scientific techniques employed in the analysis of the collection are analysis and synthesis as theoretical methods-operations that, in the first place, aim to comprehend the phenomenon of a poetic work and its existence in the plane of theoretical characteristics; these techniques are subordinated to the need to understand the main trends in the development of the aesthetic and literary discourse of poetry, without which it is impossible to consider the syntactic features of poetic works; and finally, abstraction and concretization as theoretical methods of operation; The deductive-inductive method as a cognitive action that allows you to move from the empirical experience of perceiving the structure of a poetic text and its understanding to certain theoretical generalizations (induction), and from them to other phenomena and processes, the comprehension of which is subject to the theoretical positions obtained through generalization (deduction). Using the formal method, which permits analysing a literary work’s form as a collection of techniques in terms of their aesthetic impact on the reader, the structural-semiotic method, which aims to characterise the poetic text's structure and is subordinated to the task of carrying out aesthetic communication between the author and the reader, and the method of providing a comprehensive and methodical explanation of the phenomenon of a poetic work and its existence, which is carried out in the process of linguistic and literary cognition, are added to the general scientific methods. The main content of the article is a detailed analysis of the syntactic organization of Mykhailo Kameniuk's poetry. Each artist's speech originality is unique due to the structural and stylistic elements of poetic speech, which represent their mood and worldview. Characteristics of the author's basic syntactic structures for the expression of the sentence's principal participants: The majority of subjects are simple, denoted by singular or plural common or proper nouns in the nominative case; subjects that do not function as nouns serve a specific artistic purpose, mainly preserving the emotive and sentimental tone of poetry. Among the compound two-element predicates, the most commonly used predicate is "null-copula + noun in the nominative case", which expresses a constant feature or a qualitative characteristic inherent in the subject. In the poetry of M. Kameniuk, inverse constructions are actively functioning, in which predicates precede subjects, direct objects precede word forms, on which they depend, agreed definitions occupy a postposition relative to descriptive words, often removed from them by other members of the sentence, which transfers the semantic imposition to inverted units. Incomplete syntactic constructions, in particular incomplete elliptical and incomplete contextual sentences, are actively functioning in the author’s poetic work. The carried-out research allows us to conclude that the poetic syntax of M. Kameniuk is characterized by the richness and variety of syntactic units that allow to convey the psychological state of the lyrical hero and the originality of the vision of the depicted by the author.