NEOMODERNIST TRENDS IN UKRAINIAN POETRY OF THE LATE SOVIET PERIOD

Анотація

This article refl ects upon the different stylistic and thematic embodiments of the neomodernist paradigm in Ukrainian poetry of the late Soviet period, with peculiar attention to Vasyl Stus, Ihor Kalynets, Mykola Vorobiov and Mykhailo Hryhoriv. The author stresses the necessity of a re-evaluation of the history of Modernism in 20th-century Ukrainian literature, showing the survival of a modernist poetic mind in underground Ukrainian Soviet poetry and the complexity of the adaptation of Modernism during the Stagnation. Keywords: Ukrainian poetry, Neomodernism, Vasyl Stus, Ihor Kalynets, Kyiv School.