EPIGRAMS OF VITALIY DUBENSKYI OR METAPHYSICS OF LIGHT

Abstract

The poems of Vitaliy Dubenskyi as an early kind of emblematic thinking are analyzed in the article from the view of its functions in the context of interpretations of correlation God-world-men, light and darkness paradigm and development of Ukrainian ascetical tradition. From the metaphysical side, it is interpreted the experience of the world of life and world of text, which is the basis of communication between authors and readers from different times, finding out the identity of the universal beliefs and motivating the study of historical forms in literature experience.
Epigrams of Vitaliy Dubenskyi belong to Ostrog’s circle texts; it is marked with the ability to be projected on the hermeneutical perspective of human life. In the history of Ukrainian epigrammatical traditions, poems
of Vitaliy are ranked highly by I. Franko and D. Chyzhevskyi. The «mirror» motif of his book «Dioptra» brings us back to the traditions of Neoplatonism and to its christian connotations, represents the metaphysical dimension of human existence.
The author gradually emphasizes in his poems on the difficulty of relationships between human and the world, enriches the multiliterate christian conception of human life, reminding the reader about the meaning of christian life. The peculiarity of epigram’s poetics of Vitaliy Dubenskyi follows from the connection between rationality and isyhazm.