Abstract:
The relevance of this article is stipulated by the need for theoretical understanding and
generalization of creative activities of the modern Ukrainian poets who resort to the
means of related arts to achieve maximum expressiveness of the poem, its emotional
and expressive impact on the reader. The article is devoted to the intermedial analysis
of the lyrics by Emma Andievska, the representative of the Ukrainian diaspora, namely
such an aspect of the problem as the coverage in the poem of connections with music
as an unimaginable art form. The article considers how a musically gifted creative
person without the appropriate education is able to implement his/her passion for
this art form in lyrics, while showing both mastery of musical terminology and
knowledge of the history of many musical instruments, subtle perception of their
acoustic capabilities: the viola, the violin, the horn, and the xylophone. The appeal
to words-signals (song, melody, the violin) is found in the poetess’ poems, as well
as the associative way of reproducing musical impressions from concerts that she
gained, and the masterful play of performers, who, however, are not specified. The
poetess has established the actualization of many ancient instruments, including the
basol, the sambika, the clavichord, the orpheon, the spinet, the domra, the templipito,
which serve as signals of the connection between these arts—literature and music. It
is revealed that the most frequent in her lyrics is the ancient Chinese gong, which
acquires a sacred sound in her interpretation, and the oboe, characterized by a special
permeability of sound. The flute, endowed with anthropomorphic properties, is in the
foreground among the Ukrainian musical instruments. The poetess also honoured the
“queen of the orchestra”—the violin, recreating the impression of playing this stringed bowed instrument with significant timbre capabilities. The synaesthesia worldview
of Emma Andievska, who reproduces auditory impressions with the help of visual
representations, is demonstrated. The poetess subtly captures the ‘music’ of nature
and conveys it by verbal means. The following levels of poetic coverage of music in
her poems are determined: semantics, structures, phonics, rhythms. Selected levels of
interaction are considered in the relationship, complementarity, because phonics often
emphasizes the semantics of the text, rhythm—its emotional tone. It is established
that the poetess, like composers, resorted to numerous repetitions: phrases, words,
sounds, reaching the sound expressiveness of the poem.