Linguistic representation of the sacred in P. Soroka’s collection “Forest psalms”

Background. The linguistic interpretation of the category of the sacred in literary texts is a polyparadigmatic national-authorial model. Poetic language thinking clearly outlines the conceptualization of axiological concepts, where any lexemes can become semantically close. A vivid example of sacred poetic texts is P. Soroka’s collection “Forest Psalms”. The relevance of the study of the linguistic representation of the sacred in the work of a contemporary Ukrainian writer is due to the insufficient research of his texts and models a new form of cognition of the sacred. Methods. The following methods were used: conceptual analysis, which involves modeling and describing concepts; contextual and situational and component analyzes – to clarify the semantics of conceptualized images. Results. The study examined the concepts of “faith”, “God” and “prayer”, which serve as vivid representatives of the sacred in the analyzed collection. It has been found that the conceptualized concepts create the sacred-artistic space of poetry, modeling the semantic content of the texts. The concepts of “faith” and “prayer” are cognitively multifaceted, which are decoded not only through the lexemes of the same name, but also through other linguistic means. The analyzed concept of “God” in poetic texts is holistically defined through three semantic components, through which the ideas of God the Creator, God the Life-giver and God the Savior are realized. It has been established that the artistic and semantic structure of the sacred in P. Soroka’s collection is endowed with internal synergy, and therefore is a linguistic component of poetic reality. Conclusions. The linguistic representation of the sacred in P. Soroka’s collection “Forest Psalms” is a multidimensional system of poetic language thinking. The nominal fields of three evaluatively colored concepts: “faith”, “God” and “prayer” contain numerous connotative layers that construct the semantic space of the sacred in the author’s literary texts.