Втілення авторського міту Олега Лишеги в поетичних циклах «Зима в Тисмениці» та «Снігові і вогню»

In his creative works, Oleh Lysheha has managed to create a self-contained mythopoeia, based on his unique perception of the world. A specific archaic worldview regained its relevance in his poetry and consistently appears in its lyrical subject’s way of thinking. The texts from different poetic cycles contribute to one concept-plot continuity unified by consistent mythologemes and by the special ways the time and space are organized in Oleh Lysheha’s poetic world. In this article, the author’s poetic cycles “Winter in Tysmenytsia” and “To snow and fire” are viewed both as separate conceptually whole pieces and as elements of the whole Oleh Lysheha’s mythopoeia. Such an approach opens a new perspective on the way the cycles are built internally and on how certain parts of them interact with the external panorama of the poet’s literary heritage. Both poetic cycles show clear traces of ritualistic intent aimed at reflecting upon a set period of time and at drawing inner drastic change that occurs in the lyrical subject as well as at attempting to accept it. The natural elements, specifically water and fire, act as the catalysts of such change and the process of writing becomes the key myth interacting with the readers on a metatextual level. Both poetic cycles are equally concluded with the descriptions of specific actions that can be interpreted as the destruction and rearrangement of the lyrical subject’s worldview. In “To snow and fire”, there are also certain texts which can be compared to shamanic journeys and that is also a subject of debate in the article.