ACADEMIC TEXTS REPOSITORY

Summary

Dmytro Kremin – is an outstanding Ukrainian poet, publicist, essayist, translator, recipient of the Shevchenko Prize in the field of literature. He was born in Zakarpattia region, later lived and worked in Mykolaiv region. From the early stages of his artistic life he created some great works – the poem «Gerstein's Memorandum», poetic symphonies: «The Garden», «Paranoid Zone «A»», «Dance of the Wandering Fire», «Adam's Horses». In the collection «Summer Time» (Mykolaiv, 2007) the central place is occupied by the poem «ANNO DOMINI», that carries the subtitle: «A lost poem. Fragments snatched from the fire». This is already a «later» Kremin, who is pained by the theme of Ukrainian loss, Ukrainian historical unrealization caused by either foreigners or absence of strong thinking minds among Ukrainians. Possessing a simply amazing skill of artistic-planetary-historical vision, organically and easily combining eras and territories, genres and forms of presentation, masterfully shuffling known, little-known and completely unknown facts and events, skilfully operating with deep knowledge in various fields of life, gracefully weaving old Ukrainian vocabulary and author's neologisms into the plot and emotional canvas of the texts, Dmytro Kremin first of all reflects on the fate of Ukraine, sees it as tragic, strives, perhaps somewhat expressively and chaotically, to find ways out of that abyss where his country was at the time. D. Kremin generally has a phenomenal feeling of a pulsating age. His poems feature mythical heroes and real people, historical events and fantastic adventures, holy and sinful, ruthlessly realistic and romantically elavated, in time and space, next to each other and apart, in visions and reality, in Olbia and in Ukraine, in Mykolaiv and in Uzhhorod, The article attempts an artistic-aesthetic analysis of the modern poetry of Dmytro Kremin, proves the opinion that the poem «Lost Letter» really contradicts the established philosophical, ethical, aesthetic codes of society and directs the poetic Word to self-expression.