TY - JOUR AU - Boklakh D. Yu., PY - 2020/03/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Boklakh D. Yu. City topos in the poem «In Wilno, the glorious city» by T. G. Shevchenko: synchronization of historical events and tragic circumstances of life in spatial continuum of the city JF - Philological Treatises JA - PT VL - 9 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://tractatus.sumdu.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/177 SP - 113-123 AB - <p>The city topos is an important spatial dominant of the city image of Taras Shevchenko’s works.<br>The city topos of the poem «In Wilno, the glorious city» is a spatial constuct in the time of the city<br>attributes, along with feelings and impressions of the narrator about the events occurring in the<br>specified locuses. The topos of Wilno city includes space coordinates of synchronization of the<br>historic flowing course of existence with the life drama of love of a young man to a girl of another<br>faith. The poetic topos of the city is not described in detail, only certain space forming elements are<br>presented: the University, the city gate, boulevard, house, window, Wilia river, Zakret area, which<br>become the locuses and the expressers of the described events. However, these elements are sufficient<br>to outline the city poetic topos of Wilno and characterize the life drama of the characters. The poetic<br>topos of the city simultaneously becomes a historical background displaying the time of closing down<br>Wilno University by the Russian czarist regime in 1832, depicts the existential collision of the<br>unhappy characters’ love.</p> ER -