Sonet Jastrząb na tle cyklu krymskiego Adama Mickiewicza: recepcja ukraińska

Abstract

The article provides a brief overview of Ukrainian publications of Adam Mickiewicz’s “Crimean Sonnets”. The article examines the “Hawk” sonnet, previously unknown to the general public for various reasons. Ukrainian readers had the opportunity to read the work for the first time in the Simferopol edition of the “Crimean Sonnets” of 2017. In addition to the eighteen texts translated by M. Rylsky, which appeared in all the previous publications of the cycle, the publication in question also includes “Hawk” in Mykola Bazan’s interpretation. The image and thematic collision of the work’s compositional development in relation to the vertical context and the social component, is analysed. The personified image of the bird, as a collective image of exiles, contrasts with the lyrical subjects of the other works in the cycle and, of course, with the mysterious figure of Giovanna. According to some scholars, Mickiewicz had in mind Karolina Sobańska, who accompanied the poet on his Crimean journey to Odessa in 1825. The article analyses the features related to the versificational and image-compositional poetic devices used in the last Crimean sonnet of Adam Mickiewicz’s cycle as interpreted by Bażan.