The Narrator (Author) and the Hero in T. Shevchenko’s Poem The Funeral Feast • To the History of the Establishment of the National Prophet-Poet
The Narrator (Author) and the Hero in T. Shevchenko’s Poem The Funeral Feast • To the History of the Establishment of the National Prophet-Poet

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the images of the narrator / author and the prophet – the lyrical character in T. Shevchenko’s poem The Funeral Feast [Tryzna]. The purpose of the study is to comprehend the author’s conception and to reveal the whole range of the ways of expressing the author’s “self ”. In this poem, the lyrical subject is variable. He functions as the author proper as well as the narrating author and the lyrical “I”, sometimes getting the features of the lyrical character. At the same time, the narrator and the character have in common the motif of prophetical service, prophetical mission.

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