CREATING AN ARTISTIC IMAGE IN THE POETRY OF VETERANS OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: THE TECHNIQUE OF DESTRUCTION

Abstract

This article is devoted to understanding the phenomenon of Ukrainian poetry that emerged during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. The author focuses on the appearance of several hundred publications related to the theme of war. Poetry occupies a special place among these publications as the fastest and most emotional form of reflection on dramatic events. Poetry in wartime emerges as a space for collective experience, a place for preserving pain, memory, stoic endurance, and spiritual resistance.

The study focuses on a special layer of war poetry — the works of veterans and military personnel who were not only witnesses but also active participants in the fighting. Their texts are distinguished by a high level of expression, emotional nakedness, honesty, and the absence of artistic pathos. Such poets transfer their own physical, psychological, and moral traumas into their poems, creating a new ethic of writing in which authenticity, documentary evidence, and inner truth become key criteria.

The works of authors such as Maksym Kryvtsov, Ihor Mitrov, Yaryna Chornoguz, Pavlo Korobchuk, and Serhiy Rubnikovych are examined, whose texts raise painful themes of loss, death, post-traumatic experiences, and the devaluation of combat experience by the home front.