DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE IN VOLTAIRE’S «POEM ON THE LISBON DISASTER» AND IN POEM OF SYMEON LYSYNETSKYI «A BEAST TO BEHOLD IN BUDA AND PEST»

Abstract

The article analyzes dynamic landscape that performs an important philosophical and psychological function in the poems of the French and Ukrainian authors, it helps them to express their emotions and reflections on the large-scale natural disasters that happened in Portugal and Hungary and caused great damage to the cities and led to the deaths of local residents. The authors also expressed condolences to the inhabitants in their works, because they worried about the fate of people, regardless of age, sex and social status, both poems permeated with sincere humanistic feelings. The poets tried to show and convince the readers that humanity is powerless and can not withstand the destructive energy of the nature. Landscapes in poetic works fulfill an important aesthetic and psychological function, help the authors to reveal emotions, mood, reflection, inner emotional experiences to the recipient, to adjust to the perception of joyous or sad information, and also indicate the geographical location of a particular event. Dynamic landscape in both poems is an important tool for representing reality and expressing authorial reflections of the power of the nature, which can be devastating and extremely dangerous to people. The titles of the works indicate the places of real events (Portuguese Lisbonin Voltaire’s poem and Hungarian Buda and Pestin Symeon Lysynetskyi’s poem).