Characteristics Of Ukrainian Folk Literature

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Ukrainian folk oral literature has its unique artistic qualities, its unique poetic devices—metaphors, similes, epithets, and symbolism. The poetic folk literature consists generally of folk songs, which are subdivided into various forms: ritual songs -songs related with spring rituals, with vesnianky-hahilky, carols, shchedrivky, Kupalo festival songs, harvest songs, wedding songs and funeral songs-, historical songs and Dumas, lyrical songs and dance songs. Folk prose can be divided into fables, fairy tales, stories, legends, anecdotes, and so on. Poetic-prose folk literature is related to spells, proverbs, sayings, and riddles. In the nineteenth century, the mechanism of folk oral literature was held to be the products of a collective popular mind. Contemporary folklorists support the hypothesis that individuals are the creators of the oral tradition. However, in the basic examples of ancient folk oral literature, the words are connected with ritual actions and the oral text and ritual events always have a realistic, vital purpose. This delimits the creative desire of the performer. The fundamental changes that occur in the works of the oral practice are caused by their dissociation from the original ritual contexts in which they arose. The orally conveyed

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