Figurative language of Ukrainian poetry written during the period of full-scale military aggression of the Russian Federation

The relevance of the research lies in need to understand representation phenomenon war modern Ukrainian poetry. scientific novelty results is due identification means image creation, with help which wartime poetry reflects reaction full-scale invasion Russian Federation and processes overcoming traumatic experience dismantling colonial worldview structures narratives. heroes poetic works are soldiers, volunteers, refugees, representatives different age categories religious beliefs, while leitmotif creativity is, on one hand, pain, fear, tragedy, other feat Armed Forces Ukraine ordinary Ukrainians, their common aspiration defeat aggressor. purpose article characterize figurative expressive about war, its symbolism, lexical-semantic content. used structural-semantic contextual analysis methods interpretive descriptive methods. mechanism identifying imagery became associative level works. As a result lexical features poems that appeared public domain during aggression singled out. stylistic functions epithets, similes, metaphors actualize emotional evaluations concrete-sensual associations author reader, outlined. symbolic world characterized, corresponding concepts it constructed from highlighted: “home”, “light”, “city”, “sky”, “darkness” (“night”), “winter”, “February”, etc. analysis, used. part means, new contexts, words acquire meanings only partially coincide those recorded dictionaries. Individually authored metaphors, tropes contain realities wartime, as well chronicles news reports; poets who ranks armed forces, paint pictures military actions, they witnessed participated in, poeticize theme brotherhood. system characterized by occasionality, expressiveness artistic communication performs aesthetic, cognitive, communicative functions. Poems rise conceptual and, course, have already become an integral national liberation struggle Ukrainians.