THE METAPHYSICAL MEANINGS OF UKRAINIAN BAROQUE LYAMENTS AND EPITAFIONS OF 17th CENTURY

The article deals with the expressions of metaphysical meanings in Ukrainian baroque lyaments and epitafions of the 17th century. The role of emotionality caused by the nature of genres by which authors address to existential universals such as the transcendence of the human soul, the essence of the world, the fluidity of life, fatality of fate etc are revealed in the article. It concerns the influence of the Orthodox Christian traditionin particular views on death and posthumous fate of the human soul. The attention is on the function of crying that connects antithetical motives "of tears" and "joy"; the role of the spiritual element in the hierarchy of values professed by the authors; the character of synthesis of spiritual and theological issues with rationalist view of image objects. The article clarifies the role of baroque artistic and stylistic means for the transfer of sacral and profane in the analyzed works