Forgotten Pages in the Literary History of Western Belarus

Abstract

The forgotten, insufficiently explored pages of West-Belarusian poetry in the 20s – 30s of the XX century and Yanka Bylina, Stanislau Stankevich, Ulad-Initsky’s ideological and esthetic searches are analyzed in the article. The creative work of poets is seen in the context of acute socio-economic, spiritual and national problems and contradictions of reality, in line with the traditions of the leading, lyrical and narrative, style trends of national literature.
The author notes the plot and novelistic nature of Y. Bylina’s verses which were characterized by a quiet narrative tone, objectified imagery, S. Stankevich’s i nclination t o t he s atirical a nd h umorous i dentification o f t he s ocial c ircumstances and the internal world of man, to the use of themes, motives and images of social and ethnographic fillings, underlines Ulad- Initsky’s engagement in national patriotic issues, poet’s appeal to symbolic imagery, etc.