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Vasyl Stus is a Ukrainian poet of the sixties, a master of philosophical, lyrical and satirical poetry, a political prisoner, and a Hero of Ukraine. An innovator and experimenter in contemporary Ukrainian poetry. Numerous stylistic techniques of couplets and rhymes emphasise the poetics of his poems. Stus's poems are filled with philosophical and expressionistic images of the path, fate, motifs of loneliness and struggle, death, and the comprehension of human destiny. Many of his poems also reflect the author's inner experiences after his arrest and in the camp. He also has natural philosophical reflections on the beauty of the world, which are combined with life-affirming calls for spiritual struggle.