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Literary works of Taras Shevchenko are extremely diverse. His painting and poetry are true reflection of national life. Applying to the method of interdisciplinary relations and S. Krymskiy’s cultural and philosophical concept “Home – Field – The Temple”, this exploration attempts to analyse social poem “Catherine” and “Hireling” to find national iconic archetypes. The author states that these archetypes confirm the presence of intra-deep receptive relationship between Shevchenko’s poems and folk art and inherency such features as folklorism.