Abstract
<jats:p>The article provides a philosophical and literary analysis of the categories of hope and despair within the metamodernist paradigm, using the poetry of Alexander Krasovitsky as a case study. The research aims to identify the specific metamodernist understanding of hope and despair as interconnected existentials. The scientific novelty lies in the development of an original interpretation of the relationship between hope, despair, and faith as a dynamic triad of the metamodernist experience. For the first time, it is demonstrated that in the metamodernist worldview, hope is understood not as the opposite of despair, but as a means of its internal overcoming, in which the experience of the void itself does not vanish. The categories of hope and despair coexist, helping the subject maintain a connection with meaning. Such an understanding allows for the consideration of lyric poetry as a kind of emotional map of the metamodernist individual. As a result, the article proposes a reading of hope as a conscious existential choice made amidst the loss of stable foundations of meaning. The study shows that despair in a metamodernist context loses its exclusively destructive character and is conceptualized as a form of the subject’s ultimate honesty toward the experience of the void. It is established that faith serves as the existential foundation that allows hope to maintain its authenticity and prevents it from turning into an illusion. This internal foundation finds expression in the poetic text, which functions in metamodernism as a space for philosophical utterance, capturing new forms of experiencing meaning, uncertainty, and internal resistance.</jats:p>