｢J. 알프레드 프루프록의 연가｣에서의 현실인식과 “압도적인 문제”

• 영문명: The Realization of the World and the “Overwhelming Question” in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 최희섭(Choi Hie Sup)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제15권 제2호, 117~138쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.30

영문 초록

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is one of the most successful early poems of T. S. Eliot. In this poem Eliot expresses the sordid and waste world which shows no possibility of salvation. The method of salvation or the salvation itself is symbolized as the “overwhelming question”. The question of salvation is overwhelming not only because the speaker of this poem cannot deal with it properly but also it cannot be solved in this waste world. The world is sordid, turbulent and waste, and human beings in this world are alienated. Eliot’s sense of alienation has its root in his early life, social activities, leaving America and acquiring British citizenship. This alienation is expressed in this poem as the impossibility of expressing his own thoughts and communicating with the women. The speaker even wishes to lead an animal life. The speaker’s wish to be lower animals indicates that the world is in the lowest level of existence. The speaker’s wish to save the world is expressed as the action of going to the women. What the speaker aspires is the true communication with the women not only on the physical level but also on the spiritual level. The communication will put an end to the alienation and save this world from its sordid and waste situation. Though the speaker’s wish isn’t fulfilled, we understand the “overwhelming question” is connected with the salvation of the world.

목차

I. 들어가며

II. 현실인식

III. 압도적인 문제

IV. 마치며

인용문헌

키워드

엘리엇 현실인식 소외 프루프록의 연가 현실구원 압도적인 문제 T. S. Eliot the realization of the world alienation “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” salvation of the world overwhelming question