엘리엇의 『네 사중주』

• 영문명: Eliot’s Four Quartets: The Song of Expanded Rose-Garden
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 서광원(Gwang-Won Seo)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제19권 제2호, 57~85쪽, 전체 29쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

This thesis intends to explicate T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets with the image of the rose-garden as an important clue to it. The mystical experience of rose-garden is the starting point of “Burnt Norton”, the first poem of Four Quartets. In “Burnt Norton”, this ecstatic moment of illumination can be said to save the poet from the flux of time, even momentarily. At this time Eliot applies the Dantean concept of “the still point of turning world” to the rose-garden experience. This image of rose-garden repeats itself in the rest of the poem. However, the meaning of visionary experience is criticized within the work itself. In the concluding section of “East Coker”, the poet attempts to revise his attitudes to those mystical experiences. He wishes to put more value on the enlarged consciousness covering the collective community rather than the isolated ecstatic moment of one solitary mystic. In “The Dry Salvages” he is concerned with giving poetic form to theological thoughts such as Annunciation and Incarnation. The poet accepts historic Incarnation, namely the birth and life of Jesus Christ on earth, as the intersection point of the timeless with time. However, when he poeticizes the Christian doctrine, he just takes the method of connecting Incarnation with the small experiences of illumination. Now we can realize the rose-garden experience of “Burnt Norton” as “The hint half guessed” or “the gift half understood” of Incarnation, as it were, a shadow of Incarnation. Finally, at the end of “Little Gidding” the poet reaches the rose-garden once more. At this time this last rose-garden could be thought to be a more expanded one than that of “Burnt Norton”, for we know well that it only could be reached after various spiritual, political, and historical disciplines.

목차

『번트 노튼』

『이스트 코우커』

『드라이 샐베이지즈』

『리틀 기딩』

인용문헌

키워드

엘리엇 장미정원 부동의 중심점 시간과 영원의 교차점 수태고지 성육신 계시의 순간들 단테 T. S. Eliot rose-garden the still point the point of intersection of the timeless with time Annunciation Incarnation moments of illumination Dante