아동문학으로서 「유용한 고양이들에관한 늙은 파섬 시집」

• 영문명: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats as Children’s Literature
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 양병현(Yhang Beong Heon)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제20권 제2호, 65~86쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.12.30

영문 초록

T. S. Eliot has been known as a poet and critic for being so serious and moralistic that he might teach his readers. Yet, he published Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in 1939 for children, especially for his friends. In this sense, this poetry is aimed at amusing children with an allegory of a variety of cats. Usually, the style that children like lies in amusement in form and satirical language in use. Eliot knew it; so it is an interesting task to examine the significance of the old possum, his nickname, from the poetry for children, and the poet hidden behind the nickname. The Old Possum poetry appears to take into account what children like: a poetry collection of amusement and seriousness put together for children using lively rhythms and regular rhymes according to the characteristics of practical cats. The poetry shows a variety of each cat’s characters and habits, which, the poet believes, practically reflect various forms of human life. Above all, Eliot tried to associate practical cats in profound meditation with himself as a thoughtful, yet invisible poet and critic just like the wild, yet shy animal: a metaphor of the old possum in poetry.

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T. S. 엘리엇 아동문학 아동 시 늙은 파섬 유용한 고양이 T. S. Eliot children's literature poetry for children the old possum practical cats