Sharpening Juxtapositions: Ezra Pound's Depersonalizing Operation on The Waste Land

• 영문명: Sharpening Juxtapositions: Ezra Pound's Depersonalizing Operation on The Waste Land
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 정경심(Kyung Sim Chung)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제17권 제2호, 155~172쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.12.30

영문 초록

This essay first defines The Waste Land both as a personal epic and the impersonal epic of humanity in the postwar world. It then proposes Pound’s alterations made the poem more impersonal in the sense both Eliot and Pound advocated with their theory of impersonality and Imagism. Finally, to verify this proposition, it analyzes the three key aspects of the amendments, closely related with the depersonalizing effects: the removal of epigraph/prelude and revision of the title, suppression of narrative intrusions, and the deletion of personal pronouns. The various artistic methods that influenced early Eliot have one objective concentration. The technique of juxtaposition is central to this, and it is in the sharpening of the juxtapositions that Pound’s principal contribution to The Waste Land lies. The manuscript version suffered from the predominance of excessively personal registers, though these are screened by the Biblical/historical façade. Pound’s editing increased the impersonal quality of the poem, concentrating its means of expression, removing superfluous elements, and heightening the contrast between different types of poetic material. Narrative sections and links were eliminated in favor of a more allusive and elliptic style. These changes helped to make the poem a more impersonal work, a collage of voices, largely subjected to irony.

목차

I. Eliot’s Personal “Waste Land” as An Epic of the Time

II. Pound’s Editing of the Manuscript

III. The Impersonal “Waste Land”

Works Cited

키워드

T. S. Eliot The Waste Land manuscript Ezra Pound Depersonalizing juxtaposition Impersonal narrative Intrusions personal pronouns irony