T.S. Eliot's Early LinguisticTechnique: Pronouns as the Regulator of Viewpoints in ＂The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock＂

• 영문명: T.S. Eliot's Early LinguisticTechnique: Pronouns as the Regulator of Viewpoints in ＂The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock＂
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 정경심(Kyung Sim Chung)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제18권 제1호, 191~210쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

This study examines Eliot’s peculiar usage of personal pronouns and verb tenses in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” which effectively creates the indeterminate self subjected to the inherent paradox of impersonality. Though pronouns and verbs are exploited by many modernists for the creation of diverse points of view and the sense of the timeless, it is Eliot who makes the most of both their conventional and unconventional usage. Eliot initially brings pronouns and verbs to distinguish between various points of view. But soon he rebels against it by making them heavily dependent on the adjacent contexts. Losing their defining power of words, the referents of pronouns shift from line to line, each shift being another, higher fusion of points of view. Likewise, verb tenses are unconventionally juxtaposed and made to fuse various tenses for the effect of simultaneity. So the simultaneous coexistence of various points of view and the past and present tense, voluntarily generates paradox which is an inherent quality of Eliot’s indeterminate self. And Eliot is outstanding for the extraordinary complexity of poetic subjectivity created by his peculiar usage of linguistic elements, on which various points of view play against each other.

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linguistic elements pronouns verb tenses indeterminacy a half-object the first person singular simultaneity points of view the timeless the self