욕망의 정치학- 존 던의 『노래와 소네트』

Abstract

Until very recently, studies on the seventeenth-century English poetry had been largely shaped by T. S. Eliot's criticism of the metaphysical poets and by the reading strategies of the New Critics. New explorations of power, gender, ideology in the Renaissance, however, have not only provided radically new understandings of Renaissance texts but have also forced us to reexamine the critical, historical, and cultural presuppositions on which our readings are based.The aim of this paper is to explore the politics of desire in Songs and Sonnets through the re-reading of Donne. In a sense, all poetry is political, for texts inescapably reflect on society. Songs and Sonnets contain Donne's most complicated exploration of love and embrace the various fields of philosophy, astronomy, law, medicine, sexology, and theology. “With the Copernican revolution in astronomical thought, there occurs a fundamental ‘displacement’ of the Earth and of the privileged position accorded humanity,” says Thomas Docherty. With the invention of the telescope and the compass, the use of the telescope relativized the phenomena of space and the mathematical compass was used to separate a realm of difference, between an outside and inside space. Donne's poems reflect this historical change and new relations of time and space which makes up the fundamental elements of human social condition and existence resulting from the Copernican revolution. His poems thus become a manifestation in writing of the revolutionary principles of the post-Copernican philosophy, so they demand re-reading from the new perspectives.