셰이머스 히니의 『스테이션 섬』의 전략: 불편한 끼어들기

Abstract

This study of the strategy in Station Island shows how Seamus Heaney objectifies his spiritual conflicts and takes poetic voices including his posture toward challenges in life. Heaney, suffering from a sense of guilt for the ordeal of people in Ireland, creates a threatening mood and lets his suffering voices conflict in his poems. This is the way he proves how a poet cultivates his style through the despair prevalent in his age and includes his optimistic stance toward the life in his works. In the center of his poems is a sense of guilt and responsibility as an Irish poet. It is remarkable that he utilizes the stressful emotions as a poetic strategy. While cultivating poetic voices focused on the musical effects in his early poems, he shows the struggle and confrontation between the main poetic voice and other voices inserted into the context in Station Island, which makes a tensional atmosphere. The poet himself is always challenged by uncomfortable voices, however, this inconvenient intrusion gives the entire poems a new energy and liveliness.