파이퍼와 바드:『순수의 노래』와『경험의 노래』에 나타난 예언의 소리

Abstract

Piper and Bard: The Voice of Prophecy in Song of Innocence and Song of ExperienceHur, Yoon-DeokSong of Innocence and Song of Experience criticize the established way of seeing and thinking, and proclaim the regeneration of Earth through the prophetic speakers, Piper and Bard. The Piper perceives the world by way of transcending the barriers of time and space and of the divine, the human, and the natural. Innocence, despite its limitations, is seen as the essence of humanity which Blake prophesy will realize in the future, and has something inseparable to do with imaginative perception. But, unlike the Piper, the Bard is conscious of his ability to penetrate these barriers, and he uses this ability, as well as his power of insight, in order to reform the condition of society and mankind. Through the Bard, Blake reveals that the ultimate cause of social evils consists not in the established systems but in the “mind-forged manacles,” the passive psychology that accepts them and looks upon them as the inevitable things.Blake renders his prophetic perception of the world through his own rhetorical and experimental poetic devices such as syntactical and semantic ambiguities, and organic and transfiguring uses of religious, political, and literary traditions. And he also delivers the reader’s mentality from the confines of established conception and conventional modes of thinking and awakens man’s dormant capacity for perception of the infinite in the world.