「벼룩」과 「고별사: 슬퍼함을 금함」에 나타난 존 던의 이성 비판
John Donne’s Critique of Reason in “The Flea” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
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My thesis aims at tracing John Donne’s poetic achievement of critiquing reason to which he is himself deeply indebted to a large extent, by analyzing two of his poems: “The Flea” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” On the one hand, Donne, as a Renaissance poet living in the early seventeenth century, the phase of forming rationalism in the history of modern human intellect, reflects the rise of reason as the spirit of his own era through his poetic originality of expressing emotion in a logical manner. But, on the other, he also has a keen eye for the defects of rationality and wields the insight of criticizing them even before the establishment of reason in the later seventeenth and the eighteenth century. My interpretation of the two poems is based on Donne’s use of the dramatic monologue. Through this technique, the speaker’s speciously self-justified argument is distanced from the poet himself, and that aesthetic gap induces the poet’s intention of criticizing the male speaker’s “phallogocentrism” as a device of repressing the female voice of desire for feeling and of maximizing his own self-interest. Unlike other critics who have regarded Donne himself as phallogocentric, I exonerate the poet from the charge of “masculine persuasive force” by bringing to light his own critique of the wrongheaded other side of reason contained in the poetic speaker’s apparently logical utterance.
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My thesis aims at tracing John Donne’s poetic achievement of critiquing reason to which he is himself deeply indebted to a large extent, by analyzing two of his poems: “The Flea” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” On the one hand, Donne, as a Renaissance poet living in the early seventeenth century, the phase of forming rationalism in the history of modern human intellect, reflects the rise of reason as the spirit of his own era through his poetic originality of expressing emotion in a logical manner. But, on the other, he also has a keen eye for the defects of rationality and wields the insight of criticizing them even before the establishment of reason in the later seventeenth and the eighteenth century. My interpretation of the two poems is based on Donne’s use of the dramatic monologue. Through this technique, the speaker’s speciously self-justified argument is distanced from the poet himself, and that aesthetic gap induces the poet’s intention of criticizing the male speaker’s “phallogocentrism” as a device of repressing the female voice of desire for feeling and of maximizing his own self-interest. Unlike other critics who have regarded Donne himself as phallogocentric, I exonerate the poet from the charge of “masculine persuasive force” by bringing to light his own critique of the wrongheaded other side of reason contained in the poetic speaker’s apparently logical utterance.
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