“몰락”의 키츠 역설 미학 : 「하이페리온」을 중심으로
Keatsian Paradoxical Aesthetics of “Fall”
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The readers of Keats' poetry find out his traces of metal agony over the finitude human beings must face. His meditation upon human finitude, along with his experience of historical trauma, opens into new imagination. He discovers the critical clues from Hyperion and Apollo, Hyperion's double, for the traumatic history. This paper illuminates Keatsian way of writing to demonstrate how his endeavor to understand historical experience emerges from imagination and how epic narrative as a outmoded genre loses its power. Hyperion as a fallen titan represents this historical and literary phenomenon. This historic allegorical figure can be a metaphor for a possibility of a new poetics. Through Hyperion, he wants to establish relationship between history and his aesthetics. He demonstrates that Hyperion can be suggestive of a new kind of aesthetic experience. Hyperion leads its readers to imagine such experiences which historical narrative cannot represent. Keats' writing manifests 'too much time has elapsed,' which makes his readers sense time-disjuncture. He wants to open the possibility to connect out of timeness with a rhetorical fall. The fall of Hyperion marks a sign of epic's fall and a new potential poetics. The readers of Hyperion perceive intuitively that titans will be soon extinguished from history. What Keats also intends in Hyperion is to manifest what kind of historical action and metaphor can be compared to “die into life” motif. His historical and literary view is based upon the fact that encountering the paradoxical power of “die into life,” he empowers “life” over “death.” This means what he intends to write is not about death. This study helps to examine the emotional value about his poetry.
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The readers of Keats' poetry find out his traces of metal agony over the finitude human beings must face. His meditation upon human finitude, along with his experience of historical trauma, opens into new imagination. He discovers the critical clues from Hyperion and Apollo, Hyperion's double, for the traumatic history. This paper illuminates Keatsian way of writing to demonstrate how his endeavor to understand historical experience emerges from imagination and how epic narrative as a outmoded genre loses its power. Hyperion as a fallen titan represents this historical and literary phenomenon. This historic allegorical figure can be a metaphor for a possibility of a new poetics. Through Hyperion, he wants to establish relationship between history and his aesthetics. He demonstrates that Hyperion can be suggestive of a new kind of aesthetic experience. Hyperion leads its readers to imagine such experiences which historical narrative cannot represent. Keats' writing manifests 'too much time has elapsed,' which makes his readers sense time-disjuncture. He wants to open the possibility to connect out of timeness with a rhetorical fall. The fall of Hyperion marks a sign of epic's fall and a new potential poetics. The readers of Hyperion perceive intuitively that titans will be soon extinguished from history. What Keats also intends in Hyperion is to manifest what kind of historical action and metaphor can be compared to “die into life” motif. His historical and literary view is based upon the fact that encountering the paradoxical power of “die into life,” he empowers “life” over “death.” This means what he intends to write is not about death. This study helps to examine the emotional value about his poetry.
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