워즈워스와 키츠의 루스: 성경의 루스 번역과 재구성
Wordsworth and Keats’s Translations and Reconstructions of the Biblical Ruth
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This paper discusses in detail how Wordsworth and Keats appropriate the biblical Ruth and reconstruct their new Ruth figures in their poems, particularly in “Ruth” and “The Solitary Reaper” by Wordsworth, and “Ode to a Nightingale” and “To Autumn” by Keats. In the process of their (mis)translations and reconstructions, both poets boldly erase the pivotal parts of the Ruth story in the bible, such as the unique female relationship between Ruth and Naomi or the interracial marriage between Ruth and Boaz, and create new Ruth figures, mostly mute creatures, that fit to their emotional needs. The original Ruth is modified and transformed into diverse images that the poets wish to see or possess and that would satisfy their desires and anxieties. Through the idyllic Ruth as a gleaner, for instance, they satisfy their nostalgia for the once organic, agricultural community in the tumult of the rapidly industrialized Britain. They also quite often identify themselves with their own Ruth as an alien in the contemporary labor-oriented society. By identifying themselves with their own Ruth images, they project or rather throw away their negative emotions to their own Ruth. Their Ruth, therefore, quite often functions as the other that would absorb the poets’ desires, anxieties, and guilt, and give them a psychological release and comfort.
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This paper discusses in detail how Wordsworth and Keats appropriate the biblical Ruth and reconstruct their new Ruth figures in their poems, particularly in “Ruth” and “The Solitary Reaper” by Wordsworth, and “Ode to a Nightingale” and “To Autumn” by Keats. In the process of their (mis)translations and reconstructions, both poets boldly erase the pivotal parts of the Ruth story in the bible, such as the unique female relationship between Ruth and Naomi or the interracial marriage between Ruth and Boaz, and create new Ruth figures, mostly mute creatures, that fit to their emotional needs. The original Ruth is modified and transformed into diverse images that the poets wish to see or possess and that would satisfy their desires and anxieties. Through the idyllic Ruth as a gleaner, for instance, they satisfy their nostalgia for the once organic, agricultural community in the tumult of the rapidly industrialized Britain. They also quite often identify themselves with their own Ruth as an alien in the contemporary labor-oriented society. By identifying themselves with their own Ruth images, they project or rather throw away their negative emotions to their own Ruth. Their Ruth, therefore, quite often functions as the other that would absorb the poets’ desires, anxieties, and guilt, and give them a psychological release and comfort.
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