「텅 빈 사람들」에 나타난 공간의 시학과 화자(/들)
The Spatial Poetics and the Speaker(/s): A Reading of “The Hollow Men”
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The ambiguities, resulting from the unclear textual meanings due to the avoidance of the specific description of the poetic situations based on sequential order, characterizes “The Hollow Men” as typical of Eliotic poetics. Compared with his major poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” and The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men” excels in its evocation of ambiguous imagery and contexts by using various poetic methods: ambiguous names and multiple voices, not to mention allusions. Especially Eliot’s treatment of the word “kingdom” in “The Hollow Men,” which shows the arbitrary relationship between the signifier and the signified, contributes to the presentation of the more extended world in space and time than in The Waste Land, of the past and the present, because the poetic world of “The Hollow Men” comprises both this world and the other world. On the other hand, Eliot’s inclusive use of the first person pronouns, I and we, results in the unclear speaker(/s), making it difficult for the reader to identify him(/them). This technique also made it possible for the reader to recognize the presence of several voices in The Waste Land. In “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s ambiguous treatment of the first person pronouns can be said to help represent a poetic world rich with multiple suggestions and connotations, in which readers can understand differently the identity of speaker(/s) and even the number of “kingdom” present there. In short, the multiple or ambiguous meanings of “The Hollow Men” can be said to derive paradoxically from the poet’s minimal description and unclear use of pronouns, together with the use of allusions.
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The ambiguities, resulting from the unclear textual meanings due to the avoidance of the specific description of the poetic situations based on sequential order, characterizes “The Hollow Men” as typical of Eliotic poetics. Compared with his major poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Gerontion,” and The Waste Land, “The Hollow Men” excels in its evocation of ambiguous imagery and contexts by using various poetic methods: ambiguous names and multiple voices, not to mention allusions. Especially Eliot’s treatment of the word “kingdom” in “The Hollow Men,” which shows the arbitrary relationship between the signifier and the signified, contributes to the presentation of the more extended world in space and time than in The Waste Land, of the past and the present, because the poetic world of “The Hollow Men” comprises both this world and the other world. On the other hand, Eliot’s inclusive use of the first person pronouns, I and we, results in the unclear speaker(/s), making it difficult for the reader to identify him(/them). This technique also made it possible for the reader to recognize the presence of several voices in The Waste Land. In “The Hollow Men,” Eliot’s ambiguous treatment of the first person pronouns can be said to help represent a poetic world rich with multiple suggestions and connotations, in which readers can understand differently the identity of speaker(/s) and even the number of “kingdom” present there. In short, the multiple or ambiguous meanings of “The Hollow Men” can be said to derive paradoxically from the poet’s minimal description and unclear use of pronouns, together with the use of allusions.
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