“마음에서 벼린 사슬”: 윌리엄 블레이크 시에서의 자유와 이데올로기 문제
“Mind-Forged Manacles”: The Question of Liberty and Ideology in Blake’s Poems
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This paper purports to examine the question of liberty and ideology in William Blake’s poems. In the process of revising his short poem, “London,” Blake changed “german forg’d links” “mind-forged manacles,” revealing that internal self-enslavement is more problematic than external oppression. He perceived the historical crisis of the day from within humanity, which is represented in Jerusalem as Albion’s errors, the deceptiveness of Vala, the embodiment of those errors, and Albion’s spiritual chaos in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem, the incarnation of liberty. As Albion loses his intelligence informed by poetic genius, his mind is dominated by his own specter and his selfhood is reinforced. As a result, he denies divinity, love, and friendship, which are crucial requisites for the realization of liberty. Albion is expected to restore his intelligence to redeem his soul from the state of spectrality, mirrored by historical ordeals such as imperialistic ambition, political oppression, economic plight, and sexual repression. Blake stresses that Albion’s intelligence should be resuscitated toward the combination of insight into human life with manifestation of one’s desire, simultaneously never repressing others’ desires.
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This paper purports to examine the question of liberty and ideology in William Blake’s poems. In the process of revising his short poem, “London,” Blake changed “german forg’d links” “mind-forged manacles,” revealing that internal self-enslavement is more problematic than external oppression. He perceived the historical crisis of the day from within humanity, which is represented in Jerusalem as Albion’s errors, the deceptiveness of Vala, the embodiment of those errors, and Albion’s spiritual chaos in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem, the incarnation of liberty. As Albion loses his intelligence informed by poetic genius, his mind is dominated by his own specter and his selfhood is reinforced. As a result, he denies divinity, love, and friendship, which are crucial requisites for the realization of liberty. Albion is expected to restore his intelligence to redeem his soul from the state of spectrality, mirrored by historical ordeals such as imperialistic ambition, political oppression, economic plight, and sexual repression. Blake stresses that Albion’s intelligence should be resuscitated toward the combination of insight into human life with manifestation of one’s desire, simultaneously never repressing others’ desires.
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