Ash Wednesday에 나타난 Eliot의 기도 = T.S. Eliot's Prayer in Ash Wednesday

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Ash Wednesday is not devotional poetry, which Eliot disdained because of it special and limited awareness of human passion, Religious attitudes play a part in the poem, they do not control it. Instead, the poem presents a struggle between secular and religious Ways of Eliot's "explaining to himself" his own "intense human feeling". Testing the validity of his religious calling, he sways between different visions of life, And it is precisely in the sway -in the dizzying disengagement from old organization of the self, mirrored in poetry that at times comes Very close to nonsense-that a new self is born. As the poem's conclusion puts it, borrowing the word "dream" from The Hollow Men.
Eliot's poetry had alway s been a place of solitude where amorous dreams crossed, and Ash Wednesday registers some of the poet's oldest crossed purpose But this place of solitude also reflects a specific moment in Eliot's life, Written and published piecemeal during 1928, 1929 and 1930, the fragments of Ash Wednesday, like the Ariel poems, give us the inner landscape of Eliot's protracte and different conversion- his awareness of its coasts and his fear that even afte he had publicly committed himself to the Anglican church, his profession of belief would never ripen into spiritual fulfillment.
Nor are Ash Wednesday's connections to Eliot's life limited to the painful circumstances that haunt its opening. The origins of the happy State by which the suite assesses the claims of religious devotion are no less private, From "what i done, not to be done again", the poems leads Us, just before its final recapitualation, to a "gate" where children gather.
With its echoes of this moment. Ash Wednesday exploring the sincerity an value of religious response, confirms the persistence of childhood in Eliot's imagination of happiness. And though even childhood intimations will prove inadequate to "explain" his most intense feelings-only "the divine goal", he thinks, will do that-their recovery is powerful enough to invalidate other urgent explanations.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. 본론
• Ⅲ. 결론