This paper is an essay intended to trace and explicate some influences of Neoplatonism which are explicitly and implicity apparent in Ezra Pound’s poetry. Pound has admitted not a few Neoplatonists in a broad sense in his poetry and adapted their main notions for use in his poetry. Among those Neoplatonic philosophers can be mentioned Plotinus who had inherited Plato’s philosophy and several other philosophers such as Eriugena and Grosseteste. But it is Plotinus that has a lasting influence on Pound throughout his poetic development from his early poetry to the later Cantos. As a result, Pound has shown or revealed some thoughts which are derived from Plotinus. Both of them propose the return to the origin. Pound emphasizes the return to the origin as nature and reason, while Plotinus had espoused the One as the arche of beings in the universe. The One is God of the Good that has created the universe, but transcended it. In his poetry, Pound is recurrently interested in the notion of Nous as the supreme realm of light next to the unreachable One. The Nous is no other than reason, intelligence, essence, pure thought, or divine mind that the poet should attain in his poetic process. Pound has dealt with it in his poems on the alchemical transmutation of the poet into the real self, the identification of the poet with other beings by virtue of his metamorphic experience, and the return to the paradise as the world of light and love.
목차
I. 서론 II. 본질로의 환원 III. 변신적 경험 IV. 빛의 상징성 V. 결론 Works Cited Abstract
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]