Wallace Stevens chanted the earthly things in his poems. To him the ephemeral beings are not only the component parts of the earth but those of Eternity, like a William Blake's poem: 'Eternity is in love with the productions of Time.'(from "Marriage of Heaven and Hell"). As it is manifested, to exist on the earth means to belong to the solar system. The solar system is in the universe, likewise, the universe is in the eternity or nothingness, because everything that exists inevitably will be gone some day. Therefore Wallace Stevens had deep affection for the transient beings owing to their finiteness. From the point of his world view, Wallace Stevens said that 'Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,/ Alone, shall come fulfilment to our dreams/ And our desires.' So he could perceive the paradisiacal phenomena in our daily life by dint of his positive insight on the earthly things. Northrop Frye, therefore, called him 'the realistic oriole' as an angel. From that point, Wallace Stevens took the role of an angel of the earth. In fine, Wallace Stevens perceived the eternity in 'now and here'. In a sense he might have been solitary in a mess of many ideologies and religions, for he wanted to see things as they are. But he led his life stately with believing in himself and his poetic world. The great artist has also the great critic within himself.
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Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Works Cited ABSTRACT
키워드
earthly thingsinsightsynecdochic visioneternityparadisedeathbeauty'now and here'
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]