『나 자신의 노래』 에 나타난 삶과 죽음에 대한 견해 = Whitman"s View of Life and Death in Song of Myself

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Walt Whitman’s intention, as he said in the preface of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets, was to chant the songs of the body and existence in Leaves of Grass and then to compose another volume on the soul. But he didn"t write another volume but rewrote and enlarged Leaves of Grass. Thus, Leaves of Grass became songs of body and soul. Whitman even asserts that he is the poet of the Body and of the Soul. In Song of Myself, he expresses his various thoughts on the body, nature, democracy, and the soul, etc. When he thinks of the body and the soul, he cannot help thinking of death. His thought on death and afterlife is based on the metempsychosis. Death is thought to be not a termination of existence or an entrance to heaven but a stage to go through to be born again. Though all the living existences experience many deaths and many births, their deaths and births are not a separate happening but a phase of a continuous life which appears in different forms and different bodies. The poet himself doesn’t know even the name of the existence in his self which doesn’t die and live everlastingly. But he firmly believes that something that makes metempsychosis possible exists in his self.

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