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Tennysonian Aestheticism: A Sublimation of Sadness
Kang, Sang-Deok(강상덕) 새한영어영문학회 2014 새한영어영문학 Vol.56 No.1
This essay deals with Tennyson’s lyricism, which is in line with the tenets of aestheticism. Tennyson’s poetry is a “palace of art” in which his tragic emotions-sadness, sorrow, despair, and melancholic sensibility-were built into beauty. It is my intention to give him a new significance in the history of literature by putting him in the line of aesthetes. His poetry expresses subjective states of feeling, and serves an aesthetic purpose. He accomplished this private purpose of poetry through the medium of a lyricism which is characterized by sorrow and melancholy. I support my argument by examining the three representatives of Tennysonian lyrics, “Break, Break, Break,” “Tears, Idle Tears,” and “Crossing the Bar.” The three poems touch on the highly emotional and personal feelings which have power to capture an ideal beauty and demonstrate his tendency to retreat into beauty and aesthetic. Tennyson was, indeed, a poet who transformed and elevated his personal sorrow into art.
강상덕 제주대학교 1994 논문집 Vol.39 No.1
Coleridge's famous definition of imagination as the poetic creation has become the basis of the concept of Romantic imagination. Nature and man are embodying each other in the creation of imagination. So we have nature as the agent acting upon imagination, and imagination as the agent acting upon nature. This is an example of the way Coleridge's imagination works in his poetry. For Coleridge imagination is a power that does more than combine. It modifies and transforms. His theory of imagination rests on the reconciliation of opposites which is a fundamental principle of his philosophy. When the opposites are separated out, they are reconciled and united into one. The opposition between light and shade, moon and sun plays a key role in the poetic creation of "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" where two powers of mind, acive and passive, are at work. And this is made possible through the reconciling faculty of imagination.
In Memoriam : The Way of the "Living Will"
Kang, Sang-Deok 새한영어영문학회 2007 새한영어영문학 Vol.49 No.4
I propose to argue that the poem shows the persona moving from despair and sorrow to hope and happiness through his love and his developing consciousness-in short, his "living will." In lyric mood and subject matter, In Memoriam touches on the highly emotional and personal feelings which have a power to capture an ideal beauty. We can perceive how Tennyson, learning in his sorrow some of the laws of love, found relief in expressing them in In Memoriam. It is his most elaborate descant, in elegiac mood, upon his courtship of sorrow. In Memoriam doubtless has an appearance of greater unity than one would discover in reading it from beginning to end. It clearly possesses unity of a certain sort. Tennyson may be said to have circled about his great sorrow and the problem of sorrow, not seeking or claiming to reach a real destination by the processes of consecutive thinking, but more and more advanced toward the elevation of sorrow into beauty and love.