종교적 삶의 모색: 클리언, 카쉬쉬, 블라우그램의 갈등 = Grope for a Religious Life: Conflict of Cleon, Karshish and Blougram

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In his religious poetry, Browning analyzes man’s nature, hoping to discover some elements of the absolute which would provide a stable principle in life. The absolute, it is certain, means God in Christian sense. It is, however, hard to treat or study God in literature as well as to know God through man’s reason or understanding. Nevertheless, Browning has inquired into God in his works consistently. In this sense, Men and Women(1855) represents his works.
Men and Women highlights religious problems, conflict and hope in life. This article deals with three religious poems, “Cleon,” “An Epistle," and “Bishop Blougram's apology.” This study examines the relation of man with God, focusing on his problems, skepticism and conflict in life. The trends of these, as this study shows, come from the problems of misunderstanding of God, collision between science and religion, difference between Hebraism and HelJenism(Positivism), and distance between religious idea and real life. The variety of Victorian backgrounds lie behind the problems, skepticism and conflict of Browning's hero.
Browning has a good deal to say about the most troublesome religious and philosophic problems of his day, and can be presented as a teacher, a seer, a prophet. Browning’s task as a poet is to portray life in all its aspects. He sees deeply and widely into the nature of the emotional and mental complexities of personality which lies behind the situations he portrays.