D.H.로렌스 문학의 역설의 진리: Last Poems에 나타난 죽음과 부활 = The Paradoxical Truth in D.H.Lawrence's Literature: The Death and Rebirth in the Last Poems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

D.H.Lawrence is not hesitant but pleasant to accept the existential situation that the dark side of death exists in mankind, which ordinary people would not usually recognize. Morever he endures the destructive dark force of death. For him death is the presupposition or nccessary procedure for a rebirth of his new self. The problem of death is embodied as the most significant motif and then most primordial aspect in his Last Poems.
It is the darkness that is central to the imagery and vision which Lawrence embodies sensing the foreshadow of his death in the Last Poems. Such darkness integrates destructive and creative power. In that way the destructive darkness deconstructs the poet's old self and the creative darkness puts a new life into it and resurrects it into a new self.
In the Last Poems the process of the poet's dying consciousness is accompanied by "Dionysian Darkness." Such darkness of death is filled with agony and ache but with dynamic and rhapsodic joy, which is similar to the view of death of the existentialists such as Nistzsche and Rilke.
Lawrence accomplishes his symbol, phoenix, even when he makes his death-journey to the Hades of death. That is why, for him, the world of Hades is also the place of life, where the living darkness or cosmic dark life-force exists. He travels in the underworld of the Etruscan Tomb when he is approaching his death, and finds that the dark underground is the symbol of the repository of eternal life, Such travel betrays his downward-oriented personality. He represents such mythic imagery or vision in his Last Poems. Especially in “The ship of death" the poet goes down into the Hades of death as the dark god-Pluto. Thereby he obtains the new self in the nourishing darkness there and retuns to the upper-world. This means that Lawrence believes in the eternity of life in the world. The fact that the poet throws himself into the world of death with joy instead of fear towards it refrects Lawrence's paradoxical truth, and transvaluation of life and death. This thought of his cosmic vitalism or belief in the eternal life gives modern people a hopeful vision towards life.