The Waste Land 연구

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

AbstractA poem is a flower cultivated in the spiritual or intellectual
garden of a poet. It is necessary to know a poet's life if we
understand his poetry fully. His poems have been influenced not only
by his own literary experience but also the intellectual background of
his time. The first part of 20th century was the age of new beginning
in every field, especially in literature. The result of this new
movement is the birth of Modernism in literature.One of the reasons why Eliot's poems are difficult is his new style
of writing poetry and his awful knowledge of classics. He often
expresses his ideas and feelings indirectly but objectively in The Waste Land
by the passages of other literary men.The themes of The Waste Land are spiritual dryness, the kind of
human existence in which no generating belief gives significance and
value to men's daily activities, sex brings no fruitfulness, and death
heralds no resurrection. As Eliot himself explains in his notes, the
title, the composition and a great deal of syInbol isnl of the poem were
suggested by Jessie Weston's From Ritual to Romance. Eliot, following
Miss Weston, uses a great variety of mythological and religous
material, both occidental and orientaly in order to paint a symbolic
picture of the modern Waste Land and the need for regeneration.
Ancient vegetation myths and fertility ceremonies of Adonos Attis,
Osiris of Sir James. Frazer's Golden Bough were also used in the poem.THe origin manuscript shows us that the poem as published awe a
great deal to the severe prunning of Ezra Pound. And Pound not only
recognized Eliot's literary genius and recommended him in Ellglish
literary society but. also gave literary advices and helped him
spiritually and economically. We can say that Pound built the
foundation of modernism in literature after T. E. Hulme and Eliota has
developed and made it flourish.The structure of The Waste Land is a puzzle to readers who are
familiar with poems wi th continuous narrative. The poem is composed of
the disconnected images and passages. It is a completely new kind of
poem. If w'e approach the poem with a weapon of montage, the puzzle is
easily solved. The method cal led montage was developed in the modern
film. Literatur and film were influenced each other at the beginning
of 20th century. The idea was hinted frrm chinese letters, ideogram.
The point is that the combination of two hieroglyphics of the
simplest series is to be regarded not as their sum, but as their
product, that is, as a value of another dimension. Each separately
corresponds to a concept. The undepictable idea or concept is depicted
by the combination.THe varieties of montage take basic and somtimes over-lapping
forms. They are the oxymoron, dynamic unresolution, parallel plotting,
rapid shifts in time and space and multiple narration. Though I could
Eliot used not find out wether Eliot used montage technique
consciously or not when he wrote the poem. I think Pound has the
method in mind when he cut off much of the poem and recomposed it.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Eliot의 생애
• 2.Pound의 영향
• 3. 문학적 지적배경
• 4.새로운 시어의 개발과 시형식
• 5.주제와 구성
• 결론