미국적인 시적 자세 : Harold Bloom의 주장과 관련하여 = A Study on American Poetic Stances

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American poets in general show a strong tendency, in their poems, to insist on the priority of the self over the world, or to transform the world by the overriding power of their imagination. The dialectic of the self- the world- the imagination triad involved in this poetic process is given another name by Harold Bloom in his discussion of American poetry in his The Poems of Our Climate : the dialectic of Fate-Freedom- Power triad. This 'American dialectic', as Bloom terms it, together with his theory of 'the anxiety of influence', provides the underlying frame of reference for his discussion of American poetry from Emerson to Stevens.
This paper is an attempt to apply Bloom's 'American dialectic' to my own discussion of the poetry of Wallace Stevens and that of Theodore Roethke. By so doing, I also mean to probe into the 'validity' of Bloom's argument.
Bloom's argument, while it shedds much light on our reading and understanding of poetry, has some of its own defects : it is confined to the discussion of poets in the Romantic line ; it is confined to the 'intrinsic' discussion of literature and art ; it reveals, in one way or another, Bloom's own 'anxiety of influence' from his precursors, be they poets, critics, or theorists.