T. S. Eliot의 詩와 苦 = Buddhist Suffering in T. S. Eliot's Poetry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper I have made an attempt to elucidate his literary world foucing on Indian philosophies with a special reference to Buddhism reflected in his poetry. It is generally acknowledged that Indian religions have undergone many stages of development, with new ideas being grafted to the established religions. Among the development stages of Indian religions and philosophies, Eliot had a keen interest in those of Hinduism and Buddhism ; many teachings of Buddha are seen scattered throughout his poems. The poet himself shows in his poems and essays that Indian religions and philosophies had great influence on his literary word. In fact, it is widely known that he was interested in Buddhism from his boyhood.
However, it is not easy to analyze his literary world and his philisophy from a Buddhist point of view, for his philosophical system as well as Buddhist is very wide and complicated. I begin the thesis by introducing the way Eliot merges the Indian philosophies with with the western philosophy in his poetry.
They are dealt with on the basis of the old Indian philosophies embodied in the Hinayana Buddhist Scriptures. Nikayas.
The second chapter discusses the buddhist influences on Eliot's life. The third compares the Unreal in his poetry with Buddhist Ⅲ : suffering. The First Noble Truth in concerned with the nature of human existence, which involves suffering (1dukkha), i.e., physical and/or mental pain and the generally unsatisfactory quality of existence, in which all joy is feelting and life a repeated process of descent to death. This principle that all existence is dukkha may not be immediately apparent to the 'worlding' ; it is proclaimed as part of truth revealed by Buddha. The idea of suffering found in Eliot's poems ("East Coker", and "The Dry Salvages," for instance) are strikingly similar to the dukkha of the First Noble Truth.
My analysis of Eliot's poetry in the light of the first Noble Truth expounded in Nikayas shows that Eliot's poetic world is indebted to Indian thoughts, especially Buddhism, no less than to Chrisianity. His literary world cannot be properly understood without an consideration of the influence he received from the Indian philosophies, especially Buddhism.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. Eliot의 생애에 미친 인도의 영향
• Ⅲ. The Unreal과 苦 : 無常, 無實體
• Ⅳ. 결 론
• 참고문헌
• 영문요약