W.Whitman 과 T.S.Eliot 시의 도시 이미지 = The Urban Images in the Poetry of W. Whitman and T.S.Eliot's 『Prufrock and Other Observations』

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper deals with contrasting images of the city in Whitman's poetry and T.S.Eliot's poems of 「Prufrock and Other Observations」.
The great urban effect which appeared in literature in the poetry of 1930s modesnists'. The city is said to be the essential foci of modern life and to shape what is called the ecological characteristics in Western Society. As poems are the reflection of life, so the urban images are the reflection of modern life. So the T.S. Eliot's poems of 「Prufrock and Other Observations」 indulge in self-mockery, ridicules serious feelings and represent mixed reactions to things, the subjective mocked by the objective, the discrepancy between appearance and reality.
The close examination of Whitman's poetry, however, reveals the fact that he shows more affection for the life of the city. By recording the casual contact between strangers, Walt Whitman tries to capture the ephemerality of the street in the substance of the poem and creates a poetry of the city that attempts to transcend limits of the text by fashioning its own physical universe. Whitman absorbs urban industrialization into his poetry and uses the city as his poetic object.
Whitman treats the city as a metaphor of his poetic self and attempts to show that the objects found in the city are woven into his poetry and try to incarnate his poetry to make his poems tangible to his readers.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론
• Ⅱ. T.S.Eliot의 경우
• Ⅲ. W.Whitman의 경우
• Ⅳ. 결론
• 참고문헌
• 영문초록