Elizabeth Bishop의 In the Waiting Room에 나타난 이분법에 대한 도전 (영어영문학과 졸업논문 수상작)

소개

"Elizabeth Bishop의 In the Waiting Room에 나타난 이분법에 대한 도전 (영어영문학과 졸업논문 수상작)"에 대한 내용입니다.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Challenged Dualism in the "In the Waiting Room"
A. Blurred Dualism in the Plot
B. Challenged Dualism of the Poet
C. Divisions in the Real World

III. Conclusion

본문내용

Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room" deals with the main speaker, Elizabeth's sudden experience of epiphany in the dentist's waiting room. The speaker goes to the dentist with her aunt “Consuelo” and waits for her aunt's treatment in the separate waiting room. While waiting, she happens to read National Geographic magazine in which she discovers the stories and pictures of the primitive people. Suddenly, when she sees the "black naked women's breasts" in the magazine, she feels a horrible feeling that she is not different from them. This sudden epiphany causes a great confusion to the speaker in the whole poem.
Although there would be many reasons for the poem's significance and its reputation, the main reason for this poem's significance would be its various methods to challenge existing dualisms. Bishop challenges various concepts of divisions and even goes further to disintegrate divisions in social and psychological field. These challenges make readers realize the fluidity of those distinctions. This study tries to analyze her way of breaking divisions in a detailed way with the context of the author's life and the social background.
Bishop challenged many distinctions in her other poems as well. Patricia B. Wallace says Bishop felt the modern dilemma of maintaining her own distinctness and yet keeping herself open to worlds that could threaten her sense of self (96). According to Cheol-U Jang, in the similar context, her many poems therefore deal with themes of isolation, alienation, traveling, losing and encountering others (289). He insists that such themes echo the landscape or the mindscape by virtue of geographical sense (289). This portrayal of landscape and the mindscape at the same time was possible since she tried to overcome the human condition by depicting the fluidity between the internal and the external in her poems (289). Therefore, the fluidity of division could be interpreted as one important theme penetrating Bishop's poetics.

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