「성 루씨일의 야상시」에 나타난 존 던의 무(無) (Donne's Infatuation with Nothingness in "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, the Shortest Day")

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· 발행기관 : 한국고전중세르네상스영문학회
· 수록지 정보 : 고전중세르네상스영문학 / 19권 / 1호 / 43 ~ 54페이지
· 저자명 : 이병은

초록

John Donne's poems usually express hope in reason and knowledge, and not-knowing is, to Donne, a sign that one has gone wrong or not far enough. "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, the Shortest Day," however, not only rejects reason as the means by which to know truth, but also sensate perception, and through Donne's handling of conceit, does in fact embrace the ideas that spiritual awareness is the issue of the union of the mind with nothingness.
The effect of Donne's rhyme scheme, uneven meter and stanzaic structure, is mirrored in the movement of the whole poem. Donne's conceits converge into levels, each reinforcing the other, and are basic to the poem's paradox of a positive force underlying and growing out of the negative. Each successive conceit more nearly approaches the concept of a positive spiritual awareness as it draws closer to the idea of the mind's unification with nothingness: the astrological- astronomical conceit functions to carry the meaning of the rejection of the sensate as a way to get at truth; the alchemy conceit makes a negative scientific implication and adds a dimension of interaction which on one level has only led to ruin, but approaches the idea on the next level of a fertile unification from which a spiritual awareness is conceived; the sexual conceit underlies the other two and expresses the meaning of the poem by resolving the tension between the narrator's mind and the nothingness from which the ultimate love or spiritual awareness is conceived. The conceit moves from a negative definition of the poet's mind to a ritualistic and fruitful unification with nothingness.

영어초록

John Donne's poems usually express hope in reason and knowledge, and not-knowing is, to Donne, a sign that one has gone wrong or not far enough. "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, the Shortest Day," however, not only rejects reason as the means by which to know truth, but also sensate perception, and through Donne's handling of conceit, does in fact embrace the ideas that spiritual awareness is the issue of the union of the mind with nothingness.
The effect of Donne's rhyme scheme, uneven meter and stanzaic structure, is mirrored in the movement of the whole poem. Donne's conceits converge into levels, each reinforcing the other, and are basic to the poem's paradox of a positive force underlying and growing out of the negative. Each successive conceit more nearly approaches the concept of a positive spiritual awareness as it draws closer to the idea of the mind's unification with nothingness: the astrological- astronomical conceit functions to carry the meaning of the rejection of the sensate as a way to get at truth; the alchemy conceit makes a negative scientific implication and adds a dimension of interaction which on one level has only led to ruin, but approaches the idea on the next level of a fertile unification from which a spiritual awareness is conceived; the sexual conceit underlies the other two and expresses the meaning of the poem by resolving the tension between the narrator's mind and the nothingness from which the ultimate love or spiritual awareness is conceived. The conceit moves from a negative definition of the poet's mind to a ritualistic and fruitful unification with nothingness.

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