크리스티나 로제티의 후기시 『시』(Verses)의 침묵과 비전 (Silence and Vision in Christina Rossetti's Verses)

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초록

Christina Rossetti wrote a lot of devotional poetry in an age when
social restriction on women was the common rule. As an Anglo-
Catholic Rossetti was influenced by Tractarianism, which pursued the
principle of Reserve. The concept of Reserve is that since God is
ultimately incomprehensible, we can know Him only indirectly. The
truth of God is hidden and given to us only in a manner suited to
our capacities for apprehending it. Reserve denotes the indirection
necessary in speaking of religious matters as indirection used by God
Himself in conveying truths to humankind. It is the holding back and
the gradual unfolding of the knowledge of the Infinite. Likewise,
Rossetti makes use of silence, reticence, restraint, veiling of meaning
in her devotional poems.
While the doctrine of Reserve says the truth is hidden and revealed
gradually, Augustine seeks to grapple the challenge of how (not) to
speak of God which exceeds and resists conceptualization. When we
speak of God, one reduces God's transcendence to the immanence of language and concepts, or one remains silent. Augustine says that
an incarnational account of language does justice to the alterity of
God. When the Word became flesh, the transcendent God descended
into the realm of immanence. The Incarnation made it possible to
bridge the chasm between humanity and God. By the account of
incarnation, Augustine is able to understand language which grants
access to things, but at the same time leaves them in their
transcendence. For Augustine, the inexpressible was able to be
expressed by Incarnational poetics. As in the doctrine of Reserve,
something indescribable can be described by incarnational poetics.
The silence in the poetry of Rossetti can be connected to the
principle of Reserve so that this poetic silence was not passive
acceptance of external world but active participation of God's Reserve.
God hides the divine truth but reveals it gradually at the same time.
Rossetti uses the imagery of death, darkness, concealment, and silence
as in the principle of Reserve. Therefore Rossetti not only preserved
silence and reserve but also sublimated them to a heavenly realm
through Verses . At the end she enjoys the promised oneness with
God. Through this light of heaven Rossetti shows visions for the
future. The achievement of Rossetti is that she became the
representative voice of the Christians in the Victorian period.

영어초록

Christina Rossetti wrote a lot of devotional poetry in an age when
social restriction on women was the common rule. As an Anglo-
Catholic Rossetti was influenced by Tractarianism, which pursued the
principle of Reserve. The concept of Reserve is that since God is
ultimately incomprehensible, we can know Him only indirectly. The
truth of God is hidden and given to us only in a manner suited to
our capacities for apprehending it. Reserve denotes the indirection
necessary in speaking of religious matters as indirection used by God
Himself in conveying truths to humankind. It is the holding back and
the gradual unfolding of the knowledge of the Infinite. Likewise,
Rossetti makes use of silence, reticence, restraint, veiling of meaning
in her devotional poems.
While the doctrine of Reserve says the truth is hidden and revealed
gradually, Augustine seeks to grapple the challenge of how (not) to
speak of God which exceeds and resists conceptualization. When we
speak of God, one reduces God's transcendence to the immanence of language and concepts, or one remains silent. Augustine says that
an incarnational account of language does justice to the alterity of
God. When the Word became flesh, the transcendent God descended
into the realm of immanence. The Incarnation made it possible to
bridge the chasm between humanity and God. By the account of
incarnation, Augustine is able to understand language which grants
access to things, but at the same time leaves them in their
transcendence. For Augustine, the inexpressible was able to be
expressed by Incarnational poetics. As in the doctrine of Reserve,
something indescribable can be described by incarnational poetics.
The silence in the poetry of Rossetti can be connected to the
principle of Reserve so that this poetic silence was not passive
acceptance of external world but active participation of God's Reserve.
God hides the divine truth but reveals it gradually at the same time.
Rossetti uses the imagery of death, darkness, concealment, and silence
as in the principle of Reserve. Therefore Rossetti not only preserved
silence and reserve but also sublimated them to a heavenly realm
through Verses . At the end she enjoys the promised oneness with
God. Through this light of heaven Rossetti shows visions for the
future. The achievement of Rossetti is that she became the
representative voice of the Christians in the Victorian period.

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