어빙 레이턴의 부르주아 비판시 (Irving Layton’s Poems Criticizing Bourgeois)

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This article is an attempt to analyze Irving Layton’s poems criticizing bourgeois. As the iconoclastic Canadian poet, Layton was in interactive relationships with major Canadian writers including Leonard Cohen. Antipathic to the corrupt ruling classes, the poet satirizes the hypocrisy of bourgeois. In “The Improved Binoculars” the speaker lampoons the selfishness and viciousness of observed characters in a city on fire. In “An Old Nicoise Whore,” the speaker satirically depicts degraded ruling classes wooing an old prostitute. In “Rumination of an Aging Millionaire,” a millionaire is depicted as an instrumentalized being who lost subjectivity during his youth. In his old days, he finds what he really wants to do, but he cannot due to the lack of energy.
In “Family Portrait,” a millionaire family is depicted as philistines. They are greedy and lack culture. Thus they are regarded as useless by him. In “For Auld Lang Syne,” the speaker leaves his friend, a salesperson who has sold the speaker luxurious items. Through the relation with his friend, the speaker comes to cave into the commodities. However, he gets out of it and declares departure from the salesperson. Considering that Auld Lang Syne originally expresses the wish to meet the friend in the future, the title of the poem is ironical. In his straightforward depiction of the bourgeois, Layton reveals their hypocrisy and viciousness, and further the structural problem of modern capitalistic society. His works represent his pursuit of humanitarian values.

영어초록

This article is an attempt to analyze Irving Layton’s poems criticizing bourgeois. As the iconoclastic Canadian poet, Layton was in interactive relationships with major Canadian writers including Leonard Cohen. Antipathic to the corrupt ruling classes, the poet satirizes the hypocrisy of bourgeois. In “The Improved Binoculars” the speaker lampoons the selfishness and viciousness of observed characters in a city on fire. In “An Old Nicoise Whore,” the speaker satirically depicts degraded ruling classes wooing an old prostitute. In “Rumination of an Aging Millionaire,” a millionaire is depicted as an instrumentalized being who lost subjectivity during his youth. In his old days, he finds what he really wants to do, but he cannot due to the lack of energy.
In “Family Portrait,” a millionaire family is depicted as philistines. They are greedy and lack culture. Thus they are regarded as useless by him. In “For Auld Lang Syne,” the speaker leaves his friend, a salesperson who has sold the speaker luxurious items. Through the relation with his friend, the speaker comes to cave into the commodities. However, he gets out of it and declares departure from the salesperson. Considering that Auld Lang Syne originally expresses the wish to meet the friend in the future, the title of the poem is ironical. In his straightforward depiction of the bourgeois, Layton reveals their hypocrisy and viciousness, and further the structural problem of modern capitalistic society. His works represent his pursuit of humanitarian values.

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