• 영어어문교육
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.117-130
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• 2003

This paper attempts, not to evaluate, but to describe William Carlos Williams' poetic techniques in accord with his poetic theory of Imagism; it does this by showing the early poetry in 1910's. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how Williams developed his poetic techniques with his theory of poetry. The progress of his poetic theory is drawn from the influence of another poet, Ezra Pound. William Carlos Williams' poetic development in Imagism threads the periods of his writing from the early 1910's to the early of 1920's. William Carlos Williams forms progressively the theory of his poetic technique of Imagism in this period. He treats the poems as images. In his theory of Imagism, his art continually demonstrates the development of poetic techniques by the help of other artists. This period represents Williams' attention to the essence of poetic elements: 'the thing itself.' All of these things in life come before us in his poetry in such a way as to be a technical process divided into the well-formed theory of poetry. The development of William Carlos Williams' poetic technique takes a particular pattern in order to achieve a theory of Imagism. At last, the steps of his poetic technique arrive at an organic unity of poetic theory in the early poetry of Williams.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.171-185
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• 2018

Students and other new readers of modernist poetry often experience difficulty with the influential early work of Ezra Pound. Although these typically brief poems may appear (deceptively) simple, an understanding of the relationship between Imagism and Vorticism is crucial to reading-or teaching-them effectively, which in turn requires significant familiarity with relevant poetics theories as well as representative poems. This essay clarifies the complex relations Imagism and Vorticism as two distinct styles that are too often conflated to the detriment of an accurate understanding of either one (and, in consequence, of the later modernist poetry that builds on their discoveries). In order to elucidate the modernists' justification of free verse over traditional metrical composition, I begin with an elaboration of T. E. Hulme's 1911 theory of the "cheerful, dry, and sophisticated" modern classicism on which both Imagism and Vorticism were largely predicated, developing Hulme's important distinction between the version of classicism that is "static" (and gives rise to Imagism) and the one that is "dynamic" (and leads to Vorticism and beyond it). In the following two sections, I draw upon and synthesize a broad range of Pound's own poetics statements to reveal the evolution of first sound ("melopoeia") and then the image ("phanopoeia") throughout his early work. Although the body of this article is analytical and historical in nature, it concludes with a practical template prompt for a creative response assignment, appropriate to undergraduate and graduate students, designed to help new readers recognize for themselves how Vorticist art works and why it matters.

• 영어영문학
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• 제64권2호
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• pp.273-298
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• 2018

This paper, postulating that Lowell's Imagism is not some "Amygism" that wobbles with "emotional slither," "mushy technique" and "general floppiness" as Pound once mocked, but another kind of poetic discourse that deserves the fullest re-consideration, goes back to the very scene where Pound left for Vorticism, condescendingly allowing Lowell and her supporters to use the name "Imagism" for three years. There, it tries to illuminate how Lowell, making the most of the opportunity given to her, picked up what Pound had left behind, grafted it on the soil of America, and finally fulfilled her literary passion to awaken the common reading public to the taste for poetry reading. For the purpose, it looks into her critical reviews in Tendencies in Modern American Poetry, and stresses her creative critical efforts to re-address Pound's principles of "Imagisme." In particular, given the limit of space, it focuses only on the second principle of her Imagism and examines the modernity of her concepts of "a cadence," "suggestion," and "the real poem beyond." Then it reads "Patterns" in the context of Japanese poetry and Noh drama and analyzes the poetic patterns that Lowell made through a creative adaptation of Japanese aesthetics for Imagist poetics. In doing so, this paper aims to provide reasonable evidences to evaluate the modernity of Lowell's Imagist ars poetica and to consider her a truly serious Imagist poet worthy of a place in the history of American poetic modernism.

• 인문언어
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.213-235
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• 2002

The purpose of this paper is to study on the aesthetic modernity of Baekseok's poetry. They say that Baekseok's poetry have the motives of the folk-customs and his native language which have been studied for the purpose of showing the subject character of Baekseok's poetry. Baekseok's poetry consisted of the dark imagery are based on the reality of our national loss and his lose living, so the approaching for the purpose of showing the subject character is more suitable for the understanding of the world of his poetry. But this paper Is approached by what the aesthetic modernity of Baekseok's poetry is, because the understanding of how the modem poetry are composed of is more important reading pattern on them. The special feature of his poetry is composed of the ironic poetics figured by the anti-subjectivity like the stylistic of the Imagism, the child narrator, and the pessimist narrator. His poetry written by the Imagism stand for the Apollo Modernism, and his poetry written by the child narrator and the pessimist narrator stand for the Dionysus Modernism. His poetry anti-subjected through the Imagism have been written with the motives of the home-nature and the native people, which have created the objective modernity. His poetry through the child narrator have been written with the motives of our folk-customs, and them through the pessimist narrator have been written with the paradoxical speech, which have created the subjective modernity. Especially, the Shamanism-poetry through the child narrator have created the aesthetik of the Schreckens. Others have created the ironic poetics through the anti-subjectivity and the exaggerated paradoxical rhetoric. In conclusion, it is more reasonable point of view that the special feature of Baekseok's poetry is based on the dual modernism like the Apollo and the Dionysus.

• 한국산학기술학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국산학기술학회 2010년도 추계학술발표논문집 2부
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• pp.624-627
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• 2010

20세기 재즈의 흐름에서 특히 주목할 만한 인물은 마일즈 데이비스로 그의 독창적인 시도와 새로운 접근방식은 현대 음악에도 많은 영향력을 발휘하고 있다. 어느 분야에서건 그 흐름을 주도하는 인물들은 시대적 배경과 무관하지 않다. 흐름을 주도한다는 것은 현재 없던 것을 새로이 선보인다는 개념이 아니라 과거에 있었던 것을 다르게 접근, 발전시킨다는 것이 타당할 것이다. 이 연구에서는 마일즈 데이비스가 보여주었던 수많은 시도 중에서 Nefertiti 라는 특정 곡을 중심으로 20세기 초에 에즈라 파운드를 중심으로 영국과 미국에서 형성되었던 이미지즘과의 연관성을 논하고자 한다. 음악과 문학은 항상 그 시대의 흐름과 무관하지 않았고 독창적인 예술가와 작가의 세계를 연결시켜보는 것 또한 커다란 의미가 있으리라 본다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권6호
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• pp.939-958
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• 2011

Ezra Pound has an idea of poetry as a field of energy in which words interact with each other with kinetic energy. The energy field which Pound creates in his poem is analogous to the theory of electromagnetism developed by Michael Faraday and James Maxwell, who look upon the space around magnets, electric charges and currents not as empty but as filled with energy and activity. Pound argues that "words are charged with force like electricity," demonstrating that words charged with their own images or energies of positive or negative valence interact one another. This idea is similar to Faraday's concept of "line of force" which he used to represent the disposition of electric and magnetic forces in space. Pound's concept of "image" as an "intellectual and emotional complex in an instant" is remarkably consonant with the confluence of electric and magnetic fields that are coupled to each other as they travel through space in the form of electromagnetic waves. The instant profusion of conception and perception, much like that of electric and magnetic fields, enables Pound to move beyond the sequential and linear hierarchy in time and space. Particularly, Maxwell's stunning discovery that the electromagnetic waves propagate in space at 'the speed of light' has allowed Pound a relativistic sense of escape from the limitations of Newtonian absolute time and space. Pound's poetry transcends any geographical space and sequential time by rendering and juxtaposing images simultaneously. Pound was fully aware of light and electricity fundamental to what he called his world "the electric world." Pound's experiments in Imagism and Vorticism can be considered an attempt to rediscover a place for poetry in the modern world of science and technology. Almost all the appliances that we think of today as modern were laid down in the closing decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, in response to the availability of electromagnetic energy. This paper explores how Pound responded to the age of modern technology and science, examining his conception of "image" through his many analogies and similes drawn from electromagnetism. Pound's imagist poetics and poetry come to embody, not only the characteristics of the electric age in the early twentieth century, but the principles of electromagnetism the electric age is based upon.

• 한국시조학회지:시조학논총
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• 제44권
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• pp.75-103
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• 2016

본 연구는 노산시조집에 실린 작품에서 발견되는 병치에 주목하여, 이은상 시조의 주된 창작 태도가 병치 기법에 있으며 이러한 창작 태도는 독자들에게 이해의 수월성을 제공한다는 것을 논증하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 병치기법은 독자들에게 전달하고자 하는 텍스트의 의미를 명료화하고 확장시키는 역할을 한다. 따라서 병치 기법을 주로 사용하고 있는 이은상의 창작태도는 독자와의 소통을 원활하게 한다. 또한 병치기법으로 인한 의미의 확장은 시조의 정체성이라 할 수 있는 간결미와 정제미의 생성을 가능하게 한다. 나아가 이러한 창작태도는 '시조 정체성의 혼란과 난해성으로 독자들에게 외면을 받고 있는, 오늘날 현대시조가 나아갈 방향을 찾는 데도 도움이 될 것이다. 이은상이 "노산시조집"을 발간한 시기는 한국 시조가 노래 장르에서 문학 장르로 그 발판을 굳건히 다지는 때였다. 문학 장르의 발판을 굳히기 위한 도구로 영미의 이미지즘을 수입하여 전통시가의 근대화를 꾀했다. 1920년대 창작된 시조 작품에는 이미지즘 시 이론이 공통적으로 내재되어 있었지만 "노산시조집"에는 개성적인 면도 있었다. 이은상의 시조에는 병치 기법이 많이 발견된다는 것이다. 이는 이은상 시인이 추구한 시작태도라고 할 수 있다. 로스, 피네간, 유협, 속요에 서술된 병치 이론을 참조하여 "노산시조집"에 나타난 병치 기법의 유형을 의미의 조응과 의미의 대립 차원에서 살펴보았다. 의미의 조응에서는 동의적 병치, 종합적 병치, 구체적 병치, 통사적 병치로 나누었으며 의미의 대립은 대립적 병치에서 살펴보았다. 이은상 작품 대부분이 이러한 병치 기법을 적용하고 있다. 또한 병치에 의해 나타나는 이미지의 역동성은 영미 이미지즘에서 영향 받은 것이다. 오늘날까지 독자들이 이은상 시조 작품을 널리 애송하고 있는 까닭은 병치 기법과 이미지의 역동성으로 그의 작품이 쉬우면서 감동적으로 다가오기 때문이다. 이은상이 추구했던 병치 기법은 독자의 이해를 돕는 수월성을 제공하고 리듬 창출을 용이하게 한다는 점에서 매우 긍정적이다. 따라서 오늘날, 현대시조의 정체성 혼란으로 어려움을 겪고 있는 시인들이 시조의 색깔을 드러낼 수 있는 병치 기법이나 역동적 이미지를 잘 살려낸다면 현대 시조가 지닌 문제점들을 어느 정도 해소할 수 있을 것이며 시조의 정체성을 획득하는 데도 도움이 될 것이다.