“아르마딜로”가 두 “스컹크”에게: 로웰, 비숍, 히니의 시 비교 연구

Abstract

The paper is to compare and explore the poems and their themes, “Skunk Hour” by Robert Lowell, “The Skunk” by Seamus Heaney, and “Armadillo” by Elizabeth Bishop. Lowell breaks away from his poetic practice and expresses his poem as an opportunity for essential voice and deep introspection. Heaney realizes his love for his family and presents his poem as a daily longing when he is tired of direct writing about Irish war and politics. Both skunks are reborn with courage and concentration in poetry, free from the prejudice, the epitome of stench. “Armadillo”, which influenced two poems, presents poetic inspiration in a concise and comfortable confessional style. Unlike “Skunk Hour,” which enumerates a group of people listed as many episodes, “Armadillo” has the power to withstand human fear and destruction even though it looks frail. This means that rather than adding new characteristics to the animal, the poet maintains his original tendency through the development of the poem and is embodied as a unique poetic image. In “Skunk,” Heaney notes the two-word diction, ‘head down’, ‘tail down’ in Bishop’s poem, and he creates various images of a skunk and his wife by continuing the sequential flow.