월리스 스티븐스의 시학으로 셰이머스 히니 시의 블랙버드 사유하기

Abstract

The paper is to analyze and apply to Seamus Heaney’s “blackbird” poems with Wallace Stevens’s poetics on “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The latter is distinguished from the romantic traditional bird-related poems and does not demonstrate common personification or immersion in emotions. Regardless of prejudice of the number 13 and black, which symbolize ominous signs or death images, Stevens attempts to represent the true characteristics of symbols in nature without exaggeration or extended interpretation, presenting the reality of nature as it is, challenging human abstractions of nature. In “Blackbird of Glanmore,” which Heaney’s traumatic memories are immanent, a blackbird gives an opportunity to meditate on his life journey. The fable-like poem, “St. Kevin and Blackbird” provides our understanding and contemplating his coexistence with the bird. As an envoy of nature, blackbirds offer a variety of material, intellectual, philosophical and spiritual meanings to poets and humans. A sense of fatality, cyclical life, and ontological nature of nature which is unmatched by any human culture, are clearly connoted in the works of both poets. (Mokwon University)