예언자적 전통에서 본 두 시인 : 블레이크와 딜런

Abstract

Poets belonging to “the Tradition of Prophecy” in Anglo-American poetry have a prophetic mission to convey the revelation of a Utopian world in their poetry, using the Bible “the great code of art.” This study compares William Blake, a British poet, and Bob Dylan, an American singer-songwriter, who are both located within the prophetic tradition. A poet-prophet is responsible for the mission of communicating with God as a messenger and also as a social critic. Blake and Dylan, “twins of soul,” are the most unique artists who respectively represent England in the late 18th century and America in the late 20th. They strongly resisted all systems and convention that oppress human life and freedom, and tried to defend the most basic nature of human beings, the energy of life and the free spirit. At this point, they are great artists who, despite of the difference in period and space, pursued the most fundamental and universal value of human life.