포레스터: 어긋난 자리에서 시 쓰기

Abstract

Fanny Forrester was a working-class woman who wrote from several dislocated places that did not allow her to make a poetic utterance in Victorian Britain. Forrester worked in a mill when domestic ideology reached its peak, and wrote about mill-work when it was considered inappropriate as a poetic subject. Writing from her dislocated places, Forrester made efforts to construct her poetic identity. In “Strangers in the City,” Forrester, as a descendant of an Irish immigrant, contrasts the dark gloomy industrial city of England with pastoral Eden of pre-industrial Ireland, and makes a sharp critique of the change of life brought by industrialization. In “The Lowly Bard,” Forrester adopts middle-class women poets’ feminine expressivity as her poetic discourse, and emphasizes that working-class women are capable of sympathizing with the sufferings of other people in the contemporary society as fully as middle or upper-class women, thereby allowing herself to make a poetic utterance. (Hannam University)