블레이크는 후기시의『밀턴: 두 권의 시집에서 시』에서 자신만의 독창적인 신화적 우주를 구체적으로 묘사하기 시작한다. 블레이크의 신화적 우주는 고대 그리스의 우주와 달리, 성경의 우주를 변형하여 자신만의 독창적인 우주를 독자에게 전달한다. 그의 대우주는 천국, 지옥, 골고누자, 뿔라, 울로, 제너레이션, 지상 세계로 나눠지며, 더불어 인간의 육체는 소우주로 설명된다. 독자들은 밀턴이라는 주인공을 통해서 블레이크의 우주를 탐험하지만, 이 시에서 블레이크의 우주를 명료하게 이해하기는 힘들 것 같다. 이는 블레이크가 시적 영감을 받은 대로 시를 구술해 나가기에 그의 우주에 대한 노래가 체계적으로 서술되지 않았기 때문이다. 그러나 독자들은 이 시에서 블레이크의 영감과 상상력에 깊은 찬사를 보낼 것이다.

In the year of 1741, the controversial debates about Calvin’s doctrine of predestination had been discussed intensely among methodists. John and Charles Wesley, who are against this doctrine, published Hymns on God’s Everlasting Love series in 1741. Through these hymn books, Charles Wesley, who is considered to be the main author of these two books, continually criticizes Calvin’s doctrine of predestination, especially regarding the elected and the reprobates, and strongly shouts for God’s general love for all mankind. Even though these two hymn books are valuable books for tracing the consolidation of Charles Wesley’s theology about Calvin’s doctrine of predestination and God’s universal love for all, they have not been studied enough because these books are considered to be only hymn books. This thesis studies on Wesley’s theology about Calvin’s doctrine of predestination and God’s universal love for all, through analyzing five major poems.

이하윤(1906~1974)은 1926년 시 <일허진 무덤>을 발표한 이후 한국적인 운율과 서정성을 담은 시편(詩篇), 서구지향적인 시편, 그리고 유행가 가사로 사용된 가요시(歌謠詩) 등 다양하고도 이색적인 시편들을 모아 한 권의 시집으로 묶어 간행하는 등, 1930년대로서는 매우 독특한 활동 영역을 보여준 시인이다. 바로, 1939년에 간행된『물네방아』는 이와 같은 이하윤 시의 특성이 고스란히 담긴 중요한 시집이다. 이 논문은 이하윤 시집『물네방아』를 대상으로 하여 1930년대의 한 시인이 지향하고자 한, 시의 전통성과 근대성의 표출 방식을 살펴보고, 서로 상반된 두 성향이 어떻게 한 시인의 시집 안에서 반영되고 드러나는지를 고찰해 보고자 한다. 특히, 1930년대에 새로운 시 장르로 편입된 ‘가요시’의 형성을 이하윤의 시세계를 통해 살펴볼 수 있을 것이다.주지하면, 시집『물네방아』에는 총 109편의 많은 시가 수록되어 있다. 이 시집은 크게 두 부분으로 나뉘는데 ‘물네방아’란 소제목으로 묶인 67편의 서정시와 ‘가요시초(歌謠詩抄)’란 소제목으로 묶인 42편의 가요시가 그것이다. 그러나 물리적인 형식이 아닌 내용상 특징으로 재분류하면, 시집『물네방아』는 세 가지의 서로 다른 시세계를 엿볼 수 있다. 즉, 시집 전반부에 수록된 67편의 서정시는 ‘물네방아’로 대변되는 토속적인 제재와 고향, 자연 등 전통세계로의 회귀를 보여주는 전통지향적인 시와, 도시적 감성과 외래적 시어 등을 근간으로 하여 창작된 근대지향적 시로 다시 나뉜다. 시집 후반부는 1930년대에 유성기음반에 취입된 노랫말(가요시)을 시집 안에 포함시킨 것들이다.이 논문은 이러한 서로 다른 세 가지 방식의 시적 특징이 어떻게 한 권의 시집『물네방아』에 구현되고 있는지를 살펴보고, 그 의미를 ‘1930년대’의 시대상에서 되짚어 보고자 한다.

William Blake, regarded as one of the great Romantic poets, was a prolific painter, printer, and engraver as well. Yet, he did not receive due credit for his work during his time. For a long time, his graphic art and literature were treated in isolation from each other; literary critics focused only on his poems and art historians on his engravings or paintings. Recently, attempts to see his work, particularly his illuminated books, as a “composite art” or as a synthesis of word and image have increased. I will also consider his work as a kind of open text in a poststructuralists’ notion, which blurs the boundaries between them and encourages readings as textual performance. In this paper, I will first show how Blake differentiated himself from other painters, engravers, and publishers by devising his own way of creating and printing illuminated books. Next, focusing on his earlier work, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, I will briefly discuss the characteristics of his illustration and the content of his poems. Finally, I demonstrate how Songs makes for unique reading in which the reader is an ongoing participant in its textuality, crossing between words and words, and words and images. The advent of the Industrial Revolution brought with it an increase in mass publication, and the distinction between fine art and designs or craftsmanship was yet to be clarified. Against such distinction, Blake created a unique method of "relief-etching", through which he combined text and engraved illustration on a single copper plate and hand-colored the prints. Each copy thus remains a unique work of art. His illuminated books envision interdisciplinary and multimedia text and question the modern system of classification and hierarchies between poem and painting, painting and engraving, art and literature. In the images of Songs, we see Blake’s profound interest in Gothic art as “divine” work. For example, he persisted in using firm outlines that were characteristic of Gothic art. Like other Romantic poets, Blake believed the imagination and God’s spirit to be manifest in outline rather than color. The letter was regarded to be appealing to the sensuality of the eyes. On the other hand, the poems in Songs reflect the dialectical relationship and synthesis in which “innocence” might be wedded to “experience,” as its subtitle Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Souls implies. Songs is, however, not to be read by isolating the poems from the illustrations. In the introduction of Songs of Innocence, Blake proposed the intricate and conflicting relationship between speech, writing, and painting. The title page also suggests that children are not merely passive learners imitating the nurse’s reading but active readers-seers who may better understand Blake’s illuminated books. Further, this paper, after the examination of a few poems, attempts to show that the images do not necessarily illustrate the poems and can rather create a link between different parts of the text. This rejects the traditional critical hierarchy of word over image. Blake’s work indeed opens up an infinite vortex, that is, the textuality, as Roland Barthes or other post-structuralists might call it, and invites us to participate as active readers.

One of the most important characteristic features of Yeats’s book of poems involves the fact that the poet intended his entire volumes of his poems to function as a single, unified work of art. In other words, the meaning of an individual poem in any Yeats’s book of poems cannot be fully appreciated without considering its relationship with the poems placed right next to it. Talking about one individual poem alone in a volume is like interpreting one chapter of a novel without linking its meaning to the next chapters. For this reason, understanding Yeats’s poems requires looking into a relationship between the poems and the principle of arranging the entire poems in a book of poems. In this paper, what I am trying to achieve is to answer the following three questions. First, what is a governing principle of ordering poems in Yeats's second book of poems, The Rose (1983)? Second, how such a structure or an arrangement helps to convey the thematic concern of The Rose effectively? Lastly, how Yeats develops himself as a poet after publishing his first book of Poems Crossways (1889). When we compare the method of ordering The Rose poems with that of Crossways, we see that Yeats slowly matures as a poet as he ages. Crossways consists of two groups of poems each with a religious and political context, respectively. In the first group, Yeats places poems dealing with balancing the conflicting forces of action and stasis, the ideal and the real, and imagination and actuality. The second group includes poems balancing private and public, past and present, and Catholic and Protestant, high and low classes, and unionists and nationalists. Yeats's ultimate message: just as we need a reconciliation of opposing religious elements, so we should achieve a harmony of different political groups. The Rose, on the other hand, reminds us of a kind of well-structured drama with the prologue poem working as the first act of a play. The first poem holds the key to the arrangement of 23 poems in The Rose. In other words, each line of “The Rose upon the Rood of Time” foretells how the entire 23 poems will be placed and foregrounds the main message of the book of poems. The first poem talks about a reconciliation of opposing forces and this message is repeated throughout the book by dealing with the idea of balancing two antinomian ideas. In addition, the time of each poem moves in-between the present and the past and eventually advances into the future, as is foreshadowed in the preface poem. The presence of the poet can also be felt throughout the book of poems. In The Rose, we meet a poet who keeps emphasizing the importance of maintaining a balance between mysticism and realism, reconciling his joy of love and pain of his failure, and announcing his love of Ireland or his nationalist ideals. Through The Rose, Yeats repeats the importance of balancing religion, people, and love. Although the second book of poems contains different poems and structural pattern compared with the first book of poems, his basic message remains the same: mysticism should be reconciled with realism and nationalism.

This paper intends to reveal that Eliot’s life has a good influence on his poems, especially appearing in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats which was published in 1939. But a version of it was announced by Faber and Faber, as “Mr. Eliot’s Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to him by the Man in White Spats,’ in the spring of 1936. Therefore we need to feel out the period from before and between 1936 to 1939, when Eliot suffered fromdomestic problems ashe tried to divorce his wife Vivienne, and Vivienne herself was confined to the mental hospital Northumberland House in 1938. So this paper deals with his personal experiences (or situations and accidents) happening through his unhappy marriage, especially the emotional conflicts between him and his wife Vivienne in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

T. S. Eliot has been known as a poet and critic for being so serious and moralistic that he might teach his readers. Yet, he published Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats in 1939 for children, especially for his friends. In this sense, this poetry is aimedat amusing children with an allegory of a variety of cats. Usually, the style that children like lies in amusement in form and satirical language in use. Eliot knew it; so it is an interesting task to examine the significance of the old possum, his nickname, from the poetry for children, and the poet hidden behind the nickname. The Old Possum poetry appears to take into account what children like: a poetry collection of amusement and seriousness put together for children using lively rhythms and regular rhymes according to the characteristics of practical cats. The poetry shows a variety of each cat’s characters and habits, which, the poet believes, practically reflect various forms of human life. Above all, Eliot tried to associate practical cats in profound meditation with himself as a thoughtful, yet invisible poet and critic just like the wild, yet shy animal: a metaphor of the old possum in poetry.