W. Wordsworth의 시에 나타난 여성상(女性像) = Women in W. Wordsworth's Poetry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

William Wordsworth, a representative poet of the Romantic period, is generally referred to as a "poet of Nature." Many critics explained his themes through nature and imagination, and accordingly, excluded female characters or degraded them into supporting roles to emphasize nature and imagination. However, it is also true that there are many female characters in his poetry.
The purpose of this study, therefore, is to read and re-evaluate the works of William Wordsworth and to find out the roles and images of these female characters who have been degraded for a long time.
In "To A Highland Girl." the girl is appeared as a symbol of beauty and naturalized by the male narrater as something like the objects which surround the girl. This free-spirited lass is presented by the poet as just another element in a picturesque landscape.
In "Lucy Poems." Lucy is described as a "thing" like "Violet." "stones" and "trees" which have no sense of living things. All the living senses belong to the mar, narrater.
She keeps silent in her grave. She lived unknown and ceased to be while no one aware of it. Thar's the point the poet praises her.
The Wordsworthian woman is not only the Other but quite specifically man's Other. They are defined in terms of negative qualities and reflect the superior endowments of the male who praises them. The Wordsworthian woman in chapter Ⅱ seen to be silent, static and secondary, on the whole.
The Wordswothian woman in chapter Ⅲ shows how the poet uses her both in literary and real life. The hero and heroine in "Vaudracoure and Julia episode." in The Prelude Book Ⅸ, can be read as the decoy characters of Wordsworth and Annette Vallon, the woman deserted by Wordsworth. He rationalizes his unlawful paternity to Caroline, born between Annette and himself, by surmounting his psychological anxiety due to his sexual immorality through the influence of the French Revolution.
In chapter Ⅳ, the Wordsworthian woman dramatically calls male authority into question by subverting the masculine notions of homogeneity and controls with the unearthly sounds born of the unconscious. Speaking the censored language of emotion and exaggerating characteristics that have been fearfully suppressed in out culture woman becomes the repressed who surfaces in the consciousness of patriarchical society with an explosive, utterly destructive, staggering return, reworking the dominal structure.
These sounds and their unruly effects are demonstrated in the poem like "The Thorn." Woman exerts a certain power by virtue of her estranged position on the edges of mainstream society. Despite its limited vocabulary, the voice of Martha Ray is perhaps the most memorable of all Wordsworth's speaking women. Her few spoken words, repeated throughout the poem at regular intervals, come because of their emotional intensity, to constitute a kind of eerie mantra, what one critic has termed "a naked cry of suffering."
Through the women's images suggested in chapter Ⅱ and Ⅲ, Wordsworth also exposes some limitedness which some Romantic poetry contain. However, he creates some brave woman, suggested in chapter Ⅳ, who can challenge the very basis of patriarchy itself by speaking in their own languages. In this way, he contributes to form the field of discourse for the marginalized Others, women

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 침묵하는 여성 : "To A Highland Girl"과 'Lucy Poems"를 중심으로
• Ⅲ. 욕망의 흔적 : "Vaudracoure and Julia episode"를 중심으로
• Ⅳ. 어둠 속에서 들리는 목소리 : "The Thorn"을 중심으로
• Ⅴ. 결 론
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ABSTRACT