사포(Sappho) 시의 자연 Imagery = Natural Imagery in Sappho's Poems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Sappho(circa 625 B.C.) enjoyed fame and was honored in ancient times. There were perhaps nine complete volumes of her poetry, but her work was lost. Late in the 19th century manuscripts were discovered in the Nile Valley. Some of these manuscripts proved to contained Sappho's work.
Many translations of these fragments are available today, offering a different approach to her work. The fragmental nature of the material, reconstructing a poem the translator must trail off into oblivion periodically, or speculate on the missing pieces and take the risk of introducing elements that Sappho did not intend. So to read multiple translations is good to obtain several view points.
In this survey of Sappho' s some 30 poems translated in English, I tried to present Sappho's natural imagery in her poems. She portraits many kinds of human feelings with natural imagery. For example, love is a wind which has irresistible power that effects a change to an individual and enforces obedience. And love is venom that strikes one down. At the same time love is the warm light which gives beauty and meaning to life. Beautiful girl is like the full moon rising after sundown erasing all stars around it. And girls also with flowers represent something essential in our life. Her work of creating songs and poems is like that of a cricket and a nightingale. Endless time and repeated life in natural world is considered by the motions of stars and morning light. As we read Sapho's poems taking notice of her natural imagery we can understand her poem more deeply. And we can track her feelings about 2500 years later.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 머리말
• 2. 사포(Sappho) 시의 자연 Imagery
• 1) 사랑의 본질 : 바람과 햇살
• 2) 사랑의 단면적 특성 : 파충류와 독액
• 3) 여성의 아름다움 : 달
• 4) 삶의 신비와 의의 : 소녀와 꽃
• 5) 흐르는 시간 : 성좌
• 6) 사라지지 않는 희망과 시인의 사명 : 아침, 나이팅게일과 귀뚜라미
• 3. 맺는 말
• Bibliography
• Abstract