Roethke 시에 나타나는 삶의 질서와 생명의 원칙 = Life Principle in Theodore Roethke.

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Many poems of Theodore Roethke show a faith that the roots of life can be found in nature. He believes that the primeval sources of being lie embedded eternally in nature and we can rediscover them through true relationship with nature. To live to the fullest, to break through a more intense and nobler life human beings have to maintain a feeling of the onesess of the universe, profound inner union with the integrating principle of the universe. We once had it when we were children. Childhood is the matrix of man wherein lie the sense of being, his source of integrity and inner harmony, his identity with mankind. The adult has lost unity and joy of the childhood, but can restore them through tenderness and love.
The purpose of this study is to have a comprehensive view of his poetry through the human relationship with nature. I deal with about thirteen poems from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1975). Evolution of the self, individual's growth, and its attainment of marurity and independence are connected with poems of sexual initation and love. These are the process of the self struggling to grow, to overcome adolescent conflicts and to come out into a new harmonious relationship with the world, and finding one's place in the world. And these poems show love is the integrating principle of the universe. Love gives meaning to the world, pervades the world, fulfills the supreme achievement of mystic insight. With love an adult can return to his original self and recover true energy of life, joy. Through love one can sense the absolute life and the absurdity of fear of death.
Man becomes and participates eternally in a circularity in the life of the narural world with its cycles of decay and renewal. By experiencing love man goes through a developing stage of restoring and discovering life principle in the natural world and can share fulfilled moments of living.