찰스 톰린슨의 “만남”의 시학: 낭만주의 대화시와의 관계를 중심으로

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This paper aims to understand Charles Tomlinson’s poetry with regard to his poetics of encounter, closely connected with the thematic elements explored in Romantic conversation poetry. In the conversation poem, the most important theme involves the relationship between the perceiving subject and the outer world. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth seek to unite the mind and the perceived object in their poetry, and in this process, re-establish a communal relationship between human beings. Tomlinson’s poetry also attempts to accomplish a similar task in the changed historical era of the 20th century. He investigates the problems inherent in modern epistemology and shows his ideal way of connecting the human mind with the world surrounding it. Instead of perceiving the outer world merely with eyes, Tomlinson suggests that we need to utilize all kinds of sense perception. The metaphor of “swimming” represents man’s immersion into nature and his movement within the embrace of the water. In Tomlinson’s poetry, the image of a close relationship extends toward the intersubjective dimension embedded in situations of everyday conversation. His poetics of encounter delivers moments of healing the loneliness of the isolated individual and leads the reader to re-evaluate the significance of the precious insights inherited from the Romantic period.

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