워즈워스의 『어린 시절을 회상하고 영생불멸을 깨닫는 노래』와 영화 『초원의 빛』

William Wordsworth"s Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood and Elia Kazan"s Splendor in the Grass

  Film is a form of writing that borrows from other forms of writing. Literature and film are traveling in the same boat in the Image Age. Both call up the question of what human life is. William Wordsworth"s Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood and Elia Kazan"s Splendor in the Grass deploy an elegiac discourse of loss, lamenting what has been lost in the transition from childhood to maturity, while not ignoring what has been gained. The title, Splendor in the Grass, is taken from Wordsworth"s Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. The mood and story line of the stormy relationship between two star-crossed, teenaged lovers parallels the poem as the adolescents meet, fall obsessively in love and become sexually awakened, face repressed sexual attitudes, parental pressures, turmoil, social constraints and class differences, and ultimately break up and are traumatized without consummating their love. Because prejudice and blind morality destroys their great love, they learn the harsh lesson of love and life and sadly go their separate ways. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, human beings can find strength in what remains behind, in the primal sympathy which having been must ever be, in the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering, in the faith that looks through death and in years that bring the philosophic mind.