『서곡』에 함축된 부재의 의미

The Power of the Absence Implicated in The Prelude

&nbsp;&nbsp;The Prelude is basically a story of Wordsworth&quot;s unmothered life. The memory of the absence of his mother is not so remarkable that readers cannot easily grasp the importance of her presence in Wordsworth&quot;s memory. His direct mention of his mother would also only be supposed to mean her absence. In relation to his absent mother, this paper is to trace the repressed memory of his mother which haunts him. His remembrance of his mother&quot;s presence is subtle, but his calling for his surrogates such as the nurse and the stream is so powerfully presented in The Prelude. His rearrangement and addition of the episodes of what he has gone through shows how he copes with his separation and loss caused by his mother&quot;s death and what he pursues even after it.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;He is quite frequently driven from the silent and undifferentiated world of the nurse and the river into Oedipal aggression and the fear of his father&quot;s authority. However, his memory of his separation and desolation is followed by the memory of his mental power of reunion, synthetic power of imagination stemming from the influence of his absent mother. Paradoxically speaking, his separation from his mother is indispensable to his becoming a real poet who makes language itself as an instrument for his profoundest mental meditation.