워즈워스의 상실과 회복의 전략

Wordsworthian Strategy of Loss and Restoration: Self-Healing

This paper demonstrates how William Wordsworth copes with his internal problems along with his political interest after he endures psychological difficulties and a loss of self, presenting how he manifests them in his poetry. This elaborate study will serve to elucidate the connection between his radical politics and the reiterated pattern of his poetry of the late 1790s and the early 1800s. The rhetorical scheme he intended in his literary restoration serves to swerve from the reactionary, unrealistic impulses and aspirations embedded in his politics in relation to the French Revolution. His psychological hurt and sense of frustration are the matter of grave concern he longs to portray in his poetry. Paradoxically associating his experiences of mental crisis caused by his frustration of political aspirations with his confidence in poetic creation, he becomes immersed in literary restoration to transform his negative experiences into sublimated ones, which demonstrates the powerful and continuous influence of his political interest implicated upon his poetry and his life. His sublimated experience through the process of “loss and restoration” becomes a well-fitted literary element as well as the quintessence for aesthetic manifestations in his poetry, leading to his rhetorical strategies and strategical uniqueness. Through his self-extinguishing and self-fulfilling poetic maneuvers, he aesthetically dramatizes the manner in which his feelings and ideas are associated with his interest in politics.