워즈워스의 「피터 벨」에 나타난 독자의 역할과 해석의 문제
The Role of Readers and the Question of Interpretation in Wordsworth's “Peter Bell”
- 발행
- 2013
- 소속·발행
- 경기대학교
- 출처
- 국내 KCI
- 원문등록
- 2013-12-06
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개념
키워드
William Wordsworth, “Peter Bell, ” Lyrical Ballads, interpretation, reader, audience, hermeneutic community, poetics of everyday, supernaturalism, William Wordsworth, “Peter Bell, ” Lyrical Ballads, interpretation, reader, audience, hermeneutic community, poetics of everyday, supernaturalism
초록
This essay attempts to explore the ways in which Wordsworth integrates his audiences in his 1819 poem, “Peter Bell: A Tale,” as part of innovating and expanding his relationship with readers. In the 1800 “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth defined the poet as “a man speaking to men”; hence, his poetry presupposes the constructive relationship between poet and reader from composition through reception. Initially, he planned to publish the poem in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 as a counterpart to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.” In this regard, this essay claims that “Peter Bell” is the continuation of Wordsworth’s early poetics for the following two reasons: first, readers are constitutive of the poem as the immediate auditors; second, supernatural poetry is replaced by natural and everyday poetry.
 “Peter Bell: A Tale” showcases the double role of audience as both interpreter and constituent of the poem. To be precise, the poem embraces a framed narrative, through which occurs the sharing of stories as a vehicle for the speaker's and his neighbors' contributing to the production and interpretation of poetry. Moreover, the curren