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윌리엄 카를로스 윌리엄스의 『패터슨』에 나타난 순환과 재생 : 도시 · 인간 · 자연을 중심으로

Circulation and Restoration in William Carlos Williams' Paterson: On City, People, and Nature

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William Carlos Williams, a doctor and poet, identifies writing poems with caring for patients. In his five-volume epic poem, Paterson, much the way Williams diagnoses his patients' illnesses and helps them to recover, he makes a keen observation of the diseases plaguing the city of Paterson, New Jersey. He observes the symptoms of the diseases of this American city, people, and nature after the industrialization in the hopes of reviving it. My thesis examines Williams' perception of reality and his suggestion for the restoration of the ill reality by concentrating on city, people, and nature in Paterson. In Paterson, Williams focuses on how the city, people and nature have been changed in Paterson, a city that is situated in northeastern New Jersey after the industrialization. He considers the eighteenth century Paterson before the industrialization as an ideal city for the coexistence of people and nature. The industrialization and material desire, however, destroyed this harmony in Paterson as people slowly began to destroy nature, all in the name of human progress, by first cutting the natural stream of the Passaic River. Williams learns of the growing turmoil, violence and disruptions in Paterson and aptly calls it the "divorce." Williams regards this "divorce" as the cause of the illness not only in Paterson but in modern society. Although the reality of Patreson in Paterson seems tragic, Williams does not surrender his hope and attempts to "cure" the illness and amend "divorce" of this tormented city. In the form and matter of Paterson, Williams chooses the spiral circulation that can keep a natural stream and be improved as the way to restore Paterson. Since the spiral circulation can always make a new beginning, Paterson seems to be cured by it. Williams strives to diagnose and remedy the American modern society through his own elaboration on the terms of Paterson, one of many cities in America. There is no denying that the diagnosis and prescription of the reality in his work can play a significant role in the rediscovery of Williams and Paterson. His valiant efforts to distinguish himself from his contemporary poets and to give practical advice for modern society through Paterson should be acknowledged.

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서 론 1
I. 『패터슨』에 나타난 도시 · 인간 · 자연 10
II. 패터슨의 현실과 “단절” 25
1. 현실의 모습 25
2. 단절의 양상 36
III. 순환과 변화를 통한 재생 44
결 론 63
인용문헌 67
Abstract 70

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