As one of the representative works of T S Eliot, Four Quartets has several themes, one of which is humility Living in a world of limitations of time and space, human beings have no choice but to live their lives with humility Humility is the very virtue we human beings must seek throughout our life Though Four Quartets has several themes such as poetry, history, love, and rel..
This paper examines Wallace Stevens`s long poem, The Man with the Blue Guitar in which the guitarist represents the artist, in other words a poet, A guitar is a blue color and reality is green Blue and green symbolize imagination and reality, respectively In this poem, imagination adheres to reality and reality adheres to the imagination and their interpretation and interd..
The Korean language, which, as the official language of both North Korea (Democratic People`s Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea), is currently spoken by about 72 million people, has been very much influenced by the Chinese language in the form of Sino-Korean words This is mainly because a great number of classical texts have been imported from China, ..
One of the most perennial issues of Buddhist doctrines is the controversy that the theory of no-self rebirth is self-contradictory because, according to its preachings that there is no (eternal) self, there is no continuedconsistent subject who is to be reborn after death in the next world Therefore, the theory should be corrected and substituted by theory of self rebirth w..
The consistent and dynamic momentum that gives life to Ezra Pound`s long life and literary career is his eager desire for the construction of an ideal society His pursuit of ideal religious values and principles is a part of his pursuit of such a desire It is characterized by an anti-Western and pro-Oriental tendency This tendency corresponds to de-modernization and traditi..
Labor is regarded as the holy thing And we lead our lives by working everyday Therefore labor is the source not only for our physical survival but for mental activities As William Blake said, ``Everything that lives is holy``, the labor which enables body to keep working is holy, as well Labor also needs concentration of mind and body And we can be innocent and pure through i..
This paper aims to analyze A Thousand Acres with emptiness through Nagarjuna`s Buddhist philosophy In Buddhism all phenomena are marked with emptiness all things are essentially empty-not born, not destroyed, not stained, not pure Nagarjuna emphasizes form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form It means none of us can be by ourselves alone, Each can only..
This study, along with the critical review of the three preceding studies, aims to discuss William Butler Yeats`s poetic metaphors of antinomy from the contextual perspective of East and West relativistic thought which are inversive to the logos and binarism of absolutism In A Dialogue of Self and Soul and Vacillation, Yeats`s poetic metaphors do not represent the logos ..
What is called intellectualism() has been used as a legitimate term to describe the modernistic trends in Korean literature since Kim Kirim and other major Korean literary critics imported it through Japan from Europe in the early 20th Century Though it is too complicated a term to be applied without rigorous and elaborate definition, intellectualism has often bee..
The background of the formation of Whitman`s thoughts has not been examined fully A lot of scholars and reviewers of him insist their own ways of approach and present some evidences usually found in his poetry Because various thoughts are fused in his poems, it is not so easy to define his thoughts in a word Oriental thoughts take a very strong place in his poetry, but he off..
In Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman unravels the spiritual agony of Tomas Ericsson, a Lutheran priest who undergoes a gradual loss of faith Tomas ever-weakening faith is betrayed through his problematic relationship with his congregation Jonas, Marta and Algot In a pastoral interview with Jonas, Tomas, preoccupied with his own troubled faith, cannot stop the fisherman`s su..
In the past, Buddhism has been primarily regarded as a nihilism or a religion without ethical principles by the West From the views of Schopenhauer and Schweitzer, I have explained such an interpretation But since the mid-twentieth century, the situation was so much changed that a number of people of the West played the Zen practice for their own lives They thought of the Z..
This article deals with the motif of simultaneous or alternate attraction and revulsion in selected writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad, as manifestations of a polarity between the assumed core and the perceived margins of civilisation It argues that Stevenson and Conrad created narratives which contain-in the twofold sense of include and fetter-contrary..