ロレンス詩に見る言語の問題

抄録

In this paper, we aim to clarify the ambiguous relationship between the poet and the language. Many of his poems are written in the early twentieth century, when the concept of the language is drastically changed. In the first chapter, we pay attention to how this conceptual transition, namely, from‘word in the world’to‘world in the word’is reflected in his poetry. The‘world in the word’concept can be threatening for each of us, because we ourselves are to be captured and ruled by the language.
The following three chapters deal with the poet's rhetorical strategy to flee from this‘world in the word’concept. His strategy seems to lie in the backward movement toward our origin: from the meaning to the sound, from the language to the body, and from the present to the past or even to the moment before our birth.
In the fifth chapter, we see that Lawrence's strategy is changing. He, who has tried to seek for the freedom out of the language, now tries to seek for it rather within the language, which might be regarded as a post-modern approach to the language. And in the last chapter, we reconsider the connection between the poet and the post-modernism from the viewpoint of the language.