스펜서의 정원과 마블의 정원       배경진  pages 123 ~ 140
         [Bae Gyeong-jin: Spenser’s Garden and Marvell’s Garden]


Abstract

This study aims to compare and contrast the presentations of the gardens in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden.” The garden as an alternative paradise has been a frequent topic for poets to seek perfection and eternity since the classic period. By analyzing the garden images delicately portrayed by the two English poets representing the 16th and seventeenth century England respectively, this study tries to discuss common aspects and distinguished features, which may reveal the political and religious environment of each poet.
Both Spenser and Marvell depend on the classical images of the sweet and affluent paradise when they create their own ideal gardens. As the garden connotes an enclosed nature in one sense, the fenced garden provides peace and security unlike the uncontrolled and hostile nature. With the idealized images of the classical paradise, the gardens of Spenser and Marvell are represented as both haven and shelter to the fickle and transient world. However, Spenser’s garden produces more natural energy close to nature, but it is relatively susceptible to the dangers of nature and human finitude in eternal time. On the other hand, Marvell’s garden is constructed as a private, but isolated place which provides a safe distance from a precarious reality and perishable history.

Key words

에드먼드 스펜서, 앤드류 마블, 『선녀 여왕』, ｢정원｣, 낙원

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Andrew Marvell, “The Garden, ” paradise