Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” and Memory-Image
Abstract
Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” has been viewed as a psychological drama inwhich Heaney explores alter-egos that he might have become. Such an approachbecomes more complicated if we consider that the stage of the drama is Ricoeuriantypology of mnemonic phenomena where the narrator “I” is splitted into the subjectin the process of recollection and the self fixed in the pure memory. According toPaul Ricoeur, the epistemological process of recollection involves the evocation ofpast memories at the present moment, so that the subject-in-recollection imagines theself fixed in the pure memory to be “the other than self” and relives past memoriesas if real. In this sense, Ricoeur argues that memory exists in the typology ofmnemonic phenomena as memory-images and that the subject-in-recollection tend toimagine the past in the way he can satisfy his desire. Likewise, in “Station Island”Heaney’s narrator “I” re-imagines his past memories as if they were memory-imagesand re-lives past feelings as “the other than self.” By becoming “the other thanself” in the process of recollection, he reviews the burden of a national poet andfinally accepts the limitation of his fellow Irish people as well as his own self.For Heaney, accepting the limitations and scars as they are becomes the foundationfor love, friendship, and goodness toward his people because it lets him realizereasons for the necessity of co-dependency and reciprocity.
셰이머스 히니의 「스테이션 아일랜드」(“Station Island”)와 기억 이미지
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