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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.70 pp.95-116
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2023.70.95

Antaeus: Heaney’s Reincarnation through Mythic Re-presentation

Sukla Kisku
Department of English in Bhairab Ganguly College, Belgharia, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Abstract

Eminent Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has oftentimes received the cooperation of mythic accounts for his compositions, in order to reveal his clutter of thoughts through appropriate poetic expressions. To employ the genre of myth for his poetic mission, Heaney has actually participated in the celebration of the past, where reinventing or rethinking the past gets preference. In fact, the reincarnation of myth would never have been possible the way Heaney employed it a number of times in his compositions. Among many mythic personages, Antaeus could possibly be that one figure who incessantly reminds the reader of Heaney’s disturbed position during the northern unrest, revealing his endless mental struggle. Under the title of this mythic eponymous character, “Antaeus” and “Hercules and Antaeus” – in his 1975 collection North- could be read as an attempt to articulate the account of instability, anxiety, trauma, indecisiveness all at once. Corresponding to his own situation, Antaeus can be imagined as a perfect spokesperson to narrate Heaney’s own dilemmas, unveiling his own questions of reincarnation. Through mythic re-presentation, he brings himself to face his own self, which has been challenged from time to time by foreign compulsions, with undoubted interruption of socio-political suspension.

초록

아일랜드의 저명한 노벨상 수상자인 셰이머스 히니는 적절한 시적 표현을 위해 종종 신화적인 작품들에 의존한다. 신화의 장르를 사용하기 위해, 히니는 과거를 재창조하거나 재고함으로써 과거를 이상화한다. 히니가 사용한 신화인물들 중에서, 안테우스는 히니의 끝없는 정신적 투쟁과 북아일랜드의 고난기에 겪었던 혼란을 독자들에게 끊임없이 상기시킨다. ｢안테우스｣와 ｢헤라클레스와 안테우스｣는 1975년 저서인 󰡔북쪽󰡕에서 히니가 겪었던 불안정, 불안, 트라우마, 우유부단함을 표현하려는 한 시도라 할 수 있다. 안테우스는 히니가 처한 상황에 대응하여, 자신의 환생에 대한 의문을 드러내고 자신의 딜레마를 보여줄 수 있는 대변자로 기능한다. 신화적 재현을 통해 히니는 의심할 여지없이 사회 정치적 정지 상태가 가져온 단절과 외세의 강요에 직면한 자신의 갈등을 재현한다.

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