어느 영시(英詩): John Donne's An Anatomy of the World

17세기 영국 문인의 시에 나오는 구절이라고 합니다. 존 던John Donne이 남긴《세계의 해부An Anatomy of the World》라는 제목의 시입니다. 시의 형태를 보니, 아주 호흡이 긴 산문시 같아 보입니다.  다음 그 중 한 소절입니다.

Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,

For every man alone thinks he hath got

To be a phoenix, and that then can be

None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

이걸 어떻게 해석하면 좋을까요?

그 앞뒤를 조금 더 붙여서 펼쳐보면 이렇습니다.

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And new philosophy calls all in doubt,

The element of fire is quite put out,

The sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit

Can well direct him where to look for it.

And freely men confess that this world's spent,

When in the planets and the firmament

They seek so many new; they see that this

Is crumbled out again to his atomies.

'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,

All just supply, and all relation;

Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,

For every man alone thinks he hath got

To be a phoenix, and that then can be

None of that kind, of which he is, but he.

This is the world's condition now, and now

She that should all parts to reunion bow,

She that had all magnetic force alone,

To draw, and fasten sund'red parts in one;

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다음은 관련 자료입니다

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• 시 원문: A poem of John Donne: An Anatomy of the World
• 관련 평론: An account of John Donn's "“An Anatomy of the World"
• Book Review: Every Man Alone, A Phoenix
  
• Book Review: The Priestly Donne
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• 던 (영국 시인) [Donne, John]