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Kang, Shinwook. “Poetic Philosopher vs Philosophic Poet —A Comparative Study of the Lives and Poetics of Confucius and Wordsworth.” Studies in English language & Literature. 43.2 (2017): 1-25. Even though Confucius and William Wordsworth lived in different times and places, they seemed to have lots of similarities in their lives and poetics, notwithstanding a few differences. First of all, they lived in the period with a very dramatic paradigm shift in their ages and human lives. Facing unprecedented chaos and tragedies, Confucius pursued to rediscover the meaning of common actions and situations of human lives and build a better life and society. Wordsworth was not different from Confucius in the basic goal of his life and his way to realize it because he held up defamiliarization as his catch phrase. Interestingly, their similarities can be found more in their life experiences and poetics than have we expected. So in this paper I want to examine such similarities to find a clue to how to overcome the ‘age of nightmare’ in which we are living, not ignoring some small but significant differences between them. As a result, Confucius and Wordsworth can be appreciated as a poetic philosopher and a philosophic poet respectively. And furthermore, we are able to learn from them that poetry can be an action of resistance to sustain and survive as a human being against the sweeping waves of making all things around us trivial and fragmented. (Chonbuk National University)