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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.45 pp.71-82
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2014.45.71

“Imagining a Man”: Reinvention of Self and Reader in Yeats’s “The Fisherman”

Charles I. Armstrong
professor of English in the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation, University of Agder

Abstract

In this essay I have tried to show how “The Fisherman” represents asingular and fascinating attempt to reinvent the self, briefly locating the poem in thedevelopment of Yeats’s poetical concerns. I have scrutinized the process of poeticinvention itself, by going back to the first documented draft of the poem, thusbringing out how the poem seeks to construct and preserve an image of purecreativity, even while it subjects that image to duplication and complicatingextension. In his brave turn towards a more personal, embodied poetic self in the1910s he appears, on the other hand, to be a late modernist in advance. At the sametime, his skepticism about his modern audience and turn towards an idealized andsolitary rural figure also show that he still engaged in rewriting Romanticism. “TheFisherman” shows us a marvellously reinventive poet close to his very best.

“인물을 상상하기”: “어부”에 있어서의 독자와 자아의 재창조

찰스 I. 암스트롱
노르웨이 악델 대학교 외국어 번역학과 영어과 교수

초록

본 논문은 예이츠의 “어부”가 시적 발달의 어디에 위치하는지를 잠간 보고,어떻게 이 시가 특이하고 흥미롭게 자아의재창출을 시도하는지 보여주려고 한다. 본인은시적 자아 자체의 과정을 면밀히 검토하기 위해서, 최초의 시의 초안으로 돌아가서 이 시가어떻게순수한창조의이미지를만들고보존하는지를보여주려하는데, 이과정에서이미지는 중첩되고 복잡해진다. 1910년대에 보다 개인적이고 구체화된 자아에의 과감한 경향을보이는시인은, 반면에, 미리후기모더니스트적면을보인다. 동시에, 이상화된고독한시골의인물에대한애정과당대의청중에대한회의심은그가아직도낭만주의적작가인 것을 보여준다. “어부”는 그가 거의 최상의 놀랄만한 재창조적 시인임을 보여준다.
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