ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1995.5.161
Yeats and Keats: Searching for the Goddess
Abstract
During their pilgrimage, knowing goddess as the Mother of theuniverse, they were confronted with a tragic situation andcontinually agonized in their souls. They had to overcome thetragic boundaries between the Goddess of the Universe andthemselves. The “Unity of Being” can be identified with‘androgyny’ which is similar to God's trinity in gnostic thoughts.
At last, Yeats and Keats saw the Goddess as their“Anti-selves”, and they achieved the “Unity of Being” through thelong and uncomfortable journey. Yeats had a gnostic vision. Hispoetry owes much to a symbolism derived from theRosicrucianism. His main idea of all works was attempting tomeet the Goddess. Yeats believed in God's trinity(Man, women,son or daughter) and believed in the androgyny of God. Fromthis concept of androgyny of God, a gnostic searched for thehidden God called Binah (Mother of God) as well as Saturn. It isYeats's main idea that God is androgynous. This thought came from Christian Gnosticism based on the diagram of “Tree of Life”in Cabalah. Also, Keats's main idea of poetry was his searchingfor the lover who was also the Goddess. Even though Keatsdidn't write about Cabalism, he wrote that he wished to becomea pagan while writing Endymion. Keats might suggest that paganmean a gnostic.
It was suggested that Yeats's and Keats's souls weretriumphed by the action of Cuchulain and Hyperion. As Yeatsdescribed arriving in Byzantium, Keats's poetic career won theheaven which was the Goddess's bower. Although Keats's lifewas shorter than Yeats's and he had not written about Cabala,many similarities are discovered between them.
Yeats와 Keats의 시 비교 연구 - 여성신 추구를 중심으로
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