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The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.25 pp.179-195
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2006.25.179

Conflict in Yeats’s “A Man Young and Old”

Hwang Yang Mi

Abstract

This article explores Yeats's “A Man Young and Old”. This series poemsdescribed conflict between a man and a woman. According to Yeats's theory of theart, people are in a perpetual conflict of opposites. Opposition determines the cyclepattern of life and ensures recursive waves of love and hate as men and womenstruggle toward personal collective Unity of Being. Such conflict evokes differencesbetween person and daimon, and also between men and women. These parallelconditions suggest an analogy: man relates to his daimon as to a woman. Later,Yeats conceives the daimon not only as a woman bur as a gendered being in herown right.
Gender provides a crucial key to Yeats's art, because gender is imprinted uponall temporal and spiritual reality. It is employed not only as a subject in his poetry,but as the means of fleshing out his philosophy and clothing his personal experiencein a universal and comprehensible metaphor. Gender determines the way Yeats'sviews reality.
In “A Man Young and Old”, Yeats describes a type of personality that isconsummately objective-primary-solar-masculine according to his vision of archetypalphases. Although that personality is consistent throughout the sequence, there arestages of experience and insight that shift from youth through maturity to old age,as the title signifies. This personality attempts to make sense of his life through thegendered relationships that are at once the source of his lost innocence and theanchors of experience from which he gleans hard-earned insight. If there is oneword that characterizes the man's perspective, it is adversarial.

예이츠의 「젊었을 때와 늙었을 때의 한 남성」 에서의 갈등

황양미
성균관대

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