ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2005.24.133
A Study on W. B. Yeats’s Narrative Poem The Two Kings: Creative Modification of the Myth
Abstract
In this poem Yeats adopted only the main part of the original story andchanged its plot and reversed its ending on purpose. He reconstructed the originalstory and recreated it as a “universal” private mythos through imaginativeembellishment and creative modification. Furthermore, by clothing each mythicalcharacter with multi-roles and -symbols, he succeeded in making the poem a pieceof work with both individuality and universality.
Through the symbolical behaviors of the characters, Yeats states his firmconviction that a man’s life should be determined by his own free will, and that thelovers’ happiness should dwell in their earthly life, not in their union after death.And the poet asserts that nothing is more important than the reliance and moralitybetween human beings for our true life and happy love. In addition, the poetcontends that a leader of a nation must deliver his subjects from their chronicoppression and poverty.
W. B. 예이츠의 설화시 『두 왕들』 연구: 신화의 창조적 변용*
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