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ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.23 pp.53-68
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2005.23.53

Postcolonial Approach to Yeats’s Poems

Jooseong Kim

Abstract

In recent years, many of literary works in English has been produced from theso-called Third World. The notion of "contemporary poetry, however, remainsstrikingly provincial in the anglophone Western World. Also, even though theconceptions of American poetry have expanded to include minority writers of theThird World, the story of the glottalization of English poetry remains largely untold.Why is postcolonial poetry so much less visible in modern literary world? The termpostcolonial has often been criticized for erasing cultural and historical differences,so it can be useful in highlighting similarities and differences among variouscultures still grappling with their colonial histories.
Yeats has been placed in many literary and hermetic societies. For theconstituencies of Yeats studies, the claiming Yeats as postcolonial can help renewattention to a poet who, often charged with antifeminism and reactionary politics,has been losing ground to postmodernism, antiformalism, and ethnic writing. Yeats'spostcolonization can strengthen the claim of Irish studies to be a player in thevibrant field of postcolonial studies. If we define the Easter Rising is the crucialmoment, "Easter, 1916" would qualify as postcolonial. If postcoloniality is construednot as after decolonialization but as since colonization, then Yeats is more easilyswept whole into the postcolonial canon, but so would be all kinds of Irishliterature since the early 20th century, perhaps stretching the term postcolonialbeyond use. So, we can have difficulties in defining Yeats as a postcolonial poet.

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