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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.23 pp.141-154
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2005.23.141

The Poetic Moment of Moments in Yeats, Stevens, and Eliot: Reading of Three Poems, “The Long Legged Fly,” “Sunday Morning,” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”*

Young Suck Rhee

Abstract

The last century saw three great poets: Yeats, Eliot, and Stevens. They eachhad created new poems different from the previous ones. The current topic findsEliot most discordant from the other two, who has started from Romantic poetics.By "Romantic" I mean that the poet grew out of Romantic poetics and/or isRomantic temperamentally. In Eliot's case, because of his stance on Romanticismand his educational background, unfortunately, both poets and scholars have beenblinded to the fact that Eliot is deeply Romantic, stylistically and temperamentally.Read any portion of any poem by Eliot; it is there in the very poem, such as"Prufrock." It indeed is a good poem, witty and modern. But the drawback withEliot is he is exclusive, thus the poetic range is limited.
Compared with him, Stevens is a pure Romantic, who profoundly succeeds inrenewing Romantic poetics in modern times, as evidenced in "Sunday Morning."Which is the counterpoint to Milton's "Paradise Lost." Of course, in terms ofpoetic gestures.
Yeats is, compared with Eliot and Stevens, unique. He is against science, andgoes back to myths and folklore and man. His "Long-legged Fly" is the epitomeof his great poetics, a victory over the materialistic society of last century. Still,it is hard to understand how he could go over what seems to have been animpossible barrier, with such an outmoded thing, as mysticism, mythology,Romanticism, that all thought dead.

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