ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.22 pp.183-196
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2004.22.183
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2004.22.183
Toward a New Poetic Form: Yeats and Pound*
Abstract
Yeats and Pound were the two central poets of the 20th century, dominating themodernist poetry in the first half and second half of the century. Pound began asYeats's "student" reading the older poet's The Wind among the Reeds. When theapprenticeship with Yeats at Stone Cottage was over, Pound served as patron toalmost all the major poets and writers, and some painters.
Unlike the mythology of the last 50 years, in matters of poetic influencebetween them, Pound seems to have got more than he gave to Yeats. For instance,Pound could not find the value of the new poetic form emerging in Yeats's"Adam's Curse" which is alongside "Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland." It isbecause he admired the early Yeats so much. It is not until Pound was bored bythe shadows and dreams in his own poetry that he began to see "Adam's Curse,""No Second Troy," "Reconciliation." Before Pound did anything, Yeats had alreadyundegone some transformation in his poetry. Then, why Pound had been soimmersed in the early Yeats? Yeats had been a complex personality, capable ofmaking use of what had seemed impossible as material for poetry: magic andmysticism, arts, folkore, Romantic poetics in his earlier career and politics, Nohdrama, philosophy.
At the last moment Yeats and Pound emerge as different poets; the older poetneither commits himself to his world nor alienates himself from it: he contemplatesit as detached artist. Pound, on the other hand, chooses to be in utter solitude, withhis memories of Stone Cottage sustaining him.
Unlike the mythology of the last 50 years, in matters of poetic influencebetween them, Pound seems to have got more than he gave to Yeats. For instance,Pound could not find the value of the new poetic form emerging in Yeats's"Adam's Curse" which is alongside "Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland." It isbecause he admired the early Yeats so much. It is not until Pound was bored bythe shadows and dreams in his own poetry that he began to see "Adam's Curse,""No Second Troy," "Reconciliation." Before Pound did anything, Yeats had alreadyundegone some transformation in his poetry. Then, why Pound had been soimmersed in the early Yeats? Yeats had been a complex personality, capable ofmaking use of what had seemed impossible as material for poetry: magic andmysticism, arts, folkore, Romantic poetics in his earlier career and politics, Nohdrama, philosophy.
At the last moment Yeats and Pound emerge as different poets; the older poetneither commits himself to his world nor alienates himself from it: he contemplatesit as detached artist. Pound, on the other hand, chooses to be in utter solitude, withhis memories of Stone Cottage sustaining him.
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