ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2003.20.57
Sexuality and Love in Yeats’s Poems, 1934-1939
Abstract
The first part of this paper discusses the Steinach operation which Yeatsunderwent in 1934, when he was 68 years old. Although it is uncertain that theoperation had brought the poet the expected “second puberty,” it seems to have hadan psychologically positive effect upon his writing of poetry. During the last fiveyears after the operation, Yeats wrote almost fifty poems, which is surprisingnumber considering his old age and precarious health. In this part of the paper, thepresent writer reads some poems in which the poet's feeling and thought aboutsexuality and love in these final years of his life are most clearly expressed: “APrayer for Old Age,” “The Spur,” “The Wild Old Wicked Man,” and the sequenceof “Supernatural Songs.”
After the operation Yeats met Margot Ruddock, Dorothy Wellesley, EthelMannin, and Edith Shackleton Heald, all of them being young, pretty, and intelligentwomen. They were poets (Ruddock and Wellesley), a novelist (Mannin), and ajournalist (Heald). The second part of this paper deals with the poet’s meetings withthese women, and reads the poems which are based upon, and reveal the nature of, their relations: “Margot,” “Sweet Dancer,” “A Crazed Girl,” “To DorothyWellesley,” and “The Three Bushes.”
예이츠의 최후의 삶과 시: 성과 사랑의 주제를 중심으로*
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