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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.19 pp.129-145
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2003.19.129

The Significances of Yeats’s Dialogue and Debate Technique in His Poems

Huh Hyun Sook

Abstract

Yeats established a contact with the spoken word and learned to use it so that hecould express the reality and acquire masculinity under the influence of his participationin Abbey Theatre. And he, dramatizing himself, would express the life of the individualperson with long and objective points of view, of which he was to follow simplemethods of dialogue and debate. In his some later poems, Yeats adopts these methodsand suggests his subjects through some persona of ‘Self,’ ‘Soul,’ ‘Robartes,’ ‘dancer,’ ‘He’and ‘She.’ His concerns in this form are not to direct confess of his mind or feelingbut to give different voices and opinions on his poetic subject. Not as his early poeticvoices which represent poet’s own subjectivity, these persona have voices of variousopinions and show some conflicts each other in the text so that the reader should referto all their positions and would be led to his or her own conclusion on the debate.
The other significance of the debate form in Yeats's poetry is the participation ofwomen persona and her role as a speaker of Yeats's attitudes on his writing. Differentfrom the other male modernists, Yeats adopts the voice of a woman, submits himself tothe female perspective and distances himself from the poetic situations and the subjectsintended to suggest in his works. In other words, Yeats seeks poetic impersonality byspeaking in female persona. Yeats’s use of the dialogue and debate between the personaof different experiences and different gender reinforces his attempt to displace his earlyromantic faerly landers and respond to his urgent subjects-the real world matters. Withthis method he portrays himself as a being caught between his social identity and hispermanent personality, which grants him an achievement of the deeper wisdom into thehuman life and personality.

예이츠 시의 기법: 대화적 기법의 사용과 그 의미

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