ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.18 pp.115-136
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2002.18.115
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2002.18.115
Yeats’s Goddess of Beauty: Maud Gonne
Abstract
It is well known that Yeats loved Maud Gonne all through his life. Even after shemarried John MacBride and he married George Hyde Lees, he couldn’t stop loving her.He proposed to her many times not only before she married but also after she becamea widower. But she didn’t accept his courtship, saying that platonic love could maketheir love everlasting. She even said that the poems were their children for she madethem possible by “sowing the unrest & storm.”
This kind of love and/or friendship made Yeats write lots of poems about her andhis longing for her love. The poems about her began to be written in his early youthin The Rose. After that many poems were written on and off through his long poeticcareer to Last Poems. The poems about her are more than fifty or so.
The poems portrayed her as an ideal beauty like Helen and/or as a goddess of loveand beauty like Aphrodite. Sometimes he complained her not accepting his courtship. Attimes he blamed her engaging in the political movement of Ireland’s independence toodeep. From time to time he lamented her marrying a “drunken, vainglorious lout.” Buthe loved “the pilgrim soul” in her all through his life.
Though Yeats complained and blamed and lamented Maud Gonne’s human aspect,he idealized her divine aspect in his poems. He idealized her as a Rose, Helen of Troyand/or Aphrodite. That was the best way to keep her beauty everlasting. Though shesuffered many human difficulties, she was an ideal beauty to Yeats to the end.
This kind of love and/or friendship made Yeats write lots of poems about her andhis longing for her love. The poems about her began to be written in his early youthin The Rose. After that many poems were written on and off through his long poeticcareer to Last Poems. The poems about her are more than fifty or so.
The poems portrayed her as an ideal beauty like Helen and/or as a goddess of loveand beauty like Aphrodite. Sometimes he complained her not accepting his courtship. Attimes he blamed her engaging in the political movement of Ireland’s independence toodeep. From time to time he lamented her marrying a “drunken, vainglorious lout.” Buthe loved “the pilgrim soul” in her all through his life.
Though Yeats complained and blamed and lamented Maud Gonne’s human aspect,he idealized her divine aspect in his poems. He idealized her as a Rose, Helen of Troyand/or Aphrodite. That was the best way to keep her beauty everlasting. Though shesuffered many human difficulties, she was an ideal beauty to Yeats to the end.
Keywords :
예이츠의 미의 여신: 모드 곤
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