ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.16 pp.141-170
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2001.16.141
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2001.16.141
An Eastern Numerological Approach to Yeats’ Poetry: Numerical Symbols in A Vision
Abstract
Numbers have the physical and spiritual symbols by abstracting and emptyingthemselves. They develop from the fundamental elements into many animations,personalities, signs, emanations, and at last literary symbols.
As a result, the poetical spirit or visions of Yeats in A Vision could be integratedin the numerical symbols of 1, 2, 3, 4, and their muliplications. The fundamentalnumbers seem to extend their symbolism into other multiplied numbers, especially 28phases of the moon. Number One in his poetry frequently symbolizes the Causal Body,Origin, and Divine Basis. Number 2 signifies the duality, the harmony of concord anddiscord, or various opposing elements. Three reveals the uniting/solving process ofconflicting duality. It insinuates the figurations of peace or harmony. Number 4 inducesthe peaceful world of the triangle-like Number 3 into the inner worlds of men. Yeatsused to devide the human animations into 4 faculties. Number 4 is the reflection of thedivision of the Number 2(duality). From the basic numbers, all the poetic combinationscan be implicated into the new, novel, personal symbols.
His cosmological symbols and numerology in A Vision can be closely related to theEastern world view and cosmological human nature. Especially, his poetic theory of“Unit of Being” doesn’t show the faculty of Number Zero, nothingness or stillness, orthe Eastern emptiness. It rather show the state of fullness, fullness of Western Intellect.To understand how much the numerological conceptions are resolved into hispoetry, we have explicated one of his poetry in A Vision.
As a result, the poetical spirit or visions of Yeats in A Vision could be integratedin the numerical symbols of 1, 2, 3, 4, and their muliplications. The fundamentalnumbers seem to extend their symbolism into other multiplied numbers, especially 28phases of the moon. Number One in his poetry frequently symbolizes the Causal Body,Origin, and Divine Basis. Number 2 signifies the duality, the harmony of concord anddiscord, or various opposing elements. Three reveals the uniting/solving process ofconflicting duality. It insinuates the figurations of peace or harmony. Number 4 inducesthe peaceful world of the triangle-like Number 3 into the inner worlds of men. Yeatsused to devide the human animations into 4 faculties. Number 4 is the reflection of thedivision of the Number 2(duality). From the basic numbers, all the poetic combinationscan be implicated into the new, novel, personal symbols.
His cosmological symbols and numerology in A Vision can be closely related to theEastern world view and cosmological human nature. Especially, his poetic theory of“Unit of Being” doesn’t show the faculty of Number Zero, nothingness or stillness, orthe Eastern emptiness. It rather show the state of fullness, fullness of Western Intellect.To understand how much the numerological conceptions are resolved into hispoetry, we have explicated one of his poetry in A Vision.
Keywords :
Yeats 시의 동양적 象數비교: A Vision의 수적 상징
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