ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2001.16.35
The Frame of Antinomies and Oppositions in Yeats’s “Meditations in Time of Civil War”
Abstract
Yeats’s later lyric mode is connected, in a very complex manner, with thecontradictions and conflicts which arise from what Michel Foucault calls “the absolutepower of life and death” and “the life-administering power”. He believed that if thepolitical power and the family authority were to be maintained in modern Ireland, he aspoet should embody the ancient forms of power in the aesthetic domain. Such idealeads him to enact in his own works the oral tradition of ancient poetry. He thinksthat, leaning on the model of ancient magical arts, modern lyric poet could embody theabsolute power of death in his poetry. The literary mode which enacts such power andauthority can function as one of the main agents that break the comedic power ofmodern individualism.
Yeats’s idea of absolute power and authority is, however, in constant contradictionwith the life-administering power of modern society. Therefore, despite the poet’s strongdesire to enact the tragic authority of ancient bard, the poetic space of “Meditations inTime of Civil War” remains the complex site of contradictions and conflicts betweenthe residual forms of Anglo-Irish traditional culture and the dominant cultural forms ofmodern individualism. It is a disruptive space in which what Fredric Jameson calls the “reversibility” and “disjunction” of modern literary text are embodied in thematic, figuraland formal levels.
예이츠:「내전기의 사색」의 모순대립 구도
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