ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.11 pp.13-46
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1999.11.13
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1999.11.13
Yeats and Maud Gonne
Abstract
Based on the assumption that Maud Gonne was one of the most importantpersons in Yeats’s life and art, this paper is an attempt to understand the“labyrinthine” nature of their complex relationship. However, the present writer is nottrying to dig into their lives for the specific facts which might be used to supporthis argument; rather, he is trying to read some of Yeats’s poems in such a way toilluminate his relation to Gonne. That is, through the close reading of related poems,the present writer examines how Gonne is thematically and formally represented inYeats’s poems, how the representations change through the years of his life, and howthey are related to other aspects of his poetry.
The first introductory part of this paper very briefly surveys the life of Gonne,how her relationship with Yeats began and continued, and how she influenced himin writing his poems. Although it is true that she brought into his life “anoverpowering tumult,” it is also true that between fifty and sixty of Yeats’s poemswere created in the wake of their relationship.
The main part of the paper analyzes Yeats’s poems chosen from his early,middle and late period of life. Some poems, such as “The Sorrow of Love,” “HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” “Adam’s Curse,” “No Second Troy,” “The ColdHeaven,” “A Prayer for my Daughter,” “Among School Children” are more closelyand thoroughly read than others. In reading the poems, this paper tries to show howthe poet’s representations of Gonne in the poems reveal not only the actual situationsof their relationship at the moment of their writing but also the aesthetic andpolitical ideologies of the poet himself at that moment.
The first introductory part of this paper very briefly surveys the life of Gonne,how her relationship with Yeats began and continued, and how she influenced himin writing his poems. Although it is true that she brought into his life “anoverpowering tumult,” it is also true that between fifty and sixty of Yeats’s poemswere created in the wake of their relationship.
The main part of the paper analyzes Yeats’s poems chosen from his early,middle and late period of life. Some poems, such as “The Sorrow of Love,” “HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” “Adam’s Curse,” “No Second Troy,” “The ColdHeaven,” “A Prayer for my Daughter,” “Among School Children” are more closelyand thoroughly read than others. In reading the poems, this paper tries to show howthe poet’s representations of Gonne in the poems reveal not only the actual situationsof their relationship at the moment of their writing but also the aesthetic andpolitical ideologies of the poet himself at that moment.
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