ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.10 pp.63-80
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1999.10.63
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1999.10.63
The Mass Politics in W. B. Yeats and E. Pound
Abstract
Modernism is not a rejection of the mass culture but rather an effortto produce a mass culture, perhaps for the first time, to produce aculture distinctive to the twentieth century, which Le Bon called “the eraof the crowds.’ The conservatives who followed him, developed a differentideas of the relation between the aristocracy that built culture and themasses.
Yeats viewed the theatre as a potential means of mobilizing andnationalizing the masses, something he recognized any successfulnationalism in the age of mass politics must do. His wish to nationalizethe masses led him to cast the playwright and stage as magicians withthe power to transform the audience as Cathleen transforms Michael inCathleen Ni Houlihan.
Le Bon’s vision is very similar to Pound’s and Yeats’s: they all definedthe goal of social change and of their art as the producing of a deep wavefrom the unconscious. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is about acrowd. A wet, black bough is a restored cultural center that will holdtogether the chaotic small waves now agitating society.
Modernism was an effort to write based the unconscious mass.
Yeats viewed the theatre as a potential means of mobilizing andnationalizing the masses, something he recognized any successfulnationalism in the age of mass politics must do. His wish to nationalizethe masses led him to cast the playwright and stage as magicians withthe power to transform the audience as Cathleen transforms Michael inCathleen Ni Houlihan.
Le Bon’s vision is very similar to Pound’s and Yeats’s: they all definedthe goal of social change and of their art as the producing of a deep wavefrom the unconscious. Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is about acrowd. A wet, black bough is a restored cultural center that will holdtogether the chaotic small waves now agitating society.
Modernism was an effort to write based the unconscious mass.
Keywords :
W. B. Yeats와 E. Pound에 나타난 대중 정치*
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