ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1998.9.201
The Relation between Blake and Yeats from the Standpoint of Poetic Influence
Abstract
According to Yeats, Blake failed to eliminate himself properly from hispoems. Because he was “a man without a mask,” he could not efface hisown presence from his work. In other words, he could not become animpersonal medium for the voices out of the spiritual world. To outwitBlake and, in effect, to stake out his own spiritual territory, Yeats rejectsnot only Blake but also, in a sense, that part of himself which he hascreated in the mythic image of Blake. As the result of it he can subvertBlake. Now for Yeats, a “master” is not someone he emulates. Or he doesnot embody the way one has hoped to embody the voice of the ImmortalBlake; rather, a “master” was his opposite or contrary, someone againstwhom he struggles to define himself. Even after “The Symbolism of Poetry”Yeats was not prepared to look like Blake, “a man without a mask.”
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