ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.7 pp.199-217
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1997.7.199
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1997.7.199
Yeats and Shelley -- Rose and Intellectual Beauty
Abstract
A new movement, a desire for a new world, emerged all over Europewhen the French Revolution broke out in 1789. In England which hadsuffered from structural contradictions, such as suppression of socialsystem, political conservatism, and excessively rationalism, the intellectualsregarded this movement as the wave of freedom and hope, and expectedimpetuously a new world to come soon. With a response to this new spiritmany writers had expressed their freedom and ideal in poems. Also,Shelley(1792-1822) participated actively in the wave of freedom. Especially,in “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1816) he describes very much a free andideal world. In the poem, he describes his freedom and ideal as“intellectual beauty.”
In the late 19th century, Ireland which had wanted ardentlyindependence from England fell into political disorder. Yeats (1865-1939)wanted his country to become an ideal society, and so began to lead theIreland’s Renaissance. He was influenced by Romanticism andPre-Raphaelitism, and seemed to tend to describe an ideal land with suchmotifs as Irish myths, legends and symbols like rose, which represents hisideal land.
Both Shelley and Yeats tried to describe their ideal world in theirpoems. In “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” Shelley describes his ideal worldas the world filled with illusory lights of intellectual beauty, whereas Yeatsdescribes his world as a world of “eternal beauty” in “To the Rose uponthe Rood of Time”. Thus, in this paper, I intend to compare Shelley’sintellectual beauty with Yeats’s eternal beauty and the relationship of apoet to actuality and to God in their poems.
In the late 19th century, Ireland which had wanted ardentlyindependence from England fell into political disorder. Yeats (1865-1939)wanted his country to become an ideal society, and so began to lead theIreland’s Renaissance. He was influenced by Romanticism andPre-Raphaelitism, and seemed to tend to describe an ideal land with suchmotifs as Irish myths, legends and symbols like rose, which represents hisideal land.
Both Shelley and Yeats tried to describe their ideal world in theirpoems. In “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” Shelley describes his ideal worldas the world filled with illusory lights of intellectual beauty, whereas Yeatsdescribes his world as a world of “eternal beauty” in “To the Rose uponthe Rood of Time”. Thus, in this paper, I intend to compare Shelley’sintellectual beauty with Yeats’s eternal beauty and the relationship of apoet to actuality and to God in their poems.
Keywords :
Yeats 와 Shelley: Rose 와 Intellectual Beauty
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