ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.7 pp.107-130
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1997.7.107
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1997.7.107
A Study of Byron’s Works
Abstract
This paper aims to survey in brief Byron and his characteristicfeatures by scrutinizing “Don Juan,” his masterpiece which causes him tobe more generally esteemed for the satirical realism.
It is true that his name has become a symbol for the deepest romanticmelancholy on the one hand and for the aspirations of political liberalismon the other.
Byron himself lived a life of freedom, violence, dissipation as a greatdemonstrator of his own thoughts, while trying to show the Europeandiscontents and hopes of that time.
In “Don Juan” especially he was concerned with the same disparitybetween the real and the ideal, but in the main he shows it in its comic,or at least sardonic, aspects.
Finally, this paper suggests the possibility of linking Byron, whostands in contrast to Shelley, to W.B. Yeats. It seems that there are manyparallels between the two poets. Like Byron, the later Yeats stronglydespises the hypocritical aspects of politics, religion, and moral.Throughout his life, Yeats was deeply involved with mysticism, or Orientalphilosophy. And also, though Byron and Yeats are different in composingpoems - Byron rarely corrects what he has written down while Yeatshardly leaves what he wrote uncorrected, as Yeats was a kind ofperfectionist poet - the poems, as final products, by both poets do notseem very different. Both of their poetry flow like water.
It is true that his name has become a symbol for the deepest romanticmelancholy on the one hand and for the aspirations of political liberalismon the other.
Byron himself lived a life of freedom, violence, dissipation as a greatdemonstrator of his own thoughts, while trying to show the Europeandiscontents and hopes of that time.
In “Don Juan” especially he was concerned with the same disparitybetween the real and the ideal, but in the main he shows it in its comic,or at least sardonic, aspects.
Finally, this paper suggests the possibility of linking Byron, whostands in contrast to Shelley, to W.B. Yeats. It seems that there are manyparallels between the two poets. Like Byron, the later Yeats stronglydespises the hypocritical aspects of politics, religion, and moral.Throughout his life, Yeats was deeply involved with mysticism, or Orientalphilosophy. And also, though Byron and Yeats are different in composingpoems - Byron rarely corrects what he has written down while Yeatshardly leaves what he wrote uncorrected, as Yeats was a kind ofperfectionist poet - the poems, as final products, by both poets do notseem very different. Both of their poetry flow like water.
Keywords :
Byron의 작품 연구* -“Don Juan”을 중심으로; Byron과 Yeats의 비교-
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