ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.7 pp.81-105
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1997.7.81
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.1997.7.81
Yeats and Shelley
Abstract
The aim of this study is to analyze Yeats’s first essay on Shelley, “ThePhilosophy of Shelley’s Poetry” and Shelley’s impact on Yeats. The essaywas divided into two sections, “His Ruling Ideas” and “His RulingSymbols.”
In “His Ruling Ideas,” Yeats pays his attention to Shelley’s IntellectualBeauty which is the perception of beauty in thought and things. He beganto write three early works on the search for love - The Seeker, The Islandof Statues, and Mosada. In the nineties, particularly in The Rose poems,his study of Shelley impelled him toward an Intellectual vision of life inwhich he rejected the flawed world for an ideal vision of IntellectualBeauty. Later Yeats was to regret finding only Intellectual Beauty . Hethen reversed Shelley’s quest, and searched not to find the ideal, but torediscover the actual. But when Yeats wrote the essay, he could notrealize Shelley’s full gifts as a poet.
In “His Ruling Symbols,” Yeats writes about the symbols of Shelley’scave, river, tower, the Morning and Evening star, and Sun and Moon.
The symbols of Shelley occur together and represent the ideal worldwhich Yeats also wanted to achieve in the present world. In “The Gyres,”“Under Ben Bulben,” “The Phases of the Moon,” “The Tower,” “Blood andthe Moon,” and “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” have verbal echoes of, orallusions to the Shelleyan passages that Yeats quotes.
The relation between Shelley and Yeats deepens our appreciation ofYeats’ work. “Shelley,” he wrote, “shaped my life.”
In “His Ruling Ideas,” Yeats pays his attention to Shelley’s IntellectualBeauty which is the perception of beauty in thought and things. He beganto write three early works on the search for love - The Seeker, The Islandof Statues, and Mosada. In the nineties, particularly in The Rose poems,his study of Shelley impelled him toward an Intellectual vision of life inwhich he rejected the flawed world for an ideal vision of IntellectualBeauty. Later Yeats was to regret finding only Intellectual Beauty . Hethen reversed Shelley’s quest, and searched not to find the ideal, but torediscover the actual. But when Yeats wrote the essay, he could notrealize Shelley’s full gifts as a poet.
In “His Ruling Symbols,” Yeats writes about the symbols of Shelley’scave, river, tower, the Morning and Evening star, and Sun and Moon.
The symbols of Shelley occur together and represent the ideal worldwhich Yeats also wanted to achieve in the present world. In “The Gyres,”“Under Ben Bulben,” “The Phases of the Moon,” “The Tower,” “Blood andthe Moon,” and “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” have verbal echoes of, orallusions to the Shelleyan passages that Yeats quotes.
The relation between Shelley and Yeats deepens our appreciation ofYeats’ work. “Shelley,” he wrote, “shaped my life.”
Keywords :
Yeats와 Shelley
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