ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.31 pp.227-249
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2009.31.227
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2009.31.227
Yeats and Renoir, and Impressionism
Abstract
The paper compares Yeats and Renoir. In his Autobiography, Yeats mentionsManet and Monet in passing, but by the time he received his Nobel Prize forliterature, he has formed a clear idea of French impressionism and knowspainters, such as Monet. Though Yeats has never touched on Renoir, he is verymuch like him, sharing the same poetics of art: the heavenly vision of the world,and puts it into practice in his works, such as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”which is the main focus of my study in this paper. Then I try to establish a linkwith Renoir. Like Yeats, he regards art as an expression of heavenly vision,turning his landscapes into Heaven on earth; his nudes into a unionizing of natureand man. It is the poetics of Unity of Being in Yeats's term. Renoir in his laterlife suffers from severe physical pain, being wheelchair-bound because of hisrheumatism. Despite his personal hardship, Renoir never wavers and aims totransform the worldly into the heavenly. His painting is, thus, a manifestation ofhis beautiful vision of the landscapes of the other world he will live in.
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