ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
Yeats’s Conversation with the Romantic Poets in “Among School Children”
Hyeuk Kyu Joo
Abstract
This is a paper that shows how poetic dialogue plays upon poems between threedifferent authors, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and WilliamWordsworth. Many of Yeats' poems broach a gentle issue of how they respond totheir poetic precursors. "Among School Children" can be read as an updated versionof a Romantic "conversation" poem. Coleridge applied the term "conversationalpoem" to "The Nightingale," one of twenty-tree poems in Lyrical Ballads of 1798.Earlier than this, a phrase Sermoni propriora ("suitable for conversation") appears inhis "Reflections, On Having Left a Place of Retirement." These two poemsdemonstrate Coleridge's conscious efforts at experimenting with conversational speechas a legitimate poetic language. Coleridge's conversational mode is in full bloom insuch remarkable poems as "The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" and "Frost atMidnight," the latter a masterful lyric that paves ways for Wordsworth's "TinternAbbey" in its compositional mode and structure. The traffic between the twoRomantic authors and "Among School Children" is obvious--a noticeable parallelismis developed in terms of diction, figures, thematic structure, and rhetorical devices.Yeats's "Among School Children" serves as a poetic testimony to the on-goinglyrical dialogue that explores possible links between the workings of different poeticminds and that creates remarkable echoing effects.
Keywords :
conversation,
echo,
intertextuality,
mirror image,
Romantic lyrics,
Among School Children,
Tintern Abbey,
Frost at Midnight,
대화,
메아리,
상호연관성,
거울이미지,
낭만주의 서정시,
학동들 사이에서,
틴턴사원,
한밤의 서리
「학동들 사이에서」에서 나타난 예이츠와 낭만주의 시인들과의 대화
주혁규
부산대
초록