ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2007.27.31
The Supernatural Ecstasy in the “Supernatural Songs”
Abstract
In the East, Yeats found a propensity toward unity of being that wouldunderscore the essential unity of flesh and spirit so necessary to his thought. The“Supernatural Songs” thus brought together an Eastern amalgamation of Christianityand Asian religiosity, merging the supernatural-spiritual with the natural-physical.Yeats espoused tantric sex, a form of Kundalini, with its emphasis on self and thesexual act as the way to spiritual energy and fulfillment. The word Kundalini meanscoil, which Yeats reflects in the serpent imagery.
In conclusion, Yeats found an imaginative way whereby he was able to fuse thespiritual with the physical in the “Supernatural Songs”. This secular spiritualityallowed Yeats the sexual freedom he sought for. The intense moment of climax isthat conflagration in which all antinomies are resolved, time stands still, and naturalbonds with supernatural. His emphasis on unity of being is compatible with anEastern worldview, which merges all into a monistic unity. Indeed, poetry itself isin Yeats's mind an imaginative alchemy, the transmutation of life into art, a fusingof the spiritual with the material.
「초자연의 노래들」에 나타난 초자연적 무아경
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