ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.29 pp.195-207
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2008.29.195
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2008.29.195
Iseult Gonne, Symbol of Eternal Beauty
Abstract
The paper searches and analyzes the image of Iseult Gonne in some of Yeats'spoems. It is not difficult to locate Iseut's images in most of the poems that containher image, except the poem, "Long-legged Fly." In this poem the young girl atpuberty practicing a tinker shuffle picked up on a street is said to be Maud Gonne,as definitely noted by Jeffares. But this paper claims that she is Iseult Gonne onthe basis of Yeats's recording what he has witnessed, the young girl barefootdancing and singing, thinking that nobody is looking at the edge of the water andsand at Normandy.
And one of the important poems that immortalizes Iseult is "To a ChildDancing in the Wind," singing what's permanent in the present Iseult, against thepassing of life and time. This concern deeply permeates most of Yeats's Iseultpoems, as one of them being "Two Years Later" and another is a poem, "WhyShould Not Old Men Be Mad?" (written in 1936, three years before he died in1939) in which the poet calls Iseult's husband a dunce, because Yeats loves andpities Iseult so much. To Yeats and in his poems, Iseult Gonne symbolizes eternalbeauty or something that should remain for good.
Not only that, but also the most beautiful and strongest of Iseult Gonne poemsis "Owen Aherne and his Dancers" written immediately after Yeats's marriage toGeorgie, with two sections, once the first being called "The Lover Speaks" and thesecond "The Heart Replies." As the image of dance indicates, it is about IseultGonne, with Yeats in disguise. It signals a new beginning for Yeats in relation tohis poetry and to his life-long love Iseult.
And one of the important poems that immortalizes Iseult is "To a ChildDancing in the Wind," singing what's permanent in the present Iseult, against thepassing of life and time. This concern deeply permeates most of Yeats's Iseultpoems, as one of them being "Two Years Later" and another is a poem, "WhyShould Not Old Men Be Mad?" (written in 1936, three years before he died in1939) in which the poet calls Iseult's husband a dunce, because Yeats loves andpities Iseult so much. To Yeats and in his poems, Iseult Gonne symbolizes eternalbeauty or something that should remain for good.
Not only that, but also the most beautiful and strongest of Iseult Gonne poemsis "Owen Aherne and his Dancers" written immediately after Yeats's marriage toGeorgie, with two sections, once the first being called "The Lover Speaks" and thesecond "The Heart Replies." As the image of dance indicates, it is about IseultGonne, with Yeats in disguise. It signals a new beginning for Yeats in relation tohis poetry and to his life-long love Iseult.
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