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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.30 pp.187-213
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2008.30.187

Lack of Imagination: A Study on Later Poems of Stevens and Yeats

Chung Sung yeon

Abstract

This paper focuses on the problems of poor imagination presented in the laterpoems of Wallace Stevens and W. B. Yeats. Being older and being barren of ideas,both poets feel the bitter anguish about their poetry writing. In his later poem, “OfMere Being,” Stevens continues his endeavor to picture the ‘abstract’ or true realitybut fails to accomplish “a supreme fiction” that is his own ultimate form of poetry.Yeats also seriously doubts of his own capabilities and laments the lack of themeas well as of subject matter in “The Circus Animals’ Desertion.” Although theimagination is sterile, however, the desire itself does not wither away totally. Theelderly Stevens simply was not blessed with creative imagination in his later years.Hence, only the “mere” reality repetitively and gallantly appears in “Of MereBeing” and other later works. Yeats also does not give up but undertakes to writesignificant poems with integrity.
Keywords : Wallace Stevens,W. B. Yeats,later poems,“Of Mere Being”,“The Circus Animals’ Desertion”,월러스 스티븐스,예이츠,후기 시,「단순한 존재에 관하여」,「곡마단 동물의 탈주」

상상력의 빈곤: 스티븐스와 예이츠의 후기 시 연구

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