ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2011.35.231
Old Age and Art in Yeats*
Abstract
In “High Talk,” Yeats resorts to the determination of the artist in a degenerateworld. Using a circus metaphor, he demands the artist put on high stilts so he maycatch the eye of the audience. He needs the stilts, now being incapable of thebrilliant fantasy of past youth. The poet is Malachi Stilt-Jack, the maker ofmetaphors in art, but the walker upon stilts, though an eye-catching figure, is anabsurd posturing creature in his “timber-toes.” The image of “its rag and bone” in“An Acre of Grass” is connected to the image of “old bones, old rags” in “TheCircus Animals’ Desertion.” It is a recurrent theme of old age in Last Poems.Much of what has been noble and great is gone; what remains is raging of theflesh. Only memories of the past remain to the old man, physically exhausted. “AnAcre of Grass” looks back on the major poetic themes in Yeats’s later life.
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