ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.78 No. pp.255-274
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2025.78.255
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2025.78.255
The Influence of Tantra in William Butler Yeats’s Crazy Jane Serial Poems of Words for Music Perhaps
Abstract
W. B. Yeats creates a “new myth” through Crazy Jane based on Tantra. In this new myth, the ordinary woman Crazy Jane achieves divine union through sexual union with Jack, a day laborer. In this union, the woman meditates on the god Shiva within the man, and the man on the god Sakti within the woman, reaching a state of ecstasy. At this moment, the man becomes one with Śakti, and the woman with Śiva, attaining a state of liberation. This is a transformation of dualism into monism. The man and woman unite with Brahma, the essence of the Universe, Nature, and the supreme God. This divine union is reflected in the image of dance. As Jane watches the dancing lovers, she witnesses the spiritual energies generated by their sexual union spiraling upward from the mūlādhāra chakra to the sahasrāra chakra, where they ultimately merge with Brahma. Therefore, Yeats uses Crazy Jane as the persona of his new myth, singing the union with Brahma as a metaphor for the sexual union between a man and a woman.
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