W.B.Yeats의 後期時 硏究

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The present writer divided Yeats's poetic career into three periods : early, transition, and late periods. The transion period covers the period during which Yeats published In the Seven Woods (1903), The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910), and Responsibilities (1914). This is also the period when he actively participated in "theater business" for Irish Literary Revival.
The basic pattern of Yeats's poetry is considered in this paper to be the juxtaposition
of antithetical pairs such as face and mask, natural an supernatural, material and
spiritual. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the tension between the
opposites gains momentum, or grows in intensity in his late period, that is, after the
transition period.
In Part One of this paper, the poetic tendencies of Yeats's early and transition periods
are schematically surveyed.
In Part Two, some of his late poems are examined in view of the conflicts or
reconciliation of antithetical pairs.
"What is the ultimate destination of Yeats's aesthetic quest?" is the question to be
dealt with in the conclusive part of this paper.