예이츠(W.B. Yeats)의 신화적 상징 = W.B. Yeats's Mythlogical Symbols

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

W.B. Yeats, one of the greatest artists in the twentieth century, had taken interest in myths from youth. The interest in myths not only enriched Yeats´s life and inspired many of his works. Early in his career, Yeats was concerned with Irish myths, popular traditions and legends with a direct view to poetic practice. Yeats gradually moved on from the world of Irish myths and then he was to make up new myths for himself. He had studied Greek philosophy, theosophy, kabbalism, occultism and modern philosophy. Besides he had acquired the private symbols of P.B. Shelley and W. Blake. In the long run Yeats organized systematically the ideas and theories which he had learned from various sources in A Vision, a personal mythology. A Vision, had a tremendous influence on Yeats´s poetry and plays, liberating his speculative imagination.
In his early poetry, Yeats used natural objects as a symbol, especially roses and trees. In "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time," the rose means not only a mundane flower but a hidden reality and eternal beauty as well. It suggests that all beings take antinomies in themselves. The tree of life and the tree knowledge in "The Two Trees" are the images of duality in human personality. The world in conceived as opposition and contradiction, and the human in dual in nature. This dualistic conflict of consciousness has become a basic point of Yeat´s mythological imagination.
Yeats set up the ´Mask´ to express the conflict of consciousness with a dramatic term. A man desires to be What he in not. The ´Mask´ is what the individual is not and wishes th become. ´Mask´is a symbol of our buried self. renewed self, or anti-self, that is, of a certain idealized form. ´Mask´ is the image of what we dream of becoming or that other self to which we give our reverence. The tree in "Two Trees" and the ´Mask´. signifing dualism, develop into gyres in A Vision.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 초기의 신화적 상징
• Ⅲ. 중기의 시화적 상징 ´Mask´
• Ⅳ. 결 론
• □ 참고문헌