W. B. Yeats의 명상적 지혜에 대한 매혹 : Crossways 시집을 중심으로 = The Background of W. B. Yeats' Meditative Poetry

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This paper is an attempt to discuss about the lure of meditative wisdom. In his youth he had suffered greatly from the need and impossibility of unifying his disparate passionate interests. He believed in a form of philosophy, a type of nationalism, and a mode of literature. The beliefs were all real and guiding, but each seemed to lead in a different direction. He could establish on unifying view that would allow all his interests free. But this style can be constructed as a logical outgrowth of the relation between his three apparently contradictory interests and highly self conscious attempt to integrate them. This style also means not only imagery, idiom, and syntax but tradition, attitude, and subject matter. Hence belief and legend may be ingredients in forming a style.
In Yeats' life his problems were worked out in a state of indecision, confusion, fumbling, and despair, with occasional grasp of his problems and more frequent loss of hold. He could not proceed by logical deduction and inference from already formalized and evaluated experience, and he could write with some show of confidence that his style had become his very self. This style he created slowly, very slowly, through a scrupulous choice of subject matter and a continual refinement and elaboration of technique.