“Among School Children”: Search for Unity of Being

• 발행기관: 한국예이츠학회
• 저자명: 신원경(Wonkyung Shin)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국 예이츠 저널』33권, 211~225쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.06.30

국문 초록

Since he edited William Blake’s poetry, Yeats had been deeply concerned with the questions of “contraries.” And Plato was also an important influence on his theory. Relying on Blake and Plato, Yeats had worked for a long time to make his own theory in his poetry and prose, and succeeded in the elaborate system as elucidated in his book, A Vision. “Among School Children” shows how Yeats has come to reach the ultimate reality, unity of being in the eighth and final stanza in it. Growing older, Yeats gets to contemplate life and death. Earlier in life, he has pursued the spiritual, but as he is older, approaching death, he is searching for something else, too. He realizes that we need both soul and body to overcome aging and death, and eventually, as evidenced in the dance and dancer metaphor of the poem, he is reaching the ultimate Reality through a unity of being－the harmonious union of body and soul. He realizes that “life is not a mere image.”

키워드

반대물의 상충 플라톤주의 불교 존재의 통일 리앨러티 conflict of opposites Platonism Buddhism unity of being Reality