위로받는 예이츠 - 예이츠와 중산계급: “사실의 횡포성” 수용 과정

• 영문명: Yeats ComfortedYeats and the Middle Class: the Process of Accepting “the Despotism of Fact”
• 발행기관: 한국예이츠학회
• 저자명: 정영희(Young-Hee Jung)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국 예이츠 저널』24권, 187~212쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.30

국문 초록

This paper attempts to analyze and prove Yeats' gradual acceptance of the middle class and the people's democracy of South Ireland, just liberated from England. He always struggled against the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie and their practical and political nationalism during his lifetime for realizing his ideal vision of Ireland embodying the “Unity of Being”; he dreamed to establish a culturally aristocratic nation keeping order not by forced law and power but by imagination and desire of self-transcendence, while South Ireland pursued practical interests and became a theocracy. After burning his “rage and lust” against the mass culture of post-colonial Catholic Ireland, Yeats began to admit Catholic Ireland as it was with the perspective of the poetic transcendence, “tragic joy.” His recognition of the Catholic middle class at the end of his life is considered for attaining the sense of unity with Irish people, which was essential to his vision of nation. This paper traces his changing attitudes toward the middle class, especially focusing on such poems as “The Municipal Gallery Revisited,” “The Statues,” “Circus Animal's Desertion,” and “Cuchulain Comforted.”

키워드

예이츠 아일랜드 민족주의 가톨릭 중산계급 중산계급 영국계 아일랜드인 비극적 환희 Yeats Irish Nationalism Catholic Middle class middle class Anglo Irish tragic joy