Yeats 시에 나타난 『비전』과 역사관

Abstract

This study amis to examine the effects of A Vision and historical view and how the work is related in W. B. Yeats’ poetry. In his early poetry, Yeats’ is searching for an ideal world. However in his middle period he turned from the ideal world to the real world through the use of dualism, and the conflicts of opposites. He needed a system of thought which was both logical and boundless imagination and philosophy. In A Vision which was written in 1925, Yeats said “I wished for a system of thought that would leave my imagination free to create as it chose and yet make all it created, or could create, part of the one history, and that the soul’s.” In The Phases of the Moon, Leda and the Swan, the Second Coming Yeats represented history as rotating through birth, growth, and decline in cycle of around 2000 years. I contend that through his A Vision and his historical view he provides strength to a system of thought and perpetual symbols.