W. B. Yeats's Occult Poetics: The 'Wisdom of the Daemonic Image'

• 발행기관: 한국예이츠학회
• 저자명: 김달용(Dal-Yong Kim)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국 예이츠 저널』30권, 215~244쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

국문 초록

Yeats’s studies of ancient myths, legends and occult tradition form a part of his artistic enterprise to quest for the occult wisdom and reaffirm the power of occult imagination. His work is so deeply immersed in the supernatural that it intends to regenerate the modern world by reopening ancient spiritual wellsprings and reviving primal religious sensibilities. His interest in occultism did most to create occult images and symbols as signs of imaginative salvation. Yeats’s mystical lore helped him ascertain the spiritual reality within human consciousness and use magical symbols as a means of calling up visions. Art for Yeats is about the “wisdom of the daemonic image” which holds for a moment of illumination the warring opposites of flesh and soul. Yeats created occult images of spiritual intensity to convey the quality of the Unity of Being out of the increasingly scientific and secular culture of the modern age. His occult images create the rich texture of his poetry that examines the spiritual situation of modern humanity.

키워드

신비주의 비교적인 이미지 비교적인 상상력 고대의 신화 드루이드 시인 Occultism Esoteric images Occult imagination Ancient myths Druidic poet