블레이크와 예이츠의 예술도시

The Cities of Art of W. Blake and W. B. Yeats: Golgonooza and Byzantium

This study aims to compare W. Blake and W. B. Yeats through their cities of art, Gogonooza and Byzantium. Blake’s poetic self, Los’ project is to construct his city of art, Golgnooza, in the space of London. The city of art is not identified with a Utopian city, New Jerusalem. Los’ building of Golgonooza symbolizes writing a poem by a poet-prophet. For Blake, art (poem) is a passageway to New Jerusalem which means the apocalyptic moment of eternity through imagnation. Yeats, Blake’s disciple, also pursues a holy city of art, Byzantium, where “religious, aesthetic and practical life are one.” Yeat’s poetic self, Daimon, tries to accomplish ‘Unity of Being’ through his art in Byzantium. Yeats’ efforts to an ultimate reconciliation of the contrary states of human experiences finally reach to the awareness of “tragic joy.” Yeats was a romantic realist poet, while Blake a pure romantic.