존재의 통합: W. B. 예이츠 후기 시와 조각 예술

The Unity of Being: W. B. Yeats’s Later Poems and Sculpture

William Butler Yeats’s later poems are more significant than generally appreciated in that they involve two different forms of art, sculpture and poetry. Sculpture, in particular, attracted Yeats the most because he felt it represented the universal Self integrated in the Great Memory as well as the Anima Mundi. Having Michael Angelo’s Leda statues in mind, he explored a creative way to carve the muscular beauty and the passionate spirit of the Irish people in his poetry. Speculating on the unity of Being in tandem with the unity of a sculpture’s formative power and a poet’s imaginative power, Yeats could finally overcome the signs of his bodily decrepitude and sublimate his anxiousness into a creative driving force to remake his self in the universal Self of Ireland.