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W.B.Yeats:’The Tower’ – Analysis
Yeats seminar paper There have been numerous critical approaches to Yeats’s poetry, influenced by his political, aesthetical, and personal views. Scholars have thoroughly examined the context and philosophy of his work, and often left the text, the body of poetry untouched (Cullingford pp 9). Nevertheless, a reader faced with a task of analysis, feels the urge of finding out about Yeats’s particular images and symbols, in order to be able to grasp the intention and meaning of his poetry. The symbolist poet embodied a number of images drawn from different sources, threw a different light at them or – at least partly - transformed their meanings according to his poetical needs. In his Essays and Introductions, Yeats defines the importance of symbols, thus underlining his own preference for them. According to him, inherent and arbitrary symbols both evoke the Great Memory, the collective unconscious of the race, and ’associate them with certain events and moods and persons’ (Yeats pp 26), a theory later elaborated on by Jungian psychology, based on scientific research. Yeats’s symbols substitute concepts (Brooks pp 65), a fact that he was both accused of and praised for. Brooks also states that ’instead of breaking science and poetry completely apart, (he) has preferred to reunite these elements [...]fused in a religion’, thus creating an own personal myth (pp 65). Yeats himself revealed a youth memory, thinking ’Hammer your thoughts into unity’(pp 37) which he aimed to achieve by getting at a ’single conviction’. By exchanging concepts for symbols, the clarity yet complexity of ideas appear in the poems in a way that reflect the poet’s esoterical and mystical ideas. This unity reveals itself in the recurring images and circulating themes throughout his poetry. When he wrote about imitation of art in a letter to his father, he said ’ it often uses the outer world as a symbolism to express subjective moods. The grea... Please login to view comments from other users.
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