Many of W.B. Yeats' s poems are inspired and influenced by Maud Gonne, as his love of the life, whose images have been changing from hi"sRose"with beauty and untouchability to"Helen"with destru...Many of W.B. Yeats' s poems are inspired and influenced by Maud Gonne, as his love of the life, whose images have been changing from hi"sRose"with beauty and untouchability to"Helen"with destructive power and"Phoenix"with spiritual eternity during different Irish historical and social backgrounds. By analyzing three selected poems, this paper reveals that Yeats' s creating of the images of Maud Gonne is not single but multiple, which are not only concerned with the eulogy of her beauty but also her powerful mind and faithful dedication towards Irish national independence and liberation.展开更多
When You Are Old is a famous poem written by Yeats to his infatuation Maud Gonne. The paper analyzes the poem in the following aspects: the conflicting elements, rhythm, the opposition and unity of form and content in...When You Are Old is a famous poem written by Yeats to his infatuation Maud Gonne. The paper analyzes the poem in the following aspects: the conflicting elements, rhythm, the opposition and unity of form and content in the text to reveal the theme thoroughly: to be beyond sorrow, then to be eternal in love and life.展开更多
William Butler Yeats is well known for his skills in poetry as symbolism and mysticism which bring blocks for readers to get the intensions of his poems while which offer more larger space for students to interpret or...William Butler Yeats is well known for his skills in poetry as symbolism and mysticism which bring blocks for readers to get the intensions of his poems while which offer more larger space for students to interpret or read them. This paper, by means of a comparative reading of Yeats' two lyrics, When you are old and The Song of Wandering Aengus, and in the perspective of archetype and image of Maud Gonne, poet's apple-like lover, aims to rediscover the two poems and to get a better understanding of them in order to catch the poet's thinking on love.展开更多
When analyzing the theme of"Leda and the Swan"written by William Butler Yeats, some scholar has concluded that the poem expresses Yeats's sexual desire for Maud Gonne and it is a work filled with an imag...When analyzing the theme of"Leda and the Swan"written by William Butler Yeats, some scholar has concluded that the poem expresses Yeats's sexual desire for Maud Gonne and it is a work filled with an imagination of his rape of her. However, this argument can be proved to be false from five respects:the different periods of Yeats's Poems;Yeats's life experience;the form of the poem;the tone of the poem;and its historical situation and Yeats's attitude toward the situation. Hence a poem should be inter-preted by returning to the text and should not be over-interpreted without taking into account its situation and related factors .展开更多
文摘Many of W.B. Yeats' s poems are inspired and influenced by Maud Gonne, as his love of the life, whose images have been changing from hi"sRose"with beauty and untouchability to"Helen"with destructive power and"Phoenix"with spiritual eternity during different Irish historical and social backgrounds. By analyzing three selected poems, this paper reveals that Yeats' s creating of the images of Maud Gonne is not single but multiple, which are not only concerned with the eulogy of her beauty but also her powerful mind and faithful dedication towards Irish national independence and liberation.
文摘When You Are Old is a famous poem written by Yeats to his infatuation Maud Gonne. The paper analyzes the poem in the following aspects: the conflicting elements, rhythm, the opposition and unity of form and content in the text to reveal the theme thoroughly: to be beyond sorrow, then to be eternal in love and life.
文摘William Butler Yeats is well known for his skills in poetry as symbolism and mysticism which bring blocks for readers to get the intensions of his poems while which offer more larger space for students to interpret or read them. This paper, by means of a comparative reading of Yeats' two lyrics, When you are old and The Song of Wandering Aengus, and in the perspective of archetype and image of Maud Gonne, poet's apple-like lover, aims to rediscover the two poems and to get a better understanding of them in order to catch the poet's thinking on love.
文摘When analyzing the theme of"Leda and the Swan"written by William Butler Yeats, some scholar has concluded that the poem expresses Yeats's sexual desire for Maud Gonne and it is a work filled with an imagination of his rape of her. However, this argument can be proved to be false from five respects:the different periods of Yeats's Poems;Yeats's life experience;the form of the poem;the tone of the poem;and its historical situation and Yeats's attitude toward the situation. Hence a poem should be inter-preted by returning to the text and should not be over-interpreted without taking into account its situation and related factors .
