W.B. Yeats와 Anglo-Irish 문학의 전통 = W.B. Yeats and The Tradition of Anglo-Irish Literature

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is to survey the historical background of Anglo-Irish tradition in Irish literature, which was a major source of W.B. Yeats's inspiration and to consider Yeats in relation to Irish poets in English before him.
As for the study of Yeats, the exploration of Yeats's Irish background and the relation between Yeats and Ireland with particular reference to the Anglo-Irish tradition is badly needed.
When we mention Irish literature, we should notices the tradition of two Irelands--Gaelic Ireland and Anglo-Irish Ireland. A total understanding of Anglo-Irish literature delends on an accurate and sensitive knowledge of the Gaelic Irish literature through the rediscovery of the Gaelic past and present and the deliberate exploration of the Irish experience of place and people.
Irish Literary Revival(or Irish Literary Renaissance 1890∼1920) was to rediscover Gaelic tradition but the failure of Gaelic League to cultivate "most racial, most Gaelic, most Irish" urged by Douglas Hyde was due to not only the decline of Gaelic speaking people but also the chauvinistic and insensitive elements of Irish society. Then their cultural and intellectual awakening was more needed.
Through the seventeenth and eighteenth century Anglo-Irish literature written in English began to appear. As Yeats said, the eighteenth century was "one Irish century that escaped from darkness and confusion."
The first and most persistent and pervasive influence that Irish poetry had had on Anglo-Irish poetry was rhythm of Irish song and assonantal music of Irish verse. Another of the obvious ways a poem can be Irish is in its subject matter: myth, history, people or place and its image or mood from these things.
A few memorable poets in the period before Yeats--Egan O'Rahilly, william Drennan, Richard Millikin, James Clarence Mangan, Samuel Ferguson, Aubrey de Vere and Thomas Davis--had a voice of an Irish experience. Especially there is a certain correspondence between the work of Mangan and that of Yeats as a young man. There is the same dreaminess and romanticism.
Yeats decided very early on that his own subject matter was to be Irish and following the principle that all good literature must be popular he wrote poems with the word " ballad" in their titles with a deliberate national aim. He was conscious of the simple power of the ballad.
Yeats's myth was different from the provincialism or political rhetoric of his forebears. He realized that literature has to be universal in its appeal while firmly founded upon a love of locality. Finally he symbolized the superiority of Anglo-Irish ancestors with "tower".

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서 론
• Ⅱ. 두 개의 Ireland
• Ⅲ. Anglo-Irish 시인들
• Ⅳ. Yeats와 Anglo-Irish 문학
• Ⅴ. 결 론