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On the Triple Aspects of the Self in Yeats’s Poetic Drama

Author: KuangPing
Tutor: LiLanSheng
School: Central South University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Yeats Drama Individual self Anti- self- National self-
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2007
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Abstract

William Butler Yeats presents a self-themed drama \levels poetic interpretation. Keyword \Article from three levels, namely the individual self and anti-self, the national self, to reveal the meaning behind self-play in the Yeats poem. The paper is divided into four chapters. The first chapter discusses the significance of self in three levels above poetry of Yeats play. Yeats seems the human soul contains two aspects: individual self-confrontation with anti-self (self, ego, and he and I). Individual self equivalent of Freud's self, the most original personality of the nature of the state. Anti-self is the antithesis of all emotion from its inherent nature, is the re-creation of the emotional. Individual self only to find and consciously mimic the anti-self, personality be possible to evolve. National self refers to the collective cultural self. National, racial or individual can be national self-tolerance, the formation of each member of the soul of the entire nation of the truth, and the cultural essence of the kernel. The second chapter discusses the individual self in Yeats's poetic drama poetic expression. The exchange of the individual self and the wise, the individual self and the soul of the dialogue, and the patron saint of the opposition coordination, are poets personality personality appeared. The third chapter discusses the anti-self and its use in verse drama. Individual self and anti-self-interaction and mutual conflicts, the formation of the unity of opposites, each other \The fourth chapter to discuss ethnic self in the specific historical and cultural context. Yeats only find inherent in the various opposites that national and individual, and with the integration and unification, in order to achieve the perfection of human civilization and cultural integration in Ireland. In Yeats seems such a perfect symbol of cultural integration reflected in the pen Byzantine and Renaissance. Yeats convinced: the drama should be the performance of the individual self, the anti-self and the organic unity of the national self. Only through this unity, individuality poetry to shape the soul of the nation, to build the cultural identity of the ethnic characteristics. It is the poet immortal poetic drama presented to us the most aesthetic implication poetics of thinking.

On the Triple Aspects of the Self in Yeats’s Poetic Drama

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