Insight into the Meaning of Life through Yeats’s Vision on ‘The End of the Cycle’
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This paper examines human life in Yeats’s Vision. ‘The End of Cycle’ shows that human life bridges past and present time to future. According to Yeats, past consists of what we see, present is made of images, and future is spatialzed time achieving Unity of Being. Yeats does not care about the meaning of life. However, “choice” makes man get prepared to see and perceive. Human life forms the world by connecting three different time spectra. Thus, life has a meaning in itself.
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This paper examines human life in Yeats’s Vision. ‘The End of Cycle’ shows that human life bridges past and present time to future. According to Yeats, past consists of what we see, present is made of images, and future is spatialzed time achieving Unity of Being. Yeats does not care about the meaning of life. However, “choice” makes man get prepared to see and perceive. Human life forms the world by connecting three different time spectra. Thus, life has a meaning in itself.
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