“The Tower”: Enlightenment that Transcends Life and Death
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The Norman tower where Yeats lived provided him with a great symbol in his poetry, and his poem “The Tower” represents the whole corpus of the poems in the volume, The Tower. This paper aims to read and analyse “The Tower” minutely, to show that it is the crystalization of Yeats’s poetics and philosophy. It also studies what the tower means to the poet and what he realizes from it. Unlike the speakers in “Among School Children” or “Sailing to Byzantium,” the speaker in “The Tower” neither escapes from reality nor reaches a momentary realization of reality. Seeing this world as a “Translunar Paradise” where man is born, lives, dies, and is born again in an eternal cycle. Yeats finally reaches an enlightenment and transcends life and death: a new realization.
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The Norman tower where Yeats lived provided him with a great symbol in his poetry, and his poem “The Tower” represents the whole corpus of the poems in the volume, The Tower. This paper aims to read and analyse “The Tower” minutely, to show that it is the crystalization of Yeats’s poetics and philosophy. It also studies what the tower means to the poet and what he realizes from it. Unlike the speakers in “Among School Children” or “Sailing to Byzantium,” the speaker in “The Tower” neither escapes from reality nor reaches a momentary realization of reality. Seeing this world as a “Translunar Paradise” where man is born, lives, dies, and is born again in an eternal cycle. Yeats finally reaches an enlightenment and transcends life and death: a new realization.
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