The Aesthetics of Disappearance: Re-reading Yeats’s Variation on the Theme of Paul Virilio
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This essay intends to apply Paul Virilio’s view concerned with the disappearance of existence as human destiny to a few works of Yeats’s. On the road of human life, the aspects of disappearance diversely develop. “The Gyres” implicates the process of disappearance, which the poetic narrator resists, in which s/he yearns for the eternal disappearance in a fateful situation of “tragic joy.” And the poetic narrator in “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” complains of a fate of disappearance, dreaming of an “eternal return,” the Nietzschean term. In “Under Ben Bulben,” we can recognize the disappearance of divinity since the sacred mural Genesis was produced by the secular artist with a half-god and half-animal nature, so he is only in pursuit of “profane perfection.” Our alternative future facing disappearance as mortals will be to enjoy the synchronicity of time or the moment of Kairos rather than being indulged in the universality of time or the continuity of Chronos.
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This essay intends to apply Paul Virilio’s view concerned with the disappearance of existence as human destiny to a few works of Yeats’s. On the road of human life, the aspects of disappearance diversely develop. “The Gyres” implicates the process of disappearance, which the poetic narrator resists, in which s/he yearns for the eternal disappearance in a fateful situation of “tragic joy.” And the poetic narrator in “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” complains of a fate of disappearance, dreaming of an “eternal return,” the Nietzschean term. In “Under Ben Bulben,” we can recognize the disappearance of divinity since the sacred mural Genesis was produced by the secular artist with a half-god and half-animal nature, so he is only in pursuit of “profane perfection.” Our alternative future facing disappearance as mortals will be to enjoy the synchronicity of time or the moment of Kairos rather than being indulged in the universality of time or the continuity of Chronos.
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