Age Trouble: A Yeatsian Journey of Aging in “Sailing to Byzantium”
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The point of departure of this article is to put into question the ways in which existing Yeats scholarship probes his poetry focused on the issue of aging solely from the spiritual point of view—examining how Yeats forged aging into a time of renewal of life force and resuscitated imaginative energy in the face of bodily and pathological disintegration in the old age. Not a few Yeats scholars tend to resort to a prescribed understanding of the poet’s achievement in his old age as seeking for an antidote for creative stasis. What this approach entails is that one is likely to mold a “universal” Yeats and to gloss over specificities and contingencies embedded in reading Yeats through the lens of his views of aging. I thus aim to break away from the existing scholarship on the problem of aging in Yeats’s poetry by taking a twofold approach: first, situating Yeats’s ideas of aging in the context of the insights of age studies; second, linking the poet’s ideas of aging to his troubled relationship to the new Irish Free State with a focus on “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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The point of departure of this article is to put into question the ways in which existing Yeats scholarship probes his poetry focused on the issue of aging solely from the spiritual point of view—examining how Yeats forged aging into a time of renewal of life force and resuscitated imaginative energy in the face of bodily and pathological disintegration in the old age. Not a few Yeats scholars tend to resort to a prescribed understanding of the poet’s achievement in his old age as seeking for an antidote for creative stasis. What this approach entails is that one is likely to mold a “universal” Yeats and to gloss over specificities and contingencies embedded in reading Yeats through the lens of his views of aging. I thus aim to break away from the existing scholarship on the problem of aging in Yeats’s poetry by taking a twofold approach: first, situating Yeats’s ideas of aging in the context of the insights of age studies; second, linking the poet’s ideas of aging to his troubled relationship to the new Irish Free State with a focus on “Sailing to Byzantium.”
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