Searching for the Meaning of Gaiety in W. B. Yeats’s “Lapis Lazuli”
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Yeats meditates man in a civilization in his "Lapis Lazuli" juxtaposing his antithetical principle between the West and the East. This poem suggests that the end of a civilization and human limits go together in the cycle of destruction and re-building. It seeks a contradictory truth of human tragedy and gaiety. First Yeats shows the sublimity of human soul in the West, in which tragic figures are able to turn their sufferings into joy through their will and energy. And then the poet displays the value of gaiety in the East. The three Chinese, on a lofty mountain top, overlook the tragic world and the current crisis. The old Chinese gained wisdom with deep wrinkles, to see the rise and fall in civilization. Man transcends tragedy and gains gaiety through the dignity of human spirit.
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Yeats meditates man in a civilization in his "Lapis Lazuli" juxtaposing his antithetical principle between the West and the East. This poem suggests that the end of a civilization and human limits go together in the cycle of destruction and re-building. It seeks a contradictory truth of human tragedy and gaiety. First Yeats shows the sublimity of human soul in the West, in which tragic figures are able to turn their sufferings into joy through their will and energy. And then the poet displays the value of gaiety in the East. The three Chinese, on a lofty mountain top, overlook the tragic world and the current crisis. The old Chinese gained wisdom with deep wrinkles, to see the rise and fall in civilization. Man transcends tragedy and gains gaiety through the dignity of human spirit.
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