“내 안의 여성”: 예이츠의 여성 다이몬
‘The Woman in Me’: W. B. Yeats’s Female Daimon
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Yeats’s interest in mysticism, spiritualism and occultism is closely interwoven with his conversation with timeless beings to get poetic inspiration in “Per Amica Silentia Lunae” and A Vision. These works reveal some of his literary and philosophical ideas. Yeats constructed his own unique inner world where he could acquire inspiration as a poet. The voice of wondrous inner sphere related to anti-self and daimon displays bisexual features as it got equipped with femininity in his later poems. A female voice resistant to the cultural absurdity in Ireland was born since the poet couldn’t express adequately with his own male utterances alone. Such a multilayered feminine mask reflects the inner search of the poet himself to supplement the universal masculinity. As the most multifaceted desiring woman of the poet’s own creating, sexually explicit, rough and defying Jane stood for the protest against the contemporary Irish Catholicism which revealed increasingly theocratic and totalitarian aspects. The Crazy Jane sequence was a poetic incarnation of a representative female daimon, “a woman in me” to raise the alarm to then Irish political and social aspects. Thus, the appearance of this poetic persona opened a possibility to advocate female rights and criticize too much coercion of strict social life from the authority in the newly independent Ireland in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Yeats’s female daimon in the guise of Crazy Jane acts as a figure of resistance against religious totalitarianism and moral rigorism by revealing rough sexuality, advocacy of female desire and sarcasm on the clergy.
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Yeats’s interest in mysticism, spiritualism and occultism is closely interwoven with his conversation with timeless beings to get poetic inspiration in “Per Amica Silentia Lunae” and A Vision. These works reveal some of his literary and philosophical ideas. Yeats constructed his own unique inner world where he could acquire inspiration as a poet. The voice of wondrous inner sphere related to anti-self and daimon displays bisexual features as it got equipped with femininity in his later poems. A female voice resistant to the cultural absurdity in Ireland was born since the poet couldn’t express adequately with his own male utterances alone. Such a multilayered feminine mask reflects the inner search of the poet himself to supplement the universal masculinity. As the most multifaceted desiring woman of the poet’s own creating, sexually explicit, rough and defying Jane stood for the protest against the contemporary Irish Catholicism which revealed increasingly theocratic and totalitarian aspects. The Crazy Jane sequence was a poetic incarnation of a representative female daimon, “a woman in me” to raise the alarm to then Irish political and social aspects. Thus, the appearance of this poetic persona opened a possibility to advocate female rights and criticize too much coercion of strict social life from the authority in the newly independent Ireland in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Yeats’s female daimon in the guise of Crazy Jane acts as a figure of resistance against religious totalitarianism and moral rigorism by revealing rough sexuality, advocacy of female desire and sarcasm on the clergy.
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