Yeats's Buddhism in “Among School Children”
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This paper aims at examining the Buddhist thoughts in Yeats’s “Among School Children.” First, the author examines Yeats’s interest in the Oriental Thoughts. Many of his friends and teachers, including George Russel, Edward Dowden, Madame Blavatsky, Shri Purohit and Mohini Chatterjee, introduced Buddhism to him, with whom he remained a friend for life. “Among School Children” is based on the idea of the Great Wheel. The poem’s speaker and characters, chained to the Wheel, cannot escape from it. They have to be reincarnated according to the law of Karma. That is why they are suffering from the metempsychosis. The law of Karma emphasizes relativity/relatedness among objects and that the relativity is the cause of metempsychosis. And Yeats accepts and adapts Buddhism to his purpose: he creates his own religion.
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This paper aims at examining the Buddhist thoughts in Yeats’s “Among School Children.” First, the author examines Yeats’s interest in the Oriental Thoughts. Many of his friends and teachers, including George Russel, Edward Dowden, Madame Blavatsky, Shri Purohit and Mohini Chatterjee, introduced Buddhism to him, with whom he remained a friend for life. “Among School Children” is based on the idea of the Great Wheel. The poem’s speaker and characters, chained to the Wheel, cannot escape from it. They have to be reincarnated according to the law of Karma. That is why they are suffering from the metempsychosis. The law of Karma emphasizes relativity/relatedness among objects and that the relativity is the cause of metempsychosis. And Yeats accepts and adapts Buddhism to his purpose: he creates his own religion.
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