Yeats and Stevens: Poetry and Aging
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The paper compares the attitudes to old age and impending mortality between W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. The point of the comparison is twofold: first, to illustrate the range of strategies and involuntary mechanisms triggered in poets by the implications and intimations of aging; second, to demonstrate the resources drawn upon by the creative imagination in dealing with the complex of emotions and feelings associated with increasing age and apprehensions of mortality. The aim of the argument is to demonstrate the ways in which the poetry of old age has remarkable new insights to offer in respect of poetic technique. Cases such as Yeats and Stevens exemplify a rare phenomenon: as the body ages, the mind comes up with novel ways of dealing with age; as death approaches, the imagination responds with new forms of creativity, in which less is more, and age discovers modes of expression unknown to youth.
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The paper compares the attitudes to old age and impending mortality between W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. The point of the comparison is twofold: first, to illustrate the range of strategies and involuntary mechanisms triggered in poets by the implications and intimations of aging; second, to demonstrate the resources drawn upon by the creative imagination in dealing with the complex of emotions and feelings associated with increasing age and apprehensions of mortality. The aim of the argument is to demonstrate the ways in which the poetry of old age has remarkable new insights to offer in respect of poetic technique. Cases such as Yeats and Stevens exemplify a rare phenomenon: as the body ages, the mind comes up with novel ways of dealing with age; as death approaches, the imagination responds with new forms of creativity, in which less is more, and age discovers modes of expression unknown to youth.