Yeats의 Annunciation 시편에 나타난 Bird Imagery = Bird Imagery in Yeats's Annunciation poems

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Yeats's poetry, many birds of various kinds appear and usually play significant roles of creating imagery characteristic of earch work. Some birds have mythological and religious background, or form a connection with visionary imagination. The three poems, "Leda and the Swan", "The Mother of God", and "The Second Coming", show such relations of bird and historical cycle, though the birds and the cycles of the poems are rooted in different sources and thus interpreted from different angles, as swan with the Greek or classical civilization, dove with t]he Christianity and falcon or desert bird with the coming antithetical era.
The one true historical measurement for Yeats was the Great Year(Magnus Annus), a continuity of historical cycles. Each of these historical cycle is made up of two sub-cycles or major cultural periods of approximately 2,000 years each and sometimes symbolized by the double gyres. As a cycle approaches its end, there is an annunciation, in other words, a divine revelation or the manifestation of a new godhead under the imagery of a bird.
In Yeat's system, the first annunciation was made to Leda through the swan which was Zeus. 'The feathered glory' and' the brute blood of the air' are two expressions revealing the bird's savage as well as divine attribute. By the medium of the swan, whose 'sudden blow' and 'white rush' impregnated her, Leda gave birth to two eggs and from one of them, Helen and Clytemnestra, love and murder, arose and become the starting point of the decline of Trojan world and the formation of Greek civilization. The bird imagery in this poem is not only strong, brutal and sexual but also pure and supernatural.
Then, there is the Christian annunciation. Virgin Mary's preternatural conception through the Holy Dove, the transformation of the Holy Spirit, means the end of the Hellenic world and the beginning of a new dispensation. The image of dove, with such poetic dictions as 'fallen star', 'Heavens' and' love', makes us feel the sacred and transcendental sphere above the earth. By imagining the presence of the Holy Spirit through the dove's beating wing. we can read the purity of the immaculate conception of Virg in Mary.
'The Second Loming" contains the disintegration of the present age and envisions the birth of the next deity who will inaugurate the antithetical disflerlsation. The falcon represents the violent, uncontrollable chaos, signs of down fall, destruction and disruption, through the spiral flight from the falconer. The desert birds guide the sphinx-like shape who rises from the 'stony sleep' lasting two thous and years. The reeling shadows of those indignant 'bird-daemons', hungry for the decaying meat of the dead civilization, deepen the imagery of the apocalyptic revelation, sinister but inevitable.
Yeats created a vast imaginary domain, which other poets cannot imitate, applying his characteristic view of history based on A Vision to his poems. And the bird imagery makes his creativity more specific and gives his poem the poem the particular poetic beauty. It is thought that the quest for the imagery should be enlarged and continued.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. John Underecker는 A Reader's Guide에서
• Ⅱ. 'Leda and the Swan'
• Ⅳ. 'The Second Coming'
• Ⅴ. Yeats의 시에서는 다양한 종류의 많은