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An Approach to Yeats’s Late Poems from the Zen Perspective

  • 인문논총
  • 2017, 44(), pp.129-162
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : October 31, 2017

Haksun Han 1

1경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The ultimate goal of Zen is to look within ourselves in order to directly see our true nature. Yeats suffered from the conflict between ideal and reality and body and soul. He had a strong desire to lead a harmonious life by escaping from the conflict caused by the crash of his outside self and inner self. Suzuki Daisetsu, a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism and Zen, had a great influence on Yeats’s thinking, which made him write many poems based on the teaching of Zen in his late life. However, rather than unconditionally accepting it, he took it as a model for resistance against modernity and succeeded in explaining his philosophy, Unity of Being, by appropriately employing it. This paper studies on the features of Zen and Zen Buddhism and how they are expressed in Yeats’s late poems and what meanings they have from the diachronic perspective.

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