The Theme of Time in Yeats’s Symbolic Birds

Shenghua YANG

Abstract


Yeats is one of the greatest poets in English and Irish literature. When discussing the rich content of Yeats’s symbolism, his bird poems must be emphasized and investigated. It is noteworthy that the theme of time is contained in Yeats’s symbolic birds. The theory of Gyre and the Great Wheel lays the foundation for the interpretation and evaluation of Yeats’s complicated views of time, of history, and of life and death in his symbolic birds. Yeats is yearning for immortality of spirit, idealized Ireland and some kind of intellect and magic in his symbolic birds.


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Symbolic birds; Theme of time; Yeats

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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