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The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the influence of Zen Buddhism on Yeats's later poetry. Yeats's poetic life can be described as a revolt against dualism. Various artists and philosophers influenced Yeats in his overcoming dualistic conflicts: Pre-Raphaelites, Nietzche, and Heraclitus, among others. It is, however, Zen Buddhism that exerted a great deal of influence in his later poetry. Yeats especially read Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's Essays in Zen Buddhism, the First Series in 1927; its influence can be traced in many of his later poems: "A Dialogue of Self and Soul," "Byzantium," "The Gyres," "Lapis Lazuli," "Man and the Echo," "Under Ben Bulben," etc. As expressed in Yeats's later poems, the ideal of Zen Buddhism is accepting the world as it is, and breaking/transcending the barrier between the known and the knower, the world of Being (nirvana) and the world of becoming (samsara), and ultimately life and death. Yeats's poetic mask revealed in his later career is that of Zen monk who approaches the reality with "No-mindness": going beyond the dualism of all forms of life and death, good and evil, being and non-being.

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• 丁錫權 [ 정석권 | 전북대학교 교수 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820