예이츠의 사랑의 시: 잃은 여인과 얻은 시

Abstract

Yeats’s unrequited love for Maud Gonne was the inspiration for many of his best love poems. He recognized that the imagination dwells the most upon a woman won rather than a woman lost. If Maud Gonne had accepted his proposal, she would not have filled his days with misery. Without misery, however, there would be no poems. What Yeats had been after must have been poems rather than a woman’s love. It was Yeats who installed her as the unattainable and would be happy to make his beautiful poetry out of their spiritual union. For love poems, as in Yeats’s work, the woman should remain unattainable as an ideal love.