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Identifier	Thesis 1766
Author	Martinelli, Robbin A., 1959-
Title	Yeat's liberation and the search for spiritual truth : the rose, the myth, the mask / Robbin A. Martinelli
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2004
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	This thesis will examine the first person character in the poetry of W. B. Yeats in order to illustrate a theme of liberation. Liberation for Yeats means a freeing of oneself from mere memory, or events, by converting them into a poetic mythology. The thesis will also examine how many of Yeats7s most accomplished poems enact a later moment in which memory is manipulated by experience and poetic knowledge, how the "I" character relives the event as a masked version of the self that has experienced it. His mask theory is a much-discussed concept in Yeats studies, particularly by Richard Ellmann (Yeats: The Man and the Masks), who examines Yeats's development in terms of dramatic roles taken on in his life. My inquiry will redefine Yeats's mask as a device, the reinvented first person character of the poems, the hero of the revised life of the poet. As Ellmann has commented of Yeats, "He must pit himself against the world directly and prove to it and to himself that a dreamer can beat it at its own game" (290). Proof occurs for Yeats within his poems. As Thomas Parkinson has stated in W.B. Yeats: The Later Poetry, "The origin of knowledge is not in the poet but in the poem, which he must consult for knowledge" (4). For Yeats, this wish to know truth is enacted within his poetry, reemerging h m a past memory as a newly created self to engage in the actions of the past. Yeats believes that the process of the poem is an action that, as Parkinson states, can "serve up truth" and "separate it from person, so that knowledge of the world of self is genuinely selfless" (4). This universal staging of personal life occurs everywhere in Yeats's poetry. Taking aspects from Ellrnann's idea of the self-dramatizing Yeats, and of Parkinson's focus upon the poems themselves, this thesis will show that this creative process of self-characterization is not merely a general effect in Yeats, but a way of reading a dramatic progression within the poems. In effect, Yeats's "I" character emerges fiom the poem, which dramatizes a past event as a present action, with a liberating wisdom. I wish to show that the meaning of the poem can be revealed to the reader in much the same way that it may have become a revelation to the poet. By looking at specific poems throughout his career, I hope to contribute to the understanding of the evolution of Yeats, as Ellmann states, from a man of "skepticism and superstition to knowledge and faith" (291).
Subject	Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Bonaccorso, Richard, 1941-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	57704547
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