The Significance of Phantasmagoria in W. B. Yeats’s “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Author (s) : Sima Gharibey ; Amrollah Abjadian
Institution : Shiraz University, Iran
Category : Article, IJMMU
Topics : Phantasmagoria, W.B. Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”, The Wild Swans at Coole.
This study studies the significance of Yeats’s phantasmagoria and discusses its constructive role in the poem “The Wild Swans at Coole”. Yeats speaks of the significant role of phantasmagoria in the preface to The Wild Swans at Coole and introduces it a means through which he can express his convictions of the world. The poet, according to Yeats, never speaks directly; there is always a phantasmagoria involved. The term phantasmagoria can be regarded as a key concept in Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole. A deep interpretation of the poems of this collection necessitates a close study of the images and symbols constructing the related phantasmagoria. It is the analysis of the phantasmagoric images and symbols of the poems that helps reveal both the poet’s mind and its development. Yeats’s phantasmagoria is extensive and has multiple facets. It can be traced in various forms in different poems. Its vivid presence can well be noticed in the elegies, personal love lyrics, and philosophical poems of The Wild Swans at Coole
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