The Significance of Phantasmagoria in the Elegies of W. B. Yeats’s the Wild Swans at Coole
Author (s) : Sima Gharibey
Institution : Persian Gulf University, Iran
Category : Article, IJMMU
Topics : Phantasmagoric; W.B. Yeats; Lamentation; Elegies; The Wild Swans at Coole
This study studies the significance of Yeats’s phantasmagoria and discusses its constructive role in the elegies included in The Wild Swans at Coole. 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. 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 elegiac poems of this collection necessitates a close study of the images and symbols constructing the related phantasmagoria.
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