The Significance of Phantasmagoria in the Love Lyrics of W. B. Yeats’s the Wild Swans at Coole

Author (s) : Sima Gharibey
Institution : PhD in English Literature, Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Persian Gulf University, Iran
Category : Articles, IJMMU
Topics : Phantasmagoria: W.B. Yeats: Love Lyrics: The Wild Swans at Coole

Abstract : This study studies the significance of phantasmagoria in the personal love lyrics included in The Wild Swans at Coole. Yeats’s phantasmagoria is extensive and has multiple facets, for 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 personal love lyrics of this collection necessitates a close study of the images and symbols constructing the related phantasmagoria.

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