On Modernity Of Yeats' Three Masks

The artistic value orientation about Yeats has several directions,he is a non-Christian educated from English legitimate rationalism,after that,he transformed to a mysticism experimenter.A romanticism follower was interest.In symbolism excitedly.He had a hobby to folk romaunt in village,but later,he was to yearn for spirit of aristocrat principle.His arts absorbs the numerous and disorderly others' culture mark,and constructs the multi-color and multi-surface the artistic world,uses sorcerer's secret technique establishing integrity Mask theory and the universe idea,rebels against modernity to inflate which comes of the suspicion principle.Sum up,Yeats' art is mystical and strange,since modernity but surmounted it.In studies,as a result of his modernism status was numerous and disorderly,borrows the surface mean of Mask the word,describes and seeks to three main masks,which it is value orientation,reflected in the artistic creation from the transformations of his art style.Yeats' contradictions source of thought and the artistic creation inherent are his dual statuses.Irish culture status and the English culture status about Yeats separately deduct two kind of basic contradictory conflicts,which is modernity clash on ancient and modern,the poem and the philosophy,the perception and the rationality,the superstition and the science,counter-enlightenment and enlightenment,rural and urban and so on.The modernity question is the question of contradictory conflicts above. Beginning of the human birth,these conflicts starts to twine human's thought.The modernity is an ancient question,the philosophy is one kind of humanity thinking activity which this question itself produces.In the first chapter,that time social present situation which locates from Yeats embarks,explained the modernity root does not lie in it.But it is the mistaken which the modern people think their spiritual predicament that they to face is their special time creates.This kind of misunderstanding causes the enormous limitation for the people to be acquainted with the modernity.This chapter attempts from the point of view of philosophy history to elaborate human's spiritual crisis is one kind of profound existence following human being,even is the symbol which the human to be.But the cause of the time modernity predicament of Yeats was the external time factor causes the inherent contradictions conflict aggravating,in the human nature rationality and the desire inflate unprecedentedly to compare the malignant condition which formerly any time philosopher could not dispel and unblock,moreover the scope had the universality, caused the entire social communitive illness.But the cause of disease of the recent reason may recognize directly for the skepticism on England empiricism apparently. The scepticism is the rationalism extreme whose an branch range in empiricism,stops, humanity's internal and outside world has been the vacillation,the true communitive spiritual crisis spreads in the industrialization populace society.This is the difficult position and the immediate cause which Yeats' time and his plight.In second chapter,when he handled the difficulty in position,from other aspect of his cultural source which is Ireland's ancient tradition and the folk culture spontaneously. Here has a secret to balances human's the arrogant and subjective ability over expansion, has a dose good medicine to comfort the lacerated soul,has the inspiration to guides the people to go out the difficult position.While discusses the Irish culture to produce premise influence to Yeats' mysticism,elaborated the mysticism is emphatically a glorious philosophy tradition,in The ancient Greece until the near modern age,this traditional thought is continuously following Enlightenment movement each stage and each shape,plays the role of balance the enlightenment to bring the harm excessively. Moreover this mystical philosophy is approved in many great philosopher in certain degrees.It is one of traditional means to solve thought predicament effectively in fact. However it is snorted contemptuously generally by the people in Yeats' time,which it is the scientific principle frantic time.But Yeats creates poetry and the play obtained the huge success actually using mystical philosophy thought.We may feel the modernity morbid state in his work,and how can the poet to cure the society and himself.In his mysterious theurgy,we are lead back to the world where could feel free by imagine and the symbolic.So we can observe reflectively to ours modern world how bad extreamly. All these elaboration from Socrates' enlightenment until Yeats' mysticism,are for the purpose of explaining that,the mysticism is the thought which gets rid thoroughly in the philosophy experience actually,but the mysticism merit is not approved nearly. However,it takes some kind of extremely beneficial inspiration to the humanity internal spirit.The success of the poetry practice of Yeats is the proof truly.This also has established the unified keynote for Yeats final life choice and the artistic tendency.The third chapter elaboration Yeats final spirit yearned for the ancient times aristocrat civilization,and returns one kind of aristocrat's ideal.Yearning for aristocrat civilization walking in the mysticism mentality is a choice inevitably.First,the aristocrat civilization actually is one of biggest characteristics in Irish tradition. Aristocrat culture and country culture are all-in-one naturally,which it is different from modern civilization inevitably.In this mentality strip from ancient link modern on mysticism,the bitter people experienced modernity predicament chose the return inevitably.Where is ideal homeland for the return? It is inevitably his nationality's ancient homeland——Ireland's countryside.There has aristocrat manor in groups in Yeats' spiritual back garden,they and village peasantry's common dwelling are in the nature inside,they is discussing the poem and the mystical magic arts,they may see and hear the fairy,even,the fairy being among them.This is the harmonious ancient homeland where person and deities does not divide,which lives extremely consistently with humanity in the Homer time.That homeland in human childhood time already goes out of cultivation,putting behind by the mature people gradually growed up and no longer na(l|¨)ve.Until experiencing aloneness and adversity,humanity try to recollect it studiously.However,vector-oriented of time tells the people the route on the return which not impossible to obtain by the empirical rationality,only in the case that they get rid of the disturbance from experience rational,just like Yeats saves himself with the religion on poem.He successfully returned to the ideal homeland——to fill the aristocrat atmosphere from ancient Ireland.Must perform to explain,Yeats' aristocrat ideal was not just yearn for aristocrat civilization from Ireland ancient time,but it has provided one kind of mental orientation in the main.Yeats' aristocrat ideal has the rich ingredient,he has accepted England, Byzantium,India,including Eastern civilization in imagination,that was one kind of diaphanous exquisite civilization,unsophisticated and natural civilized activity.This provides the reason which goes on living and life which is most worth pursuing in his inward world.Obviously enlightened people are remembered with eternal gratitude by enlightment,and had been to use the weird secret technique remained with the counter-initiation to attempt and extinguishes this sober worry in the painful time. Academically,the weird art and the mystical philosophy may after all be accepted as one kind of attempt.