The Local Complex In W.B. Yeats's Lyric Poems

W.B. Yeats was a great national poet of Ireland in the late nineteenth Century and earlytwentieth Century. In the long-colonial historical background, the poet suffered the misery ofon-identity. Thus, the strong and persistent love and expectation for his nation were manifested inhis lyric poems, which also known as a deep 'native complex'. Traced back to the ancient Celtictradition, Yests, setting the national soul in his beloved hometown of Ireland, started from Sligo,and expanded the poetic view and artistic expression of the whole Irish national style and features.By the extraction and reconstruction of the Irish folklore and Celtic national hero myth, the poetexpected to restore the Irish national spirit, establish a real freedom of Ireland, and remove the regional colonialism and cultural autocracy. Therefore, the 'native complex' in Yeats' lyric poem notonly covers the home-land attachment, also the reminiscence of the Irish, which contains thememories of childhood, and re-mining of the rich spiritual treasure in Ireland which was left by theancient Celtic nation.The "native complex" in Yeats, lyric poems, is firstly shown in the poet's writing andremodeling of the Celtic national hero image. From the fantastic wizard and the legend ofwonderland to the return of the hero Kuhu Lin, by quoting and using Irish folk tales and songs, thepoet re-evoked the colonial Irish people's memory of the national tradition. Secondly, the "nativecomplex" is also reflected in Yeats' affectionate and lingering love poems. Yeats'devote and changefor the national salvation movement, connects inextricably with his beloved Maude Gang.Borrowing the Irish mythology, the poet told about the unexpected and unacceptable love betweenMaude Gang and himself, and combined Maude Gang into the images of "love" and "beauty" inIrish national tradition. Accordinogly, the image of Maude Gang became a fixed image in Yeats'poems. Additionally, Yeats pinnede the exploration of national cultural renaissance on the salvationof the nobility, which makes a large number of "aristocratic manor" image shown in his poem. Inthis "aristocratic manor", Yeats wholeheartedly put his prospect of national salvation for Ireland.The poet devoted himself to the restoration and popularization of Irish native literature, and tried torevive the Irish national culture under the help of the nobility. Thus, his description of the"aristocratic native" shows a different scene with the process of the Irish national cultural revival. In Yeats' poems, the direct description for the Irish national revival movement can also be found. Thepoet, using the poetic strokes, recorded the compromise and contradiction among the nationalists,praising the heroic fighters who devote themselves to the independence movement in the Irishnational independence, and constantly reflect on the repeated attacks on the Irish nationalindependence movement. Therefore the poet determined to use literature to save the nation's faith.The poet outlined the movement from the original frenzy to the split and then to the process ofconvergence, showing the implication of the Irish spiritual tradition, weaving the love and weepingfor his hometown into such style of poem.In the process of Yeats' appearance of "native complex" from different perspectives, the artistic style also showed a periodicla change. From the initial imitation of the British romantic poetic style,to mixing traditional form of Irish folk songs into his own poems; from the acceptance of Singh'snew realism and the enlightment from Pound's 'Imagist' poetry,to the British Metaphysical poetsand the philosophic poetic style of Tagore in India; and in the late, the poems apparently embodiedthe influence of the symbolic system of "phantom",and the direct expression of thought andemotion , which clearly shows Yeats' change of poetic style. Watching the Irish national culturaltradition, integrating time process, combining new poetry art,that is Yeats' endless power and sourceof his poem.