"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi

Though it is not generally considered one of Yeats’s main symbols, the mountain occurs frequently in his poetry, particularly in the last poems. By focusing on “Under Ben Bulben”, Yeats’s concluding poem, and by comparing various mountains in Yeats’s work – Oriental and Western, Italian and Irish –...

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Autor principal: Dufour, Michel
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Publicado: Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma 2024
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Ben Bulben
Irlande
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Yeats
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dôme
mandala
moi
Soi
sphère
spirale
Vision
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Ben Bulben
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Yeats
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dôme
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moi
Soi
sphère
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Dufour, Michel
"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi
description Though it is not generally considered one of Yeats’s main symbols, the mountain occurs frequently in his poetry, particularly in the last poems. By focusing on “Under Ben Bulben”, Yeats’s concluding poem, and by comparing various mountains in Yeats’s work – Oriental and Western, Italian and Irish – this article analyses the mountain as the place where the ego encounters a wider psychological dimension, the (Jungian) Self. Minimalist and conceptual, the Yeatsian mountain is reduced to archetypal forms related to the geometry described in A Vision, Yeats’s metaphysical treatise. Rooted in Irish mythology, and rising into a spiritualist ethereal world, the mountain conjoins different symbolic strata, allowing an intellectual and spiritual ascent. The article shows how, by drawing on multiple traditions and unifying them aesthetically into a complex symbol, the poet strives to embody the universal voice of the Self
author Dufour, Michel
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title "Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi
title_short "Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi
title_full "Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi
title_fullStr "Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi
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title_sort "under ben bulben" : la montagne chez w.b. yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du soi
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